# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S940
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

242 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

_ Section C. Recommendations on Current Requests
from Institutions and on the “Building for Tomorrow” 4
Program .

In Section 6.147 of the official Handbook, Synod makes the q
following requirements: 4
“The Board of Control, in the month of January preceding each 4
triennial convention of Synod, shall submit to the Board for 4
Higher Education recommendations for major repairs, capital im- 3

provements, and expansion of the physical plant and equipment 4
and the requirements and program for improvement and expansion

In accordance with this directive the Board for Higher Edu-
cation is making available its recommendations on the requests
which it has received from the institutions,

Upon examination of these requests it was found that some 3
of the items would Properly classify as repairs, It was found further

that some of the indicated needs are so urgent that they should 4

columns indicated below.

A word of explanation with regard to the column headed 3
“Reorganization Costs’ will clarify the Board’s intention with re-

at St. Louis and at River Forest will, we believe, involve the costs 4
indicated in this particular column. In order to keep all of these
financial recommendations in one section, the column has been
"added to the requests under Section 6.147,

“BUILDING FOR TOMORROW” COLLECTION 4

As is well known, the “Building for Tomorrow” collection 3
approximated $1,300,000. This sum was insufficient to meet the
needs which were urgent already in 1947, when Synod approved ;
a series of requests selected from a total of more than $5,000,000