# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S93
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 93

Concordia has rendered special service to Synod in various
capacities. It regularly houses the Northwest District convention.
It co-operates with Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, in offering an
extension course for pastors during the course of the school year.
It sponsors a Pastors’ Workshop each summer. It is the locale
of the Lutheran Bible Institute held each fall. It frequently is
the scene of Walther League L.S.V. schools and other youth
conferences.

As our Portland Concordia embarks upon the second half-
century of its service to the Lord and to the church, it does so
in a thankful spirit and in faithful adherence to its motto: “Christi
crux est mihi lux” (“The cross of Christ is my light”).

Tue Boarp oF CONTROL

Grorce W. Upy, Chairman
Tuomas Coates, Executive Officer

California Concordia College, Oakland, Calif.
(Report 112)

With thanks to God for His abundant mercy in directing and
guiding His church and all of its schools, the Board of Control
respectfully submits the following report.

The Board of Control

One change in membership resulted from the elections held at
the Forty-second Regular Convention of Synod. Rev. Paul Hucht-
hausen was elected. Recognition is here taken of the faithful and
consecrated work of the retiring member, Pastor Victor Am End.
Except for the summer months, regular monthly meetings were
held, including one election meeting. With the help and co-opera-
tion of other synodical boards and officials, recommendations and
suggestions of the Board of Directors and Board for Higher Edu-
cation were implemented as promptly as possible.

The Faculty

During the triennium two associate professors were called to
the faculty on which they had served as instructors. Mr. Hugo
Gehrke, M.Mus., and Rev. Walter Rubke, M.A., were both in-
stalled on Sunday, October 17, 1954. Professor Ernest Scaer, who
was on sabbatical leave for the second semester of the year 1953 to
1954, was elevated to the rank of full professor in July 1954.
On December 4, 1955, in a special service of thanksgiving, recogni-
tion was taken of Professor Albert Wessling’s twenty-five years of
consecrated service at the school. In November 1955 President
Oscar Walle, who had served in that capacity since July of 1952,