# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S17
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 17

9. To appropriate $47,000 for the erection of a Seminary Service
Building. The principal purpose of this building is to provide work
areas for the maintenance department personnel. It should also
ntain repair shops, facilities for housing campus equipment, and
“storage space for tools, supplies, and emergency items. Considering
that the Seminary now operates 62 units, many of which are in
*" constant need of repair, such a service building appears to us to be
‘absolutely necessary.

» 10. To appropriate $46,170 for major improvements in the Sem-
_ inary Powerhouse. Coal-firing of furnaces is becoming .a serious
problem. It is practically impossible to get personnel to do the
firing. We must, therefore, as soon as possible, convert the present
" coal-fired furnaces to a combination gas-oil operation. Other
necessary improvements in the powerhouse are the relining and
repair of the major boilers.

‘11. To appropriate $12,000 for the installation of a new PAX
_ System. The present system of house telephones is now serving
“at full capacity. But additional lines are needed for Graduate Hall,
#the dormitory now in process of construction, and additional new
buildings. The present equipment has given excellent service since
_ Ats ‘installation in 1926, but is beginning to show its age and addi-
tions are not advisable. ‘

Tue Boarp or Controt or ConcorpiA SEMINARY

Freperic NrepNER, Secretary
Joun Oppiicer, President

Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Il.

.,. The Board of Control of Concordia Theological Seminary,
Springfield, Ill, herewith submits its triennial report and respect-
fully requests Synod to consider the needs of its school. We
cknowledge the unmerited blessings which the Head of the
Church, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, has graciously bestowed
upon our Seminary. His protection, guidance, and benediction
‘have been. evidenced in all the work of our institution.

The Board of Control

. The Board of Control has continuously tried to carry out the
the work assigned to it by Synod. Much time has been given by
‘the members individually and as a group to the care and main-
tenance of the physical facilities and together with the adminis-
sfration and the faculty to the improvement of the total program