# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S239
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238 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

item of $1,675,000 for capital fund outlay for the benefit of Synod’s
colleges and seminaries.

Early in its study, the Survey and Findings Committee re-
quested the Board for Higher Education to solicit from Synod’s
colleges and seminaries a five-year projection of the capital
investment needs foreseen by the several institutions. The Board
for Higher Education meanwhile also invited the Boards of Control
of Synod’s institutions to survey their plant-development needs
on the basis of a refined and detailed procedure of campus and
plant study and urged them to secure carefully revised estimates
for the projects Previously proposed or approved, since the esti-
mates furnished to Synod were originally made in 1951 or early
1952 and, in some cases, already in 1949. The gross total of these
requests, submitted by Synod’s colleges and seminaries under the
regulatory provisions of synodical Handbook 6.147, is in excess of
$21,500,000. Of this amount, upon recommendation of the Board for
Higher Education, the Board of Directors has authorized projects
totaling $1,675,000 as undertakings in fiscal 1956.

Synod has for many years followed the practice of requiring
resubmission of requests for projects which cannot be put under
way in the triennium after they are approved and authorized.
In the comprehensive listing (pp. 178—80), items marked with an
asterisk (*) were approved in whole or in part in 1953 or earlier
but have not been carried out because capital funds for them
have not been made available in the triennium which has just
drawn to a close.

To establish an adequate basis for analysis and evaluation of
the varied requests, the Board sought to classify each project on
the basis of the major campus function or functions to be served
and achieved by the project. These principal functions are grouped
under these headings:

I. To preserve, protect, modernize, or improve existing facilities.

Sound stewardship of Synod’s extensive capital investment in
its campuses (as well as in other operating areas, such as missions)
makes mandatory the unending concern for safeguarding the
existing investment, for providing for the exercise of preventive
maintenance, for securing the maximum desirable utilization of
the existing plant, for systematic modernization to counteract
obsolescence, and for sustained and improved use.

Il. To reach a balanced campus development.

Only in the single instance of Concordia Senior College has
it been possible for Synod to plan for, and to carry out, a complete
plan for a balanced plant. Commonly the practice has been to
begin with limited facilities, to add a building here, to modify

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