The Papers of Paul Hasvold, 1888-2015 | Luther College Archives
By Hayley Jackson
Collection Overview
Title: The Papers of Paul Hasvold, 1888-2015
Predominant Dates:1961-1999
ID: LCA/RG15/Hasvold, P
Primary Creator: Hasvold, Paul (1933-2015)
Extent: 1.6 Linear Feet. More info below.
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged into 4 series:
1) Church Unity, which contains material related to Rev. Hasvold's ecumenical work across various Christian denominations.
2) Lutheran-Episocal Dialogues, which contains material related to Rev. Hasvold's particapation in the first Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogues of 1969-1972 and continued conversations between the two denominations.
3) ARC and Advocacy, which contains material related to Rev. Hasvold's advocacy work. These collections primarily focus on his service and presidency of the Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC), and his service on the Governor's Commission for Human Services.
4) Biographical Files, including his funeral program, and typed reminiscences.
Instead of grouping all of Rev. Hasvold's sermons together, they have been left with the files where they were originally located.
Languages: English
Abstract
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Biographical Note
Paul Morris Hasvold was born to Morris P. and Ruth M. (Levorson) Hasvold on March 15, 1933 in Watertown, South Dakota. He attended Luther College 1951-1955, majoring in music and philsophy and graduating as valedictorian. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Michigan, where he earned his M.A. in philosophy, and Luther Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1960. Hasvold also attended the University of Oxford on a Fulbright scholarship. He taught religion and philsophy at Luther College, 1957-1958, and for four years at the University of Kansas after he completed his work in Oxford.
After being ordained a Lutheran minister, Hasvold served for four years at East Koshkonog Lutheran Church near Cambridge, Wisconsin, 1967-1974. During his tenure, Hasvold participated in the Lutheran-Episcopalian Dialogues, which was a gathering of Lutheran and Episcopalian theologians who met periodically from 1969 to 1972. These meetings resulted in the publication of a report called Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogue: A Progress Report, which posed inter-communion bewteen the two groups was appropriate.
Hasvold then served 24 years at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Decorah, Iowa, where he and the congregation sponsored several Hmong and Vietnamese refugees in the area. He also worked as an advocate for the disabled. In addition to serving on Winneshiek County's chapter of ARC (then Association for Retarded Citizens, now The Arc), he served on the Iowa ARC Board of Directions, 1979-1989, chaired Iowa ARC's Governmental Affairs Committee 1981-1986, was president of the ARC of Iowa, 1986-1987, and board member of the ARC of America, 1983-1988. In the 1980s, Governor Robert Ray invited Hasvold to serve on the Governor's Commission for Human Services, which evaluated the effects of prosed legislation on those who received services. He drafted what became the Bill of Rights for Handicapped Citizens, passed in the Iowa legislature in [year].
Hasvold married Carol Williams on December 29, 1958. He passed away on January 19, 2015.
Administrative Information
Repository: Luther College Archives
Alternate Extent Statement: 6 boxes
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Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Church Unity],
[Series 2: Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogues],
[Series 3: ARC and Advocacy],
[Series 4: Biographical Files],
[All]
- Series 1: Church Unity
- Box 1: Church Unity Files, 1961-1999, n.d
- Folder 1: Committee to Study Communion Practices, 1975-1976
- Folder 2: Ecumenical Work-The Episcopate, 1998-1999, n.d
- Folder 3: Ecumenical Work-Lutheran Unity, 1964-1965, 1980, n.d
- Folder 4: Ecumenical Work: Lutheran, Episcopalian, Roman Catholic, Methodist, 1969-1973, n.d
- Folder 5: Ecumenical Work-Lutheran, Presbyterian, Reformed, and United Church of Christ, 1993-1997, n.d
- Folder 6: Ecumenical Work- Research Articles, n.d
- Folder 7: Evangelican Lutheran Church in America: Ecumenical Documents, 1991-1998
- Folder 8: Evangelican Lutheran Church in America: Ecumenical Proposals, 1997-1999, n.d
- Folder 9: Justification By Faith Research, 1979, 1998-1999
- Folder 10: Lecture Notes and Sermon, 1961, 1963, n.d
- Folder 11: Lutheran/Episcopal Dialogues-Lectures, Notes, Articles, 1970-1974, n.d
