# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S63
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 63

St. Paul's Gymnasium at Concordia, Mo.

The report of the esteemed board of oversight read as follows:

We can look back on the past triennium with praise and thanks to God.
The teachers at our institution have tended their office with love
and faithfulness, and our students have, by and large, devoted
themselves diligently to their studies and have also striven for a
Christian way of life. The state of health was generally good. To be
sure, God visited our institution severely, letting scarlet fever
break out among the students at the end of November 1910, so that the
board was forced to send the students home until after the Christmas
vacation, since it lacked the space so necessary for isolating the
sick. But God held his protecting hand over the students, so that
none was carried off by the illness.

The sum of $2,500.00 authorized by the last synod for a second steam
boiler, along with the change to the boiler house needed for it, was
not used by the board, since it had a specialist offer proposals by
which a number of problems that had long existed in our heating
system were remedied at far lower cost. Still, our heating system is
not sufficient for especially cold days. And so we ask the Reverend
General Synod to allow us the means to be able to improve our heating
system so that it will not fail even on quite cold days. A sum of
$448.00 should be sufficient for this.

Further, some deficiencies have existed for years now. The
arrangement of the toilet in the building under the living rooms
proves, the longer it goes on, the more unsuitable, and all attempts
to remedy the deficiency have accomplished little. Likewise the
bathing facilities at our institution are in quite poor condition.
The tin bathtubs we have used until now, and still use, will no
longer hold together despite all the patching, and to have warm water
for bathing, the water first has to be heated on a stove. So we ask
the Reverend Synod to allow the means so that the toilets and bathing
rooms can be moved out of the basement of the dormitory building into
the suitable basement of the instruction building, and so that both
buildings can be connected by a covered walkway twenty feet long. A
sum of $600.00 would suffice for this.

Further, we lack a professor's residence. The late father F. Ehlers
in Concordia helped the board out of its difficulty by buying, two
years ago, the house in which Prof. W. Schaller lives, so as to
secure housing for a teacher of the institution, since the house
would otherwise have passed into other hands. His plan was to offer
the dwelling to the synod at the same price he had paid for it.
Father Ehlers has, however, since fallen asleep in death, and since
he had left no written record, the house had to