# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S230
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

228 , SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

ultimate enrollment of between 500 to 600 may reasonably be
expected in the near future, The following table will illustrate
the enrollment trend and the relative proportions between each
vocational classification and the total enrollment.

Distribution of Student Enrollment by Vocational Intention
on Campus of Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

PRE-THEOLOGICAL HIGH SCHOOL
% of Total % of Total
Total Number Enrollment Number Enrollment
646 236 36.6 410 63.4
612 219 35.9 393 64.1
605 249 41.7 353 58.3
500 201 40.0 299 60.0
450 184 41,0 266 59.0
378 161 42.6 217 57.4
371 184 49.7 187 50.3
361 190 52.6 171 47.4
334 192 57.5 142 42.5
309 175 56.6 134 43.4
298 189 : 63.4 109 36.6
300 198 66.0 102 34.0
187 187 100 0 0
185 185 100 0 0
226 226 100 0 0

Space Allocation
As the enrollment statistics plainly indicate, one of the most
pressing immediate problems confronting the Lutheran High School
Association is its need of sufficient additional space for classes and
laboratories,

The maximum available capacity for classrooms previously re-
ported by the administration is 500. The current enrollment is 646
for college and high school. Year after year more and more rooms
have been reconditioned, and shifts of one kind or another have
been made to accommodate the growing student body. But the
pressure comes not only from the expanding high school, but also
from the increased enrollment of pre-theological students. When
the high school came to the campus in 1935, the pre-theological
enrollment was at the low point of 185. Until 1940 it held in that
vicinity, dropped to 161 in 1941—1942, reached 249 in 1944—45,
receded to 219 in 1945—46 owing to acceleration, and rose again
to 238 last year. A continued climb to about 275 or 300 may be
expected.

During these years the domestic science and mechanical
drawing laboratories were in improvised quarters in the basement.
Administrative offices were scattered for both high school and
college, and there were not enough of them. The lounge for girls
became inadequate. A lounge for women faculty members was
a great need,