# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S83
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 83

and the church on January 10, 1954, by President W. Wolbrecht.
Rev. B. Hemmeter, Fort Wayne, Ind., preached the sermon. Pastor
O. G. Tiemann served as liturgist, while Rev. T. A. Weinhold,
chairman of our Board, spoke the prayer and benediction.

During this triennium a new president’s residence was also
erected on campus. The 1884—1890 building, renamed “Founders
Hall,” was remodeled to supply practice classrooms for chorus,
Piano, organ, and musical organizations. The “Hospital Building”
was changed and equipped to serve as a girls’ dormitory. Two
wards with rest rooms were set up as a sick bay and clinic on the
first floor in Founders Hall. On the second floor of Founders Hall
eight residence rooms, accommodating two girls each, were built
and furnished. The third floor of this building was equipped with
16 practice rooms for piano students. The Dining Hall was reno-
vated by lowering the ceiling and giving the side walls a knotty-
pine treatment. The old Administration Building was razed during
this period.

St. Paul’s College Association — St, Paul’s College Guild

The St. Paul’s College Association and Guild are associations
of men and women respectively, friends of our school, who have
set for themselves the goal of working for St. Paul’s College, par-
ticularly in areas of activity in which no provision is made
by Synod.

The St. Paul’s College Guild, founded in 1953, provided Biltz
Hall with half screens at a cost of $600. The dining room and the
reception rooms in Baepler and Biltz Halls were furnished with
beautiful drapes by this group. The stage in Kaeppel Gymnasium
was provided with curtains and other stage props by the St. Paul’s
College Guild.

The St. Paul’s College Association, which has done much for
our school in the past, was also active in its behalf during the
triennium just past. In 1953 this group of boosters presented nine
Sstreet-lighting standards for better campus lighting, at an approxi-
mate cost of $2,500. In 1954 a Chevrolet station Wagon, complete
with radio, flash light, red reflector danger signals, and an insurance
policy paid up for one year, was presented to the school by the
St. Paul’s College Association. A Hammond Organ, Costing $2,600,
was presented to the school to provide more students opportunity
for organ practice in 1955.

The St. Paul’s College Alumni Association supplied the Public
Relations Department with a promotional filmstrip with sound
accompaniment, entitled “Blue Ribbon Diploma,” for recruitment
Purposes.