Theodore H. Heimarck

Theodore H. Heimarck Theodore Hegge Heimarck died at home October 4, 2007, surrounded by his family, under the care of Hospice of the Red River Valley.Theodore was born in Chicago, IL, on April 5, 1933, the first-born son of the Rev. Theodore and Valfrid Hegge Heimarck.Ted graduated from Minneapolis Southwest High School and St. Olaf College, where he was president of the senior class. He married his college sweetheart Lois Leiseth on September 24, 1955, and enrolled at the University of Chicago Law School on a full scholarship. While a third year law student, he was hired as Assistant Dean of Students at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. Following graduation he passed the Illinois Bar Examination.Lois and Ted then moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he served for a year as Administrative Assistant to the President of the University of Colorado.In 1961 President Joe Knutson recruited Ted to teach at Concordia College in Moorhead. Starting as an Associate Professor and Chair of the Business Administration and Economics Department, he became a full professor two years later. In 1966 he founded the Program in Health Care Administration at Concordia. The Program grew and produced more than 500 graduates by the time of Ted's retirement in 1998, with many achieving positions of major responsibility in health care management in the Upper Midwest and throughout the world.Ted also served for 25 years on the faculty of the Independent Graduate Study Program at the University of Minnesota, where he taught and authored manuals on Legal Dimensions for Hospital Administrators and Legal Issues of Nurse Administrators. In addition, Professor Heimarck produced a teaching volume on Organization & Management Development for the use of the statewide developmental disabilities training project, and taught continuing education courses for nursing home and clinic administrators in several states. After retirement in 1998 he served on the board of Churches United for the Homeless in Moorhead. He was a member of numerous organizations including the Elks, Moose, the American Economics Association, and the Council of Elders.He will be missed for the generosity of his spirit, a remarkable ability to laugh at himself and the world, and the depth and passion of his convictions. Always a champion of the oppressed, the legacy he leaves behind extends far beyond that for which he would ever give himself credit.He is survived by his children: Todd, Seattle, WA; Karin Rodney Dahlsad, Georgetown, MN; Jonathan Kirsten Heimarck, New Market, MN; Heidi William Cole, Seattle; Gregory, Minneapolis, MN; Christopher, Moorhead, MN; and Sara Jason Clark, Portland, OR. Two grandchildren: Heather and Alicia Dahlsad also survive. Two brothers, Dr. Gregory Claire Heimarck and James Ann Heimarck and two sisters-in-law, Dolores Burtness, and Sylvia Richard Frantz also survive him. He is preceded in death by his wife, Lois, his parents, and his granddaughter, Brooke.Donations in Ted's honor may be made to Churches United for the Homeless.