# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S119
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 119

District Support
1. Building Fund Campaign

As indicated above, the Oregon and Washington District at
its 1946 convention resolved to raise $60,000 for Concordia’s build-
ing program. The total offering to date has reached almost $90,000.
This represents an average contribution of almost $5.00 per capita
for the 18,000 communicants of the District. There can be no more
convincing testimony to the interest and loyalty of the Christians
of the Oregon and Washington District in behalf of Concordia.
It is evident that this spirit will become increasingly manifest as
Concordia develops and expands its program to meet still more
adequately the needs of the District. The District has continued
its annual subsidy of $500 to the Commissary Special Fund, which
includes $200 to the Music Department.

The support of the District has not been only financial, but
has also been expressed in terms of the large quantities of food-
stuffs which many of the congregations have regularly contributed
to our commissary.

2. Concordia Academy Guild

Concordia has received invaluable support from the active
women’s organization known as the “Academy Guild.” This group
has sponsored an annual “Concordia Day” on our campus, regularly
attended by several hundred women. The Guild has collected up-
wards of $600 annually for Concordia, with each year’s collection
designated for a specific project. Thus, during the past year the
Guild has paid one half of the salary of the office secretary. Dur-
ing the spring of 1947 the Guild extended its scope of activity to
cover the entire District, sponsoring “Concordia Days” in ten dif-
ferent zones outside Portland (five in Washington, three in Idaho,
two in Oregon).

3. Alumni Association

Another organization which has been created in support of
Concordia is the Alumni Association, which began its work in
June, 1946. This group has paid for the grading of the athletic
field and is providing a crucifix for each bedroom in the new
dormitory. A quarterly paper, The Alumnus, is published.

4, Lutheran Education Society

This society, which had been dormant for several years, was
revived and reorganized in the spring of 1947. It has embarked
upon a far-reaching program of support in behalf of Concordia,
with special attention to those needs of the school for which Synod
makes no provision. Memberships in the society are solicited in
every congregation of the District.