# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S115
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 115

Junior College

Each of the four pastoral conferences of the Oregon and Wash-
ington District has resolved to petition Synod to grant our Portland
Concordia the privilege of extending its course to include the two
Junior College years. The Oregon State Pastoral Conference has
directed the following overture to our Board of Control. The
Board, feeling that the advisable and feasible time for such ex-
tension has arrived, herewith submits this resolution to Synod:

WHEREAS, We have the cause of our Concordia Academy at
heart and greatly desire its advancement to the glory and honor
of our Lord Jesus Christ; and .

Wuereas, With Concordia’s building program completed, new
and better facilities for the education of our ministerial students
will be available; and

Wuaereas, Adequate housing for additional students is now as-
sured; and

Wuereas, It is to the disadvantage of the ministerial students
after four years to transfer to schools far removed to complete
their preparatory course of studies; and

WHEREAS, It would place the Concordia of the Northwest on
a comparable level with preparatory schools in other sections of
Synod; therefore be it

Resolved, That we, the Oregon Pastoral Conference, in session
at Forest Grove, Oreg., Oct. 22—24, 1946, urge the Board of Con-
trol of Concordia Academy, Portland, Oreg., to consider the ad-
visability and feasibility of adding two years to the present course,
thus enabling our ministerial students to complete their prepara-
tory studies at Portland; and be it

Resolved, That, if and when such extension becomes advisable
and feasible, the Board petition Synod to grant such extension;
and be it further

Resolved, That the Oregon Pastoral Conference endorse such
petition; and be it finally

Resolved, That our secretary be instructed to submit a copy of
this proposal to each of the other three pastoral conferences of
our District for their consideration.

(Signed) Donaip W. Huyricus, Secretary
OrEGON PastoraL CONFERENCE

The expansion of our course in the immediate future would
appear to be consonant with the steady growth and expansion
of our Church in the Northwest. Whereas Synod’s percentage of
growth during the fifteen-year period from 1930 to 1945 was 31.71

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