# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S234
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St. Paul's College at Concordia, Mo.

The board of control of St. Paul's College at Concordia, Mo.,
hereby dutifully submits its report to a Reverend Synod.

We can look back on the past triennium with praise and thanks
toward God. The teachers at our school have attended to their
office with love and faithfulness, and our students have, on the
whole, devoted themselves diligently to their studies and have also
striven for a Christian walk of life. The state of health was
generally good. To be sure, God visited our school heavily when, at
the end of November 1910, he let scarlet fever break out among the
students, so that the board was forced to send the student body
home until after the Christmas holidays, since it lacked the room so
necessary for isolating the sick. But God held his protecting hand
over the students, so that none was carried off by the disease.

The sum of $2500.00 approved by the last Synod for a second
steam boiler, with the alteration to the boiler house needed for it,
has not been used by the board, since it had a specialist make
proposals, through which a number of previously existing defects in
our heating plant were remedied at far lower cost. Our heating
plant is, however, not adequate for especially cold days. We
therefore ask the Reverend General Synod to allow us the means to
improve our heating plant so that it will not fail even on quite cold
days. A sum of $448.00 should suffice for this.

Furthermore, some deficiencies have existed for years already.
The layout of the toilet in the building under the living rooms
proves, the longer the more, unsuitable, and all attempts to remedy
the problem have accomplished little. Likewise, the bathing facility
at our school is in a thoroughly poor state. The tin bathtubs we
have used up to now, and still use, will no longer hold together
despite all patching, and to have warm water for bathing, the water
first has to be heated on a stove. We therefore ask the Reverend
Synod to allow us the means so that the toilets and bathrooms can
be moved from the basement of the dormitory to the suitable
basement of the classroom building, and the two buildings connected
by a covered walkway 20 feet long. A sum of $600.00 would suffice
for this.

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