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

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PRESIDENT NEEB 1116487 Mrs. Esfher Koehlinger, Secrefary +0 'rhe Presidenf nurnnfmnnv-m-mveffruw-.-r,,..-,.,-.-.... ,.., . , .. Dr. Neeb as moslr of us see him Dr. and Mrs. Ne-eb af home.

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EDICATION Possibly many men live to see their dreams and ideals realized: perhaps few do. 'Concordia Senior College was once a dream, once an ideal. Older, it is true, than most of us: but only by a few years. One man stands out above all others in devotion and sincerity, and in determination to accom- plish this ideal, this dream: fitting it is that this man should then be chosen president of Concordia Senior College. We should be less than grateful were we to fail to take recognition of him. To you. then. Dr. Neeb, wr' respect- fully dedicale this hrs! volume of The Spire. 50' 2-:fit r ' ' ' ' ,i riff! V' ' fi 1 ti PM flf-fl f ff V uffiifi Zrgnifm Cffiiflrjr-A 4

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foreword The theme of a yearbook is its purpose. The theme should then reflect some aspect of the school or cc.mmunity. or should be logically connected with it in some way. Beginning from this premise. we set Otlt to determine which aspect of the school might serve as a theme for us. lt is only when one begins systematically to ex- amine student life that he discovers how varied it may be. I-'ttrtliertnore, he is besieged with doubts concerning the validity of any one aspect aclecpiately to express for even to suggestj all that seems to belong in a y'earbook. From this point it is one short step to doubts about the validity of the premise itself, and only a little lzirther to doubts about the purpose of year- books in general and this book in particular. XVell, you say, why do we publish a yearbook? It must glorify God. But this is an answer more of motive than of purpose. That is to say. granted that it must glorify Cod, how may we accomplish this most effectively? Perhaps if we could tell the story of Cloncordia Senior Col- lege we would have accomplished our purpose. Thus our purpose has become our theme. I-'irst let ns tell you how Concordia Senior ficil- lege came itito being. 6 n june, lSl5O, at Milwaukee, XVisconsin, the forty-first regular convention of the 1.11- theran Cliurcli-Missouri Synod approved the basic proposal which ultimately gave the Church the completed Concordia Senior College eight years later. The idea, involving the largest single construction project in Missouri Synod history. had been brewing in the minds of some progres- sive educators since lSlfl5. when it was thor- oughly discussed by the Cleveland convention of the Cliurch. In 1947, the Centennial Convention of the Synod finally authorized and directed its Board for Higher Iiducation to incorporate the upper two college years into the ministerial training program of the Churcli. .-Xt that time, Dr. Mar- tin Neeb was lixecutive Secretary ofthe Board which developed the basic plan for the Senior College. The H1525 Houston, Texas, convention was the site for final approval of the plan aticl for the decision to locate the new school at Fort Hlayne, Indiana. The new campus is located five miles north ol downtown Fort XVayne. Its beautifully lands scaped lfll acres slope gently toward the eastern hounclary, the St. Qyloej River. The site is framed by twenty-five acres of wooded area along its western border. A small lake Cl acresj enhances the beauty of the college campus.