# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S608
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

24 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES i

aie Concordia College, Milwaukee, Wis.

The Board of Control of Concordia College, Milwaukee, Wis
herewith submits its triennial report and respectfully reques
Synod to consider the needs of its school.

We thank God for His abundant mercy during the past thr
years and humbly acknowledge His goodness, which alone hs
enabled us in spite of war and confusion to carry on the work 6
His kingdom with little hindrance or disturbance. In fact, the
blessings of the last triennium include some of the richest benefi
that have come to our Concordia in the sixty-three years of he
existence. P:

The Board of Control ;

The members of the Board of Control gave generously of theii
time during the past three years, especially during the planning ant
erection of the Library Building. In pleasant and harmonio
relationship with the faculty the Board has supervised all phas
of the school program and has devoted much attention to: th
ever-present need of repairs and replacements. There have b
no changes in the membership of the Board during the
three years.

The Faculty r

Blessed with good health and with the excellent teach
facilities of the new library and classrooms, members of the facul
have devoted themselves diligently to their tasks and report: fing
achievements of their classes, even according to the criterion
normal years. By giving careful thought also to the extracurriculs
work and the recreation of the students and by planning ‘friendly
fellowship with them, much has been accomplished to overcome
restiveness so common among young men in times of war
turmoil. The personnel of the faculty has also remained unchan;
during the past triennium. at

The Students

It is heartening to report that the enrollment at our scho
has steadily increased during the past three years from 206 to 23
to 244. The figure for the present year represents near capacity
for boarding students. As in former years, all but six or se\
students are registered as pretheological. Draft boards have the
fore consistently classified them in IV-D. A few have volunteer
for service in the Army and the Navy, but only two were dra
These had come to us after three and four years of high schog
respectively, and were not within the required twenty-four moni
of graduation.

Except for the untimely death of a member of last yeas