# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S49
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 49

refuse, but will hear our request all the more favorably. And what is this
request of ours? It does not amount to asking the Synod to put up, as
soon as possible, the $30,000.00 building planned and resolved on years
ago, but rather that, in place of that planned and resolved building, it
erect at Addison a new, suitably designed dormitory building for about
200 students, in which all the pupils could live and sleep, and further
that it make the necessary alterations in the old buildings. The reasons
that move us to lay this request before the Reverend Synod are the
following:

a. The present dormitory building is in such a condition that it seems
to us not merely desirable but positively called for that our students at
Addison get a new dormitory building. For: aa. the living rooms are far
too small for the number of occupants. In addition, these rooms are in
many cases poorly ventilated, and the distribution of light is not the
best. bb. The halls in the dormitory building, in which 175 students now
live, are only 4, or at most 5, feet wide, and the stairs are narrow. cc.
The bedrooms are in part low attic rooms that ought not to be used for
sleeping purposes at all. In addition, the bedrooms are scattered
throughout every part of the institution, some even in the classroom
building. That is a great disadvantage. dd. In some dormitories there
stand 30 to 40 beds and just as many trunks.

b. As regards classrooms, the institution is poorly provided. For one
thing, there are not enough of them, and of those there are, several are
too small.

c. By erecting a new dormitory building and suitably remodeling the
old buildings, all these deficiencies could be removed, and the institution
would thereby gain: aa. a dormitory building in which all the students
could live and sleep; bb. a good classroom building in which all the
classrooms could be housed, along with the museum; cc. in the old
building, room could be created for all the music, library, reading, and
society rooms, and in addition a spacious assembly hall. (See the
Northern Illinois District's Synodical Report, 1910, p. 73f.)

We therefore ask the Reverend Synod to appropriate the round sum of
$75,000.00 for new construction, remodeling, heating, electric lighting,
and improvements to the nine professors' residences.

6. Our house steward wanted to leave us because he could not get by
on his wages. But since Mr. Stahmer and his dear wife are quite
excellent house parents, we have granted him a supplement of $100.00,
which we have covered ourselves. We should like, however, to ask the
Reverend Synod to resolve that from now on this $100.00 be paid to our
house steward out of the synodical treasury.

7. Considerable sums were given to the institution by individual
friends, and were used for the purposes the respective donor had
designated for them.

[Signature at the foot of the page: "4" — a printer's sheet signature, not a folio.]