# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S85
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 81

i ince two years of physical education classes are
ical ea for teacher certification. When the two-year program
red ical education has been scheduled for all students who
of phys credit in these courses, all remaining time should be
must a ed for intramural sports, physical training for the remainder
a student body, and general recreational purposes.
o! The Gymnasium, designed and built some twenty years ago
for a student body of 300 men who at that time had no physical
education classes, must now serve a program of required physical
education classes for a student body of 525 men and women. As
the program for physical education demands an ever greater use
of the Gymnasium for its primary and secondary functions, the
facilities become less and less available for other vital purposes,
such as music and drama. The result is a series of annoyances
and eventual compromises which harm the total program. We
regret this very much.

In’ his work in the parish the well-trained teacher is expected
to serve all of the young people of the congregation with their
wide variety of needs and desires. In this area of his duties he
must prepare plays, pageants, and concerts. Training in prepara-
tion for this service can be carried on successfully only if his
interest and ability are stimulated and developed through obser-
vation of, and personal participation in, these activities. This area
of training should not be curtailed. Opportunity to gain experience
in it should, on the contrary, become more general in the student
body. The need of an Auditorium for the continuance and expan-
sion of this phase of our work in the broader training of our future
teachers is for this reason brought before you again.

Such an Auditorium would also help us to serve our Lutheran
constituency more adequately than we are able to do under preserit
crowded conditions, thus promoting their good will towards, and
support of, Synod’s system of professional training.

We are not at this time reiterating our request for a Chapel,
since we hope to adapt the new Auditorium for this purpose until
a churchly Chapel can be provided. Our present Chapel is even
more inadequate for our needs than it was in 1947, when we made
the request.

Request: We respectfully request the sum of $350,000 for the
building of an Auditorium in connection with our Music Building.
Tue Boarp or Contron
or Concorpia TEACHERS COLLEGE .
Paut L. Kiuenper, Secretary

THe Facutty or Concorpia TEAciers COLLEGE
ArtHur Kurncx, President