# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S87
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES. AND COLLEGES 87

Gratifying results have already been achieved through the func-
tioning of this committee.

During the past several years teams of staff members paid
week-end visits to some of the larger population areas served
by our school in order to meet with representative clergy and
lay members and to preach in various congregations in the interest
of church-service student recruitment. This program was under
the direction of our Public Relations Department and made it pos-
sible for our faculty members to preach in approximately 150
congregations.

Plant Development

‘In the fall of 1953 the Gorman House was renovated and con-
verted into a women’s dormitory to house teacher-training students.
Cost of renovation totaled $35,809.81, of which $29,227 was received
from synodical funds.

Taxes amounting to approximately $1,000 annually are still
being paid to the village of Bronxville on the lower one-third of
the east campus. It is our hope to bring this remaining property
into use within the next two years. This will justify our petition
for tax exemption.

In the fall of 1953 a sprinkler system authorized by the Houston
Convention was installed in Bohm Hall, our High School dormitory,
at a cost of $8,500. In the summer of 1955 a sprinkler system was
also installed in the corridors and stairwells of Sieker Hall, our
dormitory for college men. This building is of fireproof con-
struction. However, the provisions of the New York State Multiple
Housing Law required the protection of sprinklers in public hall-
ways. Cost of installation was. $2,500. Sprinkler systems are now
installed in all of our dormitories and residence halls.

During 1954 renovations were made in the Schoenfeld Gym-
nasium, which included the installation of women’s shower rooms,
lockers, and lavatories. Total cost, $19,138.24.

Final report of the Greater Concordia Fund Campaign, in
which $208,000 was pledged in 1951 for furnishings and equipment
of the Brunn-Maier Science and Library Building, revealed that
almost $200,000 of the pledged amount had been received.

In 1953 extensive modernizations in the public rooms of Bohm
Hall were approved by Synod at a cost of $28,300 to be completed
within this triennium. However, funds were not available for this
project.

The regrading and repaving of our front oval, approved by
the Houston Convention for completion during this triennium, was
undertaken in 1955. Cost, including curbing and walks, $6,165.

The memory of three men who rendered outstanding service