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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 73

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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1935, 73

maintenance and’ renovation of its buildings at Oakland. The Board
is eonfiderit that the Synod will appreciate the necessity of, and the
wisdom of granting, this request now.
Respectfully submitted,
Tue Boar or Coytroz oF Cairornia Concorpia CotLece.

E. L. WINKELMan, Secretary.
Committee 1 recommended: — ,
1. That Synod refer the matter of requested repairs to the Board
of Directors, to grant the requests as soon as possible;
2. That the school at Oakland be continued as a junior college.
(Cf. recommendation of the Committee on Higher Education.)

Action of Synod.
These recommendations were adopted.

Concordia College, Portland, Oregon.
(Memorial 113.)

Our Board again begs leave to make its triennial report. n

God’s blessing has attended our institution also during these three
trying years. The number of students has indeed decreased, as it has
in practically all our institutions, due to the economic and spiritual]
depression (littleness of faith!). Yet the work has gone steadily
forward. The health of both students and teachers has been good,
the work has been satisfactory, and through shifting and squeezing
and self-denial the expenses have been met. Practically all our boys
are studying for the ministry or the teaching profession. The enrol-
ment for these three years has been 22, 20, and 19, respectively.

One thing indeed grieves us. Synod’s Committee on Higher Edu-
cation has recommended the closing of our college. We are unani-
mous in our conviction that such a measure would be a calamity to
our District. Never has the need of a college in these parts seemed
more apparent than now. (See the memorial of the Oregon and
Washington District, printed elsewhere in this pamphlet.) We should
like to stress the following arguments.

A large portion of the Middle West has been stricken with
a disastrous drought. Many, including members of our churches,
have lost all they had. And our Government is planning the rehabili-
tation of these sufferers in other sections of our country. 25,000

And the Government is spending more than £100,000,000 in the con-
struction of the Bonneville (near Portland) and the Grand Coulee
dams (Central Washington) in the Columbia River. These are to
furnish cheap power to all, especially to manufacturers, and irriga-