Bio: Jolivette, Norbert L. (Graduates Seminary - 1953)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Jolivette, Derscheid

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 14 May 1953

Jolivette, Norbert L. (Graduates Seminary - 17 MAY 1953)

St. Paul, MN - Norbert L. Jolivette, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Jolivette, Greenwood (Clark Co.), Wis., is one of the 116 men who will receive degrees May 17, 1953 from Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul., Minn. It is the largest graduating class in the history of the seminary.

Baccalaureate exercises are scheduled to be held at 8:00 a.m. Sunday, May 17, at St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church in St. Paul, with Dr. T.P. Gulixson, president of Luther Seminary giving the address. Graduation ceremonies will be held at 3:00 in the afternoon at Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Dr. E. Clifford Nelson, professor of church history at Luther Seminary, will preach.

Mr. Jolivette was born and raised in Greenwood and is a graduate of the loacl high school with the class of 1941. He spent three years with the U.S. Naval Air Corps as a yeoman in the Atlantic theatre during World War II, holding the rate of Yeoman First Class.

Following his discharge in 1946, Mr. Joivette enrolled at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., from which he received his B.A. Degree in 1950, majoring in history and religion. While at St. Olaf he served as president of the Mission Study group, president of the Board of Religious Activities and was a member of the Lutheran Student Association Council.

He was married to Alice Derscheid of Kenyon, Minn. in 1950. They have two children, Mark Edwin and Ruth Elaine.