# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S920
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

16 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

year during the past triennium a considerable number of quali c
women students had to be refused admittance while the sho

of teachers continued to increase. The dormitories on the mle
have been crowded to and beyond capacity. A number of frame
houses have been converted into residences for girls.

A women’s dormitory is a definite requirement to enable the
college to accept and prepare available students for needed service.
The architect’s estimate for a dormitory housing 60 women ;
{$222,000 for the building and $25,000 for equipment. *

3. The situation for men’s housing on the campus is little bet.
ter than for women. The available facilities are overcrowded. No
new housing for men has been added since the erection of Jesse
Hall in 1923. A new dormitory will eliminate, or at least reduce,
the number of forty young men now living in off-campus hous-
ing, and it will provide for the increased enrollment which is
coming to us from the co-operating junior colleges, due to the
inauguration of a pre-teacher training program on their campuses.

The new men’s dormitory is estimated to cost $275,000, and
$35,000 is needed for equipment.

4. The greatly increased enrollment, the expanded library,
which will need to take over what it does not yet occupy on the
second floor of Weller Hall, and the need for sectioning of classes
has created a shortage of classrooms. No new classroom facilities
have been added to the plant since the erection of Weller Hall
in 1924. All available space in various educational buildings has
been or is being converted into classrooms, including the base-
ments of both Becker and Weller Halls. A building which will
provide the necessary instruction space and facilities will cost
$210,000 and will require $15,000 for equipment, according to the
architect’s estimate.

5. The college does not have an organ in its new chapel-audi-
torium. Because of the great emphasis placed on music on the
campus, it becomes important to have an adequate instrument for
the chapel which will also serve instructional purposes.

At the request of the Board of Control the music department
made-a careful study of our needs, and it recommends the pur-
chase of an instrument for which we request an appropriation
of $40,000.

6. Curbing, paving, and landscaping. The beautiful campus and
the fine buildings on it stand in need of curbing for drives, paving
of some heavily traveled streets, and landscaping. Most. sidewalks
on the campus are not wide enough for the large numbers now
using them. Others are poorly laid and are safety hazards. A rela-