He passed the eighth grade public school examination in Marion County, Oregon, in 1898 and completed the commercial course at Pacific Lutheran Academy in Parkland on June 1, 1900.
[1] Tingelstad attended the Silverton, Oregon, high school during the first year of its operation, 1900–01, and completed the Luther College preparatory course at Pacific Lutheran Academy in 1902.
[2] Tingelstad entered Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1905 and taught summer parochial school in Nelson County, North Dakota, in 1906.
[4] He attended the University of Chicago the autumn quarter, 1909, and became the first chair of the psychology and education departments at Luther College when he began teaching there in January 1910.
It was held on the lawn in front of Old Main at 3:30 in the afternoon, and included maypole dances and crowning of a May Queen followed by a tea for all participants.
But after the outbreak of the World War II, student enrollment dropped dramatically and the financial problems facing the school grew.