# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S209
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 209

After the conclusion of the Fiscal Conference in 5t. Paul
a year ago, to which another progress report was made, it became
necessary to develop another cost estimate of the project on the
basis of new facts and trends. In its meetings of September 1
and 2, 1955, the Board of Directors resolved to authorize the
awarding of all contracts for the completion of Concordia Senior
College, in a determined effort to anticipate impending new in-
creases in construction costs and to make possible any realization
of savings for Synod through the continuous employment of labor
crews, through bulk purchasing of building materials, and through
the use of continuous construction methods.

In its meetings of September 27, 28, and 29, 1955, the College
of Presidents resolved to support the efforts of the synodical boards
involved in the Senior College construction project to effect pos-
sible construction savings, and to join in petitioning this present
convention to ratify this special action and in urging it to appro-
priate the necessary funds to complete Concordia Senior College
at the earliest possible moment.

By its December meeting, the Board for Higher Education
found it necessary to survey once more the completion time
schedule of the entire project. On the basis of its findings, the
Board for Higher Education decided to convene a special meeting
on Saturday, January 28, 1956, at Fort Wayne, at which repre-
sentatives of the Board of Directors, of the St. Louis Seminary,
of Concordia College of Fort Wayne, and the entire Board of
Concordia Senior College would be present. On the basis of the
best evidence and recommendations available, the Board for Higher
Education reluctantly found itself compelled to yield to circum-
stances beyond its control and to announce that Concordia Senior
College could not be expected to open before the beginning of
the 1957—1958 school year.

Since that decision was reached, work nevertheless has been
expedited as much as it can. Obviously the relief in scheduling
was momentary only. At this time of writing, eight construction
contracts, in addition to site-development projects, have been let.
An up-to-the-minute report on subsequent contracts and con-
struction progress can be furnished to the convention at St. Paul.

Since the fall of 1953 the Board for Higher Education has
instructed its Curriculum Commission to carry on the broad as
well as the intensive studies needed to enable Concordia Senior
College to begin with an integrated and purposeful curriculum
which will follow properly upon modified junior college work and
will lead directly into theological study minus the nontheological
courses at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. Under the instructions