# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S49
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 49

‘Wuereas, His residence in a campus home and his occupancy
' “of: office space in the lecture hall building of the Seminary, which
facilities are intended for those who are active on the faculty,
inconveniences professors who are active in Seminary work, some

f whom must now live some distance away from the campus; and
a)

- Waereas, Experience has demonstrated that it is physically
‘impossible for any man to give his full time and attention to

é manifold duties required as speaker on the Lutheran Hour
and leader of its work in addition to the important and arduous
‘work as professor at our Seminary;

“Therefore we petition Synod that it officially request the Lu-
‘theran Laymen’s League to do the following:

1. To continue to engage Dr. Maier full time as principal
speaker of the Lutheran Hour; and ,

2. To purchase a suitable home for him and his family; and

3. To provide adequate office space for him and his helpers.

We further petition Synod to give Dr. Walter A. Maier the
status of professor on leave.

Il. At present Dormitory “E,” which was originally intended
as a graduate dormitory, is being used for nine professors’ offices,
lecture rooms for the Mission Department and graduate classes.

“The present dormitories, including Dormitory “E,” offer facilities
for’ 350 students uncrowded. Since the preparatory schools will
_‘send students in increasing numbers and an enrollment of four
hundred is apparent for the next years, the Board requests an
“amount of $300,000 for a dormitory. ,
*” Now the increasing number of students in the Mission School
-Department as well as the Graduate School Department necessi-
tates in the main building space for administration and lecture
purposes. We therefore request that the present lecture hall
building be extended to the west by the erection of an “L” wing
to link up with Dormitory “I,” Brauer Hall, forming a new
quadrangle to the west of the auditorium, according to the original
_ plans. This building may offer space for four to six graduate
lecture halls, mission class rooms, and offices for professors, for the
business manager, the physical education director, and rooms
“to house the Concordia Historical Institute until such a time as
this organization can erect its own building. It may also include
a professors’ lounge and a chorus room. The Board is of the
‘ epinion through consultation with a competent architect that such
a building may be erected for the sum of $375,000.

III. Attention is called to the fact that Synod assembled at
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