# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S45
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 45

would have to be closed, the board of control had some of the diphtheria
patients moved to the city's isolation hospital and, since proper care was
lacking there, had them cared for at the Synod's expense.

In the school year 1909–1910 the Reverend Slovak Synod appointed a
professor of its own, Prof. Tuhy, for the Slovak students here, who,
however, after only a single year's service, accepted a call to the
preaching office.

The repairs and improvements approved by the last Reverend Delegate
Synod have all been carried out. New seats for the auditorium, for which
the Synod had approved $500.00, were procured for $477.00. The repair
of Building No. 4 and the sanitary fitting-out of the sick rooms, for which
a total of $3260.00 had been approved, were carried out for $2958.24, a
saving of $301.76. The sum of $1000.00, which the Synod approved for
the purchase of a piece of land, has been paid out to the board of control
and repaid to the bequest fund from which it had been borrowed. The
Synod now holds clear title to this land, free of any clause of any kind.
The property (330 by 85½ feet) already has a value of at least $2000.00.

Although the board of control knows that large sums will be sought
from the Reverend Synod this time as well for other institutions, and must
be approved by it, it cannot refrain from laying the following before the
Reverend Synod:

1. The Reverend Synod should tear down the entire service wing on
Building No. 1 and have a new building erected that, besides a kitchen
and bakery, also contains a spacious dining hall for the students and two
classrooms. Size: 65 by 100 feet; estimated cost: $12,000.00.

2. A new kitchen range should be procured for the kitchen. This oven,
already needed now, would cost about $300.00.

3. The main building of this institution, which is at the same time its
newest and largest building, was erected more than twenty years ago.
During this period it has received little repair or improvement. It now
needs thorough improvement. We also recommend that electric light be
installed throughout this building, except in the dormitories. Improving
this building and installing electric light in it will cost about $2021.00,
namely: painting all the woodwork inside and out, $500.00; metal
ceilings, with painting, in all living quarters, classrooms, and hallways,
$921.00; repair of the windows and doors, $250.00; wiring and fixtures
for electric light, $350.00.

4. The professors' residences (five) need to be repainted on the
outside. The roofs of these residences should be newly