Dale A. Jorgenson (1926–2021)

Dr. Jorgenson received his Bachelor of Music at Harding College, his Master of Music at the George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, and his Doctor of Philosophy at Indiana University.

He served as instructor in a wide variety of subjects at Southeastern Christian College in Louisville and later Winchester, Kentucky, and as a pastor of the Ebenezer Church of Christ, the Salem Church of Christ, and the Christian Church in Bryantsville, Indiana while completing his doctorate degree at IU. He also served on the music faculty at Texas Womens University in Denton, Texas, and then as Head of the Music Department at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia for three years. Dr. Jorgenson then served as Director of Fine Arts at Milligan College in Johnson City, Tennessee.

In 1963 he moved his family to Kirksville, Missouri to serve as Chairman of the Fine Arts Department at what is now Truman State University. During the 54 years he and his wife lived in Kirksville he spent nearly twenty years serving as the preacher to Knox City Christian Church, part of which time he served simultaneously at Edina Christian Church.

In 1993, after his retirement from Truman State University, he was called to serve as interim at the Perry Christian Church in Perry, Missouri and he served that community for ten years.