# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S911
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

66 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

these partly trained young people have served well, and

of the women have conti ued their training toward eventual ede
_ation through correspondence and summer school courses. aol
very few exceptions, the men students have returned to the ue
lege for two years to complete their formal training and go back
to the field as four-year graduates.

New Buildings and Facilities ..

The new Music Building, allowed by Synod in 1947, was put
into use in the fall of 1951. Because of the constantly rising costs,
‘only the main part of the structure could be completed, and the
purchase of much of the equipment had to be postponed. Additional
instruments were allowed later by the Board of Directors out of
the “Conquest for Christ.” The classroom facilities which were to
have been provided from the same offering had to be postponed,
and we are again requesting these of the present convention.

The long-needed Student Center was arranged in part of the
first floor of the old Music Building during the summer of 1952.
The former dilapidated organ and piano rooms have been com-
pletely remodeled by the removal of some partitions, the judicious
use of plaster, acoustic tile and paint, into two seminar meeting
rooms, an attractive student lounge, bookstore, and student council
offices. For the first time our college has a common gathering place
for the men and women of the student body and faculty at any time
of the day for the entertainment of casual visitors and for planned
social functions, as well as for the convenience of many educational
and synodical groups.

The dormitory allowed by Synod in 1950 is now under con-
struction and, God willing, will be ready to house 120 women stu-
dents by September, 1953.

We gratefully acknowledge the new buildings and other facil-
ities allowed by Synod at the past three conventions, and are happy
to report that they have not only enabled us to expand our enroll-
ment and increase our numbers of graduates each year, but have
added strongly to the morale of the student body and faculty, and
consequently to the effectiveness of our whole teacher-training
program. ;

We regret that during the same period we have had to refuse
admission to hundreds of young people who wanted to prepare
for service in the Church, while at the same time we stood help- -
lessly by as the teacher shortage mounted higher and higher. This
matter is being brought to the delegates’ attention again this yea?
in our requests for increased dormitory and other facilities,
our repeated plea for additional classroom space.