# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S8
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

8 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

; The training centers in which students are working are Lig
theran Hospital, Koch Hospital TB, State Hospital (men :
Infirmary (aged), Training School (mental deficients), Honig

Phillips (general colored). im

Physical Education Director 4

In 1946 the students petitioned the Board of Control to enga

a full-time director of physical education and offered to tm
his salary by an increase of the student athletic fee to $10.00 3
annum. Mr. Eldon E. Pederson, who has his Master in Educati
was engaged to succeed Mr. John Krause when the latter’s thr:
year contract terminated in August, 1949. He has developed a‘
good intramural program, through which 85.3 per cent of
student body is drawn into physical exercise. The value of ae
work is reflected in the generally excellent health condition’
the students. While it is true that graduate and professional schog
do not have physical education, the Board feels justified in requeg
ing Synod to allow $4,000 a year toward this physical exe: |
and health program at the Seminary. We hold that this progr®
at the Seminary is as important in training a physically strop
ministry as the program of physical education at our colleges. ‘4

Report on Pritzlaff Memorial Library .

Pritzlaff Memorial Library began the year 1950 with a. tg

of 40,936 accessioned volumes. It is staffed by the director, 1
women helpers, and several students, the latter part time. .
library has been financed by the annual student fee of $5.00, §
synodical appropriation of $1,000 per annum (to which the Bog
of Directors added $5,000 during the past triennium for the py
chase and accession of many necessary volumes), and the Pritzk
Endowment of $500 a year. With the introduction of the bud
system in 1949 the synodical contribution is fixed by the edug
tional budget of Synod. The allowance for 1949-50 was $L;7%%
With the growth of the student body during the past yes
additional demands have been placed upon our library servid
The faculty is making far more use of library facilities in:
teaching program, and the increased demand for materials, ofte ni
duplicate and triplicate, is. constantly growing. 3
The growth of the Post-Graduate and Correspondence Schg

is calling for additional materials and services. a
More and more demands are being placed upon us by pasted
professors, and tdéachers: throughout Synod for the use of ¢
materials and services::in the preparation of conference pang
synodical essays, and the like. A survey shows that no less t§
750 items were sent out during the last year.