# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S87
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 83

hal complete fire alarm system, emergency

‘ts as se en, atain nell exits for the basements, exit

fire exits forth, all of which has been overlooked in the

lights, and ‘truction of 1912. We have replaced falling lath and

original ster come’ of the study rooms and bedrooms and closets.

ih a plaster except that on the outside brick walls will

Bventually replaced. The buildings will have to be completely

od At the same time partitions should be drawn through

large bedrooms to provide two small bedrooms, to serve four

oe lente each, instead of one large one for eight students. (Under
crowded conditions the large rooms now house ten.)

Since these dormitories are in use the year around except
for a few weeks in August, when they are being prepared for the
next school year, we cannot spare them for a complete overhaul-
ing at one time, but will have to carry on the process piecemeal,
as we have done during the past decade.

Request: We respectfully request that for the triennium 1950
to 1953 the sum of $50,000 be allowed for the rehabilitation of the
two old south dormitory wings.

THE Boarp or Conrro. ;
or Concorpia Tracuers CouLecr

Pauw L. Kiuenner, Secretary

THE Facutty or Concorpra TEACHERS CoLLEGE
ArTHUR Kurncx, President

[130]
G. Repeated Request for Additional Professorships
to Replace Some of the Temporary Instructorships -
at River Forest

Three years ago Concordia Teachers College, River Forest,
memorialized the synodical convention of 1947 (Proceedings,
page 73) to allow additional professorships. This request was
discussed in Committee One, and upon their recommendation,
Synod took the following: action (Proceedings, 1947, page 78):

“Resolved that this request for professorships be referred
to the Board for Higher Education for study in the light of

Synod’s action in the matter of ‘Ranking of Professors’ with

Power to act.”

In the meantime we have carried on our program with the
same number of Professorships as before. The reasons advanced
in 1947 for additional called professorships Rave become more
and more compelling. Our over-all enrollment has: increased’ by
over 60 students. We have progressively decreased our High