# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1954_S153
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Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America, 1954 153

There were 25 graduates from the High School Department,
the largest number in the school’s history, while ten completed
their first year of work in the Normal Training Department. Teach-

On November 29, 1953, Mr. Hollis Gordon, graduate of Con-
cordia Teachers College, Seward, Nebr., was installed as professor
and made head of the English Department. ;

It was a great loss to the school when, on March 16, 1954, Miss
Evie Dale, a faithful teacher and matron of the school, was called

a teacher in the Christian day school.

The faculty for the school year 1953—1954 consisted of: Rev.
W. H. Ellwanger, M. A. (president), Professor P. R. Hunt, Professor
Hollis Gordon, B. S., Mr. John Moss, Mr. James Gildersleeve, Miss
Rosa J. Young, Mrs. Thelma Tate, Mrs. Jessie Ellwanger, B. A.,
Rev. Moritz Hargens, and Rev. O. W. Luecke. Grade school teach.
ers were Mrs, Peter Hunt and Miss Wincie Jackson. Before the
school year ended, a call had been extended to, and accepted by,
Mr. James Gildersleeve as professor of the Academy,

Besides preparing for the teaching profession, the Academy
also serves as a feeder for Immanuel Lutheran College, Greens-

completed, giving the school temporary library space (the library,
for years, had been housed in the dining room), a stack room, and
a spacious classroom. When the planned and much-needed Ad-
ministration building has been erected, this space now occupied
by the library will be used as a classroom,

Classroom space is still needed. The 4 present classrooms

tive offices. We pray that the Synodical Conference wil] soon
make available the much-needed Administration-Library building
promised in 1950.

The housing situation has also been eased somewhat since the
1952 Synodical Conference. It is to be remembered that the present

The planned new dormitory to house 36 girls has not yet been
authorized. Seven girls live at the teacherage a block away from
the campus, while eight boys live in a house recently acquired
at the edge of the campus, which is also used for kindergarten pur-
poses. It is not easy to work’ for a larger enrollment when it is

ships have come from individuals, church societies, and other or-
ganizations, and these have been of great help in supplying the