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When Luther Academy opened in 1913, 32 male students enrolled for classes. Female students were first accepted seven years later, in the fall of 1920. Though male students stayed on campus, there were no facilities for female students. Young women had to find alternative housing arrangements to attend the school. When the Melville school closed, six girls were taking classes.  In the fall of 1926, with the opening of Luther College in Regina, several more young women enrolled. The new college included dormitories for both men and women. The first female faculty also joined Luther College in 1926. Miss Elsa Mees became the professor of mathematics and Miss Agnes Scheffler was the first dean of women.  More recently, female alumni remember the fall of 1971—the first year that women were permitted to wear "pantsuits" to school!