# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S931
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90 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

St. Paul’s College Association

When the new administratfon building was dedicated, Act;
President Walle could also dedicate the building furnishings pr
vided by the Western District, together with a new Moeller nine
organ for the chapel. The organ represents a gift of some $6,000
from St. Paul’s College Association. This association is composed
of some 1,500 friends of our school who have set for themselyes
the goal of working for St. Paul’s College, particularly in those
areas of activity in which no provision is made by Synod,

In order to improve and expand the social and recreational
facilities of St. Paul’s College, the association adopted a social-ree.
reational program for 1952, pledging itself to equip a lounge
and social rooms in both the college and high school dorms with
lounging facilities, television, and other recreational equipment.
The lounge and social rooms are now in operation. This project
represents a gift of some $3,700. The proposed project of this group
for 1953 is campus illumination for our school.

Building Program

At present the Board is busily engaged with plans for the con-
struction of the new dormitory which is to house the men of the
college department. The grant for this was made at the Milwaukee
Convention; the necessary funds have been allocated from the
“Conquest for Christ” offering. Our preliminary plans and esti-
mates are at this writing in the hands of Mr. Edgar Buenger,
_Synod’s consultant on new buildings and building plans. We
prayerfully hope that when this triennial report is being reviewed
at the Houston Convention, the construction of this much-needed
dormitory will be well under way.

Requests

Before the future of our school was definitely assured by the
Saginaw Convention in 1944, men in charge of the findings and
evaluating committees agreed that if St. Paul’s College was to be
continued, it would require great expenditure for capital improve-
ments. Checking our plant in view of our increased enrollment
and surveying its real needs, we find that many things are needed
to bring our school up to present-day: standards. We therefore
respectfully ask Synod, assembled in convention, to give favorable
consideration to the following requests:

1. A new dining hall, with kitchen, storage facilities,
and quarters for non-academic employees _____. $185,000.00

2. Repairing and remodeling high school dormitory
(Biltz Hall) 857,000.00

8. Remodeling and repairing gymnasium ______. _ 29,100.00

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4 Remodeling old dorm to provide 8 piano-practice

s ms, 2 chorus rooms, a band room, and 10 instructors’

offices . : 22,000.00
; 5. Razing old administration building and landscap- ,
” ing site ———— 13,000.00
6. Faculty housing — replacement of two obsolete
dwellings, addition to president’s residence, 5 faculty
garages — 42,000.00
7. Razing old boiler and pump house, erect campus
garage and shop —————_. 00,00
. & Partitioning and furnishing Baepler Hall base-
ment _ 8,000.00
9. Change over remaining wiring to new tunnel
system, materials, fittings, and labor 1,600.00
10. Curbing, paving, and sidewalk repairs 7,200.00
Total capital improvements requested _____ $400,900.00

Conclusion

Again we gratefully acknowledge with sincere thanks the
splendid co-operation and sympathetic help and guidance given by
Synod’s President and Vice-Presidents, Synod’s Board of Directors
Synod’s Board for Higher Education, Synod’s Committee on Col-
leges. Again we bespeak for our school and the other schools of
learning maintained by our Church, Synod’s continued prayers and
participation for the strengthening and widening of their Kingdom-:

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O. G. Tiemann, 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 J une 25, Session 15.)

Concordia Collegiate Institute, Bronxville, N. Y.

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL
(Memorial 109)
in In submitting this triennial report your Board gratefully ac-
owledges the guidance and blessing of. Almighty God, which

have continued to be i i
very evident in the work and development
of our Bronxville Concordia. ; °