# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S621
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES "37

time carried’ a heavy load, over thirty periods a week.
ermore, the Board and faculty have long felt that in the in-
of academic efficiency the combining of classes in vital sub-
should be discontinued. Moreover, it will be impossible to
pine. classes in the future because the classes will be too large.
fessor F. W. J. Sylwester, who has served faithfully as head
e school since 1905, has frequently expressed the wish that
@ be relieved of the principalship. The Board therefore petitions
cd to grant a) a regular fourth professor, who is to be presi-
t, and b) an assistant.
“Student Body

The enrollment showed the following numbers: 22, 23, 43.
was encouraging that all the old students returned this past
all and that thirty new students entered. This large number
sented serious housing difficulties. The stationery and one
com had to be converted into living rooms; the library
‘to be used as a classroom. The living rooms were crowded.
<: With a large number of students in prospect this fall, the
ousing problem will be so acute that a solution must be found.
» Board is weighing the advisability of asking permission to
chase a dwelling in the neighborhood to house the overflow.

Support of the District

The support which the constituency provided for the institu-
on was truly remarkable. Each year the District has budgeted
00 for the commissary. When Professor Nitz began his work
s assistant, the District purchased a house and placed it at his
posal. The congregations which heretofore had supplied pro-
ons in large quantities continued to do so, and, beginning with
942, the congregations of Southern Idaho joined this worthy un-
lertaking on a large scale. In that year they sent a truck with
ight tons of food; this year a larger truck brought eleven tons,
d along with the food came cash donations of $857.30. The
commissary presented no problems.

.: A very active group of Lutheran women from all parts of the
istrict meets on the campus in the fall of each year; it has col-
ected $1,120.50 for the school in the past three years. From
arious other sources the school received $1,450. Several months
go the school became the beneficiary of a bequest of over $1,000,
o-be applied to the cost of a new building. The Christians of the
regon and Washington District have been mindful of their school.

Change of Name

epartment and that its name is a misnomer, the Oregon and
Washington District at its 1943 convention petitioned the Board

In view of the fact that the Portland Concordia has no college .

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