# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S134
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132 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

It is our opinion that the erection of this building will involve
the expenditure of $200,000.

For these reasons our Board of Control requested the Texas
District to endorse this memorial to General Synod at its next
convention in Chicago, Ill.

We add the resolution which was adopted by our Texas District
at its last convention in Houston April 22—26, 1946.

Resolved, That the Texas District of the Evangelical Lutheran
Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, assembled in Trinity
Lutheran Church in Houston, Tex., April 22—26, 1946, hereby
memorialize the synodical convention which is to assemble in
Chicago, IIL, in 1947, to provide an administration building costing
approximately $200,000 and providing

1. Administrative offices. 2. A library. 3. A chapel. 4. Six
classrooms. 5. Two laboratories.

Tue Boarp or ContTROL
Luraeran Concorpra Cotiece, Austin, TEX.
F. H. Sreuzer, Executive Secretary

This memorial was endorsed by the SouTHERN DistRIcT.

JUNIOR COLLEGE AT AUSTIN, TEX.
(Memorial 139)

Wuereas, The need for a junior college in the South, to
accommodate our rapidly growing Lutheran constituency educa-~
tionally, is looming larger with each succeeding year; and

Wuereas, From some parts of Texas the distance is 700 to
800 miles to the nearest synodical institution of junior college
standing; and

Wuereas, The present break between the senior year in high
school and the first year of college is educationally unsound; and

Wuereas, No mean number of pretheological and teacher
students have been lost to the Church as workers because of the
present break in the program; and

Wuereas, The present physical plant at Austin limits the
school below its potential enrollments; and

Wuenezas, It is wholly uneconomical to limit a $200,000 capital
investment plus a $12,000 annual operating cost to 76 students
(the. plant was originally designed to accommodate 41); and

Wuerras, An inexpensive addition to the capital investment
and a moderate increase in the operating cost will offer dispropor-
tionate advance and opportunity for expansion; and

Wuereas, Austin is the logical institution for the training of
workers (a beginning has already been made) in the rapidly