# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S36
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Plant and Property

Extensive additions and major improvements have been made
on the campus of Concordia Teachers College during the triennium. |

The chapel-auditorium was dedicated in March with an im- |
pressive service. This new wing of Weller Hall fills a longfelt need
for a more adequate place of worship very well. The beautiful
auditorium will also serve the Church for conventions and meet-
ings. It includes a spacious basement used by the art department
and a number of faculty offices.

An exceptionally well-planned shop-garag
around and over the heating plant.

A women’s dormitory is under construction and is expected
to be ready for occupancy by fall. ;

The basement of Weller Hall, a broad expanse of valuable
space, is being conditioned for various services, such as an audio-
visual center, speech clinic, and bindery for the library.

Extensive remodeling of major buildings, such as Founders 4
Hall, Becker Hall, and Nebraska Hall, has brought the total plant of 3
Concordia Teachers College and Concordia High School into very *
acceptable condition.

A home for the president was built, thereby easing to some
extent the need for faculty housing. ;

Some improvements have been begun but are not yet com-
pleted. A need for curbing all drives on the campus, for paving
others, and laying adequate sidewalks has become critical. A be-'4
ginning has been made to alleviate it. ;

Plans have been approved to extend and improve the physical
education facilities by grading a hitherto largely unused portions
of the campus to supply facilities for track and field sports, foot

ball, and tennis.

e has been built

Requests

Concordia Teachers College has reached its majority. Wi
full accreditation having been achieved, it stands prepared to rende
ever greater and better service to the Church by supplying trained§
workers. To enable the college to become fully productive, addi-?
tional facilities, especially housing, are needed. &

1. Among the first of the needed facilities is a physical educ
tion building. The present building, Alumni Memorial Gymnasi
was constructed in 1930, when the student body numbered sligh
over 100. This number has grown to a combined total of alma
four times the enrollment of the 30’s, and further growth is e
pected.
The request for the physical education building was deferr: i
at the Milwaukee Convention. It now seems imperative to ere¢