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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
SPRING, 1988
PEOPLE
Clark T. Thorsteinson, Ph.D.
CLARK T. THORSTEINSON, Ph D.,
is professor of Health, Physical Education and
Recreation at Brigham Young University in
Provo, Utah. He is also Director of Coopera-
tive Education at BYU. He has been president
of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at the
same university. Clark Thorsteinson is the
owner of Bonneville Health Systems which
provides long term care services for the elderly
throughout the state of Utah. He sits on the
Board of Directors of three health care cor-
porations and serves as a consultant to health
care facilities throughout the western part of
the United States. Currently he is serving The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in
Texas as president of the Houston, Texas mis-
sion. This is a voluntary assignment without
pay and he will be there with his family for the
next three years. An article by Dr. Thorsteinson
appeared in our winter issue, 1987.
DR. DANIEL J. SIMUNDSON
On January 9,1988, Dr. Daniel J. Simund-
son was appointed to a three-year term as
Dean of Academic Affairs at Luther North-
western Theological Seminary in St. ftul,
Minnesota, to begin July 1, 1988. Luther
Northwestern is the largest of the seminaries
of the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America. Dr. David L. Tiede,
president of the seminary, had nominated Dr.
Simundson to the board, following the unani-
mous recommendation of a search committee.
Dr. Simundson grew up in Seattle, Wash-
ington, where his father, the Reverend Kolbeinn
Simundsson, served many years as a Lutheran
pastor. The Reverend K. Simundsson was
bom in Iceland, emigrated to Winnipeg at age
twelve, and moved to Point Roberts, Washing-
ton, as a young adult. There he met and
married Groa Thorstenson, who was bom in
Victoria, B.C., to Icelandic immigrants.
Dan Simundson
Dr. Simundson has degrees from Stanford
University, The Lutheran School of Theology
at Chicago, and has his Ph.D. from Harvard.
He has spent sabbaticals in Cambridge, Eng-
land, and in Jerusalem. He has been on the
faculty at Luther Northwestern since 1972
and has served previously as dean and as
chairperson of the Old Testament department.