# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S142
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

140 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

pantry, which also is missing, and then to put in the necessary
toilet and bathroom fixtures in the home of the Director of the
Colegio, we will require according to present-day prices at least
$5,615.00 Pesos (dollars $1404.00 USCY). For the installation of
running water and bath in the home of Professor Ernst we will
need $1,400.00 Pesos (dollars $350.00 USCY). To install the running
water in the Colegio building we need approximately $700.00 Pesos
(dollars $175.00 USCY). These prices are good for about 30 days
at the highest.

Our second request is that Synod authorize its Board of Direc-
tors to try co-education in Crespo. We believe that the time is now
at hand when we ought to open the doors of our Colegio also to
girls who wish to acquire a college education, and since in all
State Colleges the Catholic religion, and for the Protestants a course
in morality, permeated by the principles of the Roman Catholic
religion, is being taught as a part of the regular course, no Lu-
theran can really send his daughter to any State institution if he
does not want to endanger very seriously the spiritual welfare of
his child. Our humble petition therefore is: Let us try co-educa-
tion, and empower the Board of Directors to erect a home for girls
on the grounds of the institution housing about 12 girls. For the
first five years we do not expect more than about ten to twelve
girls,

Another request on our mind is a residence for the third
professor. Our assistant professor lives in a rented house, which
is rather inconvenient, since he cannot find a house in the neigh-
borhood, In the near future we will need a full-time third pro-
fessor, and for him we must then have a residence. In order to
be prepared for the near future and in order to offer a necessary
convenience to our present Spanish Professor, we ask Synod to
empower its Board of Directors to have a third residence erected
on our Colegio grounds.

A fourth request is for a new piano for our Colegio. We have
only one decent piano. A second one is so old and worn out that
it apparently cannot be put into condition any more. The State
College course requires music, and we have 18 students; so one
piano is not sufficient to give them the opportunity to acquire
the needed music according to the State College course. We there-
fore ask Synod to empower its Board of Directors to acquire
a second piano for our Colegio.

A fifth and very urgent request is to erect a two-room house,
with bath, for the kitchen and yard help we need at our Colegio.
We have been engaging a married couple for many years to take
care of the cooking, baking, gardening, feeding of pigs, chickens,