# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S903
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

58 SEMINARIES. AND COLLEGES

student lounge in Van Horn Hall. The annual Do
remains a boon for the Seminary commissary.

The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferr,
the following: Ottomar Krueger, Akron, Ohio (1950); August
Lange, Summit, Ill (1950); F. A. Hertwig, Detroit, Mich. (asec
W. F: Lichtsinn, Hammond, Ind. (1951); Richard O, Kern, Ge );
(1951); Paul Rafaj (1952); Frederick Hassold, Australia (19522,

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Requests

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

The administration facilities at the present time are confined
to the president’s study and a small anteroom. We have no cen-
tralized offices for the president, registrar, business manager, dean,
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
administration-library building. $350,000 for such a building at
this time is a reasonable estimate.

We still have two frame buildings on the campus, the one
erected in 1884, the other in 1896. Both are beyond rehabilitation.
Our plan is to raze both buildings and put in their places another
dormitory. Fewer students are married, and a third dormitory is

_ a necessity. We request $275,000 for this purpose.

We feel constrained to call the attention of Synod to the fact
that five professors live in off-campus houses, some of them at
a considerable distance from the Seminary. Furthermore, three
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
available.

We have. been advised by. heating engineers to change our
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
require reconstruction of the present coalbin, installation of a coal
elevator, and the construction of an ashpit. It is estimated that
the expenses in connection with this project will approximate $8,000.
The ‘converting from coal to oil will require approximately $16,000.
‘The‘differerice in operation, according to the estimate of the heating