# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S823
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

124 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

turbance during work hours. In addition, a number of city students
live in the study rooms during the day.

12. And last, but not least, the problem of supplying recrea-
tional facilities to our students becomes more difficult from year
to year. A small room 25x37 (which has been criticized repeatedly
by the high school inspectors) is not adequate to take care of our
classes in Health and Physical Education, much less to offer
recreation on the many days on which inclement weather prevents
the students from going out on the campus. Although we are the
northernmost college in Synod and are, because of the rigors of
the climate, perhaps more in need of recreational facilities than
any other college, yet we are the only preparatory school which
has no gymnasium. This past winter our recreational problem was
unusually trying. We had an uninterrupted cold spell lasting
46 days. The greater part of this time the mercury was between
30 and 40 below — usually too cold for skating.. And week after
week the students were confined to their overcrowded rooms.

These are the reasons which compel us respectfully to petition
the venerable Synod for additions to our present administration
building and dormitory and for a new gymnasium. It is: our
opinion that the erection of these. buildings will involve.a sum
in the neighborhood of $200,000. ;

In its Centennial Convention at Chicago, 1947, Synod adopted
the following resolutions:

“Upon the recommendation of Committee 1 it was resolved:

“1. To approve an expansion program at Edmonton;

“2. To encourage the Canadian Districts to begin collecting
their fair share of the cost of such a program;

“3. To authorize the Board for Higher Education to approve
the plans for. any proposed construction and submit them to the
Board of Directors.” (Proe., p. 129.)

These resolutions of Synod gave courage to our Districts, and
with a great deal of enthusiasm they resolved at their conventions
in 1949 to institute District-wide collections for this building project.
Throughout the past fall and winter considerable publicity work
was done, including a trip of the Concordia Choristers into 36 con-
gregations. Both Districts have set aside the period between Easter
and Pentecost, 1950, for-the ingathering of offerings; and we hope
‘to submit: to the convention in Milwaukee the results of this
collection. ‘

We have also complied with the directive implied in Synod’s
resolution: “To authorize the Board for Higher Education to.
approve the plans for any proposed construction.” Our plans, upon
the suggestion of the Board, are based upon a projection into the