# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S71
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

(Report 105)

With deep gratitude to our heavenly Father for the many
blessings He has showered upon our school and for His gracious
protection, we at Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind., submit
this report.

Our school has been operating exclusively as a Junior College
with a ministerial and a teacher-training program. During the
past triennium we have had the largest graduating classes in the
school’s history.

This was to have been the last year in the operation of the
Junior College. Since, however, the new Concordia Senior College
cannot be opened this fall, it was decided to enroll another freshman
college class this coming September. A full student program will
be carried out until June 1957.

The members of the Board of Control have carried out the
phases of work assigned to them in a conscientious spirit. Much
time has been given by the members individually and as a group
to assist the administration and the faculty with the total program
of the school. Two changes in the Board of Control became
necessary. Mr. Norman Widenhofer and Mr. Edwin Benz replaced

Mr. Robert H. Berning and Mr. Robert C. Moellering. The latter
two were appointed to the Board of Concordia Senior College.

The faculty has worked together harmoniously and conscien-
tiously to carry out the objectives in ministerial and teacher
training. Prof. Ernest C. Lewerenz, having reached the age of
seventy, was placed on the honorably retired list. Prof. Elmer E.
Foelber and Prof. Walter A. Hansen were given a peaceful release
to accept positions in the Editorial Department at Concordia Pub-
lishing House. Prof. Walter G. Sohn was given a peaceful release
to accept a position on the faculty of our sister school at St. Paul,
Minn. Prof. Otto Spurgat was released to our sister school at
Bronxville, N. ¥. Profs. Erwin H. Schnedler and Walter Schoedel
were released to accept pastorates but have continued to teach
on a part-time basis.

Pres. Herbert G. Bredemeier, Prof. Paul F. Bente, and Prof.
Martin H. Bertram have accepted calls to Concordia Senior College
but will remain until the end of the Junior College program.

During the past triennium members of the faculty have served
on numerous committees serving the church at large, and the
campus has been the site of many meetings, e.g., the Central
District convention, the plenary meeting of the Board for Higher
Education, and the First Lutheran Collegiate Music Festival.