# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S825
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

126 a SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

recognition should be given to the members of the Board.
of Control (the Rev. Oliver Harms, the Rev. Albert Jesse, the g
Rev. F. Stelzer, Mr. R. Leschber, Mr. Paul N. erger, and Mr. Albert
Schulz) for their high and intelligent devotion to the trust whi
Synod has placed in them.

The Faculty can

During the past triennium several changes took place in the

faculty. Doctor H. P. Studtmann, Concordia’s first president, re-
linquished his duties as administrative head of the school after,
twenty-three years of service. He continues to render the insti-
tution modified service. The duly constituted electors chose a

Physical Improvements

In 1948 Memorial Physical Education Building was dedicated
to the glory of God and the memory of the young men of the
Texas District who died in World War II. The $60,000 structure
was erected with the help of a $25,000 grant from Synod’s Board ‘
of Directors and a $35,000 gift from our Texas District Lutherans,
In addition to the facilities usually found in a gymnasium, the
building houses a stage, a student lounge, and a piano-prac-
tice room.

In May of 1949 Hirschi Memorial Library was dedicated. This
$80,000 air-conditioned building was made possible through the
generosity of Mr. and Mrs. John Hirschi of Wichita Falls, Tex.
These aged Christians underwrote the cost of construction. The
furnishings of the Library were donated by Mr. A. Brandt, presi-
dent of the A. Brandt Company of Fort Worth. The library houses
administrative offices as well as library facilities.

In 1948 several acres of campus were cleared and supplied
with an underground watering system. This area now serves as
a playground and athletic field.

The city of Austin desired to purchase a strip of land from
the front of our campus for a right-of-way for an inter-regional
highway. The strip of land, 125 feet by 1500 feet (ca. four acres)
was sold to the city by the Board for $27,500. (Since-no Board
of Control may sell synodical property, the city of Austin was pre-