# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S217
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 217

for the erection of residence halls on the campus of Concordia
College, St. Paul, and to be matched, if Synod now so decides, by
supplementary capital investment funds authorized and approved
synodically for the same purpose.

In order to make possible early provision of suitable residence-
hall facilities for women teacher-training students on the campus
of Concordia College, Portland, Oreg., the Northwest District re-
solved to solicit special funds from its constituency for this purpose
in the hope that matching funds would also be provided from
synodical sources. The final results of this effort are not yet known.
It is expected that the total raised by the District may approxi-
mate $35,000.

Your Board recommends that Synod accept the offers and
efforts of the Minnesota District and of the Northwest District in
the provision of funds for residence-hall facilities on the campuses
of Concordia College, St. Paul, and of Concordia College, Portland.

Action on the matching capital investment funds is recom-
mended in the next major section of this report.

ACTION

The gifts of the Minnesota and Northwest Districts were ac-
knowledged in the following resolution (No. 14), adopted by Synod:

Wuereas, The Minnesota District voted to designate its Cen-
tennial Thankoffering as an offering of gratitude to the Lord of
the Church for having provided to the District many pastors and
teachers in its first century of growth and expansion and for that
purpose established a District goal of $300,000 to be turned over
to Synod for the erection of residence halls on the campus of Con-
cordia College, St. Paul; and

Wuereas, The Northwest District is currently soliciting funds
from its constituency for the purpose of erecting a girls’ dormitory
on the campus of Concordia in Portland; therefore be it

Resolved, That Synod accept the offers and efforts of the Min-
nesota District and of the Northwest District in the provision of
funds for residence-hall facilities on the campuses of Concordia
College, St. Paul, and of Concordia College, Portland.

Planned Modification and Extension of the Training System

The High School Level of Ministerial and Teacher Training
Already in 1947, the Board for Higher Education recognized
the need for a comprehensive study of the implications of the
introduction of the senior level of ministerial training for the
continuance of the synodical high school, but recommended to
Synod that until the Senior College is in operation, the “present