# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S944
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108 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

20-rank pipe organ, still in excellent condition, was obtained fro
Trinity Church in Oak Park, Il, at the remarkably low cost of
$1,000. The interest in the welfare of our educational institutio,
induced the congregation to place the instrument within ou
financial reach, and we owe a debt of gratitude to its members -
well as its pastor, the Rev. H. W. Romoser, and the organist, Prof
Victor Hildner of River Forest, whose expert counsel was highly
valued. We also acknowledge with grateful appreciation the in.
stallation of a set of Schulmerich chimes by the H. A. Schole family
as a memorial to their departed husband and father.

This multi-purpose building supplies a need felt over a period
of many years. To all the members of our Synod, whose gracious
generosity enabled us to acquire this new addition, our hearts go
out in deep-felt gratitude. And we also feel constrained to empha-
size the courtesy and sympathetic co-operation of Synod’s Board
of Directors and particularly the Board for Higher Education,
whose interest in the welfare of our educational’ work is most
exemplary. May God bless them!

Future Needs

In its convention at Chicago in 1947 Synod approved of an
expansion program at Edmonton. This was to include a physical
education building and additions to our administration building
and dormitory. The appropriations made at the Milwaukee Con-
vention in 1950 and in the.“Conquest for Christ” collection will
under existing high costs of building hardly suffice to carry out the
complete program, and consequently we believe that an additional
sum in the neighborhood of $75,000 is: required, for which we
herewith respectfully petition Synod.

The development of natural resources and industries in western
Canada borders on the phenomenal. In the center of this rapidly
expanding and vast domain our Canadian Concordia serves a grow-
ing Church. May God continue to bless her, and may the imple-
mentation of a suggestion made to the Milwaukee Convention
become a reality in the not too distant future—a Canadian

seminary. ' Tere Boarp oF CONTROL OF

ConcorprA CouLece, EDMONTON
C. F. Baase, Chairman
CLARENCE C. KuHnae, 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.)

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