# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S110
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

110 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

mission to install an automatic sprinkler system in Bohm Hall at
a cost of $9,425, according to bids already received.

11. Extension of Concordia Place Road

Concordia Place (Faculty Row) now ends at the last of our
professors’ residences. Our Board believes that it should be ex-
tended to form an L-shaped roadway along the outer rim of our
campus to a new exit on Tanglewylde Avenue. Such a roadway
is needed to provide access to any new residences erected on our
campus. It would, furthermore, extend our campus to the limit
of our property, thereby serving to accommodate our increasing
enrollment by opening up a stretch of campus now unused due to
lack of access. This extension, which involves 3,600 square yards
of paving, can be constructed at a cost of $13,000 according to bids
received, or 40 cents per square foot, including grading. Permis-
sion to undertake this necessary improvement is herewith respect-

fully requested by your Board. Tr Boarp or ContROL

Louis S. Wacner, Secretary

ENDORSEMENT OF REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS
FOR EDUCATIONAL BUILDING AT BRONXVILLE, N. Y.
(Memorial 132)

Recognizing the need for an educational building, the last
Synod (Saginaw, Mich., 1944) granted Concordia Collegiate Insti-
tute at Bronxville, N. Y., the sum of $80,000 for the erection of a
new Library Building. The Lutheran Education Society at that
time pledged itself to raise an equal or larger amount for other
necessary facilities.

The Lutheran Education Society, with the help of God, has
raised appreciably more funds than it had pledged itself to do.
The intervening years, however, have brought about spiraling
building costs and the Society finds that more than double the
anticipated sums are needed for the construction of the educational
building. Our conservative estimate in 1944 of the cost of the
Library Building, namely $80,000, is now totally inadequate for
its construction.

And yet, the need for this Library Building is more urgent
today than at any previous time. The enrollment at Concordia
Collegiate Institute has risen to 320. All facilities are taxed to
the utmost. The present library on the fourth floor of Administra-
tion Hall is now less adequate for the book collection and less
efficient for study than it was when Synod granted our request
three years ago. The space now occupied in the Administration
Building by library and stackroom is urgently needed for addi-
tional classrooms.