# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S68
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

66 Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions

Concordia College, St. Paul, Minn.
Report of Board of Control
(Memorial 107)

In reporting to your Hon. Body at the close of another tri-
ennium, your Board of Control at Concordia College, St. Paul,
Minn., is constrained to praise the mercy of the good Lord, who has
held His protecting hand over our institution, granted health and
strength to Board, faculty, and students, and guarded our buildings
against any harm, so that the blessed work could be continued
without interruption.

Our enrolment was: 1938—1939, 150; 1939—1940, 142; 1940
to 1941, 144 students. There is every indication that our enrolment
has reached the lowest depth and that a gradual increase may
be expected from year to year. No changes in our faculty occurred
during the past three years, and only one member, Dr. H. W.F.
Wollaeger, was kept from the classroom by illness at various times,
during 1940 for about seven months, but is now able to assume
a part of his work.

Your Board has attempted to keep the buildings in as good
condition as the funds allotted to us made it possible, and always
gave first consideration to the exterior of our property in order

to prevent deterioration.
Requests

1. $9,550 for the reconditioning of the South Building. A sim-
ilar request was before the General Synod three years ago. This
building, while structurally sound and in good condition as far
as the exterior is concerned, is in a most dilapidated condition in
its interior. Thus, already for the purpose of preserving it for the
future, the outlay is a wise investment. If and when this building
is thus renovated, it will make an excellent dormitory to accom-
modate 33 students, which would enable the Board to vacate the
Old Main Building, which is less suitable for dormitory purposes
and very expensive to heat.

2. Coeducation.— We are of the opinion that coeducation at
our institutions should be encouraged and expanded and St. Paul’s
Concordia ought to be among the first to be granted permission to
introduce coeducation. We have a faculty sufficiently large to
take care of an increased enrolment; we have sufficient buildings
on the campus to provide dormitory space for girl students; and,
above all, we are in a territory in which we may expect a goodly
number of girl students.

3. Professor Residences. — Five of our twelve professors are
still living off the campus, in rented homes. We trust that Synod