# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S632
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

building were granted. The Board of Directors was empowered ‘tf
act in this matter. The Board of Control of the Seminario Cong
cordia, Porto Alegre, acknowledges its indebtedness for the prompts
ness in the matter of the construction of the new wing of the semi¢
nary building and of the chapel with gymnasium, as also the grant-

ing of another professor. However, it made no further overtu

fessor Carchia, who, not having a family, lived with a local pastor.
the Board Paying the rent. Now, however, the situation will bes!
come acute if another professor is called who has to live on
campus, in his own residence. (The non-Lutheran member of th
faculty also lives off the campus in a rented house, and in case «
substituting a Lutheran for him still another residence will b
needed. )

The Board of Control therefore considers it necessary to con
struct a new professor’s residence now; for under all circumstance
we have to house six professors and their families, The sum neceg
sary for the building of a suitable residence will be $4,500 at thi
present rate of exchange. Specifications and plans will be for
warded in due time. ;

Be it permitted to include here a few items that also enter int
consideration. The fenca around the whole property is sadly
need of repair, if not of replacement. For repairs around $
would be necessary. And the one professor’s residence is showing
Signs of age and needs to be renovated also in order to prevent
further dilapidation. This project entails the closing of a large

exactly 9,000.00 cruzeiros ($450.00) at the present rate of exchange;

B. Equipment. — The state laws make it possible for our stu-'
dents to receive State, i.e., federal, recognition for their “ginasio’®’

our preparatory course to the “ginasio” of the state to enable oul
students to take the above-mentioned examinations. In general,