# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1973_S270 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) EO —— 268 HIGHER EDUCATION Wunder Hall, built in 1924, was beautifully renovated in 1972 and now serves as a women’s residence hall. Previously it was occupied by the boys in the high school department. Concordia is happy to have its own radio station on cam- pus, WPAX, for student entertainment and training. It even broadcasts the Lutheran Hour. Our Board of Control is grateful that Concordia has been able to serve the Synod for 92 years and sincerely appre- ciates the consistent and generous support it has received from the Synod through all these years. It is our hope and prayer that this service may be expanded and enlarged even more in the years ahead. BoaRD OF CONTROL Rev. Felix Kretzschmar, Secretary 6-17 Concordia College, Portland, Oreg. God has given Concordia. Portland, a distinguished past. He is placing before it unprecedented challenges for the future. As it stands in the present, it praises God for its past, requests faithfulness and wisdom for the moment. and im- plores courage for the future. Recruitment Concordia’s twin emphases in recent years have been recruitment and development. It is striving to increase its enrollment by 10° each year until its present college en- rollment of 180 reaches 500. Such growth is prerequisite to becoming an economically defensible educational unit. For this reason. a full-time student recruiter was called in 1969. A second was added in 1971. An institutional growth of 20° in the past 2 vears suggests that the new emphasis is bring- ing results. This growth record is particularly impressive in the light of dwindling enrollments at many institutions of higher learning. A total new dimension was added to the recruitment pro- gram during the current year. With the closing of Cali- fornia Lutheran College in Oakland, Concordia, Portland. has been charged with responsibility of recruitment for the entire West Coast. until such a time as the proposed school at Irvine is opened. To implement this program, the Rev. Donald Waldo, former recruitment officer at Oakland, has been retained as a resident recruiter in the State of Cali- fornia. Though we desire a substantial increase in nonprofes- sional students, our highest priority is still professional church-work prospects. The present need of the church sug- gests that we maintain that figure at its present level. Be- low is the table indicating our performance in enrollment since 1968. Enrollment, 1968—72 Total Other Enroll- Total Minis- Pre- ment H.S. terial Teacher fessional General 1968 217 81 88 89 15 25 1969 221 89 67 78 20 56 1970 286 123 64 105 25 92 1971 306 154 62 93 27 124 1972 344 164 55 81 33 175 Development The percentage of total institutional budget borne by the central church body has drastically reduced. Therefore. Concordia, Portland, has begun a vigorous program of fund raising development. The position of Director of Develop- ment became a full-time position as of Feb. 1, 1973. The record of growth of supplementary income in its relation to total institutional support is given in the follow- ing table. Sources of Income Subsidy Student Fees Suppl Income 1967—68 $273,000(70.8%) 3 66,523 (17.2%) § 46,487 (12.0%) 1968—69 288,519 (71.45¢) 74,637 (18.5 ) 40.796 (10.1% ) 1969—70 296,973 (68.0% ) 73.604 (16.9% } 66,022 (15.1%) 1970—71 290,915 (64.7% ) 109.577 (24.3 ) 49,330 (11.0°r) 1971—72 300,000 (57.8% ) 133,172 (25.7%) 85,647 (16.5% ) 1972—73 304,000 (50.7 ) 182.703 (30.4% ) 113,501 (18.9% ) Student Financial Aid Increases in enrollment and educational costs lead in- evitably to the need for increased amounts of student finan- cial aid. Concordia still holds to the principle that “no pro- fessional church worker will be denied entrance because of lack of finances.” Past and present performance are re- flected in the following table.* Student Financial Aid, 1969-—72 1963 -70 1970-71 1971--72 District Aid - § 8.850 $9,500 $ 9,453 Congregational Aid ——-———-- 5,750 5,638 5,646 Organizational Aid —_.— ———-- 9520 10.495 9,212 Synodical Scholarships ——--— —-— 5.600 4.600 4,578 Individual Aid 5.010 7,575 8,078 U.S. and State Government -.—. -— 13.070 15818 17.080 Concordia Scholarship Foundation - —— 1,000 3,542 Budget Scholarships ——————— — 3,554 3,930 —_—- $51,018 $58,267 $61.519 * Includes both college and high schoot Faculty The heart of any educational institution is the quality of its teaching and learning. God has given Concordia a group of instructors who love both learning and faith. The college has 21 instructors, including five part-time and two on leave. Five have earned doctorates with three more close to completion. The high school has 14 instructors, including two part-time. Unique to the high school is its personnel sharing program, in which four of its 14 instructors are using a portion of their total work time in a neighboring congre- gation. Professor Kar] Keller. a faithful teacher at Concordia for more than two decades. was given an 18-month sick leave, with the prayerful hope that sufficient recovery will enable him to resume his duties. Dr. F. W. J. Sylwester. Concordia’s highly respected first president, who spent his entire career of 67 years at the Portland institution, passed away at the age of 91 and was buried on Reformation Day, 1972. An- niversary honorees during the past 2 years were Principal Donald Lorenz and Dr. Arthur Wahlers for 25 years in the teaching and preaching ministry respectively, Dr. R. J. Buuck and Dr. E. P, Weber for 15 years, and D. Berger. D. Fisk, and Dr. F. Kramer. for 10 years of service to Con- cordia. New instructors during the biennium were Charles Ku- nert, biology and personnel sharing, Richard Wrye. music and personnel sharing. and Karen Ziegler, English and phys- ical education, all of the high school. The college introduced a 2-year secretarial science program in cooperation with Portland Community College. It continues with its experi- mentation of an academic calendar, endeavoring to introduce additional changes toward the improvement of its unique 3-3 program, namely, three courses in each of three terms of the school year. It continues to explore further coopera- tion with the two other Northwest Lutheran educationa institutions, Pacific Lutheran University and Lutheran Bible Institute. Business Management A spacious new physical education building was dedicated on March 12, 1972. with synodical Vice-President Dr. Roland Wiederaenders, as the featured speaker. Recent growth in enrollment has produced a critical need for additional facil- ities. Chief among these is a new library facility which will, in addition, temporarily house urgently needed classrooms and student union facilities. A redesigned master plan will determine the location of additional dining hall space. a new Fine Arts building. dormitories, and administration facilities. High School Every effort is being made to hurry the high school along the way of becoming an independent community high school. Phase I has been completed. namely. the ability of the high school to recruit local students. It has more than doubled its enrollment in the last four years (cf. Recruitment Table). Phase II is now in operation. Its thrust is to continue not only aggressive recruitment but also to establish a financial