Lentz, Harold H(erbert) 1910-2004
LENTZ, Harold H(erbert) 1910-2004
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born June 11, 1910, in Nevada, IA; died March 11, 2004, in Lima, OH. Minister, administrator, and author. Lentz is remembered for leading Carthage College through an important transitional period as the campus moved from Carthage, Illinois, to Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was educated at several institutions, earning his A.B. at Wittenberg University in 1932, his B.D. from Hamma School of Theology in 1935, his master's from Oberlin College in 1939, and his doctorate from Yale in 1943. Ordained a Lutheran clergyman in 1935, he served as a pastor in Ashland, Ohio, during the 1930s and 1940s before being named president of Carthage College in 1951. By the next year, the Kenosha campus was opened, and under Lentz's administration the college saw its enrollment grow six hundred percent. He continued to serve as president until his retirement in 1976, and in gratitude Carthage awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1987. Lentz was the author of A History of Wittenberg College: 1845-1945 (1945), Reformation Crossroads (1953), and The Miracle of Carthage (1974).
OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Chicago Tribune, March 15, 2004, Section 1, p. 13.
ONLINE
Carthage College,http://www.carthage.edu/ (March 12, 2004).
ELCA News,http://stlconline.org/elcanews/ (March 16, 2004).