# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S70
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70 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

and the Board of Control believe should be approved and com-
pleted if Seward is to be equipped to meet the present needs of
the church adequately, and to maintain its standards for
accreditation purposes.

A, Curriculum

1. That Concordia Teachers College, Seward, Nebr., be author-
ized to institute a program for the training of Lutheran high school
teachers.

2. That the Board for Higher Education be asked to study the
feasibility of instituting a fifth year (graduate) at Seward.

B. Personnel
Authorization to create five additional associate professorships.

C. Plant Development
1. Dormitory for women; capacity, 120; cost (including
equipment) eee $440,000
The Houston Convention authorized a dormitory for
90 women. This is a request for new authorization and
for an extension in line with increased enrollment.
2. Physical Education Building. Request —__......_... $335,000
An additional $40,000 are needed and are on hand.
These funds were largely derived from the Southern and
Northern Nebraska Districts. (The Houston Convention
approved this building.)
3. Men’s dormitory; capacity, 120; cost (including
equipment) $440,000
Sixty-seven men now live off-campus in private
rooms. Jesse Hall contains 24 more men than it was built
to house in 1924.
4. Chapel pipe organ. Request $ 42,000
We will add to this sum $7,600 from local funds. The
request for an organ was granted at Houston.
5. Moving and re-establishment of two frame houses

to make way for a women’s dormitory $ 14,000
6. Completion of Nebraska Hall basement (Music

Building, including pianos and electronic organ) _.............- $ 19,000
7, Campus extension on south _ _ $ 10,000
8. New faculty home _00 S$ «20,000
9. Paving projects ___. a ..._-. $ 16,000

Space utilization studies at Seward also show the construc-
tion of a music building and a library to be definite necessities for
the near future.

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