# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S744
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

46 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

The training centers in which students are working are Lu-
theran Hospital, Koch Hospital TB, State Hospital (mental),
Infirmary (aged), Training School (mental deficients), Homer
Phillips (general colored).

Physical Education Director
In 1946 the students petitioned the Board of Control to engage
a full-time director of physical education and offered to pay
his salary by an increase of the student athletic fee to $10.00 per

Report on Pritzlaff Memorial Library

Pritzlaff Memorial Library began the year 1950 with a total
of 40,936 accessioned volumes, It is staffed by the director, two
women helpers, and several students, the latter part time. The
library has been financed by the annual student fee of $5.00, the
synodical appropriation of $1,000 per annum (to which the Board
of Directors added $5,000 during the past triennium for the pur-
chase and accession of many necessary volumes), and the Pritzlaff
Endowment of $500 a year. With the introduction of the budget
system in 1949 the synodical contribution is fixed by the educa-
tional budget of Synod. The allowance for 1949—50 was $1,725.

With the growth of the student body during the past years,
additional demands have been placed upon our library services.
The faculty is making far more use of library facilities in its
teaching program, and the increased demand for materials, often in
duplicate and triplicate, is constantly growing.

The growth of the Post-Graduate and Correspondence Schools .
is calling for additional materials and services,

More and more demands are being placed upon us by pastors,
professors, and teachers throughout Synod for the use of our
materials and services in the preparation of conference papers,
Synodical essays, and the like. A survey shows that no less than
750 items were sent out during the last year.