LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1973, Page 263

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The enrollment according to classification of students for
the last biennium is as follows:

Pastoral Teaching Other Liberal
Ministries Ministries Ministries Arts Total
1971—72 28 57 6 169 260
1972—73 30 46 10 179 265

Alumni Association

Many alumni had indicated a willingness to take a
greater interest in future developments of Concordia. As a
result alumni gatherings were conducted in the late winter
and early spring of 1973 in an effort to consolidate this in-
terest and support.

Worship

The Concordia community gathers three mornings —
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — for corporate worship.
On Tuesday and Thursday, services are held in the evening.
Ministerial students are used as assistants to the faculty in
conducting these services using a variety of worship formats.

Consortia

Four years ago a limited faculty exchange program was
initiated with Texas Lutheran College of Seguin. Dr. E.
George Becker taught an advanced sociology course at Texas
Lutheran during the spring semester of the 1971—72 school
term. Miss Dorothy Brown of the Texas Lutheran faculty
taught one section of Freshman English and Introduction to
Education at Concordia. This program is still in operation.

Facilities

Due to generous grants from Lutheran Brotherhood and
the Texas District LWML, Concordia was enabled to under-
take the development of Self-Paced Systems Laboratories.
At present the Systems Approach in instruction is limited to
the sciences, however, plans for more expanded use are un-
derway.

The Board of Control has designated the expansion of
the Librarv as the top-priority item in the building program.
Once this has become an accomplished fact a media center,
incorporating our present equipment, will be part of the
Library-Learning Center.

The Texas District LCMS at its convention in April 1972
resolved to support a $500,000 Golden Anniversary Offering.
Concordia will celebrate its Golden Anniversary in 1976.
Plans call for the raising of this sum by the anniversary

year. Leroy Tschatschula, Acting President

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Concordia College, Bronxville, N. Y.

We give thanks for our Lord's continued blessings dur-
ing the past biennium upon Concordia College, now in her
tenth decade of service in the Synod preparing men and
women for various fields of public ministry and church ser-
vice and lay professions.

In January 1971 the Synod authorized Concordia to be-
come, as soon as feasible, a 4-year, bachelor-degree-granting
institution for teacher education and liberal arts while con-
tinuing 2-year terminal and transfer programs leading to as-
sociate degrees. The past 2 years have thus been charged
with intensive development activity by Concordia’s faculty
and administration, students and staff, and by congregations
and Districts of the Synod's eastern region. Preliminary
planning proceeded under the leadership of Albert E. Meyer
until his retirement from the presidency June 30, 1971, and
continued under his guidance as acting president until Sept.
30, 1971, when his successor, Robert V. Schnabel, was in-
stalled as Concordia’s sixth president. The Synod and the
college have been richly blessed through Dr. Meyer's 35
years of service at Concordia, where he continues to serve
as a faculty member, particularly through his 25 years as
acting president (1942—45, 1949—50) and president (1950
to 1971).

Space limitations preclude giving a complete account of
all significant activities at Concordia during this biennium.
They are summarized under two headings: (1) programs
and services in Concordia’s final years as a 2-year synodical

college, and (2) development for expanded service as a
4-year synodical college.

Programs and Services, 1971—73

Board of Control. The following persons served as Board
members during the biennium: Rev. Rudolph P. F. Ress-
meyer, chairman; Rev. Robert C. Haupt, secretary: Revs.
Arnold Kromphardt and George H. Mueller; Bernard Guen-
ther, Theodore Hoffmann, and Frank Mueller, laymen: F.
Carl Kretzmann, teacher. The Board, which met bimonthly
to supervise ongoing programs and policy formation, was
called upon to take an active role in the college’s develop-
ment efforts and to find ways of financing annual operations
in the face of escalating costs. In the latter task the Synod,
through the Board for Higher Education, rendered significant
assistance and guidance.

Supporting Organizations. The Board of Control is as-
sisted by an Advisory Committee of 30 pastors, teachers, and
lay persons and of additional officers and representatives of
the Atlantic, Eastern, Southern, English, Florida-Georgia,
and SELC districts, and beginning in 1973 of representatives
also of the newly formed New England and New Jersey Dis-
tricts. The Concordia College Guild, Lutheran Education
Society, and Alumni Association continue to promote Con-
cordia’s interests and welfare in many ways, including finan-
cial assistance.

Faculty. During this biennium the college has been
served by 47 full-time equivalent resident academic staff
members, including administrators. Two faculty members
retired, Christian Fahrenkrug after completing 35 years of
service and Justine Kernstock after 11 years of service. Five
other members completed their appointments in June 1972.
Arthur Brown, Christopher Hoyer, Thomas Johnson, Ronald
Jones, Gail Schmidt, Marilyn Schroeter, and Thomas Slu-
berski began faculty service in July 1972. During the 2-year
period Ronald Rockhill received the doctorate in education
degree, Carl Weidmann was awarded the doctor of divinity
degree, and four faculty members earned first or second
master's degrees. Twenty faculty members were enrolled in
graduate study programs, with four members on one- or
two-semester study leaves in each year.

Robert Meier and Herman Wentzel were advanced to pro-
fessorships, Gerald Fuhrmann was advanced to an assistant
professorship. and Don Bohl, James Brauer, Bernhard Fil-
bert. and Thomas Green were granted tenure. Faculty mem-
bers assuming new administrative responsibilities included
Herman Wentzel, academic dean, succeeding Paul Gabhbert;
Clyde Kaminska, director of development and college rela-
tions: Ronald Rockhill, admissions officer; Stephen Muller,
director of student financial aid: Philip Stahmer, admissions
counselor, and Alan Behnke, director of athletics.

Faculty Service to Church and Community, The college
continues to bring its resources to the service of church and
community in many ways, including offering in-service edu-
cational programs for professional church workers, such as
pastors institutes, youth workers programs, and workshops
for church musicians. Faculty members individually render
service to many congregational, area, District. and com-
munity organizations and groups, with six members also
serving on synodical commissions and committees.

Student Body. Enrollment in 1971—72 was 433, with 46°
men and 54% women and approximately the same ratio of
church service to general students. Somewhat more than
60° of the student body were New York State residents,
30% were from the area comprised by New Jersey, Con-
necticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, with
the remainder from eight other states and five foreign coun-
tries. In 1972—73 the enrollment was 401, with approx-
imately the same Proportion of men and women and the
same distribution by geographical sources but with a slight
increase in the proportion of students preparing for church
vocations, decreased attrition during the year, and a greater
number of new students (25 full-time equivalent) enrolling
in the second semester.

Academic Programs. During 1971—72, the final year in
which the former junior college curriculum was in effect,
development of a new lower division basic curriculum was
completed and was introduced in 1972—73. This new basic
curriculum, which provides increased flexibility, is suitable