# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S118
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

118 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Christians in the Northwest in behalf of our institution would be
greatly enhanced if provision were made for co-education and
general education. All pastoral conferences of the District have
gone on record in support of this proposal.

The Board therefore requests permission of Synod to introduce
co-education on our campus, beginning with the fall of 1948, with
the following provisions: (1) Girls are to be admitted as day
students only. (2) Girls are to be admitted on the high school
level only. (3) Additional expenses incurred through this ex-
pansion of our program —e.g., personnel, courses, equipment —
are to be subsidized locally, in order to obviate any additional finan-
cial burden upon Synod.

Library and Laboratory

Both our library and laboratory are woefully deficient and
altogether inadequate to meet the needs of our institution. There
is, moreover, no hope of attaining to even the minimum standards
for accreditation laid down by the Northwest Association of Sec-
ondary Schools unless both of these departments of our school
are expanded, improved, and modernized. We therefore request
of Synod an appropriation of $2,000 for the library, to be spent for
books, cataloguing, and equipment; and an appropriation of $2,000
for laboratory equipment.

Service Building

Kitchen and dining-room facilities have been temporarily in-
stalled in the basement of the new dormitory. Since this is not
satisfactory as a permanent arrangement, the erection of a service
building or refectory should be provided for at an early date.
This building is to include also hospital facilities and quarters for
the kitchen staff (at present Synod is paying $36 a month as rental
for the house occupied by the steward and his wife). The Board
therefore requests an appropriation of $50,000 for the erection of

a service building.
Board of Control

During the past triennium there has been but one change in
the personnel of the Board of Control. In June, 1946, the chair-
man of the Board, Mr. E. F. Balgemann, resigned his position in
order that he might accept the contract as builder of the new
dormitory. The vacancy on the Board was filled by Mr. Arthur H.
Raasch of Portland. Since Mr. Balgemann had served as a member
of the Board of Control since 1912, it is suggested that Synod take
special recognition of this outstanding record of loyal and con-
secrated service. Mr. Paul Neils was appointed chairman of the
Board in place of Mr. Balgemann.