# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S764
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

686 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

ening of the general cultural offerings in the college curriculum
which is necessarily somewhat narrow because of its professional
teacher-training character. Recommendations on some of these
points have been conveyed to the Board for Higher Education,
who will present them for Synod’s consideration; others are being
studied and, where possible, improved by the faculty and admin-
istration of the college as a matter of continuing policy.

More than any other single event in recent years, the accredi-
tation of Concordia Teachers College by the North Central Asso-
ciation will facilitate the certification of our graduates and aid in
securing temporary certificates for our undergraduate students who
go out to do a year of temporary supply teaching.

The Board of Control wishes publicly to thank the synodical
Board for Higher Education and the Board of Directors for their
willingness to co-operate in the process of attaining accreditation.
Nor can we refrain from expressing our deep satisfaction and
sincere gratitude for the earnest purpose and steady co-operative
effort of the students, the faculty, and the administrative officers
under the leadership of the President, which, under God’s abundant “d
blessings, has made this official recognition possible. :

Requests and Memorials

None of our requests are really new, but they have become 43

more urgent and, in some cases, more extensive since the synodical

conyentions of 1944 and 1947 because of the unprecedented enroll- “*

ment of future teachers needed for Synod’s program of Christian _ r

education and because of sharply risen building costs. _ 3

I. We respectfully request that the sum of $200,000 for a new

Music Building, allowed by the synodical convention of 1947 and ”

raised by the Board of Directors of Synod to $275,000 because

of increased building costs, as well as the $100,000 allowed by. 4

the Board of Directors for musical instruments and equipment,

be released, so that the contract can be let and the construction a
can begin at the earliest possible moment. .

II. Other requests are presented in the form of separate memorials:

A. Additional Funds for Equipment for the New Music Building.

B. Additional Music Classrooms.

C. Completion of the New Dormitory for Women by Adding the .#

D. Repeated Request for an Auditorium.

E. Remodeling of the Old Music Building as an Addition to the
Administration Building.

F. Continued Remodeling of the Older Dormitories.