# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S236
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Synod to raise the salaries of the teachers at our schools
proportionately.

In closing, the board would like to report that it pleased the
Lord to take to himself, by a blessed death, Mr. Ad. Bergmann, a
long-standing member of the board of control. The board filled the
vacancy by electing Mr. Julius Vogt. — It is likewise certainly fitting
that in our report we honor the memory of the late Reverend Pastor
F. J. Biltz. He was the actual founder of our St. Paul's College, and
to the end the school's welfare lay close to his heart. He fell asleep
[died] on November 19, 1908, at Concordia, Mo.

With all due respect,
The board of control of St. Paul's College
at Concordia, Mo.
Corder, Mo., March 1911.                 Geo. Möller, Secretary.

Concordia Gymnasium [college-preparatory school] at Bronxville, N. Y.

To a Reverend Delegate Synod, assembled at St. Louis, Mo., the
board of control of its gymnasium at Bronxville, N. Y., submits the
following report on the past triennium.

In accordance with the resolution of the last Synod, this
gymnasium has left its longtime home in Hawthorne and moved to
romantic Bronxville. In this small suburb of New York, located 16
miles north of Grand Central Station, our fellow believers in the
East had acquired a very suitable lot of almost 14 acres for
$52,818.00, and had then given this to the Synod as a home for the
school to be built. The plan at first, to be sure, called only for the
erection of a dormitory in which the two lower classes could be
accommodated, while the four upper classes were to remain in
Hawthorne until the Lord should provide us the means for further
buildings. But behold, the Lord helped beyond all asking and
understanding.

A jeweler by the name of John J. McGrane (now of 505 5th Ave.)
had resolved to give the Pope at Rome a school for Italians. He had
entrusted the search for a suitable site for this to a Jay G.
Fitzpatrick, of 25 Broad St. We had already met this man earlier
while searching for suitable sites for our own Concordia, and when
by the end of May he still had found nothing suitable, while
McGrane wanted to go to Rome with the transfer deed for the
college to be donated as early as the beginning of August, we
offered him our property and finally came to terms. As early as
June 11, 1908, we were able to complete the sale of our property in
Hawthorne. Unfortunately, however, the papers concerning the
property were so meager and inexact that the final transfer only