# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S85
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Seminaries and. Colleges. 7 85,

. During the past triennium, as. in’ previous years, we have.
found it. necessary to engage a. number of assistants in order to,

2 neet the requirements. of, aur. varied currieula for our .non-
‘. ministerial and co-educational students, and especially also to, fill

the need occasioned by Professor Hausmann’s absence. .The sal-
aries, of such additional instructors: $ has caused no additional ex-
pense to Synod. ‘

Our Student t Body

The} present abnormal conditions, which have adversely affected
all institutions of higher learning, have not affected us as much as
we had-feared. ‘The decreased enrollment of men students in our
college department, due to inductions into the armed forces, ‘has
been considerably offset by one of the largest enrollments in our
. history in the high school department, ‘51 new high school students

having entered in the fall of 1943, — .

Thirty-six college women are enrolled in our co-educational
department, twenty-five of whom are freshmen who expect to
return hext semester. We have reason to ahticipate an enrollment ;
of at least an equal number of new women students in the fall.
- Your Board is grateful that we are able to give a.Christian higher
education to an increasing number of our Lutheran girls ‘at our
‘school. No unusual problems of discipline have been encountered
‘due. to co-education. A faculty advisory system is being main-
tained at our school which has proved very effective. Since 1941
our Bronxville Concordia. and Valparaiso have been endeavoring
to integrate their respective curricula in such a manner that stu-

dents graduating from our junior college could continue their
" studies at Valparaiso, ahd we have. been actively encouraging our
students to do so. .The enrollment figures of the past triennium
are as follows:.

1941-1942 _ 1942-1943 1943-1944
170 . 166 0CO ‘ 154

Concordia Chapel

The space in our Administration, Building which served as our
chapel in the past has. been redecorated and refurnished with the
assistance of the Atlantic District, so that. it now offers a very
churchly atmosphere for the-chapel services of our students. How-
ever, it must be borne in. mind, as. we reported three years ago,
that this makeshift chapel occupies space which. could well be.
‘converted into: two badly needed: classrooms; also. that it: is. too
small'to: serve our student bedy adequately.

Concordia Congregation has recently acquired property oppo