LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1975, Page 323

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HIGHER EDUCATION 323

Enrollment
197374 1974-75

Pastoral Training . - 68 50
Teacher Training . .. 82 68
Lay Ministry — a eee 40 34
Deaconess _.. 4 3
Social Work - 8 10
General - .. 91 129
Part-Time -- oe _ 182 203

Total 475 497

We sincerely regret the decline in pastoral and teacher train-
ing students and are working hard to reverse the trend. Last
year President Stuenkel personally visited 191 pastors to dis-
cuss recruitment of professional church work students.

A number of the part-time students are preparing for pro-
fessional ministries but are not included in those categories
because they are part-time students. We are pleased that the
location of our college in the heart of a metropolitan area allows
for this important development of more part-time students,
a very significant element in higher education today. The sta-
tistics above do not include the almost 400 students of the former
Spencerian College of Business who transferred to Concordia
early in 1975.

Personnel

The following changes have occurred during this biennium
in the membership of the Board of Control: At the 1973 conven-
tion Rev. David Wallschlaeger replaced Rev. Felix Kretzschmar,
who had served uninterruptedly since 1947; Mr. Gordon Fair-
bert replaced Mr. Elmer Seefeld. In 1974 Mr. Ronald Pinkepank
resigned from the teaching ministry and thus also from the
Board of Control; Mr. Richard Maas was appointed to the Board
of Control in his place.

Faculty changes included the retirement of Dr. Edwin W.
Leverenz and Prof. Loren Barker and the transfer of Profs.
Roy A. Suelflow, Bruce V. Malchow, Thomas C. Truebenbach,
Donald A. Tubesing, Marilyn Hill, and Valerie Hackbarth to
other fields of service. New faculty members in this biennium
were Profs. Hugo Gehrke, Marilyn Bartel, Gene Hill, Ruth
Roebke, Nancy Schley, Jacqueline Oliveira, and the many
former faculty members of Spencerian College of Business.

Campus Programs

Concordia still lays special stress on curricular programs
preparing students for the professional ministries of the church
but has increased its offerings in the general education area to
broaden the electives potential for professional ministry stu-
dents and also to meet the demands of students in the general
liberal arts area. Likewise, Concordia offers these general edu-
cation courses to radiological technologists of Milwaukee hospi-
tals and to students in a program of health care facilities man-
agement.

To encourage our teacher training students in their voca-
tional intent, an extensive paraprofessional program has been
developed and the Concordia Special School for the Mentally
Retarded has been established on campus to provide oppor-
tunity for observation and experience in special education. The
“winterim,” as a mandatory part of the 4-1-4 calendar, has
enabled many curricular innovations and experiments: foreign
travel study, independent study projects, unique field experi-
ences, and various team-teaching approaches.

Notes of Interest

Concordia’s campus continues to be in an ever-increasing
measure “the center of Lutheran church activity in Milwaukee.”
Many different organizations hold their regular meetings on
our campus. Concordia is also the headquarters for the Lutheran
Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee, for the Association of
Lutheran Physicians, Attorneys, and Clergymen, and for the
Wisconsin Federation of Family Life.

Concordia faculty members serve in many different capaci-
ties as professional lecturers, essayists, preachers, and con-
sultants at various conferences, institutes, and conventions.
Almost every faculty member is active on some committee or
board of a local church or of a local community organization.

Thirty prospective pastoral-training students, presently
in junior high school, were hosted for an entire week on Con-

cordia’s campus during the summer of 1974 under the guidance
of six pastors. This effort will be repeated annually with dif-
ferent students in order to create and sustain interest in prepara-
tion for the pastoral ministry.

Concordia rejoices that more than 100 lay ministers are active
in the church today and approximately 20 new candidates for
the lay ministry enroll every new school year. The Lay Ministry
Board of the Synod does its work almost exclusively through the
faculty of Concordia College.

The Concordia College Century Club, an organization of
more than 2,500 “friends of Concordia.”’ continues to undertake
special projects in support of Concordia’s total academic and
cocurricular program.

Concordia is pleased that for the last two successive years
its campus has been awarded the Mayor's Beautification Award
for “efforts in the realm of civic beauty and improvement.”
even though no synodical subsidy was available for capital
improvements. Several more properties have also been ac-
quired through local funds in the campus expansion program
during this biennium.

Our Board of Contro! is grateful that Concordia has been
able to serve the Synod for 94 years and sincerely appreciates
the consistent and generous support it has received from the
Synod through all these years. As we look forward to the 95th
year of our history, we hope the Synod will see fit to encourage
a 4-year college program on our campus and thus enlarge and
expand the potential of our service to the church.

Board of Control
Gordon R. Fairbert, Secretary

6-19

Concordia College, Portland, Oreg.

Problems and challenges of the past 2 years have been
many and demanding. But God's grace and power have been
equal to all of them. Our God, our Help in ages past. is still our
Strength for the present and our Hope for the future.

Recruitment

Recruitment is still our primary concern. Since 1968 Concor-
dia has grown by 83 percent, from 217 to 396. Within that period
the professional church work number declined by 27, mostly
because of the gradual change of our high school from a synod-
ical to a community institution. The Northwest District, in which
Concordia is located, as of the 1973 Statistical Yearbook ranks
third among all the 33 synodical Districts in the number of its
residents attending synodical schools. Three admissions coun-
selors visit all the area parishes each year. With the closing of
Oakland, the California-Nevada District has been added to their
responsibilities. Concordia’s present challenge is to continue
growing at the rate of 10 percent each year and to enroll more
professional students each year than the previous year. The
table below presents our enrollment performance since 1970.

Enrollment, 1970-74

Total Other

Enroll- Total Minis- Pro-

ment H.S. terial Teacher fessional General
1970 ____ 286 123 64 105 25 92
1971 _______ 306 154 62 93 27 124
1972 Ss 3.42 164 55 81 33 173
1973 _____ 408 201 56 96 42 214
1974s 3396 197 49 78 36 233

Development

Development ranks next to recruitment in Concordia’s cur-
rent administrative priorities. Its necessity is underscored by
the reduction of synodical subsidy from 71% of our total 1968 — 69
budget to 35% in 1974~—75, with the dollar amounts remaining
virtually the same. In 1968—69 development raised $40,796 or
10% of the educational budget. That figure increased to $334,279
or 37.4% in 1974—75, $150,000 of which was raised by the col-
lege’s development department. Because of the inevitable need
for more supplementary dollars, Concordia’s development
office plans to add a second person, with concentration in