# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S83
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 79

f recorded music literature. Carefully drawn architectural
stud id tes indicate that the cost of this academic wing to the Music
owilding will be $75,000.

Request: We respectfully request that the sum of $75,000 be
ted for the classroom wing planned for our new Music Build-
We further request that the sum of $3,500 be granted for the
cauipment for this academic wing.
THE Boarp or Conrrou
or Concorpra TEACHERS COLLEGE
Paut L. Kiuenper, Secretary

THE Facu.ty oF Concorpia TEACHERS COLLEGE
Artuur Kurnck, President

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C. Completion of the New Dormitory for Women
at River Forest by Adding the North Wing

In 1944 Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, Ill., re-
quested of the synodical convention a Dormitory for Women with
a capacity of 150 students at an estimated cost of $150,000. This
was granted. .

By the time the funds could be made available by the synod-
ical Board of Directors and the plans and specifications could be
prepared, our country was in the midst of wartime building prior-
ities and restrictions, scarcity of materials and labor, and sharply
rising costs of construction. When the contract was finally let in
the spring of 1947, building costs had advanced almost 100% above
the original estimates. The Board of Directors, recognizing our
need, eventually raised the amount available to nearly $200,000
(an increase of 30%). However, the part of the building which
was constructed and put into use late in 1948 can house only 80
students in addition to their supervisors.

Meanwhile the need for teachers, both men and women, has
continued to rise and, by all indications, will remain high. Nu-
merous studies and estimates of the need have been made. In the
light of the most conservative of these, our Church’s elementary
school system will need fully trained men and women to the
crowded capacity of its two teacher-training institutions. We
therefore propose to move all the women to the new building
and to devote the four old dormitory wings exclusively to the
housing of men. With moderate crowding these can take care of
340 men. With the help of God and the co-operation of all synod-
ical agencies, we hope to recruit men up to our full housing
Capacity and crowd in a few more if we can get them. Mean-