# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S42
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

42 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

enrollment into inadequate and substandard quarters. In spitd
of housing problems, the health and morale of the students: havg
been good. Participation “in national testing programs has revealag
a consistently high grade of scholarship. : a

Requests .
administration, teaching, ang

- For the sake of improvement in
ant us the following

housing, we respectfully, petition Synod to gr

requests: oo
1. The second wing of the dormitory completed in March, 1954
2. A grant for the new administration pbuilding, $300,000. ;

3. Additional quarters for help.
4. Reconstruction of the old laboratory.

5. A new professor’s home.

1. The first wing of the new
1947) is now completed and houses
the problems of fire hazards, unsanitary
Old State Dormitory, which must now be razed.

tory, however, remains -c
of decency. Six students are crowded into .rc
cally for only: four, with serious effects upon mor
and study habits. Slope Oo , co,

A second wing of our new dormitory. is: par
mitted three years ag0- ‘The proper functioning of the first wing
dependent on this addition. It will contain a lounge, which }

a “must,” inasmuch as the study rooms and bedrooms are V
small and allow for no recreation or social activity. A second wi
of: our new dormitory. will permit us to reduce .the crowdin
Wunder Dormitory. -and. to place a-proctor,.
a roomoriginally designed for such a supervisor; (“8
The total dormitory capacity -of the -school: will. be’ 257:.wh
the-new wing has been added —— only ‘enough to:take careof prest
needs Present ‘estimate of cost by the: Hunzinger Construction
puildets of the: first-wing, ‘is: $375,000, -including equipment... >
34 ohn 1947 Synod recognized. our need for an administra’
pbuilding and voted us $110,000. “We must have this building in of
to ‘modernize our ‘administration: Present facilities, are ama
shift and leave no room for any ‘administrative help ‘for ‘the pr
will also. house our must
individual practice roc ditorium for music apprecia
s iguat education. : The ‘sale of an athletic field's
years ago netted enough to pay for’a's ‘ing “This
art 6 the. building: will be: an adjunct toour gymnasium
is a nécessary ‘part of Ci

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dormitory (granted by. Synod if
58 students. This wing solve
and crowded living in th
Wunder Dorm

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t of the plan sul

dent. This building ic department, '
oms and an au

concerts, and vi 1 r
of:our intramuré athletic program: peécat