# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S609
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 25

duating class, Alfred Schiefelbein, the students have enjoyed
x health and in times of city-wide colds and influenza have
aped with relatively light cases, thanks to God and to the
xcellence of our health service.

Requests
For the sake of improvement in teaching and administration,
fe respectfully petition Synod to grant us the following requests:
. An additional professor
. A full-time music director
. A maintenance man
. A bookkeeper
. Equipment for a second laboratory
. New lighting in the chapel
. Enlargement and equipment of office

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1. Because of additional burdens falling on the present faculty,
é@ request that the group be augmented by an additional man.
he problem of fitting in students transferring to us from the
igh schools became acute at our Concordia later than at some
thers. More and more time is required of many teachers to
Fhelp these special students make up their deficiencies in the
guages, in religion, and other subjects. As an additional argu-
ment for a new professor we urge the extra and continued hard

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2. For two years during the past triennium we enjoyed the
sservices of Mr. Gerhard Schroth as full-time music director. |

npossible to engage another man to take his place. Reluctance
the part of teachers to accept a position without a permanent
all was one of the reasons. We. have had to be satisfied with
ee part-time men,.and these do not begin to equal the service
received from a single full-time man. Believing the various
elds of music to be vital in the education of a minister and that
he musical training of our students can best be achieved by the
ice of a full-time man, we request Synod to extend a call to
ipply this need and to offer the man an adequate salary.
'.3. The main buildings of the school and their equipment, plus
the faculty homes, represent an assessed valuation of almost
1,000,000. Some of these buildings and homes are more than
ty years old. Repairs are constantly necessary. We are con-
yinced that a permanent maintenance man would find sufficient
work to do the year round and that the employment of such a man
t Synod’s expense would mean a real saving of money to the

THE LIBRARY OF

BOARD OF PAR'SY EDUCATION
THE LUTHERAN CHURCH — MiSSOURI SYNOD
3558 South Jefferson Avenue

St. Louis, Missouri 6311

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