Three teachers installed Aug. 7 at Trinity Luthern Church and School
Trinity Lutheran Church and School, Jenera, welcomes three new teachers with an installation service on Sunday, Aug. 7, at 10:30 a.m.
Installed will be Justin Eternick as principal and 7th and 8th grade teacher, Joshua von Stein as teacher of grades 5 and 6 and Seth Lange as teacher of grades 3 and 4.
Eternick is a 2009 graduate of Lakeside Lutheran High School, Lake Mills, Wisc. He attended Martin Luther College and graduated with a double major in elementary and secondary education with a social studies minor.
In May of 2014, he received a call from Michigan Lutheran Seminary to be tutor and instructor. In May, he received the call to Trinity Lutheran.
von Stein is a 1991 graduate of Trinity Lutheran School, a 1995 graduate of Cory-Rawson High School, and a 2006 graduate of Martin Luther College where he majored in elementary education and staff ministry.
His parents are John and Regina von Stein. He has an older brother, Timothy von Stein, and a younger sister, Stephanie Myers.
He taught grades 3-5 and was athletic director at a Lutheran school in Illinois for three years before returning to Ohio. He spent several years substitute teaching at area schools and at Lutheran elementary schools.
Seth Lange attended high school at Luther Preparatory School in Watertown, Wisc. He graduated this spring from Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minn., with a bachelor’s of science degree in education.
The install service will be in the church at 301 N. Main St., Jenera, with a meal and program to follow at the school.
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