SOLHEIM’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Part 3

1949 marked the beginning of professional management at Solheim, with Rev. Sam Disrud coming off the Board to become the Superintendent of Solheim, a position he held for the next sixteen years. The decision to add this position to Solheim was after a “consultation” with the State Department of Social Services. A similar “consultation” in 1948 resulted in adding three women to Solheim’s Board, a first. The Board was now able to step back from operations and concentrate on policy and planning. Those plans included formalizing Solheim’s association with the Lutheran Church and overseeing the financing and construction of the “Main Building,” completed in stages in 1954 and 1957.

Sources:

“Solheim Lutheran Home, Its Life and Times, 1923-1996” by Elizabeth Batchelder and Joyce Dohlin, 1996