# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S617
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 33

Concordia Place, the roadway serving our professors’ resi-
es, which was reported in need of repairs in 1938 and again
1, is still awaiting its long overdue resurfacing.

Request for New Educational Building

needed Educational Building on our campus. This request
submitted already prior to 1938 and again in that year. but
withdrawn at the time because of Synod’s financial status.

this long-needed improvement. The new building is neces-
y, first of all, in order to provide a suitable library. Our present
ing room is a makeshift arrangement, badly misplaced on the
d floor of our Administration Building, a building little used
‘classroom hours. It is a room inconvenient of access. It has
ndows only at the two narrow ends. It lacks the space re-
luired by books and periodicals already on hand, to say nothing
future additions to our stock. It affords no provisions whatever
a workroom or a browsing room. We are convinced that the
mly way in which our needs can be adequately met is by the
rection of a suitable building on our campus to house our library
d related departments. We therefore again petition Synod to
ppropriate the funds necessary for this purpose. The cost of this
ject, according to our conservative estimate, would be approxi-
tely eighty thousand dollars ($80,000).

In addition to a library, we are also badly in need of a new
id suitable classroom space for our science department. At pres-
t three of our science laboratories are basement rooms with half
dows. Facilities now at our disposal do not provide for ade-
Equate classroom space, storage space, or workshop space. In conse-
luence the number of students that can be accommodated in our
ious science courses is decidedly limited. It is our intention to
use our science department in the same building with our library
r the sake of economy and convenience. However, we shall
edefray all of the cost of that portion of the building used for science
flaboratories, equipment, and related purposes through funds con-
ributed by the members of our congregations located in the area
ved by our school.
. Our request, then, resolves itself into this: that Synod appro-
riate $80,000 for the erection of a suitable library on our campus,
ith the understanding that an amount at least equal to that sum
raised by our local constituency to provide for additions to the
\ding which shall contain our science department and whatever
her features may be found necessary.
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