# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S81
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 17

_—-be changed to admit students upon graduation from high
y noel at Springfield Theological Seminary.
Trinity Ev. LurHeran Cuurcu or Creve, Iu.
A. T. KrerzMann, Pastor
W. J. Brass, Chairman
R. E. PIEPENsRINK, Secretary

The same memorial was submitted by
(Signed) (Dr.) P. E. Kretzmann, Cuba, Mo.

Zion Ev. LutHeran Cuurcu, Cutcaco, Inv.
Cari G. Kruse, Pastor

Signatures attested by (Rev.) H. D. Mensinc
Tinley.Park, Ill., April 5, 1950

{124]
A. Additional Funds for Equipment for the New
Music Building at River. Forest

The planning of the new Music Building is at the point where
construction can begin as soon as Synod permits the letting of the
contract. Indications are that the structure can be completed with-
in about a year. The matter of providing equipment for the new
Music Building requires the attention of the synodical convention
of 1950 because the needs have increased substantially in the past
years as the curriculum in music has become more complete and
the student enrollment in the College Dapartment has sharply
risen. Approximately 60% of the students now entering college
at River Forest have had no keyboard experience in music. Upon
graduation, approximately 85% of the male candidates are ex-
pected to serve as church organists. Approximately 50% of the
men and women who fill supply teaching positions after two years

‘in college are expected to serve as church organists during their
temporary term of service. Facilities adequate to provide at least
one hour a day for practice should be available to each student
as a minimum in acquiring the motor skill necessary to perform
the music for a church service satisfactorily.

Besides daily practice periods,, those students who are taking
courses in school music, vocal technique, keyboard harmony, and
sight singing and ear training require additional instrumental prac-
tice time on either piano or organ for the preparation of their
academic assignments in these courses from day to day.

The composite need, expressed in terms of ‘the requirements
listed above, can be provided only if one instrument, either piano