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The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Page 87

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Grace Lutheran School, Concord, N. C.

Persson, were kind to the students and assisted
Pastor Bakke in teaching. About a year after the
school was opened, Prof. I. Wahlers was called.
He worked in the college for fifteen years. He is
now a member of the faculty of Concordia College,
St. Paul, Minn., but still has a warm heart for Im-
manuel College.

On September 12, 1905, professors and students
moved to.Greensboro, N. C., where the erection of
a college building had been begun. Until this new
building was completed, a temporary home for the
institution, was found in two rented houses, a large,
two-story building, serving as classroom and dor-
mitory for the,boys and as kitchen and dining-room,
and a smaller; house, serving the girls as a dor-
mitory. + {

Our Lutheran ‘Deaf-Mute School
at Detroit.

“A son was born to Pastor and Mrs. C. on
August 11, 1908, and named Stephen at his baptism
by his father. He was a very bright child and be-
gan to talk at six months of age. Later he devel-
oped cholera infantum and, not being properly
treated by the physician, lost most of his vitality
and grew up pale and weak to the age of thirteen.
Later he became a veritable giant in strength. In
his fourth year he began to show signs of deafness,
which caused the parents to seek help, but none
effective was found.

“His hearing gradually grew worse, until at the
age of seventeen he was totally deaf. At first he
could get along in the ordinary school; but in the
third grade his principal urged that he be sent to
the school for the deaf. There he was treated as
a stone-deaf child and was made to spend all his

Girls’ Dormitory, Immanuel College, Greensboro, N. C.