# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S98
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

96 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

new building has risen tremendously. Our own collections in the
District are at this time $90,000 short of the goal. We therefore
request Synod to grant us a substantial part of this amount. We ask
for $60,000.

2. During these last years of terrible fires the fire department
of Milwaukee has inspected our buildings almost every week. It is
worried about our State Dormitory. Fire Chief Wisher is ready
to condemn it and has not done so only because we assured him
that we will ask Synod to replace it.

Ever since the destruction of our Kilbourn Dormitory we
have had to contend with crowding in Wunder Dormitory. Six
students are packed into rooms intended only for a maximum of
four. We need more room and will have to turn away many
applicants this summer.

In view of these and other reasons we must ask for a new
dormitory. One architect, Mr. Stubenrauch, has made a careful
study of the situation and suggests the erection of a building in
the shape of an “L.” The first wing can be erected while the
old building is still in use. His estimate of the cost is $250,000.

3. The new laboratory which Synod granted us in 1944 is now
complete except for a few cabinets. Now, however, the old
laboratory shows its bad spots more than ever. It was never
intended to be a laboratory and lacks every arrangement and
convenience for good teaching. It is estimated that $4,000 will
enable us to reconstruct the laboratory into a relatively modern
unit. We ask for this sum.

4, Encouraged by the Professors’ Conference held in Milwaukee
last summer, we repeat our request of 1944 for a full-time music
director.

“For two years during the past triennium we enjoyed the
services of Mr. Gerhard Schroth as full-time music director. When
Mr. Schroth accepted a position with KFUO, we found it im-
possible to engage another man to take his place. Reluctance on
the part of teachers to accept a position without a permanent call
was one of the reasons. We have had to be satisfied with three
part-time men, and these do not begin to equal the service we
received from a single full-time man. Believing the various fields
of music to be vital in the education of a minister and that the
musical training of our students can best be achieved by the
service of a full-time man, we request Synod to extend a call to
supply this need and to offer the man an adequate salary.”

THE Boarp or Controt, Concorpia CoLLEecE
Grorce BemERWIEDEN, Secretary

The building requests of the Milwaukee Concordia Board of

Control are endorsed by
Tue SoutH Wisconsin District PASTORAL CONFERENCE
H. I. Naumann, Secretary