# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S72
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72 Proceedings of the 28th General or

the sum has been reduced by voluntary contributions to $918.06. We
now address the heartfelt request to the Reverend Synod that it
approve the authorization of this sum on the part of the General
Board of Oversight and pay out the above sum.

Treasury Report for the Past Triennium.
(Through March 11, 1911.)

The Kansas District has set up a separate treasury for the
institution.

Income.

Through Treasurer J. F. Schuricht (three times $1,500.00) . $4,500.00
Through the Kansas District (including $1,650.00 from
    Mrs. A. E. Baden) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,741.02
Tuition from students of the institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,180.39
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                                                                          $14,421.41

Expenditure.

For salaries, repairs, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,620.62

                                                          Debt . . . . . . . . $1,199.21

The entire property of the institution represents a value of about
$55,000.00.

The institution holds a bequest of $200.00. It is incorporated under
the laws of the State of Kansas.

Business Department and Coeducation.

Connected with the institution is a Business Department (yet also
again separate from the institution). It has its own teachers,
currently one male and one female teacher. The subjects taught are:
bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, penmanship, etc. The medium of
instruction is English. This department has so far not only supported
itself through the tuition charged, but has even yielded an annual
surplus of $100.00 to $300.00. This annex makes no claim whatsoever
on synodical funds. A larger room in the college was made available
to this department as a classroom. In return, about $150.00 a year
has been transferred to the institution from the Business
Department's treasury. Several students of this department also
attend classes of the gymnasium course (grammar, arithmetic, etc.),
and the gymnasium's students, including those studying for the
ministry, take part, for instance, in penmanship in the Business
Department. Any fears that students who entered the institution to
devote themselves to the preaching office might turn instead to the
commercial course have so far proven groundless; on the contrary,
individual students from the Business Department have transferred
into the ministerial department. Naturally the Business Department is
also under the supervision of the institution's director.

We have retained this arrangement, including the fact that girls have
access to it in order to acquire a general or commercial education,