# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S299
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

HIGHER EDUCATION 209

San Francisco Bay area. This institution could be de-
veloped on the Synod-owned 250-acre Lake Chabot
property in San Leandro, Calif., a suburb of Oakland.
This location would afford the students and staff of the
college ready access to the almost limitless cultural,
educational, sociological, and recreational resources of
the Greater San Francisco Bay area.

It should be emphasized that the metropolitan San
Francisco-Oakland Bay area with a current population
of 542 million (this total will triple in the next 50 years)
can increasingly serve as a highly significant and rich
extension of the proposed Lake Chabot campus.

Furthermore, in the judgment of the California and
Nevada District, LCMS concern for the total Lutheran
community in the West and responsible membership
in the Lutheran Council in the U.S. A. would both seem
to indicate that LCMS should assume responsibility for
the development of a 4-year college in the strategic
central area of the West, especially since the ALC and
LCA groups have already established 4-year liberal arts
colleges in the Southwest and Northwest. (The South-
west college, California Lutheran, is located in Southern
California at Thousand Oaks, 40 miles from Los Angeles
and 100 miles from the site of the proposed LCMS
Irvine junior college. The Northwest college, Pacific
Lutheran, is located in Parkland, Wash.) Therefore, in
the opinion of the California and Nevada District it
seems ecumenically and fiscally judicious to locate any
proposed LCMS 4-year college in the San Francisco
Bay area, preferably on the LCMS-owned Lake Chabot
property.

The California and Nevada District, its College
Feasibility Study Committee, and California Concordia
College join in respectfully urging the Denver conven-
tion to give planning and construction priority to a 4-
year Lake Chabot synodical college.

Boarp OF CONTROL
Pau E. Jacoss, Chairman
Etmer F, Eccorp, Executive Officer

(6-17)
Concordia College, Portland, Oreg.

Gratitude is the keynote of any report from Concor-
dia College and High School. For 64 years Concordia
has served its Lord and the church in grateful acknowl-
edgment of the blessings of God upon its work. Alert-
ness to change and innovation, sincere interest in stu-
dents. acceptance of new challenges, dedication to Jesus
Christ, continuing study in the various disciplines. and
genuine concern to cooperate and serve the church
have been characteristic of Concordia, for which it is
constantly thankful to God. Concordia looks to a future
of continued service and relishes the challenges which
the succeeding years will bring.

General Administration

Type of Institution

Concordia. Portland, consisting of a 4-year high
school and 2-year junior college, is one of the prepara-
tory schools under the governance of The Lutheran

Church — Missouri Synod. Its high school is now coed-
ucational with the addition of commuting girls for the
first time in the 1968—69 school year as a first step in
the enlistment of the community in a cooperative pro-
gram of secondary education with the church body. In
the light of the development of Christian elementary
and secondary education in the Pacific Northwest, this
is still an important consideration. The college depart-
ment continues to be coeducational. The two units have
as their primary function the initial education for the
various ministries of the church. Concordia sees the
present structure of the church's educational system as
a viable and acceptable arrangement for the present and
would not at this time rush into a new structure of
education for professional service in the church,

Board of Control

Since the New York convention there have been
a few changes in the composition of the board. Mr.
Richard Ladendorf replaced Mr. Arthur Schoennauer,.
who resigned due to the press of other duties. Dr.
Thomas Langevin replaced Mr. Paul Richter, who re-
signed due to the press of other duties. Since Pastor
Henry Lieske accepted a call to another District, Pastor
Erwin Gerken was appointed to fill the vacancy and was
in turn elected chairman of the board. Mr. Ernest Weick
replaced Mr. Schoennauer as secretary. Concordia has
been fortunate to have the services of such capable
board members. During the past biennium the board
met 12 times.

Auxiliary Organizations
Concordia continues to be served and assisted in its
program by four active auxiliary organizations:

1. The Advisory Council. consisting of capable and
dedicated men and women of the Northwest. who advise
the administration and the Board of Control and seck
to relate the school to the various congregations of the
Northwest.

2. The Concordia Guild, consisting of consecrated
women of the Northwest, who annually contribute about
33.000 for scholarships and needed equipment of various
types for the benefit of Concordia and its students.

3. The Lutheran Education Society, which this year
celebrates its 50th anniversary and which continues in
its threefold program: recruitment, scholarships for
worthy students, and a Portland-based Lutheran Ref-
ormation research library.

4. The Alumni Association, which each year provides
an award for a distinguished high school and college
graduate plus other worthwhile projects.

Each of these organizations makes a significant con-
tribution to the church's only school in the Northwest.
Concordia has a genuine need for such continued sup-
port and cherishes the assistance which has been given
by these dedicated people of God.

Services to the Synod

Concordia has attempted to serve the Northwest
District as a religious and cultural center. As a service