# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S231
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 229

To meet the problem of space, the Association studied the ad-
~isability of thoroughly remodeling Hanser Hall. It was decided —
very wisely, we think — not to pursue this plan, It would be in-
ordinately expensive and, in the final analysis, would yield a plant
far from ideal for its high school.

It is apparent to your Board that during the past decade the
allocation of plant space for the ever-growing high school has
resulted at times in unsatisfactory provision for ministerial courses.
The college survey courses had to be given in classrooms with no
facilities for the work although science lecture room and laboratory
were in existence. While correcting this situation, it became neces-
sary to dispossess biology, which then wandered from classroom to
classroom with no laboratory equipment.

In spite of the many rooms in the synodical plant, the com-
bined school was seriously handicapped by an almost intolerable
dispersion of its offices. The President’s office has always been
attached to his home, which is located on the opposite side of
a campus drive which separates it from the Administration Building.
The Registrar’s office was in the Administration Building, while
that of the High School Principal was in Hanser Hall. The Dean
of Girls also had an office in Hanser Hall. The general faculty
room is in Schick Hall. Professors have no offices and hold student
conferences in their homes.

A faculty committee reported the need for pre-theological
purposes of the following:

auditorium-assembly hall

biology laboratory
administration and faculty offices
library

music rehearsal rooms

Synod’s buildings contain rooms for all of these purposes with
the single exception of an auditorium to accommodate 300 or more.
The high school still uses most of them at present. There are in
Schick and Hanser Halls 40 rooms for classes, laboratories, and
offices. To get the use of the space in Hanser Hall, however,
would involve extensive remodeling of that 80-year old building.
It might well be questioned whether such a procedure would be the
desirable way to make available the facilities required by Synod.

Administrative Organization
Another serious problem of the high school-academy has been
the establishment of effective administrative organization. Because
of the continued growth of the school, the accepted organizational
pattern became progressively less satisfactory. The administra-
tional staff was expanded until it included, in addition to the