PHILADELPHIA (May 2000) -Fifty-nine seminary students are scheduled to receive degrees from The Lutheran Theological Seminary (LTSP) at Philadelphia at the commencement on Sunday, May 21, at 3 p.m. The event will take place on the Seminary's campus. The special speaker for the day will be the Rev. William A. Shafer, who was formerly Director of Seminary Services and now serves as Interim Pastor at Messiah Lutheran Church in Newtown Square, PA.

The commencement ceremony falls on a busy weekend for the LTSP community. Dr. Philip D. W. Krey will be installed as the Seminary's eleventh President on Friday, May 19, at 3 p.m. The Rev. Dr. Timothy J. Wengert, Professor of Reformation History at LTSP, will speak on that occasion.

Candidates who are scheduled to receive the degree of Master of Arts in Religion are Nancy James Deming and Magdalena Naanhule ya-Shalongo.

The following candidates are scheduled to receive the degree of Master of Divinity: Steven Edward Adkins, Gloria J. Alford, Lisa Raylene Barnes, Amy S. Bender, Danny N. Bodine, Katherine Bender Braun (honors), Jill Ellen Collict, Michele Cristen Cooper, Priscila Curet, Deborah Scott Dawson, Kristin Marie Hoyer Dubsky, Michael Andrew Dubsky, Wynetta M. H. Dukes, Robert Elton Hamlin, Sr., Luisa Cabello Hansel, Eric Tyrone Henry, Glenda Rhodes Hodges, Garret Martin Johnson, Josie S. Johnson, Justin Michael Johnson, Bruce Edwin Kaifler, Barbara Anne Kearse, Kim Ann Kemmerling, Justin Christian Lathrop, John Charles Linn, James Ernest Luckey, John Edward Mack, Jr., William Jeffrey Magee, William Bernard Mercer, Jr., Jacquelyn Joy Mize-Baker, David Alan Newman, Vernon Ross, Jr., Rebecca Susan Rossow, Jaclin H. Ryan, Leah Delight Schade (honors), Michael Joseph Scholtes, Rebecca Lynn Swavely, Jennifer Lynn Sweitzer (honors), Wendy White Thode, and Marianne Louise Unger.

Candidates for the degree of Master of Sacred Theology are Ka Oi Chan, Paul Mullane Ferrarone, Francisco Javier Goitía-Padilla, Ludwick E. Gooding, Roxanne M. Kringle, Min Chan Park, Jana Struková, and Karol Lynn Van Wulfen.

Candidates scheduled to receive the degree of Doctor of Ministry are Eric Duane Ash, John Bert Carlson, Bruce Thurston Davis, John Michael Di Matteo, Karen Kay Minnich-Sadler, Thomas E. Richards Jr., Glenn Frederick Schoenberger, Clifton Joseph Suehr, and Paul Charles Wise.