Boe

Boe seems to emphasize on his identity of being a Lutheran more than on his Norwegian ethnicity. I find this also true when I was doing my research about St. Olaf in the twenties. In Rolvaag chapter, he reiterates  that the great Norwegian heritage is somewhat superior than the rest of the American, and before Boe became president of St. Olaf, Norwegian pride was definitely more dominent in the school. Boe, on the other hand, not an immigrant himself, focused more on the church affiliation to try to unite the student body. He claimed in his letter to Ditmanson that St. Olaf stands for cultural continuity. I find him really pushing the idea of an American identity, which for St. Olaf, a liberal art college, is the mixing of Norwegian and other ethnicity and culture. This question is still pertinent nowadays, particularly to the diversity that has been talked a lot today.