# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S599
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 15

Future Teachers Organization has recently been begun un-
the leadership of the Director of Student Teaching in order
additional opportunity for extracurricular study, observa-
nd discussion of any subject related to the future teacher’s
ity in the local congregation or mission field.
As loyal citizens of the community, students, faculty families,
ad_staff personnel have participated in Red Cross work, the sale
Bonds and Stamps, Civilian Defense, and other wartime ac~-

Student Employment: Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds

In harmony with the resolution of Synod in 1938, we have
intinued to give supported students an opportunity for service
the institution. They have gladly co-operated in the work of
aintenance and other service to the school.
Due to the skyrocketing wage scale in the Chicago area and
he increasing necessity to pay for all or part of their own college
expenses, added to the limited working hours of students due to
the accelerated program, it has become more and more difficult
secure students for college employment. Much necessary work
= has, however, been paid for by donations to the Student Employ-
e ment Fund by the congregations of the Michigan and Northern

Illinois Districts. In addition, all students have cheerfully co-
operated with the Board of Control by donating a minimum of
10 to 20 hours annually of unpaid service to the institution in
addition to the care of their own study rooms and dormitories.
Thus, in spite of the scarcity of paid labor for commissary and
maintenance, the work of the school has not been seriously
handicapped. ;

Acknowledgments

The Board of Control deeply appreciates the advice and as-
‘sistance rendered Concordia Teachers College by the President
‘of Synod, the Synodical Board of Directors, the Board for Higher
‘Education, and the Electoral College.

‘We gratefully acknowledge the faithful service of the whole
faculty and particularly the untiring devotion of the President and
his loyal staff of curricular, business, and student personnel officers

. carrying out the program of acceleration and other staggering
wartime responsibilities with an inadequate teaching staff, in-
sufficient secretarial, maintenance, and commissary help, and the
-Jargest student enrollment in the history of the school.

The continued support of the Student Employment Fund and
the Commissary by the ladies’ societies of the Northern Illinois and
“Michigan Districts and the loyal service of the Concordia Teachers