# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S909
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

_members counsel with individual students and groups living on

64 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

been lost to the Lutheran teaching profession. We grateful}

acknowledge the faithful work of our Lutheran high school tea chen,
and principals, and all our teachers and pastors in general for guid.

ing and encouraging so many of their best young me -
vote their lives to this high calling.

Under the leadership of the Dean of Students, fourteen faculty

various floors of the dormitories. The students themselves conden

nine group devotional exercises each evening and joint Sunday
evening devotions in the Student Lounge. They also visit all the
patients in the college infirmary with daily comfort from Gods
Word. In the community they participate actively in Red ¢
Community Chest, Blood Bank, and other civic projects. Many
take part in mission canvasses and in other activities of the Dis.
trict Mission Board and of individual congregations. Through their
chapel offerings the students have contributed an average of $1,500
each year to many mission and charitable purposes within Synod,
including three annual scholarships for students in South America,
India, and Africa.

The Chapel problem is still with us, now to a more aggravated
degree. The crowded capacity of our present Auditorium-Chapel,
including chairs in all the aisles, is about 500. In 1944 our request
for a new Chapel had to be denied. Again in 1947 the Auditorium-
Chapel planned along with the Music Building could not be granted.
We feel that Synod will not be able at this time to provide a suit.
able place of worship for our students. We are therefore planning
for the. time being to continue conducting daily chapel exercises
at the present hour for all students who can be accommodated in
the crowded Chapel, but with the overflow participating through
a public address system in other rooms. This arrangement leaves
much to be desired and should be corrected as soon as possible.
We share with the Board for Higher Education and with many of
our other institutions a deep feeling of regret that daily services

mbers to de.

’ for our future professional workers cannot be held in churchly

chapels where the atmosphere would be more conducive to worship.

Special Educational Services

Concordia Teachers College continues to render important edu-
cational services not ‘only to our undergraduate students, but to
hundreds of our teachers and some of our pastors in the field by
the extensive Summer School, Extension, and Correspondence
program carried on by our staff and offering the same credit 8s
the regular courses. These services are financed by student fees
without direct synodical subsidy beyond the use of the buildings
and equipment for the in-service training of men and women