# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S643
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES ; 59

tration Building and are converted storage rooms. The
s open at soil level and ventilation without surface grit is
ble. Consequently these basement rooms are: entirely un-
d for science courses requiring the use of such necessary
ment as microscopes and other delicate instruments. Prep-
m rooms are wholly lacking. Storage facilities are most
equate. There is no lecture-demonstration room for the
ences in the whole Administration Building. Two of the labora-
is provide inadequate facilities for recitation purposes, since
ey are crowded with table equipment. The rooms are so small
¢gonsequently the laboratory space so limited that in two rooms
6 students can be accommodated at one time, and in the
only 24. These science rooms are used by all students at
mcordia, by the pretheological and the general students.

The needs of the school are apparent. As long ago as 1926
Board of Trustees of Concordia submitted to Synod a request
san educational building to house science classrooms, the library,
an auditorium. (Cf. Proceedings, 1926, page 45). The inter-
ening years have added urgency to the present request of the
ard. We believe that Synod can no longer delay in meeting
se needs. The Lutheran Education Society recognizes the
ngness of Synod to furnish adequate facilities for training its
future pastors. As in the past, we wish to continue to assume the
bligation of supporting primarily the program of general education
tt Concordia. _We believe that Synod will want to furnish the
funds for the new library facilities. The Society pledges, with the
p of God, to raise an equal or larger amount for the other neces-

ary facilities. Tue LutHEeraAN Epucation Soctety

E. B. Prrese, President
HELene Neurine, Secretary

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New Building at Portland, Oregon
+ WHEREAS, In years past statistics have shown that the per-
scentage of boys from the Oregon and Washington District who
complete their ministerial and normal courses is greater than the
‘average throughout Synod; and
Wuereas, Many of these boys would not be students of a
-synodical institution if it were necessary for them to attend one
‘still further removed from their homes, especially in the early
‘years following their confirmation; and
Wuereas, The population is gradually moving westward, so
that our Lutheran Church is greatly increasing its membership in
this area; and