# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S20
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20 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Miscellaneous

The Concordia Seminary Guild continues its efforts on behalf

of our Seminary. During the past triennium it has equipped our
Gymnasium with chairs and has provided the furnishings of the
student lounge in Van Horn Hall. The annual Donation Day
remains a boon for the Seminary commissary.
The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon 4

the following: Ottomar Krueger, Akron, Ohio (1950); August H. |
Lange, Summit, Ill. (1950); F. A. Hertwig, Detroit, Mich. (1951);
‘W. F. Lichtsinn, Hammond, Ind. (1951); Richard O. Kern, Germany -

(1951); Paul Rafaj (1952); Frederick Hassold, Australia (1952). 3

Requests

The educational life of any school should center around the 4
library, the facilities of which should help accomplish the educa-
tional objectives of the school. The library must be readily and ‘J
easily accessible as well as attractively equipped. The library of
our Seminary must provide materials for a junior college and 4
a theological seminary. The present library is located in the %
basement of a dormitory, Craemer Hall. Its facilities are inadequate 4
as to space and equipment. 4

“The administration facilities at the present time are confined *
to the president’s study and a small anteroom. We have no cen- 4
tralized offices for the president, registrar, business manager, dean, 4
and secretarial staff. In view of the work attached to the admin- |
istration of an institution such as ours and in view of the inadequate
library facilities we earnestly request Synod to grant us an q
administration-library building. $350,000 for such a building at }
this time is a reasonable estimate. . 4

We still have two frame buildings on the campus, the one 7
erected in 1884, the other in 1896. Both are beyond rehabilitation. 4
Our plan is to raze both buildings and put in their places another 4
dormitory. Fewer students are married, and a third dormitory is j
a necessity. We request $275,000 for this purpose.

We feel constrained to call the attention of Synod to the fact 4
that. five. professors live in off-campus houses, some of them at#
a considerable distance from the Seminary. Furthermore, three j
of the present campus residences are so old that they must soon ‘
be torn down. Finally, when we have the necessary full comple- }
‘ment of teaching staff, additional houses will have to be made 4
available. 4

We have been advised by heating engineers to change our3
heating system from coal to oil. The price of coal has risen very‘
much in recent years. To continue the use of coal profitably will§