# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S50
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50 Proceedings of the 28th General or

8. As regards the board of control, the new members elected by the
Reverend Synod took office in June 1908. These were Messrs. F.
Rosenwinkel and L. Leeseberg. In June 1909, President W. C. Kohn
succeeded the Reverend President H. Engelbrecht. In place of Mr. F.
Rosenwinkel, who unfortunately found himself compelled to resign, Mr.
Louis Blecke took office in October 1910. —

There was likewise before the Synod a memorial from the
Northern Illinois District concerning the building matter at
Addison:

The undersigned takes the liberty of submitting to the Reverend Synod,
for its kind consideration, the following excerpt from last year's minutes
of the Northern Illinois District:

"In a lengthy memorial the Synod" [of the Northern Illinois District]
"was informed that the new building at Addison, resolved on by the
General Synod two years ago but not yet erected, could create only the
barest minimum of space, and that this would in no way improve the
unsatisfactory conditions in the living and sleeping rooms. The Synod
was therefore asked to move, at the next Delegate Synod, that instead of
the planned $30,000.00 building, a spacious dormitory be erected for the
students.

"The committee appointed to evaluate the memorial mentioned
submitted the following recommendations to the Reverend Synod:

"1. To ask the Reverend General Synod to erect, in place of the
planned building at Addison, a new, suitably designed dormitory
building, and to make the necessary alterations to the old building;

"2. To send a committee of knowledgeable lay delegates to Addison,
who would then report to the Synod on the condition of the seminary
building;

"3. To attempt among ourselves to raise $30,000.00 by the next
Delegate Synod and to offer it to the General Synod on condition that it
add the missing amount.

"At the Synod's request, a committee consisting of 7 delegates and the
General Vice-President visited the Addison institution on the Saturday of
synod week, together with the board of control, and then submitted the
following report on what it had found there and what recommendations
it had to make to the Synod:

" 'I. We have found:

" '1. That the present dormitory building is in such a condition that it
seems to us not merely desirable but called for that our students at
Addison should have a new dormitory building; for: a. 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; b. the halls in the dormitory building, in which about 200
students live, are only 4, or at most 5, feet wide, and the stairs are
narrow; c. the bedrooms are