# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S64
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64 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Requests

1. We have one dormitory, built to house 96 students, and two
frame buildings, erected to serve as temporary expedients a great
many years ago. As a result we are unable, even with over-
crowding, to house all the students on the campus. Synod long
ago recognized the need of additional dormitory space at Springfield
and the elimination of the frame buildings. Had it not been for
the constantly recurring question regarding Springfield’s continued
existence, Synod would no doubt have erected an additional dor-
mitory building before this. $250,000 will be required to erect this
building. We ask that it be no longer deferred.

2. Synod has repeatedly voted funds for an Administration
Building at Springfield. For one reason or another the building was
never erected. A few years ago we sought to help ourselves by
remodeling the Old Building No.1 into a classroom building, but
because of the limitations we were compelled to house the library
in the basement of the dormitory and provide for additional class-
room space in the same quarter. There is no room for office space
available. With the large enrollment and the anticipated increase
calling for more classroom space; with the need of properly housing
the library and allowing for its expansion, such as the needs of
the Seminary demand; and with the necessity of providing ade-
quate office space for the president and the members of the faculty
facing us, we ask that Synod appropriate $150,000 to take care of
these necessary items.

3. As already stated, we are at present operating with three
assistant instructors. This is definitely a makeshift and is of help
only as far as the lower classes are concerned. It can hardly be
expected that the teaching of the theological branches be placed
into the hands of assistants. As the present large lower classes
advance into the Seminary department, the sectionalizing of the
classes will have to be continued. To meet the situation adequately,
provision must be made for two additional theological professors.
We ask that Synod endorse the calling of these two men.

4. Two of our professors have no permanent homes. One is liv-
ing in a rented apartment far from the campus; and because of the
housing shortage the other, with a wife and seven children, is at
present crowded into the isolation wing of the Seminary hospital.
We are convinced that the circumstances leave no alternative but
to ask that Synod build two additional residences on the campus.
All but two of our professors have had to live off the campus at
some time.

If our requests appear large, permit us to emphasize the fact
that for years our faculty has been understaffed; that we are only
bringing to your attention again requests which previous conven-