LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1981, Page 254

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254 HIGHER EDUCATION

—For the past four years the Board of Mission Directors of
the Kansas District and the health-care professionals of
the Winfield area have participated in a challenge pro-
gram whereby each group has provided $7,500 annually
in support of the Associate Degree Nursing Program.

St. John’s College Alumni Association

The St. John’s College Alumni Association is an indepen-
dent association of alumni and friends devoted to the support of
the college, not a department of the college devoted only to
alumni services. The association, the oldest alumni group at
any of the colleges and seminaries of the Synod, has supported
and will continue to support the college in the general areas of
publicity, recruitment, scholarships, and long-range financ-
ing. The association is a significant link between the college
and its graduates and former students, and is the principal
medium for generating and sustaining the good will of gradu-
ates for the college.

The association historically has encouraged the college to
continue the deveopment of its four-year plan and has publi-
cized the plan in its publications, which keep the college in
touch with its alumni, former students, and friends.

The Association has aided in the recruitment of students by
helping the college identify and contact outstanding high
school students.

The Association has provided significant scholarship
assistance to students: $18,000 to $20,000 for 60 to 80 students
in both 1979—80 and 1980—81. (Association plans call for the
awarding of more than $20,000 to more than 80 students in
1981—82.)

The Association has served as a trustee for funds to be used
for special projects for the development of the college. An
example of such service is the gathering and holding of more
than $25,000 for the Tower Fund, which will support the
construction of a clock tower in the plaza area to be developed
in the college’s long-range campus improvement program.

The association has made plans for sponsoring a teaching
chair in the area of business administration and has raised
more than one-half million dollars in endowment funds for the
continued support of the college.

The Association has disseminated information concerning
various other aspects of gift giving for the support of the
college—for example, matching-grant programs, the establish-
ment of trust funds, and the designation of the college as a
beneficiary in wills, trusts, etc. These efforts by the Association
have the sole purpose of providing long-term financial support
for the college.

St. John’s College Association
of Lutheran Congregations

The St. John’s College Association of Lutheran Congrega-
tions is an independent nonprofit corporation that has
supported and will continue to support, promote, and advance
Christian higher education at St. John’s College.

The St. John’s College Association of Lutheran Congrega-
tions was established in 1974 to stimulate the recruitment of
church-worker students on the congregational level, to provide
scholarship aid for students from member congregations, and
to provide additional direct support from congregations to the
college in order to supplement the annual subsidy of the Synod.
Membership in the association has grown from 34 charter-
member congregations to the current membership of 115
congregations.

The Association has supported the Associate Degree
Nursing Program since the introduction of the program in
1974; it has contributed more than $175,000 to the program
since that time.

The Association has provided scholarship assistance to
students from member congregations. During the past six
years, more than $116,000 in such scholarship assistance has
been awarded to students who attend St. John’s College. Since
1974 an average of 60 students a year have received substantial
scholarship aid from the association as a result of their home
congregations’ membership in this association.

The association has assisted in the recruitment of students
by sponsoring visits to the college’s campus for prospective
students.

The association has served the important function of being
a vital communication link between the congregations of the
Middle West and the college.

Winfield Community Support

The Winfield community and its trade area, through the
efforts of leaders in business, industry, and the professions
especially, has supported the college financially and has
indicated through pledges that Winfield will continue to help
the college achieve its goals for the $2 million development
campaign and for continuing improvement of the Associate
Degree Nursing Program. To demonstrate this support, the
Winfield community accomplished the following:

—The Winfield community during the past nine years has
supported the college by contributing to the Winfield
Community Scholarship Fund. The amount contributed
during that period was more than $57,500.

—The Winfield business community has pledged its support
to the $2 million development campaign by adopting a
support goal of $120,000. This goal is to be achieved by the
end of the 1982 calendar year.

—The Winfield area health-care professionals have con-
tributed more than $24,000 to the Associate Degree
Nursing Program since 1976.

—The Winfield area health-care professionals have pledged
an additional $12,000 for the 1980—81 academic year for
the Associate Degree Nursing Program in a matching-
fund campaign in cooperation with the Kansas District
Board of Mission Directors.

—Winfield area residents have provided more than $7,500
from bequests, private gifts, scholarships, and contribu-
tions from professional organizations in support of the
Associate Degree Nursing Program of the College for use
as scholarships and other kinds of financial aid for
Winfield-area students enrolled in the program.

—The city of Winfield has leased to the college for a 20-year
period the three-story facility that formerly housed the
William Newton Memorial Hospital School of Nursing.
This facility, leased to the college for $1.00 for the 20-year
period, provides office space for four members of the
nursing-education faculty, a nursing education library,
four classrooms, and living quarters for as many as 58
students. The facility is located two blocks from the
college’s campus.

—The Winfield business community has repeatedly encour-
aged the College to continue its effort to move to the status
of a four-year baccalaureate degree-granting institution.

—From a historical point of view, the Winfield business
community has made substantial financial contribution
to the college’s physical development by providing
$50,000 for the construction of a women’s residence hall
(Mundinger Hall—North) and more than $32,000 for the
purchase of property to develop a number of athletic fields
that could be jointly used by the college and the Winfield
community. In addition, the city of Winfield has helped
the college provide lighted tennis courts for use by the
college’s community, as well as by the residents of
Winfield.

St. John’s College has enjoyed a relationship with the
Winfield community that has been marked by acceptance,
respect, and good will.

Winfield Community Setting

The city of Winfield offers a setting that is congenial to and
supportive of St. John’s College and its program of Christian
higher education. The relationship between the college and the
community is mutually beneficial.

The long and friendly relationship between the college and
the community has existed since 1893, when John Peter Baden,
a respected and successful pioneer businessman in Winfield,
founded the college.

The mission and ministry of The Lutheran Church—
Missouri Synod in higher education and in parish life is
known, accepted, and highly respected in Winfield, and the
Winfield community has demonstrated in many tangible ways
that the college is a vital and integral element of social,
economic, educational, and cultural life.