# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S126
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

126 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

our professors can only lead to the conclusion that this eighth
professorship is the only solution to our problem. This is all the
more true in view of the fact that with the erection of our new
buildings the enrollment can be expected to go steadily upward.
We therefore respectfully petition Synod to grant us this eighth

professorship. Tue Boarp or Contron

Caxirornia CONCORDIA COLLEGE
By Epwin Messs, Jr., Acting Secretary

ACTION

The request for an eighth professorship was withdrawn by
the Board of Control.

Concordia College, Edmonton, Alberta
(Memorial 113)

The Board of Control of Concordia College, Edmonton, Alberta,
respectfully submits to Synod its report for the period 1944—1947,

With praise and thanksgiving to a gracious God, Concordia
College in Edmonton was privileged to celebrate its 25th anniver-
sary during the past triennium, Due cognizance was taken of this
event at the graduation exercises in June, 1946. Both Districts
of Western Canada came to the college for their annual convention
and took part in the festivities.

The occasion emphasized the vital part our institution has
played and is playing in the development of our Church in this
Dominion. No less than forty-five per cent of the entire clergy
in Western Canada are graduates of Edmonton, while fifteen others
are active in the United States and in foreign countries. Seven
have entered the teaching profession in our Church. In all, 471 stu-
dents have been enrolled since 1921. Many of our lay graduates,
profiting by the training received here, are taking an active part
in the work in their respective congregations.

Moreover, there is every reason to believe that our institution
will be of even greater importance in the future. Canada is still
a “new” country with lots of room and vast resources. The West
has unlimited reserves of coal and oil, not to mention rich deposits
of uranium. This points to future industrial development. Indeed,
some observers are confidently predicting that the area of densest

‘population in Canada will in time shift to the West. The prospect
of increased immigration from Europe in the postwar period should
also be reckoned with. We might add that Edmonton has grown
from a city of $0,000 to 120,000 within the past seven years. All of
this is an added reason why our Church should strengthen its
position in this area.