Concordia College - Spire / Concordian Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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' as GNC OHDIIW X 0Bur Evrnvfartnrs Pm Apmrriatinn ln dedicating these sheets to our mothers, we must not forget those kind women who, like mothers, showed us so much kindness and love during our student days. When at the tender age of thirteen and fourteen we found ourselves in a strange city, longing for home and mother, then indeed did we welcome the generous hospitality and the comforting words of those who took us into their homes and considered us their own. Sunday after Sunday, for six long years, they let us dine at their tables. Week after week they laundered our clothes. All this and more they did for us in the goodness of their hearts. Following are the names of the families who thus adopted us: Birckhold, Bertram, Dickmeyer, F. Doctor, Engleking, Frauenfelder, Gerke, Gick, C., Gick, G., Graupner, Hartmann, l-lorstmeyer, Kaiser, Lange, Leininger, Mesing, Rodenbeck, I-I., Roden- beck, F., Roos, Schnedler, Schwehn, and Siemon. Good Samaritans, we can never pay the debt we owe you, even as we cannot pay the debt we owe our mothers. Gold and silver have we none. We would, however, at this place express our thanks for the deeds you did and the gifts you gave. We will never forget you. When we were hungry, you fed us: when we thirsted, you gave us drink. Behold, what ye have done unto one of these, my brethren, that have ye done unto Me. 15.23 6

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5 5 gl- A mnthvr is a muthrr still. Uhr holiest thing alive. 5

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HE ow OHDAW ilinrrmnrh A deep love to our Alma Mater and an ever-increasing demand for the reappearance of the Concordian Annual prompted us to undertake the publication of this book. In it we plan to give to our readers true and vivid sketches of Concordia and of student life as it exists here. If we help keep un- severed the union so closely established among us, if we recall to an alumnus sweet memories of his own college days, or if we influence some one to enter Concordia's halls, our efforts will not have been fruitless. Qur readers will, we trust, judge us not by the imperfections of the work we have accom- plished, but by the high aims we have striven to attain. 7