# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S135
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 133

expanding Latin-American field (vide pp. 58—59 of the 1941 Book
of Memorials); and

Wuereas, Our Texas and Southern District constituencies have
demonstrated in a most convincing manner a vibrant and loyal
interest in the school; e.g., $500 annual appropriation for library
and laboratory, a 1946 contribution of $3,400 to the College Associ-
ation, liberal donations to the commissary; therefore’

We respectfully petition Synod

To give the Board of Control at Lutheran Concordia College,
Austin, Tex., authority to inaugurate the junior college program
at Austin; the first year of college to be instituted in the fall of
1948 and the second in the fall of 1949;

To grant $150,000 for the building of a refectory, kitchen,
and living quarters for the steward;

To grant $10,000 for the renovation of Kilian Hall.

Respectfully presented in the interest of our Lutheran Zion by

Tue Boarp or ConrTROL
LuTHERAN CoNcoRDIA COLLEGE, AUSTIN, TEX.
F. H. Streuzer, Executive Secretary

ACTION

Concerning these requests, Synod took the following action
upon recommendation of Committee 1:

1. The requested service building was not included in the
building appropriations.

2. An appropriation of $200,000 for an administration building
_ was included in the building grants.

3. The petition that Austin be raised to the status of a junior
college was referred to the Board for Higher Education, in con-
junction with the Board of Directors, for close and intensive study
and with power to act.

4, An appropriation of $10,000 for remodeling Kilian Hall was
included in the building grants.

Seminario Concordia, Porto Alegre, Brazil
(Memorial 115)

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL
In reporting to Synod at the close of another triennium, your
Board of Control of Seminario Concordia, Porto Alegre, feels con-
strained to praise the goodness and mercy of our heavenly Father.
The long years of war that, due to the emotional temperament of
the Brazilian, made deep inroads into our work, are a thing of the
past and normal times are returning. And still, in spite of many