# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S70
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70 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

the Seminary this year, 1950, in order to complete his studi
ply work he returned hor

At the close of his two years of sup
a sick man, having contracted TB. There is hope that he will fuj
recover under the proper care. :

Although food prices have risen enormously, we still weg
able to keep the price of the student board at a very low levé
thanks to the liberal support of the Christians, especially in grea a
Buenos Aires. In the last two years two special donation days weal
celebrated annually with a wonderful response. Also the membed

from the congregations in the interior took part in the donatioy
The all-out effort made it possible to charge the students oni
hoping that in this ye

fifty per cent of the actual cost. We are
and the years to come our Christians will respond in the

manner. 7

During the year 1948 Dir. Fr. Lange was granted a furlo a
of six months to go to Germany, his homeland and the home §
his aged parents. It was his first furlough in 18 years, havig
didate from the Zehlendorf Seminary in Berg
in the year 1931. In January, 1950, he returned with his fami
full of new vigor and energy.

The salaries of the professors
several times and are at present again in the process of an adjus
ment because of the continued rapid rise in prices for all COT
modities of daily life. F

During the year 1949 another great change in the life of og
Seminary was in process. The amalgamation of our Colegio
cordia in Crespo, Entre Rios, and of our Seminary was alrea
under discussion in the last months of the year 1948. District 5
then discussed it fully at its convention in February, 1949, a
decided by majority vote that Synod’s Board of Directors cot

act-in the matter as it saw fit as far as our District was concern!
At the end of the year 1949 the amalgamation was resolved uf
by Synod’s Board of Directors, and the District President

instructed to proceed with the amalgamation, which meant,

Colegio Concordia in Crespo be closed and the college departm
ed to the Seminario-Col

with its two remaining classes be add
in Villa Ballester. This has now been done. March 15, 1950,
the first opening of the complete Colegio-Seminario in Villa |
lester. But a still more important resolution was passed by Syt
Board of Directors: Beginning with the year 1950, Cole
Seminario Concordia in Villa Ballester is to receive annually a
class. We hope that this will increase rapidly the number of
missionaries, which we so urgently need. In the year 1950 we
two seminary classes, with four students each, and two ¢