# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S929
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86 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

teacher training of our Church. The total cost was $219,000. This
included substantial donations from the local congregations ang
individuals. The remainder of the funds was allocated from the
“Conquest for Christ.”

In September, 1952, the construction of the Lutheran Memorial
Center was begun. This is a physical education and auditorium
building which will serve the school and the Lutheran community,
The total cost of the project is $360,000. It will be presented to
The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod on the day of dedication
as a gift from the Lutheran congregations and individuals in
this area.

At the time of this writing the plans are being completed for
the remodeling of the old main building for the housing of eighty-
eight women students. The funds from the “Conquest for Christ”
will be used for this purpose to the amount of $50,000.

On June 20, 1951, a storm swept through the city of St Paul
which caused considerable damage to business and private property.
No major damage was suffered in our school and faculty residences,
with the exception of the loss of several dozen trees on the campus.
We thank God for His mercy in holding His protecting hand over
our school and its staff.

The grounds and buildings on this campus are in good con-
dition. The maintenance of the older buildings is becoming increas-
ingly costly. Serious consideration should be given to the need for
replacing the older dormitories, which are now over 75 years old.

Requests

The Board of Control respectfully submits the following re-
quests to the Honorable Delegate Synod:

1. The sum of $7,591 to complete the installation of bookstacks
and accessories and lighting between the stacks in the Buenger
Memorial Library.

9. Authorization to convert the old gymnasium into a chapel
and the present chapel into classrooms, with a connecting tunnel
between the new chapel and the adjoining buildings, according to
the preliminary sketches submitted by Mr. Max Buetow, architect.

3. To fill three vacant professorships.

4. Permission to- request accreditation of the college depart-
ment by the North Central Association pt Colleges and Secondary
Schools.

5, That Synod give serious consideration to razing some of the
old buildings and the erection of a new women’s dormitory at an
approximate cost of $500,000.

6. Introduction of co-education on high school level for day

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 87

students (not boarding students) who intend to become teachers

jn elementary Christian day schools of The Lutheran Church —
* Missouri Synod, because there is not now a Lutheran High School

Boarp or CoNTROL
H. Wuvter, Secretary
ACTION
As to the requests in this report, see the “Tabulation of Re-
quests 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.)

St. Paul’s College, Concordia, Mo.

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL
(Memorial 108)

The Board of Control of St. Paul’s College herewith submits
its report for the triennium just past. It is with deep gratitude to
our Lord Jesus, the Head of the Church, who has given His protec-
tion and guidance and showered unmerited blessings upon the
work of the Lord at St. Paul’s College, that we render this report.

The 1950—53 triennium, we feel, has been a period of growth,
both external and internal, for our school in all spheres of its
activity. We say this in spite of the fact that the skies were not
always bright and sunny for us.

The Board of Control met some thirty times during the past
triennium, trying conscientiously to carry out the various phases
of the work assigned to it by Synod. Improvement of the total
program of our school for Christ and His church at large has been
our constant aim. All our tasks, under God’s benediction, could
be carried out in a spirit of harmony and co-operation.

’- Enrollment
Enrollment statistics for the three years read as follows:
Year Enrollment Pretheological New Students
ae —_— 138 114 32
i —_— 130 104 49
2-53 i142 107 51

The health of both our students and faculty personnel, with

one or two exceptions, has been very good. .
Faculty

visiet present triennium was scarcely five months old when God

} ited our school with deep sorrow, by the death of our late presi-

a ane Rev. Albert J. C. Moeller. The Lord called him out of

e while attending a meeting of Synod’s Board for Higher