# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S592
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

8 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Student Body: As regards the student body in general, co
tions of health have offered no particularly serious problems,
the maturity of the students has made it possible to enforce. the ,
necessary discipline without difficulty. eg
The enrollment during the past three years was as follows?

1941-42: Missouri Synod .-- 120
Wisconsin Synod 5
Finnish Synod .
Slovak Synod
Norwegian Synod ..

9 ; Total, 139

1942-43: Missouri Synod _... _. 136°
Wisconsin Synod . 6
Finnish Synod
Slovak Synod
Norwegian Synod _.

9 } Total, 155

1943-44; Missouri Synod ..... ... 132
Wisconsin Synod .
Finnish Synod .
Slovak Synod ..
Norwegian Syno

10 } Total, 158

During the past triennium the Student Mission Society, under:
the leadership of Prof, R. C. Neitzel, has again carried on institu
tional work in the public institutions of Springfield and vicinity
and the Concordia Hour, a Sunday evening radio program, was
likewise continued.

The Concordia Seminary Guild, an organization of ladies from:
the congregations of Springfield and vicinity, continues its very:
worth-while efforts in behalf of the seminary. .

Despite war restrictions, our Annual Donation Day has re
mained an annual event in Central Illinois, with most gratifying
results for the seminary commissary.

In addition to serving the District as a focal point for many o
its activities, the seminary this year was ‘privileged to play host t
the January meeting of the College of Presidents. °

In 1943 the 25th anniversary of Prof. B.C. Neitzel’s service t¢
the Church as a member of our faculty was fittingly observed.

In March, 1944, the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was:
conferred on the Reverends Marcus Wagner, Herman Meyer, an
J. Fred Boerger, all three ‘alumni of our Springfield Concordia.

Survey Report. — The preliminary Survey Report of the Co
mittee for Higher Education states as point 1 under conclusio:
“Springfield is not needed now, nor is there sourid reason to
that it will be needed in the proximate future to prevent a shortag
of candidates”; and point 1 of the recommendations reads: “That
Springfield be discontinued as a training school for pastors.”

At the hearing held in November of last year in St. Louis the
representatives of the Board and faculty, the alumni, and th