# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S120
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

118 Report of Board for Higher Education

b) The removal of the institution to a more favorable location
and the erection of a new plant;

c) The consolidation of Concordia College in Portland with
California Concordia College in Oakland;
and that, with the aid of information disclosed by the proposed
institutional survey, the Board for Higher Education, in col-
laboration with the Board of Directors, present a definite proposal
to the synodical convention in 1944.

Report of Committee 1

Committee 1 recommends:

1. That the Board for Higher Education and the Board of
Directors be instructed, in a special survey, carefully to investigate
the following possible alternatives:

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

b, The removal of the institution to a more favorable location
and the erection of a new plant;

c. The consolidation of Concordia College in Portland with
Concordia College in Oakland;

2. That, if the special survey of Portland is favorable, the
Board of Directors be authorized to exempt the request for a new
building from the regulations of Synod pertaining to the erection
of buildings.

Action of Synod: These recommendations were adopted.

C. The Situation at Springfield

On the basis of the general considerations noted above your
Board for Higher Education has given much time and thought to
the problems of Concordia Seminary at Springfield. It is not
necessary for us to survey the history of our Seminary at Spring-
field. For almost a century it has served Synod faithfully and
well. It has graduated hundreds of efficient. pastors. Its contri-
bution to the life and work of Synod has been notable.

The members of Synod will remember that the original pur-
pose of our Seminary at Springfield was to provide an oppor-
tunity to enter the holy ministry to young men of more mature
years, who for various reasons were not able to enter the minis-
terial course provided at our preparatory schools and at our Con-
cordia Seminary at St.Louis. The rapidly expanding economy of
America and the successive waves of immigration made it neces-
sary to graduate just as many candidates as possible. It is our
conviction that Synod should recognize with gratitude to God that
in this work our Springfield Seminary has been thoroughly suc-
cessful, During all these years devout and consecrated young