# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S58
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

58 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

its efforts to interest young women in preparing for teaching in
Lutheran elementary schools and has approximately doubled th
number of women graduates available for teaching over the}
numbers of 1947—1950. Vigorous recruiting is still being carried on,3
with the aim of supplying 100 or more young women annually 4
during the present emergency. In order to carry out this program!
to the fullest extent, more housing will be necessary. It is proposed
to continue to use Baden Hall temporarily for the housing of a
women until the second wing of the new women’s dormitory can'd
be built, and to continue the crowded conditions in the men’
dormitory, which were to be relieved by the opening of Baden Hi

to male students, when the present women occupants would beg
transferred from Baden Hall to the wing of the new dormito
which will be opened in September. The most satisfactory soluti
would be the immediate remodeling of Baden Hall for the housingg
of men and the construction of the second wing of the new
dormitory for women. This would provide facilities for more than’
250 women in the main dormitory and the two wings, and would’
make it possible to reduce the present overcrowded occupancy of!
the men’s dormitory from 210 to the normal 150, not to mention§
30 men and boys who are now placed in emergency housing in 3
old frame residence.

The increase in the student body of the last three years
making necessary also other facilities to serve the needs of the
student body in a satisfactory manner. The present library, whi
occupies the space of three classrooms in the administration build
ing and provides seating for about 65 students at one time, h
been inadequate for a number of years, both as to seating spa
for readers and shelf space for books. Approximately one
of the library’s holdings in books are practically inaccessible, havi
been placed in storage because of lack of shelf space, and
modern standards a student body of 500 should have availabl
library seating space for at least 200 persons. A careful study
the situation by the Board of Control indicates. that a suitabl
library building which would give adequate service for years
come could be constructed for about $300,000.

Present-day educational efficiency requires a well-organi
physical education program, which reaches all students, both
regular physical education classes and in an intramural gam
program. St. John’s College has had such a program since 1
under the direction of a professionally trained director of physi
education, who is an ordained pastor with four years of servicg
in the ministry and who also teaches in the regular acade'
program of the school, This physical education program exte!
to both men and women students, the program for the latter ¢