# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S77
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 75

Because of the increased enrollment and the necessity of taking
in more advanced students in order to furnish teachers more
quickly; because of the inherent disadvantages of depending upon
temporary faculty help; because of the increasing complexity of
our program and the possibility of additional manpower to give
more adequate service to the Church: we respectfully urge Synod
to grant seven additional professorships at River Forest. This
number was determined by a careful study of the needs of each
department and of the over-all effectiveness of the educational
program. These called men would replace some of the present
temporary assistants and would share in the manifold duties de-
‘scribed above.

The Faculty and Board of Control of Concordia Teachers Col-
lege earnestly petition Synod to act favorably on this request.

Tue Board oF CONTROL
or Concorpia TEACHERS COLLEGE
Artur H. WERFELMANN, Chairman
Paut L. KLuenper, Secretary
Tue Facutty or Concorpia TEACHERS COLLEGE
Arrtuur W. Kuinck, President
Epwin J. Wreracut, Secretary

A NEW CHAPEL AT CONCORDIA TEACHERS COLLEGE,
RIVER FOREST, ILL.
(Memorial 124)

The need for more adequate facilities for chapel services at
Concordia Teachers College has been felt for many years.

The present auditorium-chapel, fitted with only 398 theater
seats, is too small. To accommodate our present student body and
instructors, we must place nearly 100 folding chairs in the narrow
aisles. This not only tends to spoil the appearance of the room,
but is a menace to safety. The construction of the building does
not permit enlargement except by the expenditure of funds all
out of proportion to the amount of room that could be gained. If
another chapel is provided, the present space can continue to be
utilized to very good advantage.

At best, our present chapel is not churchly. When the building
was planned, it was customary in most of our colleges to have brief
devotional periods, consisting at most of a hymn, a Scripture lesson
or a devotional reading, a prayer, announcements for the day and
a checkup on absentees. In recent years the spiritual exercises
centering in our chapel have received ever-increasing emphasis,
and the other features have disappeared, The chapel periods have
‘taken on the character of church services, where all students meet
for daily worship just as a Christian congregation does in its

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