Concordia College - Corona Borealis Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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FACULTY

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DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF PIONEERS OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA, AMONG WHOM WERE THE FOLLOWING: REV. RASMUS JENSEN, first Lutheran pastor in Canada (also North America), who accompanied the Jens Munck expedition to Churchill, Manitoba, 1619-20. JOHANN JORPEL , a teacher who conducted the first Lutheran confirmation in Canada, at Halifax, 1761. REV. FREDERICK SCHULTZ, first resident Lutheran pastor in Canada, at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, 1772-82. REV. SAMUEL SCHWERTFEGER, first Lutheran pastor in Upper Canada, serving from about 1789 until his death in 1803. REV. JOHN H. BERNHEIM, the apostle to the Lutheran settlers in Upper Canada, in 1835-36. REV. JOHANN ERNST, Father of the Ontario District, a charter member of the Missouri Synod, known as the who accepted a call to Floradale, Ontario, in 1863. REV. H. BUGEL, first resident pastor of the Missouri Synod in Western Canada, who began work in Winnipeg in 1891. REV. EMIL E. EBERHARDT, first resident pastor of the Missouri Synod in Canada west of Manitoba, who began work at Stony Plain, Alberta, in 1894. DR. ERNST NEUDOERFFER , the first Lutheran missionary from Canada, who went to India in 1900. SISTER MARIE GERNDT , the first Canadian-born Lutheran deaconess, who was consecrated in 1902 and served until 1942. This yearbook is also dedicated to DR. ALBERT H. SCHWERMANN, president of Concordia College, Edmonton, from its founding in 1921 until 1954.

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PRESIDENT ' S REPORT This yearbook, I trust, will help us all to pause and to ponder where we are in life, and where we are going as well. The past year is only a. single piece in a large jig-saw puzzle. It is meaningful only to the degree that it fits into some larger pattern. In this regard the Scriptures give us an important clue when they remind us that man does not live by bread alone. Far beyond this low-level ambition is a task that overarches and pervades all that we do. We live and work to glorify God. To live in His service whether in the office or shop or parish, whether in the home or school or government- this is the goal that can give abiding meaning to the many and various occupations of man. We are God ' s by virtue of our creation and redemption. He placed us in this blessed land, and He gave us a mission to perform. To offer Him our industry and skills, our love and loyalty in all the daily tasks that confront us - this gives meaning to our labors. In this centennial year, when many Canadian citizens will celebrate just for the sake of celebrating, it is important that we and they continue the quest for meaning. May this centennial year move us to gratitude and to rededication to Him from whom all blessings flow and who gives lasting meaning to our lives here and hereafter. Sincerely, a. OiMV Jhcujttu