Rev. William Heine most recently served as Associate Pastor and Headmaster at Memorial Lutheran School, Houston, Texas. He graduated from Concordia Teachers College (1978) in Seward, Nebraska, and from Concordia Seminary (1986) in St. Louis, Missouri. In his thirty years of ministry he has served as a parish pastor, an elementary, middle school, and high school teacher, a school headmaster, and the Wyoming District Education Chairman (1998-2008) where he was instrumental in promoting classical education among the District’s Lutheran schools. He was a founding board member of the Consortium for Classical and Lutheran Education (CCLE.org) and in 2015 was awarded the CCLE’s prestigious Magister Magnus Award for his twenty years of leadership in promoting classical education in Lutheran circles. He and his wife Melinda have four grown children, all of whom are serving or have served active duty in the United States Armed Forces, and four granddaughters.