# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S47
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 47

In view of the fact that the two congregations are ready to have
the building they plan to erect serve as a demonstration center,
or laboratory, for various phases of Christian education and parish
administration, it is our conviction that the ministerial training
program will gain an invaluable asset in this way. By observation,
participation, and consultation, students and faculty members will
be able to carry on much wider activities in various areas of prac-
tical theology than heretofore. We hope that the convention will
give all the encouragement it can to this project.

3. Capital Investments in Campus, Plant, and Equipment. For
upwards of two years we have given considerable time and study
to the development of an over-all long-range campus-development
plan. We are convinced that the opportunities our almighty Lord
is placing before our Synod are so great and challenging and the
future need for properly educated pastors of such size that the
wise and courageous thing to do is to make plans for the fullest
possible utilization of our grounds and present facilities and for
the addition of such features as will give Synod a well-balanced
campus with an optimum capacity for service. We are therefore
listing everything that in our estimation is a part of the picture,
fully realizing that it will take several triennia to complete the
task. Under the continued blessing of God as a prerequisite, and
with permissive resolutions on the part of the convention, with
the counsel and guidance of the Board for Higher Education and
the Board of Directors, and with the support of our entire con-
stituency, we trust that the program can be realized in the form
in which it will ultimately serve the church best. The itemized
list is as follows:

a. A dormitory with a capacity of 210 students and a suitable
infirmary. This building is planned so that it could be built in
several stages, housing one third, one half, or two thirds, and
finally the total number. The complete cost is estimated at
$905,000.

b. A library containing adequate facilities for a professional
and graduate school of our size (40,000 square feet of floor space
and stack capacity of 150,000 volumes). The cost is estimated at
$795,000.

ce. A chapel seating 1,000, with all the necessary facilities and
equipment for worship and for instruction in Liturgics and Homi-
letics, to cost $780,000.

d. Additional boilers, other heating equipment, and service
lines to new buildings. The cost: $215,000.

e. A student personnel services building, to be built in the
present gap of the main quadrangle, to house the offices of the