Beckstrom, Ed

Beckstrom is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He has a Master of Divinity from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, a Master of Arts in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling, and has don Doctoral Studies in communication and Communication Theory from the University of Southern California-Los Angeles. He has spent 16 1/2 years as a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force. After retirement from the Air Force in 1983 he taught sociology at Auburn University, retiring in 1996.