The President today announced that he will nominate Sidney Anders Rand, of North field, Minn., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Norway. He would replace Louis A. Lerner, who is resigning. Rand has been president of St. Olaf College since 1963.
He was born May 9, 1916, in Eldren, Minn. He received a B.A. from Concordia College in 1938 and a C.T. from Luther Theological Seminary in 1943.
From 1943 to 1945, Rand was a Lutheran pastor in Nashwauk, Minn. He was a faculty member at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., from 1945 to 1951 and president of Waldorf College, Forest City, Iowa, from 1951 to 1956.
From 1956 to 1960, Rand was executive director of the Board of Christian Education of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. From 1960 to 1963, he was executive director of the Board of College Education of the American Lutheran Church. From 1962 to 1963, he was a tutor with the Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches in Celigny, Switzerland.
Rand is a member of the Norwegian American Historical Association, and in 1974 he was made a knight first class of the Order of St. Olaf by the Government of Norway.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Norway Nomination of Sidney Anders Rand. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248114