# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S297
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

HIGHER EDUCATION 207

what in the last 2 years. We are, however, very grate-
ful for the unusual blessings which the Lord has placed
upon this special phase of our synodical training pro-
gram both in giving us consecrated students and in pro-
viding challenging fields of service for the graduates.
At the present time 84 graduates are actively engaged
as lay assistants in various areas of church activity.

Personnel

No changes have occurred in our Board of Control
since the New York convention. The eight members
of our board are from four synodical Districts: South
Wisconsin, North Wisconsin, English, and Northern
Illinois.

The following new members were added to the fac-
ulty for the 1968—69 school year: Bruce Malchow, Mr.
and Mrs. Keith Grafing, Neil Lohmeyer, Abigail Oesch,
Thomas Truebenbach. These left Concordia for other
fields of labor: Alfred Roth, Paul Naumann, Diane
Gordon, and William Meier; and Paul Rottmann retired.

Campus Program

Various new types of teaching-learning situations
have become a part of Concordia’s academic program:
very large lecture classes, small discussion sessions,
individual program learning in the learning laboratory,
team teaching, and private tutoring. On the high school
level the members of the National Honor Society have
adopted as their major program the private tutoring of
students in academic difficulty. In January 1968 North
Central Association examiners revisited Concordia Col-
lege High School and gave a very commendatory re-
port. More than 500 adults were served through Con-
cordia’s continuing education program during this bien-
nium. Special Greek classes have been conducted dur-
ing the summer months, as well as a credit course
taught by a faculty member of Concordia Seminary,
Springfield. A one-week institute for pastors was con-
ducted by two faculty members of Concordia Seminary,
St. Louis. Faculty members have continued their edu-
cation, and during this biennium three earned master's
degrees and two attained the doctorate.

In addition to the many cultural, religious, and social
enrichment opportunities through the metropolitan re-
sources of Milwaukee, Concordia College has offered
stimulating programs by presenting religious and com-
munity leaders in academic convocations, religious
forums, and free discussion groups,

Service to the Synod

In many respects the Concordia College campus is
the center of Missouri Synod Lutheran activity in Mil-
waukee. It is the headquarters of the oldest continuous
religious broadcast in America, the Lutheran Radio
Service, begun in 1928: of the Greater Milwaukee Fed-
eration of Lutheran Churches — Missouri Synod. Inc.:
and of the pastoral conference. Its facilities are used
for many Lutheran committee meetings as well as for
large gatherings.

During this biennium, faculty members have served
as elders, members of various boards, and congrega-
tional presidents in Milwaukee churches. Many of them
serve on various commissions of the Greater Milwaukee
Federation, one even as federation president. Faculty
members also serve on the District Recruitment Com-
mittee, as District campus coordinator and District
archivist. On the synodical level faculty members have
served in this biennium on the Armed Forces Commis-
sion, Commission on Church Literature, Committee on
Special Education, Curriculum Commission of the
Board for Higher Education, and as convention and
conference essayists and lecturers.

Plans for the Future

In 1964 Daverman Associates, a large architectural
firm of Grand Rapids, Mich., completed a challenging
master plan for expanding and developing the campus
of Concordia College to enable it to serve at least 1,500
students adequately. A thorough study was also made
to determine the advisability of retaining the present
campus rather than relocating. Through this study the
Board of Control and the Board for Higher Education
came to the firm decision that the advantages of remain-
ing at the present location far outweighed the advan-
tages of relocation.

In October 1967 the Board for Higher Education offi-
cially approved the boundaries of the master campus
plan which would increase the campus area to 28 acres
from less than 8 acres in 1959. Through an aggressive
program of perimeter property acquisition. more than
two thirds of all the properties necessary to be pur-
chased have been acquired to date. The City of Mil-
waukee has cooperated well in permitting the closing
of an alley which enabled enlargement of the campus
playground and also beautification of the general cam-
pus area. Mr. E. R. Steinman accepted the position as
director of development with the specific goal of gather-
ing liberal community support for campus expansion
and improvement. Under his direction the “Spirit of
81° program has been planned and projected with
hopeful culmination of blessed results by the time of
Concordia’s centennial.

During this biennium the faculty has worked dili-
gently on developing a master academic plan with the
objectives of expanding to a 4-year college. Six major
committees, involving every member of the faculty
under the general leadership of the academic dean, Dr.
Carl J. Stapf, have produced various documents for
discussion with the entire faculty, with the Board of
Control. and with the Board for Higher Education.
It is our conviction that the time has come to phase
out the high school department on our campus and to
concentrate our efforts on the college and the Lutheran
Lay Training Institute, and an arrangement has been
developed with the two local Lutheran high schools for
strong, determined efforts to recruit and train minis-
terial students on the secondary level in these institu-
tions,

Our Board of Control expresses sincere gratitude for