- Folder 1: Committee to Study Communion Practices, 1975-1976
- Box 2: Church Unity Files, 1937-2009, n.d
- Folder 1: Lutheran-Jewish Relations, 1994, 1999
- Folder 2: Martin Luther: Lectures, Research, Sermons, 1978,1993, n.d
- Folder 3: Martin Luther: Sunday School Talks, n.d
- Folder 4: The Promise Tradition: A Reader in Law-Gospel Reconstitutionalist Theology, 1974
- Folder 5: Research Articles and Sermons, 1937, 1946, 1948, 1956, 1958, 1995, 1997
- Folder 6: Research Notes, n.d
- Folder 7: Sermons: Advent and Christmas, 1983-1997, 2008, n.d
- Folder 8: Sermons: Ascension Sunday, 1989, n.d
- Folder 9: Sermons: Easter, Ascension, Mother's Day, 1973-2009
- Folder 10: Sermons: New Years/Second Sunday after Christmas, 1988-2000, n.d
- Folder 1: Lutheran-Jewish Relations, 1994, 1999
- Box 1: Church Unity Files, 1961-1999, n.d
- Series 2: Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogues
- Box 3: Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogues Records, 1969-1998, n.d
- Folder 1: "Called to Common Mission" - Northeast Iowa Synod, 1996-1998
- Folder 2: Called to Common Mission: Revision of the 1997 Concordat, 1998
- Folder 3: "Called to Faithfulness II" Assembly, 1992
- Folder 4: Chirstian Unity- A Lutheran Reflection, 1999
- Folder 5: Ecumenical Proposals, 1996-1997
- Folder 6: Lecture Notes of Anglicanism and Richard Hooker, n.d
- Folder 7: Lutheran-Episcopal Concordat, 1995-1996
- Folder 8: Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogues: First Dialogue, 1969
- Folder 9: Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogues: Second Dialogue, April 1970
- Folder 10: Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogues: Third Dialogue (Baptism-Confirmation), November 1970
- Folder 11: Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogues: Fourth Dialogue (Apostolicity), April 1971
- Folder 12: Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogues: Fifth Dialogue, November 1971
- Folder 1: "Called to Common Mission" - Northeast Iowa Synod, 1996-1998
- Box 4: Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogues Records, 1888-1999
- Folder 1: Lutheran/Episcopal Dialogues Reports, 1972
- Folder 2: Lutheran/Episcopal Dialogues Fifth Dialogue and Report Drafts, 1971-1972
- Folder 3: Lutheran/Episcopal Dialogues: A Progress Report, 1972
- Folder 4: Lutheran/Episcopal Ecumenical Work, 1970-1999
- Folder 5: Publications: Ecumenical, 1962-1999
- Folder 6: Publications: Lutheran Ministry, 1964, 1991
- Folder 7: Research Articles- Lutheran/Episcopal Concordat, 1998-1999, n.d
- Folder 8: Research Articles and Notes- Augsburg Confession, 1888-1999
- Folder 9: Research Articles and Notes- Lutheran/Episcopalian Concordat, 1977-1999, n.d
- Folder 1: Lutheran/Episcopal Dialogues Reports, 1972
- Box 3: Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogues Records, 1969-1998, n.d
- Series 3: ARC and Advocacy
- Box 5: Advocacy Files, 1982-1995, n.d.
- Folder 1: ARC Budgets, Salary, Personnel Policies, 1984-1987
- Folder 2: ARC Documents and Newsclippings, 1983, 1995, n.d.
- Folder 3: ARC Files, 1985
- Folder 4: ARC Files, 1986-1987
- Folder 5: ARC Files-Polk County, 1986-1987
- Folder 6: ARC Files-Speech Draft, Memos, History of ARC, 1987, n.d.
- Folder 7: ARC Iowa 32nd and 33rd Annual, 1985-1986
- Folder 8: Iowa ARC 34th Annual Convention Program, 1987
- Folder 9: ARC Notebook, n.d.
- Folder 10: ARC Notes, Budget, Correspondence, 1982-1987
- Folder 11: ARC Leadership Cue cards, 1982
- Folder 12: ARC Legislative Activism (Handicap Bill of Rights), 1984-1987
- Folder 1: ARC Budgets, Salary, Personnel Policies, 1984-1987
- Box 6: Advocacy and Biographical Files, 1978-2015, n.d.
- Folder 1: ARC Publications and Pamphlets, 1982-1987
- Folder 2: Branstad Recognition-Human Services Council, 1989
- Folder 3: "To Know Me is to Care For Me" Instructional Program, 1983
- Folder 4: "Ministry with the Handicapped" American Lutheran Church, 1978
- Folder 5: Namibian Concerns, n.d.
- Folder 6: Newsclippings, 1981-1985
- Folder 7: Newsclippings: Farming and Nuclear Energy, 1981-1985, n.d.
- Folder 8: News Clippings: Mental Illness, 1985
- Folder 9: Presidency File, 1984-1987
- Folder 10: Sermons, 1985, 1994
- Folder 11: Sterilization, 1984-1986, n.d.
- Folder 1: ARC Publications and Pamphlets, 1982-1987
- Box 5: Advocacy Files, 1982-1995, n.d.
- Series 4: Biographical Files
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Church Unity],
[Series 2: Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogues],
[Series 3: ARC and Advocacy],
[Series 4: Biographical Files],
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