LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1973, Page 268

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268 HIGHER EDUCATION

Wunder Hall, built in 1924, was beautifully renovated in
1972 and now serves as a women’s residence hall. Previously
it was occupied by the boys in the high school department.

Concordia is happy to have its own radio station on cam-
pus, WPAX, for student entertainment and training. It even
broadcasts the Lutheran Hour.

Our Board of Control is grateful that Concordia has been
able to serve the Synod for 92 years and sincerely appre-
ciates the consistent and generous support it has received
from the Synod through all these years. It is our hope and
prayer that this service may be expanded and enlarged even
more in the years ahead.

BoaRD OF CONTROL
Rev. Felix Kretzschmar, Secretary

6-17

Concordia College, Portland, Oreg.

God has given Concordia. Portland, a distinguished past.
He is placing before it unprecedented challenges for the
future. As it stands in the present, it praises God for its past,
requests faithfulness and wisdom for the moment. and im-
plores courage for the future.

Recruitment

Concordia’s twin emphases in recent years have been
recruitment and development. It is striving to increase its
enrollment by 10° each year until its present college en-
rollment of 180 reaches 500. Such growth is prerequisite to
becoming an economically defensible educational unit. For
this reason. a full-time student recruiter was called in 1969.
A second was added in 1971. An institutional growth of 20°
in the past 2 vears suggests that the new emphasis is bring-
ing results. This growth record is particularly impressive
in the light of dwindling enrollments at many institutions
of higher learning.

A total new dimension was added to the recruitment pro-
gram during the current year. With the closing of Cali-
fornia Lutheran College in Oakland, Concordia, Portland.
has been charged with responsibility of recruitment for the
entire West Coast. until such a time as the proposed school
at Irvine is opened. To implement this program, the Rev.
Donald Waldo, former recruitment officer at Oakland, has
been retained as a resident recruiter in the State of Cali-
fornia.

Though we desire a substantial increase in nonprofes-
sional students, our highest priority is still professional
church-work prospects. The present need of the church sug-
gests that we maintain that figure at its present level. Be-
low is the table indicating our performance in enrollment
since 1968.

Enrollment, 1968—72

Total Other
Enroll- Total Minis- Pre-
ment H.S. terial Teacher fessional General
1968 217 81 88 89 15 25
1969 221 89 67 78 20 56
1970 286 123 64 105 25 92
1971 306 154 62 93 27 124
1972 344 164 55 81 33 175
Development

The percentage of total institutional budget borne by the
central church body has drastically reduced. Therefore.
Concordia, Portland, has begun a vigorous program of fund
raising development. The position of Director of Develop-
ment became a full-time position as of Feb. 1, 1973.

The record of growth of supplementary income in its
relation to total institutional support is given in the follow-
ing table.

Sources of Income

Subsidy Student Fees Suppl Income
1967—68 $273,000(70.8%) 3 66,523 (17.2%) § 46,487 (12.0%)
1968—69 288,519 (71.45¢) 74,637 (18.5 ) 40.796 (10.1% )
1969—70 296,973 (68.0% ) 73.604 (16.9% } 66,022 (15.1%)
1970—71 290,915 (64.7% ) 109.577 (24.3 ) 49,330 (11.0°r)
1971—72 300,000 (57.8% ) 133,172 (25.7%) 85,647 (16.5% )
1972—73 304,000 (50.7 ) 182.703 (30.4% ) 113,501 (18.9% )

Student Financial Aid

Increases in enrollment and educational costs lead in-
evitably to the need for increased amounts of student finan-
cial aid. Concordia still holds to the principle that “no pro-
fessional church worker will be denied entrance because of
lack of finances.” Past and present performance are re-
flected in the following table.*

Student Financial Aid, 1969-—72

1963 -70 1970-71 1971--72
District Aid - § 8.850 $9,500 $ 9,453
Congregational Aid ——-———-- 5,750 5,638 5,646
Organizational Aid —_.— ———-- 9520 10.495 9,212
Synodical Scholarships ——--— —-— 5.600 4.600 4,578
Individual Aid 5.010 7,575 8,078
U.S. and State Government -.—. -— 13.070 15818 17.080
Concordia Scholarship Foundation - —— 1,000 3,542
Budget Scholarships ——————— — 3,554 3,930

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$51,018 $58,267 $61.519

* Includes both college and high schoot

Faculty

The heart of any educational institution is the quality of
its teaching and learning. God has given Concordia a group
of instructors who love both learning and faith. The college
has 21 instructors, including five part-time and two on
leave. Five have earned doctorates with three more close to
completion. The high school has 14 instructors, including
two part-time. Unique to the high school is its personnel
sharing program, in which four of its 14 instructors are using
a portion of their total work time in a neighboring congre-
gation. Professor Kar] Keller. a faithful teacher at Concordia
for more than two decades. was given an 18-month sick leave,
with the prayerful hope that sufficient recovery will enable
him to resume his duties. Dr. F. W. J. Sylwester. Concordia’s
highly respected first president, who spent his entire career
of 67 years at the Portland institution, passed away at the
age of 91 and was buried on Reformation Day, 1972. An-
niversary honorees during the past 2 years were Principal
Donald Lorenz and Dr. Arthur Wahlers for 25 years in the
teaching and preaching ministry respectively, Dr. R. J.
Buuck and Dr. E. P, Weber for 15 years, and D. Berger.
D. Fisk, and Dr. F. Kramer. for 10 years of service to Con-
cordia.

New instructors during the biennium were Charles Ku-
nert, biology and personnel sharing, Richard Wrye. music
and personnel sharing. and Karen Ziegler, English and phys-
ical education, all of the high school. The college introduced
a 2-year secretarial science program in cooperation with
Portland Community College. It continues with its experi-
mentation of an academic calendar, endeavoring to introduce
additional changes toward the improvement of its unique
3-3 program, namely, three courses in each of three terms
of the school year. It continues to explore further coopera-
tion with the two other Northwest Lutheran educationa
institutions, Pacific Lutheran University and Lutheran Bible
Institute.

Business Management

A spacious new physical education building was dedicated
on March 12, 1972. with synodical Vice-President Dr. Roland
Wiederaenders, as the featured speaker. Recent growth in
enrollment has produced a critical need for additional facil-
ities. Chief among these is a new library facility which will,
in addition, temporarily house urgently needed classrooms
and student union facilities. A redesigned master plan will
determine the location of additional dining hall space. a new
Fine Arts building. dormitories, and administration facilities.

High School

Every effort is being made to hurry the high school along
the way of becoming an independent community high school.
Phase I has been completed. namely. the ability of the high
school to recruit local students. It has more than doubled
its enrollment in the last four years (cf. Recruitment Table).
Phase II is now in operation. Its thrust is to continue not
only aggressive recruitment but also to establish a financial