Background
Gronlund, Robert B. was born on May 2, 1926 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Son of Bernard S. and Lena J. (Manske) Gronlund.
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Gronlund, Robert B. was born on May 2, 1926 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Son of Bernard S. and Lena J. (Manske) Gronlund.
Bachelor, Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa, 1949; Master of Divinity, Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, 1953; Doctor of Letters, Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania, 1973.
Pastor Newport Harbor Lutheran Church, Newport Beach, California, 1953-1956. Executive director Inter Church Fellowship, Los Angeles, 1956-1959. Assistant to president California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California, 1959-1962.
Executive director American Lutheran Church Foundation, Minneapolis, 1962-1963. Vice president development Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, 1963-1969, University Tampa, Florida, 1969-1976. Founding partner Gronlund Sayther Brunkow, West Palm Beach, from 1976.
President Florida campus Northwood University, 1981-1983. Member works of art committee Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, 1993-1996. Chair PBCC Art Gallery, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, 1995-1996.
Chair Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, 1973-1974. Chair Vision for Mission Committee, Evangelical Lutheran Church American, Chicago, 1995-1999. Corporal United States Army, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations.
Chair Florida Repertory Theater, West Palm Beach, 1990—1992. Founding president Planned Giving Council, 1982—1984. Senior warden Bethesda By Sea Episcopal Church, 1995.
Founding chair Southeast Diocese Episcopal Foundation, 1999—2002. Member of Men of Bethesda (chair since 2002).
Married Dorothy M. Dahlstrom, June 2, 1951. Children: Gaye, Robin, Gregg, Jamie.