# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S100
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

100 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

of a small building designed to serve as a central heating plant.
As additional buildings were erected on the Austin campus, econ-

Synod. The converted faculty residence houses — inadequately —
fourteen college men.

Studtmann Hall (1955 ). The Texas District erected an eighty-
three-bed women’s dormitory at a cost of $216,000. The District’s

The structure houses eighty-three women, including a house-
mother’s suite, an office and living room for the dean of women,
a large lounge, two laundries, and ample storage space.

Library Stacks. At the time of the erection of Hirschi Library,
lack of funds prevented the installation of multi-tier stacks in the
stackroom. During 1955 the stacks were installed at a cost of
$9,500, thus completing the library and giving it a capacity of
29,000 volumes.

Educational Program

Curriculum. During the past triennium the members of the
faculty concerned themselves with a study of the high school cur-
riculum. Criteria which guided the faculty in the study were
achievement of synodical objectives and conformity to the require-
ments of state and regional accrediting agencies.

The introduction of the teacher-training program for women
and the revision of the ministerial curriculum occasioned by the
introduction of the Senior College program required the faculty
to restudy its course offerings and to implement the directives of
Synod’s Curriculum Commission.

Worship. Birkmann Chapel continues to serve as the center
of the campus worship program. A chapel service is held each
morning and evening, involving participation by students and
faculty as well as clergymen from Austin and its environs.

A monthly Communion service under sponsorship of St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church is held on the campus. The results of these
Communion services are visible and blessed.

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