Concordia University - Portland Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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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.

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