# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S81
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Action Regarding Individual Institutions 81

California Concordia College, Oakland, Cal,
(Memorial 111)

With heartfelt gratitude to our heavenly Father for the many
blessings He bestowed upon our Oakland Concordia during the past
triennium your Board of Control at Oakland, Cal., herewith re-
spectfully submits to you for your kind consideration the following
report and request.

I. The new curriculum as proposed and partly outlined by the
Curriculum Committee was introduced in September, 1937. The
course in the biological sciences and that in the social sciences had
already been introduced in September 1936. In the high-school
courses only one change was necessary (the addition of a one-year
course in modern history) to conform with the recommendations of
the committee.

The recommendations of the Curriculum Committee have been
unanimously approved by the faculty, and among the students they
have aroused an interest which is plainly evident in the type of
work they are doing for these courses. It is our conviction that
these courses will prepare our students well to meet the present-
day demands in the holy ministry.

We are fortunate in having on our faculty men whose grad-
uate training and past teaching experience made it possible for
them to take over these courses.

Our library is fairly well equipped to meet the requirements of
these courses. With small means at cur disposal it has been built
up, by careful selection of books, during the past ten years, so that
it now contains about 2,000 usable volumes. With the restoration of

But that is not the case with our laboratory. It is equipped
adequately only for the high-school course in chemistry. The
restoration of part of the former annual grant is not sufficient to
equip for the new courses in the biological and physical sciences,

body for a grant of $400.00.

II. The Board of Control of California Concordia College feels
constrained to ask for permission to introduce coeducation into our
Oakland Concordia. The following reasons are respectfully sub-
mitted:

1. The California and Nevada District has repeatedly requested
that coeducation obtain at this institution. An overture from the
District to the Delegate Synod of 1935 is still pending.

2. Many friends of Christian education within the District feel
that the Church is guilty of inconsistency. On the one hand, we

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