# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S936
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

94 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

As a means of encouraging larger numbers of Lutheran yo
~ men and women to enroll in our junior college academic og
five regional tuition scholarships have been set up, distributed
five sectors of the area served by our school, which are available :
to qualified high school graduates who are members of our I, 4
theran Church. These scholarships, representing a grant-in. ue
of $250, will be awarded on the basis of competitive examinatig
to one applicant in each of the five sectors. ns

Property and Buildings

In the summer of 1950 the Court of Appeals of the State of
New York handed down a decision in the litigation Proceedings
in which we had been engaged for years with the village of Bronx.
ville, reversing the decision of the lower courts and declaring the
then current zoning amendments of -the village unconstitutional
in so far as they affected the status of schools and churches, Asa
result we were able at long last to proceed with the erection of our
new Educational Building, for which approval and Monetary |
appropriation had already been granted by the Saginaw Convention
in 1944. The ground breaking took place on September 24, 1959,
‘in connection with the annual Reformation rally; cornerstone.
laying ceremonies were held on May 6, 1951, and the dedication
took place on September 30, 1951, again in connection with the an. .
nual Reformation rally. Total cost of the building, including equip-
ment and necessary landscaping, was $643,579.99. Of this amount,
$229,766.88 was allocated from synodical funds, including “Conquest
for Christ” offerings. The balance was raised locally through two
intensive and highly successful campaigns conducted by the Lu-
theran Education Society, one in 1945, the second in 1951,

Known as the Brunn-Maier Building, the new building con-
sists of two units separated by a wide entrance hallway. The
_Arthur Brunn Science Hall, dedicated to the memory of Dr. Arthur
Brunn, former Vice-President of Synod, long-time chairman of
our Board, and intimately identified with the development of our
’ school over many years, contains all required college science lab-
oratories as well as classrooms for other college courses; the Walter
A. Maier Library, dedicated to the memory of Dr. Walter Maier, an
alumnus of our school and its warmhearted supporter throughout
his distinguished ministry, contains a beautiful reading room, a
browsing alcove, large stack rooms, a student center, and the
customary library office and workrooms.

Among the many sainted friends and supporters of our school
in whose memory various items in the new building have been
dedicated are Dr. Frederick C. Heckel, one of the founders of the
Lutheran Education Society and a member of the Board of Control