# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S925 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 81 ing field. Women students have the opportunity of an obser- tion and participation program in connection with the excellent Lutheran elementary school system in Fort Wayne. It is anticipated that ever-increasing numbers of teacher-training students will find their way to the Fort Wayne campus for the first two years of ‘their training. Requests The Board of Control respectfully submits the following re- quests to the honorable delegate Synod: 1, To expand Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind., into a four- year Senior College. 2. To supply the necessary funds to replace Hanser Hall, which was erected in 1869, to improve the classroom facilities of the college. 3. To supply the funds necessary to purchase three additional practice organs and fifteen practice pianos, which would be used in connection with the teacher-training program. 4. To supply the funds necessary to erect an auditorium. THE Boarp or Controu Pau L. DaANNENFELDT, Chairman ACTION The first request in this report was taken care of by the resolutions of Synod in connection with the report of the Board for Higher Education, Memorial 152, D, to sell the old campus at Fort Wayne, buy a larger campus in the Fort Wayne area, and there to erect a two-year senior college. | As to the other requests in this report, see the “Tabulation of | Requests from Colleges and Seminaries” at the end of this section | as approved and recommended by Committee 1 and unanimously | adopted by the Convention. (Cf. Minutes of June 25, Session 15.) Concordia College, Milwaukee, Wis. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL (Memorial 106) The Board of Control of Concordia College, Milwaukee, here- ‘with submits a report on its activities relative to its supervision of Synod’s school during the 1950—1953 triennium and respectfully Fequests Synod in convention assembled to give attention to the ‘school’s needs, ~ Under the protecting hand of God, Concordia College, Mil- ~ Waukee, has continued to devote itself to the training of young men