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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1969, Page 275

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HIGHER EDUCATION 275

G. Services to the Synod and Society

1. Placement of Graduates —“And God Gave Teachers”
The continuing joint efforts of the junior colleges and
Concordia have resulted in the following placements -of
graduates into the service of the church during the past
biennium:

1966—67 1967—68 Total

Men Graduates 88 135 223
Women Graduates —— sid’ 255 426
Total Placements 259 390 649
Graduates Placed Overseas —____——— 5 3 8
Directors of Christian Education —_ 5 9 14
Placed with Advanced Degrees 21 18 39
Placed into Secondary Schools 26 36 62

Approximately 485 graduates were placed during
the 1968—69 school year.

2. Faculty as Servants of the Synod and the
Academie Community

Concordia’s faculty maintains a high level of in-
volvement in the work of the Synod in addition to its
regular college duties. Twenty-four members of the
faculty hold membership on boards, committees, or
commissions of the Synod. During the past biennium
members of the faculty delivered more than 25 essays
to District conventions and conferences. Several mem-
bers of the faculty have published books and mono-
graphs or have served as coauthors during the past
biennium. In addition members of the art and music
departments have produced several significant new
works,

Dr, Walter Wangerin, editor of the new synodical
catechisms, concluded more than 100 workshops on
catechetics conducted throughout the North American
continent. He also presented more than 40 lectures in
various countries in the Far East, New Guinea, and
Australia.

Members of the faculty continue to make significant
contributions to scholarship through articles and pro-
fessional journals and through lectures and papers de-
livered to meetings of learned societies,

3. Publication of 4 Journals

The college publishes four journals: Journal of Ge-
ography (office journal of the National Council for
Geographic Education), Journal of Church Music (a
scholarly journal that has received wide acceptance
throughout the country), Lutheran Education (the
longest continued educational publication in the coun-
try), and Motif (a journal designed to stimulate literary
and artistic creativity among faculty and students).

4. The 1969 Kapelle World Tour

During the summer of 1969 the college concert choir,
The Kapelle, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Gie-
schen, is making a world tour with particular emphasis
on visits to our mission stations throughout the world.
Among places The Kapelle is presenting concerts are
Japan, Korea, Formosa, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India,
Lebanon, Israel, Greece, and Germany. Special efforts
have been made by our missionaries to acquaint the
65 members of the choir with the church’s work in

areas where our Synod is serving. The tour is being
conducted without subsidy from the college and with
the overseas concerts presented without admission
charge or offering collection. The participating students
will bear the major portion of the cost.

Together with the Kapelle tour, an Associates tour
for 80 persons will be conducted. This tour will also
emphasize the program of the church and will join The
Kapelle at several points.

5. Interaction with the “Field”

The college community has been enriched through
visits by members of the faculty to various synodical
Districts and by visits on the campus by District execu-
tive secretaries of parish education and administrators
from Lutheran high schools.

Faculty visitors to the field have been hosted by Dis-
trict executives and have had opportunity to observe
elementary and secondary schools: consult with teach-
ers, pastors, and board of education members: and at-
tend faculty meetings, principals conferences, and Dis-
trict board meetings. On return to the campus the
faculty visitors have presented written summaries of
their field visits to the faculty, and specific recommen-
dations and suggestions have been taken up with the
proper academic divisions, departments, and individuals.

District executive secretaries of parish education and
administrators of Lutheran high schools have been in-
vited to spend a number of days on campus acquainting
themselves with the program and operation of the col-
lege, visiting classes. talking with students, and offer-
ing their counsel for the improvement of the programs
of the college.

6. CAP:SC

The college is participating with seven other small
and or church-related colleges in a long-range planning
project. This project, Computer Assisted Planning for
Small Colleges, has two major objectives. The first is to
develop the concepts, techniques, and organization for
institutional planning and to help in the collection and
analysis of operating data. The second objective is to
design and construct a mathematical simulation of the
operation of a small college that will facilitate long-
range planning.

7. The Black Male Diaconate

Representatives of the college have been invited to
meet with the Coordinating Council of Black Lutheran
Congregations, a group in the Northern Illinois and
English Districts. This council is concerned particularly
with the need to develop a program of mission and min-
istry that will provide a black staff for black urban
communities. The college has indicated its willingness
to work with the council and together with the council
is in consultation with the Board for Higher Education.
The immediate proposal is for the creation of a new
form in the ministerium of the Synod, that of the dea-
con who is “set apart” for his ministry by actions of
the churches and their pastors. By that action he enters
the diaconate and an in-service training program which