The Rev. Dr. Robert C. Hughes, a Tamaqua native, became the 10th president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, during an inauguration ceremony held in May.

The new president assumed his new office following 19 years as a member of the seminary faculty, in which he taught both liturgies and homiletics. He served as acting dean of the faculty during the 1984-85 academic year and was awarded the St. John Chair of Practical Theology in 1988.

Born in Tamaqua, he attended Tamaqua High School and received his Master of Divinity degree from the seminary in 1962.