# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S41
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions 41

vicinity, meets every month at the Seminary to plan for, and
provide, improvements for which no provision is made in the
regular running expenses.

During the past triennium the Student Mission Society has
again carried on institutional work in the public institutions of
Springfield and vicinity; and the Concordia Hour, a Sunday eve-
ning broadcast from the local station, was likewise continued.

With the approval of Synod’s Board of Directors a campaign
for funds for a student center has been going on for some time.
The alumni as well as the congregations of the Districts allocated
to the Seminary (viz. Central Illinois and Iowa East and West)
have been solicited, and the response has been gratifying.

The faculty worked with all diligence and faithfulness, and
this last year with added joy, since the handicap and burden of
outmoded teaching facilities, classrooms, equipment, and the like,
has been removed. :

The Finnish National Lutheran Church, in cooperation with
our synodical officials, placed Prof. Alexander Monto at the Sem-
inary in the fall of 1938, thus making our Seminary the center of
their ministerial educational activity. In addition to teaching the
Finnish students, Professor Monto is assisting in some of the
general courses in the college department. Candidates Fred Zucker
and Norman Gienapp served as assistants during the first two
years of the triennium; the present assistant is Candidate Fred-
erick Precht.

In general, conditions of health have offered no serious prob-
lems, and the necessary discipline has been maintained without
difficulty. .

The enrolment during the past three years was as follows:

1938-39: Missouri Synod 2. 98
Wisconsin Synod wae
Finnish Synod ...
Slovak Synod .....

1939-40: Missouri Synod .
Wisconsin Synod

. Finnish Synod -.
Slovak Synod ..

Unclassified .....

1940-41: Missouri Synod .
Wisconsin Synod _
Finnish Synod —....WW..222.--.-.-----
(10 in Finnish Department; Total, 125
1 is a member of the Mis-
souri Synod)
Slovak Synod on... 3

Students were enrolled from the United States, Canada, Ger-
many, Hungary, the Philippine Islands, Brazil, and Palestine.
Besides English and German, the following nationalities were rep-

Total, 116

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Total, 120

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