# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S65
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 65

space than the roof chamber. To store
been able to find me ores, either to climb a ladder through a trap
eee ‘eo hoist things up from the outside with a pulley.
ane Although our co-eds live in homes near the college, they
spend the greater part of the day at the college. We are crowding
33 of them into a room 20x16.

11. Our present dormitory was designed to accommodate
68 boys, with four or five in each room. By overcrowding we can
add one more. That is what we are doing this year. Instead of 68,
80 are living in the suites. This overcrowding causes much dis-
turbance during work hours. In addition, a number of city students
live in the study rooms during the day.

12. And last, but not least, the problem of supplying recrea-
tional facilities to our students becomes more difficult from year
to year. A small room 25X37 (which has been criticized repeatedly
by the high school inspectors) is not adequate to take care of our
classes in Health and Physical Education, much less to offer
recreation on the many days on which inclement weather prevents
the students from going out on the campus, Although we are the
northernmost college in Synod and are, because of the rigors of
the climate, perhaps more in need eof recreational facilities than
any other college, yet we are the only preparatory school which
has no gymnasium. This past winter our recreational problem was
unusually trying. We had an uninterrupted cold spell lasting
46 days. The greater part of this time the mercury was between
30 and 40 below — usually too cold for skating. And week after
week the students were confined to their overcrowded rooms.

These are the reasons which compel us respectfully to petition
the venerable Synod for additions to our present administration
building and dormitory and for a new gymnasium. It is our
opinion that the erection of these buildings will involve a sum
in the neighborhood of $200,000.

In its Centennial Convention at Chicago, 1947, Synod adopted
the following resolutions:

“Upon the recommendation of Committee 1 it was resolved:

“1. To approve an expansion program at Edmonton;

“2. To encourage the Canadian Districts to begin collecting
their fair share of the cost of such a program;

“3. To authorize the Board for Higher Education to approve

the plans for any proposed construction and submit them to the
Board of Directors.” (Proc., p. 129.)

; These resolutions of Synod gave courage to our Districts, and
with a great deal of enthusiasm they resolved at their conventions