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Donald A. Tubesing
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Education
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Concordia College, 1962 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) B.A.
Concordia Senior College, 1964 (Ft Wayne, Indiana)
Concordia Seminary, 1968 (St Louis, Missouri) M.Div.
Ohio University 1971 (Athens, Ohio), PhD in
Counselor Education
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Professional Background
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Chair of the Board of Directors, Ministry Mentors
2007—Present
Founder: Pfeifer-Hamilton, 1985–2001
In 1985 he, along with his wife, Dr. Nancy Loving Tubesing, founded their second
publishing company, Pfeifer-Hamilton. Originally intended to be a small
regional publisher, Pfeifer-Hamilton was lucky enough to “discover” many
first-time authors who had been rejected by major corporate publishing firms.
The company won several major awards, including two American Bookseller’s Book
of the Year awards for Old Turtle (1993) and The Quiltmaker’s Gift
(2000), two International Reading Association’s Best Book for Young Reader’s
award (Old Turtle, 1993 and Reach for the Moon, 1995), as well as
a host of PMA Ben Franklin Awards. In all, its 53 titles won 124 national
awards, and 46 remain in print. Pfeifer-Hamilton became somewhat of a legend in
the publishing world for its unorthodox and creative marketing approaches, three
times winning the Publisher’s Marketing Association’s annual award for Best
Single Book Marketing Campaign.
When Don and Nancy retired in 2001, they sold the regional Pfeifer-Hamilton line
to the University of Minnesota Press, and the children’s picture book titles to
Scholastic, for whom they actively continue to scout and consult.
Founder: Whole
Person Associates, Duluth, Minnesota, 1977
The newly founded company served as a training and publishing company focused on
providing stress management and wellness promotion educational materials for
professionals in medicine, ministry, social work and counseling. During the
next two decades, he delivered over 1,200 lectures, keynotes, research
presentations and workshops, and trained over 10,000 professionals in the skills
of designing and conducting stress and wellness workshops with a whole person
focus. In addition, the company served as consultant to several military health
programs, the International YMCA Program Board, and Aid Association for
Lutherans (now Thrivent).
Since it's founding, Whole
Person Associates has been a leader in the interdisciplinary approach to
combining the best insights of ministry, medicine and behavioral health. Don is
author of more than twenty books on the whole person approach to wellness
promotion with an aggregate total of more than one million copies in print, as
well as numerous more technically-oriented audiotape training and meditation
programs. Whole Person Associates continues its success today under the
leadership of a long-term employee, who assumed full ownership at the end of
2003
Associate Clinical
Professor, University of Illinois Medical Center, 1973–1977
Executive Vice-President of the Wholistic Health Centers in Chicago.
1973–1977, which was supported by a grant from the Kellogg foundation.
There, under Dr. Granger Westberg, he was responsible for the development and
management of church based health centers across the country. His first book,
Wholistic Health: A Whole Person Approach to Primary Health Care (1977),
describes the history and philosophy of that project.
Campus Pastor:
LCMS Campus Pastor at Ohio University,
1968–1971
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Volunteering |
Don is currently volunteering his efforts to produce a book designed to help
churches and pastors assist returning Iraq veterans with their spiritual healing
process (sponsored by Wheat Ridge Ministries), and a book about the Presbyterian
Border Ministries project, Just Coffee—a thriving grower’s cooperative
which currently supports twenty-six extended families in Chiapas.
Duluth Sister City Commission Don has
been active in community affairs, serving as Founding member and Chair of the
Duluth Sister City Commission (9 years, spearheading the development of a
citywide elementary school reading/mentoring program, and initiating numerous
international exchanges.
PMA: From
1995-1999 he served on the Board of Directors of PMA: The Independent
Publishers Association (a national book publishing trade association with
4,200 member publishers). In 2001-2006 he returned to serve the association as
its Board President.
He has served on many regional and national boards including:
Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota (4 years),
Men as Peacemakers (founding member (6 years),
University of Minnesota, Duluth -- Business Advisory Board,
International Service Outreach programs of the Duluth Rotary Club.
Vice-President for Student Affairs at
Concordia University, Milwaukee,
1971, where he
established the Student Development Center utilizing the concept of “total
health care.”
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Honors and Awards |
Regional Entrepreneur of the Year: In
1995 he was named Regional Entrepreneur of the Year, and was appointed a
Minnesota state delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business.
George Hill Distinguished
Graduate Award, 1983. Ohio University presented Don with the George Hill
Distinguished Graduate Award for outstanding contributions in the fields of
education and counseling.
White House Presidential
Awards, 1971 and 2002. Two of his community-based projects have received
White House Presidential Awards for involving volunteers. The first, presented
by President Nixon in 1971, paired 720 college students in friendship
connections with state hospital psychiatric patients. The second, awarded by
President George H. Bush and presented by Former President Jimmy Carter in 2002,
recruited once a week reading partners for all 345 students at the lowest
achieving elementary school in Duluth.
Over the years, Don’s creative
work has been featured in The New York Times, The Reader’s Digest
and on The Today Show, as well as many other publications.
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Hobbies and Pursuits |
In retirement, Don enjoys the
process of sculpting marble and alabaster. He and his wife, Nancy, now live in
Placitas, New Mexico.
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