# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S41
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935, 41

PART TWO.

This part of the report of the Committee on Higher Education first gave
some general information on the student capacity of our educational institu-
tions and the approximate distance between institutions. (Cf. Reports. and
Memorials, pp. 58—55.) Then followed its recommendations on the closing of
institutions. Regarding the college at Conover the Committee had reported:

Concordia College at Conover, N. C., was taken over by the English Synod
of Missouri in 1895 and by our Synod in 1911. By maintaining this struggling
school for forty years, our people have certainly kept faith with those who
turned the institution over to us in the interest of sound Lutheranism.

The institution has furnished comparatively few ministerial students.
Formerly it had a fairly good enrolment of students seeking a general higher
education, because the high-school facilities in the vicinity of Conover were
poor. But in recent years North Carolina has made remarkable progress in
education and has developed a good system of secular schools. Due to this
fact the number of non-ministerial students at Conover has steadily decreased.

In 1934 the total enrolment was 21. Of these, 12 were ministerial and
6 female students.

There is no doubt that Conover has been a focal point for the mission-work
of our Synod in the Southeast. This fact, however, must not be overestimated.
It is at best a by-product and not the primary purpose of any of our colleges.

It is agreed that Conover is no longer the logical ‘place for a college in
the southeast territory. If the college were to be continued, it should-be re-
located. Even if it were to be continued at Conover, Synod would be required
to spend a considerable amount of money for the physical rehabilitation of the
institution. .

1) In view of all these facts your Committee recommends that the institu-
tion at Conover be closed.

2) We further recommend that the disposition of the property at Conover
be referred to the proposed Southeastern District or, if Synod decides not to
organize this new District, to the English District and that the money realized
from its sale be placed by the respective District into its Church Exten-
sion Fund.

Committee 1 recommended: —

1. That the institution at Conover be closed; -

2. That the disposition of the property at Conover be referred to the
proposed Southeastern District or, if Synod decides not to organize this new
District, to the English District and that the money realized from its sale be
placed by the respective District into its Church Extension Fund.

Action of Synod.
Synod adopted these recommendations.
With regard to the faculty members of this closed institution