# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1917_S28
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

28 Proceedings of 30th General Convention,

in itself is small, it is comparatively large, averaging one pupil ‘to
every 200 communicant members in the District. ;

No appropriations were requested. Synod continues to salary
the professors.

CONCORDIA COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE AT OAKLAND, CAL,

This school, with a fotir years’ course, is the property of the
California and Nevada District. Synod, however, calls and salaries
the professors.

The Board of Supervision reported in substance: —

The Synod convened at Detroit in 1905 approved the plan of
establishing a preparatory college on the Pacific coast. Hereupon
the congregations of the California and Nevada District enthusi-
astically went to work, and already in 1906 had secured a property
valued at $5,500, and presented it to the District free of debt.

The Lord continued to bless the work. The number of students
increased from year. to year. To advance the interest of the school
the Lutheran Education Society of California was organized. In |
a short time this Society purchased five acres, valued at $11,300,
and presented it to the District free of debt. In 1911 the District
erected a building of reinforced concrete on this plot at a cost of.
$35,000. Thus the California and Nevada District has a college.
property valued at $50,000. The enrolment of students has reached 40,

Thus encouraged, the District and its Board believe it to be in
the interest of Synod to elevate this school to the rank: of our other.
colleges, to a six years’ course, and to that end create immediately

a new professorship.
ACTION.

Synod granted the school a third professor. The Board of Super-
vision is privileged to arrange provisionally a Secunda and a Prima
for the next three years. The elevation to a full college was held in
abeyance, awaiting results. ‘

CONCORDIA SEMINARY AT PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL,
SOUTH AMERICA.

Information on this school is included in the report of the
Board for Inner Missions in Foreign Countries.

Synod appropriated $1,200 out of the Building Fund for neces-
sary repairs of the Seminary building; also $150 from the Synodical
Treasury for educational equipment.

GENERAL RESOLUTIONS AFFECTING OUR EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS.

With respect to the proposition of the Iowa District that for
the next triennium no appropriations should be made for new build-
ings owing to present economic eonditions (see Overture No. 116,