# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S58
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

58 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

The appropriation for the extension and remodeling of the
kitchen-dining hall facilities granted at the 1953 delegate con-
vention was immediately put to work and played a considerable
part in the award granted Concordia by Institutions Magazine,
which rated Concordia’s food services as third best in the nation’s
universities and colleges surveyed by this group.

Eifrig Hall, named in respectful memory of the sainted Profes-
sor C. W. G. Eifrig, who served Concordia many years with national
distinction, was dedicated on October 23, 1955, and provides modern
yet modest facilities for instruction in the sciences.

Alumni, students, the men’s club, faculty, staff, Board of
Control, and friends of Concordia joined hands to make possible
four all-weather bituminous-type tennis courts, which were com-
pleted in the fall of 1955.

Synod’s forty-acre campus at River Forest represents a beauti-
ful and ideal location for the purposes of training an increasing
number of men and women to exercise educational leadership in
our rapidly expanding program of Christian education.

The Curriculum

All students at Concordia are enrolled in one basic curriculum
designed to prepare them for service as teachers in the parish
school system of the church. Since the parish teacher is expected
to have a broad cultural training, the first two years of the four-
year program are devoted principally to general education. Most
of the professional courses are taken in the Junior and Senior
years.

Within the larger framework of required courses, students
have the opportunity to develop special fields of interest. While
the major program of every student is elementary education, all
students select a subject-matter sequence, such as History,
English and American literature, Music, Bible History and Inter-
pretation, and Geography; or concentrations in Church History,
Social Science, and Mathematics, and (beginning in 1956—57)
Physical Education and Youth Leadership.

The faculty is seeking constantly to review and improve the
curriculum. Periodically a major review of the curriculum takes
place to keep it abreast of the major trends in higher education,
state requirements, and the needs of the church. In the spring of
1956 a Curriculum Commission was established by the faculty,
consisting of 12 representatives of the six academic divisions, two
representatives of the Educational Policies Committee, and the
academic dean and registrar, to analyze the entire curriculum
during the next several years and to bring recommendations to
the faculty for such modifications as need to be made.

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