# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S54
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

B4 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Academic Matters

In May of 1951 the Regents of the State of New York accepted 4
our application for an amendment to our charter authorizing us
to grant the following degrees upon successful graduation from
our junior college: Associate in Arts (A.A.) and Associate in
Applied Science (A. A.S.).

In March of this year a commission from the Middle States
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools visited our campus
in order to re-evaluate our junior college. All accredited schools
are required to request such a re-evaluation every twelve years %
in order to retain their accreditation. The commission, consisting “%
of six qualified persons, devoted several days to a thorough inves- 4
tigation of every phase of our junior college. At this writing we
have not received the report of their findings.

As a means of encouraging larger numbers of Lutheran young e:
men and women to enroll in our junior college academic courses,
five regional tuition scholarships have been set up, distributed over
five sectors of the area served by our school, which are available
to qualified high school graduates who are members of our Lu-
theran Church. These scholarships, representing a grant-in-aid
of $250, will be awarded on the basis of competitive examinations
to one applicant in each of the five sectors.

Property and Buildings

In the summer of 1950 the Court of Appeals of the State of
New York handed down a decision in the litigation proceedings °
in which we had been engaged for years with the village of Bronx:
ville, reversing the decision of the lower courts and declaring the :
then current zoning amendments of the village. unconstitutional
in so far as they affected the status of schools and churches. As
result we were able at long last to proceed with the erection of our #
new Educational Building, for which approval and monetary:
appropriation had already been granted by the Saginaw Conventio
in 1944. The ground breaking took place on September 24, 1950,
in connection with the annual Reformation rally; cornerstone
laying ceremonies were held on May 6, 1951, and the dedicatio
took place on September 30, 1951, again in connection with the an
nual Reformation rally. Total cost of the building, including equip
ment and necessary landscaping, was $643,579.99. Of this amoun‘
$229,766.88 was allocated from synodical funds, including “Conque
for Christ” offerings. The balance was raised locally through twé
intensive and highly successful campaigns conducted by the Lu
theran Education Society, one in 1945, the second in 1951.
Known as the Brunn-Maier Building, the new building con
sists of two units separated by a wide entrance hallway. Th