# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S939
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

98 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

to continue to use Baden Hall temporarily for the hous}

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women until the second wing of the new women’s dormitory can
be built, and to continue the crowded conditions in the men’

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dormitory, which were to be relieved by the opening of Baden Hall
to male students, when the present women occupants woulg be
transferred from Baden Hall to the wing of the new dormit.
which will be opened in September. The most satisfactory solution
would be the immediate remodeling of Baden Hall for the housin
of men and the construction of the second wing of the new
dormitory for women. This would provide facilities for more than
250 women in the main dormitory and the two wings, and would
make it possible to reduce the present overcrowded Occupancy of
the men’s dormitory from 210 to the normal 150, not to Mention
30 men and boys who are now placed in emergency housing in an
old frame residence.

The increase in the student body of the last three years is
making necessary also other facilities to serve the needs of the
student body in a satisfactory manner. The present library, which
occupies the space of three classrooms in the administration build.
ing and provides seating for about 65 students at one time, has
been inadequate for a number of years, both as to seating space
for readers and shelf space for books. Approximately one third
of the library’s holdings in books are practically inaccessible, having
been placed in storage because of lack of shelf space, and by
modern standards a student body of 500 should have available
library seating space for at least 200 persons. A careful study of
the situation by the Board of Control indicates that a suitable
library building which would give adequate service for years to
come could be constructed for about $300,000.

Present-day educational efficiency requires a well-organized
physical education program, which reaches all students, both in
regular physical education classes and in an intramural games
program. St. John’s College has had such a program since 1948
under the direction of a professionally trained director of physical
education, who is an ordained pastor with four years of service
in the ministry and who also teaches in the regular academic
program of the school. This physical education program extends
to both men and women students, the program for the latter also
being under the direction of a professionally trained person. How-
ever, the present facilities for an effective program are entirely
inadequate. In each semester the school schedules twelve physical
education classes for men and boys and eleven classes for women
and girls, each meeting two or three times a week, In addition
to these classes, there is an extensive intramural program. St. John’s

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College, however, has only a small gymnasium with a basketball
floor of less than average size and one other room with a handball

urt. These facilities are insufficient to take care of the needs
the regular classwork, not to speak of the other activities, and
the Board believes that a modern physical education building,
especially equipped for the needs of a well-developed physical
education program, is a necessity in the life of the school. A study
of plans indicates that such a building could be constructed for

$250,000. Summary of Requests

1, That funds be made available immediately to the amount
of $175,000 for the remodeling of Baden Hall, the original college
building, into a fireproof structure providing additional classroom
space and additional dormitory space.

2. That $300,000 be allowed for the construction of a new
library.

3. That $250,000 be allowed for the construction of a new
physical education building.

4, That $150,000 be allowed for the construction of the second
wing of the women’s dormitory.

5. That two additional associate professorships be created.

Requests 1, 2, and 3 are supported by resolutions of the Kansas
Pastoral Conference meeting in Salina, Kans., in May, 1952.
W. H. Meyer, Chairman of the Board of Control

Leo J. FensKE, Secretary of the Board of Control
Cart S. Monoinerr, President of St. John’s College

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.)

Concordia College, Portland, -Oreg.

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL
(Memorial 111)

Significant changes have marked the past triennium at our
Portland Concordia. As a result, the institution has been enabled
to render increased service to the Church in the preparation of
future pastors and teachers. We are grateful to Synod, to the
Board for Higher Education, and to the pastors and people of the
Northwest District, for the support and co-operation which have
contributed so much to the growth and development of this school.