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GRADUATION CEREMONIES FEATURE ATTORNEY, PASTOR |
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April 25, 2008
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Attorney David M. Lascell, chief counsel for Grove City College during the landmark Supreme Court case in the 1980s, will address approximately 576 graduates at 10 a.m. May 17 in an outdoor Commencement ceremony on the Quad between Harbison Chapel and Crawford Hall. Pastor Robert Thune will offer words of wisdom to students at a 7 p.m. Baccalaureate ceremony on May 16, also planned for the Quad. He is senior pastor at Southwest Community Church in Indian Wells, Calif., and preaches weekly to a congregation of approximately 3,000. In the case of inclement weather, both events will be moved to the Arena of the Physical Learning Center.
Lascell, a Grove City College Trustees, specializes in litigation, intellectual property, higher education and not-for-profit organizations. In 1984, he led the College through Grove City College v. T.H. Bell, Secretary of Education and made headlines in the first court case where an educational institution fought for the right not to accept federal or state funds. Since then, Grove City College has remained truly financially independent in not accepting these government funds.
He has nearly 40 years of litigation experience and has achieved a national reputation in higher education law. Lascell has served as counsel to numerous universities and colleges throughout the nation and has acted as lead counsel for several major corporations. He has appeared in the United States Supreme Court, several federal district and circuit courts and various state courts.
Thune is a native of South Dakota. In ministry for 35 years, his first pastorate was the Huntington Beach Evangelical Free Church, where he served as senior pastor from 1972 to 1982. The church grew under his leadership from one to five staff members and from 190 to 550 parishioners. Thune then pastured Christ Community Church (formerly known as the Omaha Gospel Tabernacle), a church with an illustrious history dating back to the early 1920s. Under Thune’s leadership for 22 years, the church grew to approximately 4,500 members and adherents with approximately 3,000 attending Sunday services.
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