# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S133
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 181

remember the college kitchen with welcome contributions. For
this fine spirit we are deeply grateful.

The Board of Control wishes to express its gratitude to Synod’s
Board of Directors and the Board for Higher Education for their
fine attitude and wholehearted interest in our institution.

THE Boarp or Controt, Concorpia COLLEGE,
Austin, Tex. -
F. H. Steuzer, Executive Secretary

ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT AUSTIN, TEX.
(Memorial 138)

The Board of Control of Lutheran Concordia College, Austin,
Tex., felt constrained to lay plans for an overture to General Synod
for a much-needed administration building on our college campus.
We submit the following reasons for the erection of an administra-
tion building.

1. The present dormitory was designed to accommodate 41 stu-
dents. Today it houses 76. Moreover, we are forced to reject
students for lack of housing facilities.

2, Kilian Hall was originally designed to serve only as a
dormitory.

a. Today it houses the administrative offices in rooms which
were intended to serve as bedrooms.

b. Concordia’s library is housed in a room which was orig-
inally intended to serve as bedroom.

c. Classes are held in rooms originally intended to serve as
dormitory rooms,

d. Under present circumstances the students have no chapel.

e. Three boys are crowded into rooms designed to accommodate
only two. Much of the sickness which we experienced in the past
years, we believe, is a direct result of this crowding of students.

3. Present hospital, or sickroom, accommodations are woefully
inadequate. Our present “infirmary” can take care of six boys,
by crowding. However, we had to make room for twice that
number at the same time during an epidemic of flu, measles,
chicken pox, etc.

4. Our commissary storage room (9X11) is entirely too small
to take care of the most essential supplies for the kitchen.

5. If the school is to fulfill its destiny, it needs an administration
building. This administration building must be large enough to
accommodate:

a. Administrative offices. b. A library. c. A chapel. d. Six
classrooms. e. Two laboratories.