# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S59
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

ee OSES RN ES AT RA ARE

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 59

Improved Facilities :

, Regarded as a model of modern school architecture, designed

be both attractive and serviceable, the long-needed new ad-
ae tion-classroom building was dedicated in June, 1948.
ited at a cost of $245,000, it includes modern classrooms, science
laboratories, the library, the chapel-auditorium, faculty consulta-
‘on rooms, and administration offices. Improvement of the sur-
Hon din grounds, including the athletic field, has added to the
run siveness of the campus. When the contemplated repair and
ior painting of the. dormitory and gymnasium’ buildings will
have been accomplished, California Concordia, insofar as its phys-
ical appearance is concerned, will be a credit to our Church and
to the community in which the institution is located.

Faculty .

Of greater significance, however, is the fact that California
Concordia has maintained a high standard of scholastic achieve-
ment and has merited continued recognition and. commendation as
an institution of learning. Its faculty, numbering fourteen faithful
and efficient members, including: professors: and ‘instructors, has
labored indefatigably to this end. Individual faculty members ‘have
cheerfully assumed further responsibilities, in addition ‘to their
full share of class. instruction, such as the duties of assistant tréas-
urer, librarian, director of choral. groups, physical education’ ac~
tivities, public relations, and the like. President Theodore Brohm
last fall completed forty years of service as head of the institution,
while Prof. E. F. Scaer. concluded his twenty-fifth. year:as pro-
fessor of English. Both anniversaries were. appropriately: observed.
It is with regret that we report the illness of Prof. R..A. Eifert;
currently necessitating a leave of absence. 2-2-0 0 ct

-... Enrollment, 7
_- Coincident with and made. possible, by the expansion of facil-
ities, California Concordia has experienced a 22.per cent: increase
in student: enrollment during the - past three years. Registration
records reveal that 211 students enrolléd.in the 1949-50. school
year, as compared with 173 in_1947—48 and 195 in’ the year -fol-
lowing a eS VOR ere
ime as Increased “Interest and Support an
We are deeply grateful to Synod for its part in providing the
expanded facilities which have made it possible to serve the‘youth
of our Church in larger number, including particularly those’ who
plan to enter the ministry, the teaching profession, “or other fields
of church: endeavor.” Likewise do we appreciate: the increased in-
terest’ ‘and ‘support-of friends - of ‘Christian education’ in“ the: Far