# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S138
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136 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

have five residences for professors on the campus. Our present
Faculty numbers 6 professors and an assistant professor. And in
the next triennium one more professorship will have to be created
(cf. Request 2). New residences have been granted in 1944, but
unfortunately all prices soared to such dizzy heights that the
money granted did not suffice to build the new residences.

Something will have to be done. As it stands, we do not know
where Professor Wadewitz and the newly called professor can
reside upon arrival. Here in the neighborhood of the Seminary
no houses can be rented, and if they rented in town, they would
have to climb the hill every day, a walk of 15 to 20 minutes. Autos
our professors in Porto Alegre cannot afford.

We request, therefore, that Synod renew the old grant of one
residence and also grant two additional residences.

Pavement of Street

Synod’s representatives (Dr. Streufert and Mr. Dorn) who
visited Porto Alegre know in what condition our present street is.
Now the families residing on the other side are in favor of paving
the street. In Brazil every citizen has to pay half of the expenses
of paving the street in front of his lot.

Our share for the paving of 270 running meters, including side-
walks and canalization, amounts to $3,000.

4, Request: We kindly ask Synod to grant us these $3,000.

For your convenience, we shall once more enumerate our re-

quests: 1. An additional year to our curriculum

2. The creation of a new professorship
3. Three new residences for professors
4, Permission to have our street paved

Boarp or Contro.
Avucust Heme, Secretary
ACTION
Synod took the following action upon recommendation of the
Committee:
1. The request for adding another year to their curriculum
belongs to matters to be considered by the Board for Higher
Education,

2. The request for a professorship was referred to the Board
for Higher Education for study in the light of Synod’s action in
the matter of “Ranking of Professors,” with power to act.

3. An appropriation of $40,000 was made under the building
grant for the three residences.