# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S770
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

72 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

woodwork, including floors, will need repair and refinishing, and
all wiring and lighting will have to be replaced or modernized as
a safety measure. With these improvements the building should
be very serviceable for many years to come.

The remodeling needed will be comparatively little, consisting
largely of the removal of a number of partitions to convert the
old organ practice rooms into larger units for classroom use. All
available space, according to our plans, will be devoted to a variety
of urgent purposes. The building is conveniently situated for class-
room and administrative functions. Its central corridor is already

the chief passage between the present Administration Building,
' the new Library, the Chapel, and the. science laboratories. d
_. Request: We respectfully request that up to $25,000 be allowed 4
for the remodeling and the rehabilitation of the old Music Build-
ing as a much-needed addition to the Administration Building.

THE Boarp or ContTRon
_ oF Concorp1a TEACHERS COLLEGE
Pau L. Kiuenper, Secretary

Tue Facuity or ConcorDIA TEACHERS COLLEGE
. ARTHUR Kiinck, President

F. Continued Remodeling of the Older Dormitories
; at River Forest
(Memorial 129) ‘

With the funds allowed by Synod and released by the synod-
ical Board of Directors over the past triennium, we have been
able to do much to improve the safety and convenience of the
two old south dormitory wings. By order of the State Fire
Marshal we have added a complete fire alarm system, emergency
fire exits and fire doors, stair-well exits for the basements, exit
lights, and so forth, all of which had been overlooked in the
original construction of 1912. We have replaced falling lath and
plaster in some of the study rooms and bedrooms and closets.
Eventually all plaster except that on the outside brick walls will :
have to be replaced. The buildings will: have to be completely: *
rewired. At the same time partitions should be drawn through
the large bedrooms to provide two small bedrooms, to serve four
students 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-