# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S119
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Report of Board for Higher Education 117

10. That the Concordia property and buildings be restored to
the Western District, if the Western District will accept them.

11. That, if the Western District does not wish to utilize the
Concordia buildings and grounds for educational or charitable
purposes, the Board of Directors of Synod be authorized to dispose
of the property.

12. That the Board for Higher Education lend assistance and
direction in planning and executing the consolidation and adjust-
ments proposed.

Financially this consolidation should mean that Winfield and
Seward will accommodate more students ‘than their present en-
rolment without notable increase in overhead costs and that about
ninety preministerial students now attending Concordia will be
accommodated without additional cost to Synod. The eventual
saving to Synod is estimated at about $18,000 a year. Another sub-
stantial saving is the sum which would have to be appropriated for
a new Administration Building if Concordia were to be retained.

(In this connection Committee 1 also considered Memorials 123, 124,
125; Unprinted Memorials 54—57, 103, 116, 120 and seven letters protesting
the closing of St. Paul’s College.)

Report of Committee 1
Since a general survey of all of Synod’s educational institu-
tions has been recommended, Committee 1 recommends that this
survey include also St. Paul’s College at Concordia, Mo.

Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

B. Concordia College, Portland, Oreg.

The Board for Higher Education also gave serious thought
and study to the unique problems in Portland. On the one hand,
the precarious condition of Portland’s buildings, its regularly small
enrolment, and other factors strongly suggest an immediate reme-
dial proposal. On the other hand, the development of the Pacific
Northwest, the extraordinary distances in the West and Northwest,
and the missionary potentialities of the Northwest recommend
cautious procedure.

Accordingly, your Board for Higher Education recommends
that, together with the Board of Directors, it be instructed to
investigate thoroughly the present and future possibilities of our
Portland Concordia in relation to the developmental trends of our
Church in the Northwest; that the Board for Higher Education
and the Board of Directors carefully investigate the following
possible alternatives:

a) The erection of the building which Portland requests and
the making of necessary alterations in the present building;

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