# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S804
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 107

_ our faculty, who have willingly assumed numerous assignments

.. in addition to their heavy teaching loads.

Our non-synodical staff, of necessity comparatively large ‘be-
cause of our extensive program of general education, continues to
function capably and in recent years has become increasingly
stabilized by long-term contracts with instructors of demon-
strated merit.

Since 1947 we have had the services of a qualified full-time
director of physical education, Mr. Vincent Olsen, whose presence
on our staff has fully justified our expectations for the physical
well-being of our students.

Six men and four women constitute the instructors on our
non-synodical faculty. With the exception of the Director of
‘Physical Education, whose salary is subsidized by Synod to the

; . extent of $1,000, all non-synodical instructors are salaried by funds

from tuition and from local sources of support.

For the past two years a registered nurse, who is on full-time
. duty during the day and on call at all times, has been regularly
. employed on our campus. The cost of this service is borne by the
» students at the rate of $1.00 a month.

Our Student Body

The following enrollment figures are to be reported for the
* past triennium:

College
Total Men Women High School Ministerial
1947—1948 , 322 98 80 144 105
1948—~1949 291 86 65 140 115
1949—1950 274 72 54 148 107

We are happy to report that the number of ministerial students
has remained fairly constant, and it is the consistent aim of your
Board to do whatever possible that still more qualified young men
from this area will be induced to study for the ministry.

A number of young women wishing to prepare themselves for
parish school teaching are enrolled at our college and plan to
transfer to our River Forest Concordia for completing their
training. We hope that an increasing number of young women will
enter this program at Bronxville and that Synod will encourage
the further development of this program at our school.

In general the health of our students as well as of our faculty
and employees has been consistently good, for which we thank our
gracious heavenly Father.

In this connection we wish to call attention to the fact that
Bohm Hall, our dormitory for high school boys, is still without
adequate fire protection. Whereas our three off-campus girls’ dor-
mitories are protected by sprinkler systems, and Sieker Hall, our
dormitory for college men, is of fireproof construction, Bohm Hall,