# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S105
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 108

are 27 ministerial students in the college, making our total min~-
isterial enrollment exactly 100 at the beginning of the fall
semester. Forty-one veterans are attending our school, eight of
them ministerial students, a factor which has contributed greatly
in making our college freshman class of 113 members the largest
single class in our history. No decline in enrollment is anticipated
in coming years. On the contrary, indications are that the size
_of our student body for some years to come will be limited only
by the availability of dormitory and classroom space and the size
of our teaching staff. Additional quarters were provided in the
high school dormitory by converting part of the basement into
a large study room, permitting conversion of a number of former
study rooms into bedrooms. This, however, was not nearly suf-
ficient to provide space for all qualified applicants. Your Board
is very grateful that so many of our Lutheran boys and girls are
turning to our school for their higher education and sincerely
hopes that, under God, facilities may soon be made available
which will enable us to serve the youth of our Church more
adequately.
Building and Equipment
We wish to acknowledge with sincere gratitude the sym-
pathetic and understanding consideration given by Synod’s Board
of Directors to the unusually great needs in the physical plant of
our school which demanded attention during the past triennium.
With the aid of funds made available by Synod’s Board, it was
possible to undertake several extensive alteration projects, which
had been necessary for some’ time but which the increased en-
rollment made imperative. At a cost of $17,000 the interior of
Bohm Hall, our original dormitory erected in 1910, was completely
renovated and refurnished. Our antiquated kitchen facilities and
equipment, also in use since 1910, were replaced last fall by modern
equipment, and the entire kitchen was re-arranged and enlarged
to provide a cafeteria style of meal service. Cost of this under-
taking, including necessary structural changes in the Commons
Building, was in excess of $34,000, of which $20,000 was borne by
Synod. The benefits of this change in type of meal service have
exceeded expectations, The staggering of the meal time made
practical by the cafeteria service, with the college and high school
eating at separate hours, has made it unnecessary to enlarge our
dining hall despite the fact that we now have a student body twice
as large as the dining hall was originally intended to accommodate.
To provide living quarters for our housemaster, a suite of
rooms in Behm Hall was converted into an apartment at a cost of
$3,000, including furnishings, half of which was defrayed by Synod.
Another need was met by the purchase of a three-story dwell-