Reverend Robert V. Langseth was born in 1933 in Glyndon, Minnesota. He grew up on the family farm in Argusville, North Dakota and attended the local elementary school, later attending high school in Fargo, North Dakota. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Augsburg College, Langseth received his divinity degree at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago and was ordained at the Augustana Synod in 1958. Langseth spent most of his ministry at Faith Lutheran Church in Calumet, Michigan, where he was minister from 1965 to his retirement in 1998. He also served a parish in Unity, Wisconsin and was chaplain at the Calumet USFA Radar Site. [CR]Active in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, Langseth was chair of the organization that promoted the establishment of the Keweenaw National Historical Park. He also headed the Calumet-Laurium-Keweenaw Council of Churches and CLK Foresight, Inc., a community development organization. In 1992 he was named Person of the Year by the Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce, the Outstanding Alumni of the Lutheran School of Theology in 1989, and the U.S. Air Force's Lay Leadership Award in 1973.