# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S56
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56 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

tion Society, the Ladies’ Aid Society of Concordia Collegiate 3m
Institute, the Concordia Women’s Guild of Long Island, and the’
Concordia Alumni Association. For the past number of years the
Lutheran Education Society has underwritten the cost of our Pub-
lic Relations program amounting to more than $5,000 annually,
Included in the improvements provided by the other supporting
agencies are the refurnishing of our women’s lounge, furniture for
our student center, furniture for the foyer in the Administration
Building, new desks and chairs for Bohm Hall, two new electronic
organs, and other items which ordinarily would not have been
financed from synodical or tuition funds.

No changes are to be reported in the personnel of the Board,
consisting of the Rev. Herman J. Rippe (President ex officio
Mr. James Kemp, Mr. Charles Nehring, Prof. Louis Rabe, andq
the Rev. Louis S. Wagner. Your Board held monthly meetings’
and numerous special meetings as circumstances required, and w
again wish to express our appreciation to the members of the
Board for Higher Education and the Board of Directors of Synod
for their sympathetic and understanding interest in our mu

tasks and problems. Tue Boarp or ContTROL

Louis S. Wacner, Secreta

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St. John’s College, Winfield, Kans.

The Board of Control of St. John’s College, Winfield, Kans;
herewith submits its report for the years 1950—1953. The enroll-
ment statistics for these three years are as follows:

Junior College Academy Totals
Men Women Total Boys Girls Total Men Women Totals

1950—51 _..179 179 358 91 53. «144 270 282
1951—52 _..174 161 . 335 104 48 152 278 209
1952—53 ... 161 163 324 - 120 58 178 281 221

Ministerial enrollments: 1950—51, 160; 1951—52, 190; 1952
53, 183.

Teacher-~training enrollments (women): 1950—51, 152; 1951
52, 162; 1952—53, 150.

. Pre-teacher-training enrollment (men): 1950-51, ; 25; 1951
52, 35; 1952—53, 35.

Graduates entering Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.: 195
43; 1952, 46; 1953, 48.

Women entering church service as teachers or parish workers#
1951, 50; 1952, 61; 1953, 55. =

The health of our students has been uniformly good, for whi
we are duly grateful to our heavenly Father.