G. L. Schoberg

G. L. Schoberg  (b. 1899 – d. 1989)

  • Professor, French, German 1930-1969

  • Modern Languages Department Chair 1931-1962

Biography

For thirty years radio audiences in the Upper Midwest tuned in to hear “the voice of Concordia.” Professor G. L. Schoberg’s weekly “Cobbercast” on WDAY treated listeners to school news mixed with wit and insight. Schoberg was born in Wisconsin and grew up in Atwater, MN. As a boy, he and a friend set up the first amateur radio station in Kandiyohi County. He attended high school in Fargo and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in English from Concordia in 1925. In 1931, he earned a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota. Schoberg pursued his doctoral studies in the summers of 1935 to 1938.

He came to Concordia’s Modern Languages Department in 1930 after previously serving as superintendent of schools in Fisher, MN. His Cobbercasts began in 1938 and opened with the “Hymn to Concordia” and ended with his signature phrase, “Concordially Yours.” Upon his death in 1989, the G. L. Schoberg Scholarship was established for students in German.