# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S253
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HIGHER EDUCATION 253

leges of the Synod in approximately thesame number. Another
consideration is that relative nearness provides access to
education at a cost that is less demanding upon student,
parental, church, and college financial-aid resources.

The college anticipates that it will be more attractive to
prospective students and therefore a more viableinstitution by
the extension of programs of study to the status of a four-year
college. The college anticipates also that the variety of pro-
grams offered (for church vocations, in business and general
education, in nursing and secretarial science); the trends in
adult and continuing education; and the extended opportuni-
ties for serving as a resource center for the church in extension
education are positive factors for increasing and maintaining
enrollments.

The college has been able to enroll a quality of students that
establishes the integrity of the college as an institution of
Christian higher education. Through such measures as flexible
scheduling, evening programs, summer school, and continu-
ing-education workshops and seminars, the college can serve
more readily the community in which it is located and thereby
provide both community service and supportin enrollments for
its total program.

Physical Plant and Properties

St. John’s College has excellent physical facilities and
adequate land area with which to initiate the proposed four-
year programs. The college can expand to a student body of
450—500 without adding new land or buildings to the existing
properties.

here is no indebtedness on plant or facilities.

Colleges and Schools wrote in its February 1980 accreditation

a The evaluation team of the North Central Association of
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report: “The physical plant of the college is in excellent
condition. The property has been well maintained and will
serve adequately for the current student body and for acollege
of 400—500 students. Residence hall space, classrooms and
office space are partially used because of the limited

_..enrollment.”

The college has a unified and attractive campus of about 29
acres, which provides the setting for the following buildings
and areas:

Meyer Hall. Thirteen administrative offices; chapel; bio-
logical science, chemistry, physics, photography, and elec-
tronic piano laboratories; a 32-rank pipe organ and two
practice organs; and 11 other teaching stations.

Library. Current seating capacity, 180; shelf space for more
than 55,000 volumes; 11 private study carrels, alarge teaching
station with a capacity of 70, and asmall teaching station with
a capacity of 12; air-conditioned; designed for expansion when
the student body warrants it.

Baden Hall. Nine faculty offices; two music studios; two
practice organ rooms; a piano instruction and recital room;
campus health center. Top floors are unfinished, offering more
than 5,000 square feet of additional space for offices and
classrooms as needed.

Academy Hall. Five teaching stations; three faculty offices;
an office complex for the Cooperating Winfield Colleges
director; Alumni Association headquarters offices; a small
theater-in-the round; and four additional rooms that, with
renovation, can be used as teaching stations.

Physical Education Building. Seating capacity for more
than 900; main gym area of more than 12,000 square feet witha
synthetic tartan surface; two offices for coaching staff
members; two equipment storage rooms; one teaching station;
an apparatus room; training room; laundry facilities; separate
locker and shower rooms for men and women’s physical
education and intramural athletic programs; two team dress-
ing rooms.

Mundinger Hall—North. Women’s residence hall with
capacity of 150.

Mundinger Hall— West. Women’s residence hall with
capacity of 75.

Rehwinkel Hall. Men’s residence hall with capacity of 150.

Timothy Hall. Men’s residence hall with capacity of 65.

Virginia Hall. Nursing education center leased to the

college by the city of Winfield for 20 years at a cost of $1;
residence quarters for 58 students; five faculty offices; nursing
education library; and four teaching stations. Located two
blocks from the main campus. Formerly the William Newton
Hospital School of Nursing.

Centennial Campus Center. Houses the main dining room
(seating capacity of 450), food-service center, bookstore, snack-
bar and recreation room, private dining room (capacity of 40), a
lounge area, and a meeting room (capacity of 40).

Maintenance Shop. Offices, repair and storage facilities for
all campus maintenance services, disbursement center for
custodial and maintenance supplies, campus central receiving
and shipping point, and garage service area for collegeowned
vehicles. Adjacent is the central heating plant for Meyer Hall,
Baden Hall, the library, Rehwinkel Hall, and Mundinger
Hall—North, and Mundinger Hall—West.

Residences. Seven as apartments for married students; five
as faculty residences; one as headquarters offices for Ongoing
Ambassadors for Christ; and two storage facilities.

Athletic field. Space for a soccer field, physical-education
and recreation-class activities, and two tennis courts. (The
college has the use of a municipally-owned and maintained
baseball diamond in one of the city’s parks.)

The existing campus facilities offer adequate space for
continuing present programs (nursing and secretarial science)
and expanding to a four-year status without an immediate
major capital expenditure program. However, as the enroll-
ment increases, the construction of a fine-arts center to
centralize music, art, and drama will be desirable.

Most of the classrooms, laboratories, and offices are modern
and well maintained.

District Support: Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado,

and Mid-South Districts and Auxiliary Agencies. _ _ .

St. John’s College has received and will continue to receive
the support of the Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Mid-
South Districts, which have a combined communicant member-
ship of 125,000. This support includes also many of the
auxiliary agencies of the Synod within these Districts.

Individuals and congregations of the Kansas, Oklahoma,
Colorado, and Mid-South Districts of the Synod have provided
gifts periodically through the years for the growth and improve-
ment of the college’s Christ-centered education programs and
the physical properties that support these programs:

—At the 1980 convention of the Kansas District, the
congregations of the District established a goal of
$250,000 in support of the college’s $2 million development
campaign.

—At the 1980 convention of the Colorado District, the
congregations of the District established a goal of
$250,000 for the college’s $2 million development
campaign.

—At the 1980 convention of the Oklahoma District, the
congregations of the District established a goal of
$100,000 for the college’s $2 million development
campaign.

—At the 1980 convention of the Mid-South District, the
congregations of that District adopted resolutions
encouraging congregational membership in the St.
John’s College Association of Lutheran Congregations
and support for the college’s $2 million development
campaign.

—The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League of the Kansas
District has provided more than $3,000 as a start-up grant
for the college’s Associate Degree Nursing Program and
continues to support nursing education and other projects
periodically with additional grants. The Lutheran
Women’s Missionary League of the Oklahoma District
has supported a number of projects for the development
and advancement of college programs.

—The Lutheran Laymen’s League has provided grants in
varying amounts for the improvement of the college’s
physical properties, including the installation of a public-
address system for the Meyer Hall chapel and the
purchase of audiovisual equipment for instructional and
recruitment purposes.

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