# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1924_S56
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56 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth convention

loss. In the theological department two professors will teach, in the high school four. Our future Negro pastors must study seven years, four in the high school and three in the seminary. — For the teachers in the southeastern mission field the Commission has had a summer school set up, to help them in religious instruction. The first summer school began this year on 9 June and lasted two weeks. Professors Berg and Näther gave the instruction. 22 teachers attended the summer school. — In the last two years, as always, several students were won for our church and confirmed, 7 in number. In the summer of 1923 the institution was admitted by the state authority into the ranks of the [printed in English] “standard high schools.” — Last fall a professors' residence, which cost about $5,400, was erected. Another residence is needed. Extensive repairs that had to be made last September on the director's residence and on the college building cost about $4,000. The dormitory for the girls could unfortunately not be erected for lack of the necessary funds.

2. Luther College in New Orleans. The building, which had acquired a shabby appearance outside and inside, was renovated two years ago by all sorts of repairs and a good coat of paint so that it looks stately again. This summer a proper library and a complete laboratory are to be installed. Attendance, which formerly fluctuated between 25 and 39, but in the year before last had risen to 49, soared in the last school year to 56 and this year reached even 60. Since a third professor had become necessary and the two professors had asked for a colored professor, the Commission transferred Missionary Carl Stoll from Philadelphia to Luther College. He began his work in September of last year. In the school year 1922—23 four girls could be dismissed as teachers, of whom two are now at work, to great blessing, at the mission school, while two are still on the waiting list. In the last school year five students were dismissed, of whom two would gladly serve in the mission school, and two boys who are well gifted and wish to prepare for the holy ministry at the seminary in Greensboro.

3. Alabama Luther College in Selma. Two years ago the Commission was instructed to begin the establishment of a higher institution of learning on the flourishing Alabama field, resolved as early as 1920. The Commission resolved that the faculty should consist of colored teachers, and appointed the missionaries Otho Lynn (1922) and Paul Lehman (1923) as professors. In the first school year (1922—23) ten girls enrolled, who were taught by Prof. Lynn and Mrs. Nettie Moore. They lived and were taught in a rented [printed in English] cottage in the northwestern part of the city of Selma. Teacher Rosa Young served as matron. Teacher Chinetia Smith was the third teaching staff member this year. In the summer of 1923 the professors Lynn and Lehman were given opportunity to prepare further for their special subjects at [printed in English] Chicago University. In the last school year the number of students doubled, and so a further residence had to be rented. This fall the third class is now added. I was for several days last March as visitor at the institution. Those were true days of joy for me, although I happened to be suffering from a heavy cold. The pious be-