# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S45
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Physical Plant

During the period covered by this report it was our privilege
to construct and put into use Loeber Hall, a dormitory housing
100 students and a resident counselor. This building includes the
student-center facilities (lounges, bookstore, lunch room, music
listening room, banking and postal facilities). An appended wing
houses the Seminary business office.

A part of our faculty housing problem was solved by the
erection of six residences on the campus through funds made
available from Synod’s Building and Loan Plan. Since seven
faculty members took steps in the last two years to acquire their
own homes, the problem is now much less acute and will, we
hope, be eliminated shortly.

It was also possible to take the first steps in a long-range
program of preserving and enhancing the beauty of our campus
by proper drainage, filling, grading, and landscaping. We have
enlisted the help of our loyal alumni in carrying out this project.

The original set of buildings erected in 1926 has now been
in service for 30 years and is in need of a thorough overhaul, some
modernization, and a readaptation to present needs and cir-
cumstances.

Services Rendered

Since the writing of the last report we have, by the grace of
God, been privileged to furnish the congregations, institutions, and
agencies of Synod with a total of 356 candidates for the sacred
ministry. With this year we are coming into the era of larger
classes, with 160 prospective candidates, truly a rich harvest of
God’s bounty. In addition we have furnished an average working
force of 177 vicars annually for the triennium.

Other services rendered include the specialized training given
the candidates for foreign mission fields and institutional chap-
laincies as well as the opportunities for in-service training offered
our pastors and professors through our School for Graduate
Studies, the summer session, and our extension departments.

We note with pleasure that our facilities are being requested
in an increasing measure by agencies and organizations of the
church for conventions (Western District, Missouri Walther
League), conferences (Synod’s Fiscal Conference), and particu-
larly for smaller assemblies and committee meetings. We are
anxious to serve in every way possible that does not conflict with
the fulfillment of our primary purpose.

The members of our faculty render many services to the
church outside of their actual classroom and administrative duties.
The doctrinal censorship of the synodically published literature
and of such items as the scripts for the television program “This