Concordia University - Portland Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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Life would be drab existence to a group of buoyant, robust youths if no opportunity were afforded for the mind to relax When after a strenuous day in the class- room a boy takes a glove and shags some flies, he is doing something which will fit him to do more efficient work during his preparation period in the evening and in lessons the following day The mind needs such a safety valve Basketball and baseball have been the favorite sports at Concordia in recent years For various reasons basketball is the more popular of the two With a small student body it is easier to get the necessary five players than to organize a team of nine players It is also less difficult to schedule games w ith teams from, the city, with many school teams operating Baseball has nonetheless held its ground in fact, seems to be more popular than it was a few years ago The dia- mond is adequate. Zion Church of Portland and individual members of the same congregation havo been very generous in providing the students with the needed equipment. At present Concordia has no tennis court There is no lack of space, and it is probable that a court will be laid out as soon as wire netting can again be bought For some time during the past year some students whiled away their leisure hours at ping-pong As no room of sufficient size was available for this game, the players were permitted to commandeer the library during certain hours. The following students earned their letters in the two major sports. Basketball; 0 Sommer; P« Frank; R. Kraft; Kempff; R. Zagel. Baseball; E. Lutz; P Frank; D. Brandt; 0. Sommer; M. Beckmeyer; R Sorsdahl; G Kempff; P. Simon; R Zagel a number of students were persuaded to try their hand at chess this year • It was a pleasure to see three boards operating -at the same time in the library at times. A tew boys have become quite adept at this fine game

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THE COMMISSARY The liberality of the congregations of the Oregon and Washington District has for years been the delight of the stewards . Down in the basement there is a room with an assortment of canned fruit and vegetables upon which the addresses of hundreds of homes in our District could be written The congregations on the Portland territory - and terri- tory is to be understood in an expansive sense - have always considered our school 1 s larder as an outlet for their firstfruits Only one consideration moves us to refrain from being specific and naming the congregations: the fear that an equally deserving congregation may re- main unnamed This circle of contributing congregations has steadily widened. And last fall something happened that did some- thing to our faint hearts that were distressed by the mounting cost of food and the ,! five loaves and two fishes which the students paid as board. At a meeting of Idaho laymen the matter of the difficulties of the commissary had been discussed. What those Idaho laymen, backed by their pastors, did is a classic example of concerted action. It came to a head one evening early in December when a member of our Nampa congregation backed an eight-ton truck up to the basement door. Loaded to the gunwales with - lo e from Idaho. That man had risen at midnight and, accompanied by his wife, had driven right through to Portland, and when he arrived here, he was so happy that he dispatched those sacks of beans and potatoes off the truck as if they wore sacks of feathers l Somewhere among sacks and cartons were two crates of celery given without so liciting by - a Japanese truck gardener, aid Mr. --- (he pledged the writer not to publish his name) said with a broad smile that there will be more coming this fall 1 LADIES COLLEGE DAY Several years ago Pastor R. W. Rimbach, then at Longview, Washington, concoivod the idea that there was latent in- terest in Concordia going to waste in our District. In order to harness some of this interest, he issued a call to the ladies of the neighboring congregations that they assmcble on the campus on a given day and learn to know tiieir school. The enthusiasm with which the ladies re- sponded was an object lesson. Since that year Ladies College Day has been an institution. Many of the improve- ments which have made life at the school moro pleasant stem from the enthusiasm and generosity of this group, rom new furniture in the hospital to the power motor on the campus there is a long list of articles which were provided with funds collected by ohese Marthas of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The graduates of 1943, wish to pay their tri- bute to this organization and a fellow Alumnus, Pastor Rimbach.