# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S627
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 48

Board Rates Raised

“After considering the more than 20 per cent advance in costs
ood and expected additional increases, the Board of Control felt
trained to increase the monthly rates for ministerial and
cher students to $17.50 and for general high school students to
2.50, which includes tuition.

College Association

While the Texas College Association has existed for fifteen
ars; its really productive period dates from 1936, at which time
of. M. P. Neeb took over the promotion and publicity work and
organized the group. The annual contributions have grown from
676 in 1937 to $2,018.06 in 1943. Thus a total of $7,074.26 has
raised and spent by the Association in the interest of our
liege during the past seven years.

The College Association has supplied Concordia with consid-
able tangible property during this time. Its first project sub-
tuted sound gravel for the muddy trails on the-campus. Two
wer mowers and several hand mowers have been purchased in
ddition to hand tools of every description. The Association also
gays for the operation (by students) and maintenance of this
quipment. It plants shrubs and trees and pays for the care they
equire. It has paid a share of the cost of a metal school sign,
automatic gong system, and has installed acoustical board on
e ceiling of the chapel. The greatest project of all has been the
tallation of over fifteen hundred feet of steel fence at a cost
‘approximately $1,000 and the purchase of a light truck. The
mary objective of the College Association is to help students
vyho are in need by employing them on school projects. The stu-
ent employment program requires approximately $100 a month.
A four-page, three-column news sheet named The Concordia
4 informer, going into every Texas congregation in ten thousand
fopies three times each year with school news and pictures, also
Billustrates and promotes the Major project of the Association for
current year. A contact man (or woman) in each of these
ongregations solicits small individual gifts from everyone that

an be interested in the cause of the Association.

Through the College Association and The Concordia Informer
zefforts are being made to arouse and to retain interest. This effort
being made in all the congregations of the Texas District and
many congregations in the Southern District.

! Concordia Gymnasium Fund

“We have a first-class school, except for one thing,” said Mr. H.
, Ritter, member of the Board of Control; “we are not properly
ipped to care for the Physical Education of these future servants