# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S132
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

180 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

J. Beto is admirably supplanting him in all the departments vacated
by Professor Neeb. For the science and music department a new
professor was called. Prof. E. C. Huebschmann accepted the call,
and with his assistant, Mr. C. Messerli, the normal students in
particular are receiving the attention and time due them. Pro-
fessor Huebschmann is also in charge of the varied athletic pro-
gram of the college. Prof. G. Viehweg, a master in the Greek
language, and an expert librarian, and Asst. Prof. C. Heilmann,
both an able instructor and housemaster, filled their places well
on the faculty. Last, but not least, Dr. H. Studtmann, who has
so ably filled the important position of Director during the past
twenty years, has been privileged to celebrate his seventieth
birthday in excellent health during the past year. We recognize
the favor and benediction of our heavenly Father for the gift of
such able Christian teachers on our faculty staff.

During the triennium the student body enjoyed good health
and showed a fine Christian spirit. Our record-breaking, over-
capacity enrollment total of 60 boys three years ago has reached
another all-time high mark in 1946-47. Seventy~seven boys are
being crowded into a dormitory which has been built for 40.
Of the 77 enrolled students 41 are ministerial students, 14 are
normal students, and 22 are high school students; 28 are fresh-
men, 23 are sophomores, 16 are juniors, and 10 are in the senior
class. Total number of graduates from 1930 to 1946: ministerial,
110; normal, 24; high school, 19; total, 153. Total enrollment of
students from 1926 to 1946 who attended Concordia at one time
or another, 344.

Our College Association, which has existed for eighteen years,
has raised and spent thousands of dollars in the interest of our
college. The purposes of the College Association are twofold: one,
to furnish employment to worthy but needy students, and the other,
to collect funds for the beautification of the campus. Through our
contact men (or women) in the congregations of the Texas and the
Southern District over $3,400 were raised last year for the cause
of the Association. ,

During the triennium our District has made efforts to gather
enough funds for the erection of a gymnasium. We are happy that
about $60,000 have so far been contributed, but are, on the other
hand, disappointed that because of the high prices of labor and
material we must postpone work on the building. We certainly
hope to have not only this physical education building but also the
dining hall and the administration building during the next trien-
nium. For the last two buildings mentioned we are petitioning
Synod at this convention.

Congregations, ladies’ aids, and individuals are continuing to