| Office: | 17th President of Valparaiso University | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start: | 1988 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End: | 2008 | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor: | Mark A. Heckler | ||||||||||||||||
| Office1: | 6th President of Concordia University, St. Paul | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start1: | 1984 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End1: | 1988 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Gerhardt W. Hyatt | ||||||||||||||||
| Office2: | Acting President of Concordia University, Nebraska | ||||||||||||||||
| Term Start2: | ? | ||||||||||||||||
| Term End2: | 1983 or 1984 | ||||||||||||||||
| Spouse: | Diane Mack | ||||||||||||||||
| Children: | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Residence: | Valparaiso, Nebraska, United States | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | June 12, 1940 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Nashville, Illinois, United States | ||||||||||||||||
| Death Date: | August 20, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Seward, Nebraska, United States | ||||||||||||||||
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Alan F. Harre (1940–2020) was the seventeenth president of Valparaiso University, a post he held for 20 years from 1988 to 2008.[1] He was succeeded by Elizabethtown College alumnus, Mark A. Heckler. Harre was designated President Emeritus of Valparaiso University on July 1, 2008, and was voted one of Valparaiso University's 150 most influential people in history by 2009.[2] He was also the sixth president of Concordia University, St. Paul, from 1984 to 1988.[3]
Alan Frederick Harre was born on June 12, 1940, in Nashville, Illinois, to Adolph and Hilda Harre. He attended St. Paul's College in Concordia, Missouri and graduated in 1960. He received his bachelor's of arts degree in 1962 from Concordia College in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He received his master of divinity degree in 1966 from Concordia Seminary in Clayton, Missouri. In 1967, he received a master's of arts degree from the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia.[4] He then attended Wayne State University.