# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S74
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

4 ‘Seminaries and. ‘Colleges

_years and humbly ‘acknowledge His_ goodness, -which alone has
enabled us. in spite.of war and confusion to..carry..om the work of
His kingdom. with little hindrance. or. ;disturbance, . In. fact, the
blessings of the last triennium include ‘some, of. the richest benefits
_that have come to our Concordia in. the sixty three. years. of, her
existence. , . noe TEES
The Board : of. Control. he a v

The members of, the Board of Control gave generously of their
‘time during thé past three years, eSpetially ‘diring thé ‘planning and
erection of the Library Building. In pleasant and harmonious
#elationship with -the faculty the, Board has Supervised all phases
“of the school program and. has devoted much attention to the
-eyer-present need of repairs and replacements. There have been
‘mo changes in the ‘membership ‘of the Board during the: past

, ithree years.
‘The Faculty

Blessed with good health and with the excellent: teaching
facilities of the new library and classrooms, members of the faculty
have devoted themselves diligently to their tasks and report fine
achievements of their classes, even according to the criterion of

- normal years. By giving careful thought also to the extracurricular.
work and the recreation of the students and by planning friendly
fellowship with them, much has been accomplished to overcome the
restiveness so common among young men in times of war and
turmoil. The personnel of the faculty has also remained unchanged
during the past triennium.

The Students

It is heartening to report that the enrollment at. our school
thas steadily increased during the past three years from 206 to 231
to 244, The figure for the present year represents near capacity -
ffor boarding students. As. in former years, all but.'six or seven
:students are registered as pretheological. Draft boards have there-
‘fore consistently classified them in IV-D: A’ few have: volunteered
for service in the Army and the Navy; but only two were drafted.
‘These had come to us after three and four years of high school,
_ ‘respectively, and were not within the e required twenty-four months
- of graduation.

Except for the untimely death of a member of last year’s
“graduating. class, Alfred: Schiefelbein, the students have enjoyed
:good health and in times of city-wide.colds-and irifluenza. have
-escaped with relatively light: cases, ‘thanks to.-God and to the

* eexcellence of our. health service.. , vad