# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1908_S51
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1908. 51

pupils. This summer 9 so-called summer schools have been established in North Carolina. These are schools that are kept not the whole year through, but only during the summer months, by our teachers in North Carolina and by students of Immanuel College. Over these schools no reports are yet at hand. In the last two years 229 persons were baptized, 136 confirmed; 3420 communed. There are 15 Sunday schools with 718 pupils. As to the contributions from the Negro congregations, this report shows that it is going forward with them. From many of the older parishes considerable contributions have been acknowledged regularly every month in the "Missionstaube" [The Mission Dove]; but not everything they raise is listed there. Most of the stations defray their repairs to church property, costs for light, fuel and school supplies themselves, often also the missionaries' travel expenses, etc. Our Negro Christians are thus also being gradually trained to giving.

B. Educational Institutions.

1. Immanuel Lutheran College in Greensboro, N. C.
(1906—1908.)

This institution was opened on the 2nd of March 1903 in the upper schoolroom of the school at Concord, N. C., with God's Word and prayer. The available quarters soon became so overcrowded that the aisles in the school, the sacristy and the church had to be used as well. Meanwhile the Synodical Conference at its convention in Winona, Minn., in the year 1904 had resolved that a larger piece of ground be bought for the institution in North Carolina, and suitable buildings be erected on it. In July 1905 the construction of the new college in Greensboro, N. C., was begun. In September of the same year the institution moved over to Greensboro and rented quarters in two Negro dwellings until the completion of the college.

On the 16th of September 1906 Candidate H. W. C. Groß from the seminary in St. Louis was installed, in a solemn service held in Grace Church, as the fourth professor of the institution. The number of pupils in the school year 1906—1907 was 74. For the first time in the history of the institution two graduates of the teachers' course could be released into office at the close of the school year, namely Frank Alston of Greensboro and Elizah Johnston of Charlotte. The greatest and most gratifying event of the year was the dedication of the new college building on the 1st Sunday after Trinity (June 2) 1907. The chairman of the Commission for the Negro Mission, Pastor Obermeyer of St. Louis, preached the dedication sermon.

With thanks to God, who has given our mission this fine college, professors and students began instruction at the beginning of the new school year 1907—1908. Although the number of pupils,