Timeline of Luther College at the University of Regina 1913 – Luther Academy in Melville is founded, sponsored by the Ohio Synod of the Lutheran Church. Thirty-two young men are enrolled in the first year.
1968 – The Federation Agreement is finalized and in the near future, construction begins on a building at the University campus. A major fundraising campaign is established. 1969 – Dr. Lloyd Barber, a graduate of
1920 – The first
female students are accepted into Luther Academy.
1926 – Classes begin at Luther Academy on Royal Street in Regina. Dr. Rex Schneider is appointed Director (President) of Luther Academy, a position he will hold until 1964.
1926 – Luther Academy changes its name to Luther College. 1927 – The University of Saskatchewan
recognizes Luther as a Junior College and accepts its university-level classes for credit.
1961 – The Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan attains degree-granting status. 1964 – The Province of Saskatchewan
decides to give private church schools an operating grant of approximately $85 for each Saskatchewan student registered.
1964 – A new alumni magazine is
produced, which will become The Luther Story. Upon the retirement of Dr. Rex Schneider, Dr. Morris Anderson becomes President.
1964 – Luther College and Campion
College receive offers to federate with the Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan. Luther’s negotiations for the new agreement are undertaken by President Anderson.
1966 – As a consequence of church
reorganization, Luther College becomes attached to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada.
Luther College who will later become President of the University of Regina, spoke at Luther’s graduation and noted that: “It is no secret that Luther College has produced more than its fair share of people who have achieved a real measure of success … not merely in the financial or professional sense, but more important, success in the human sense. Success in the sense of living a meaningful life with one’s fellow man in the shared endeavours of our society … A great deal must be in what Luther students get from being at Luther…” 1
1969 – The plans by architect Clive Rodham for the new Luther College campus are unveiled, a $2 million complex of academic facilities and cafeteria, with the first dormitory on the University campus, which can house 216 students. The plans deliberately placed faculty offices and classrooms in close proximity, to bring students and faculty together as a scholarly community. The original plans included a concrete exterior, but Board Chair Harold Dietrich negotiated the purchase of Tyndal stone from Manitoba at an only slightly higher cost. 1969 – The Fall-Winter
edition of The Luther Story announces “Le Voici! Hier Haben Wir’s! Here it is!” and notes that “[t]he students attending the federated Luther College will be an integral part of the larger university scene, while still enjoying the distinctive characteristics of life in a small college with its own character and traditions.”2
1 Quoted in Richard Hordern, “The Heritage & Hope of Luther College: Quality Education in a Christian Context,” in Heritage and Hope: The University of Regina into the 21st Century, ed. K. Murray Knuttila (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2004), 52. 2 Quoted in “Luther College Celebrates 25 Years at the University of Regina,” The Luther Story (August 1996), 1.
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