# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S913
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

68 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

was included in the synodical grants, the synodical boards ha
not found it possible to permit us to plan and erect this b uildine

Even with our present enrollment of 560, our ‘facilities a
badly overcrowded, and we are already using several library room
including basement areas which were intended for book space ani
are not at all suitable for classroom purposes.

Request: 1. We respectfully request the allocation of $87,509
plus equipment for the erection of classrooms, from the present
“Conquest for Christ” ‘collection, if the funds can be made avail.
able now, so that we can begin planning and building this summer.

2. If this is not possible, we urge Synod to make this sum
available at the earliest possible time to relieve the crowding of
the greatly increased student body enrolled for September, 1953,

4. Remodeling of Oldest Dormitories

The south wings of the two old dormitories were completed
40 years ago. Since then no remodeling has been undertaken with
the exception of the lavatories and rest rooms and the installation
of a standard exit and fire alarm system ordered by the fire marshal.
The dormitories and study rooms remain as orginally laid out, but
with ten students in each bedroom which had been planned for
eight: During the intervening years we have replaced many of
the ceilings and in general conducted mere “holding operations.”
We are still obliged to provide outdated dormitory accommoda-
tions for all of our male students and about 135 of the women, in
addition to subjecting them to approximately 25 per cent over-
crowding in studies and sleeping rooms. This has not been advan-
tageous to health, study conditions, or student morale.

An extensive remodeling job of all four old dormitory wings
would be very costly. We must, however, continue to repair and
maintain what we have. We should also like to do some thorough
remodeling, involving the partitioning of some of the large sleep-
ing rooms at least. We would naturally choose those where the
plaster of the walls, ceilings, and especially the closets, is in a very
decrepit condition. In this modernized area there would be three
students in some rooms, and two in others, and the uncrowded
capacity would be equal to what it is now in its crowded condition.

Request: 1. The Board of Control respectfully requests that
the sum of $75,000 be made available during the triennium for the

_ most necessary repair of all of our old dormitories and the begin-

ning of a thorough modernization of those in most dire need of
repair. .

2. We. respectfully ask that enough of the funds be allocated
at once, so that an experimental area’ may be remodeled before