# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S245
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are impractical. We also have no infirmary. We therefore ask the Honorable Synod to approve an addition or a new building, and to allow $15,000.00 for that purpose. This sum will of course not suffice for a building adequate to the purpose. We have therefore already collected subscriptions for this purpose in the congregations of the Kansas District and among individual friends of the college, with satisfactory results. We intend to continue in this until we have collected the remainder needed for a suitable building.

Closing word.

The institution began its 17th school year in September 1910. Since the institution's founding, 35 graduates have gone on to St. Louis. This year two more will follow. This institution is indeed the smallest of the Synod's 10 institutions. But did not our largest schools also have small beginnings? As we see how they have grown, we believe that this institution too has a good future ahead of it. The institution serves a large territory. It benefits especially the congregations in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Nebraska. The institution is located in a region with a healthy climate and in a pleasant little town of about 8,000 inhabitants.

May the faithful and merciful God, who began the good work in Winfield and has sustained it and visibly blessed it thus far, grant the Honorable Synod wisdom and strength to shape this institution so that, the longer it stands, the more it may redound to the blessing of the kingdom of God!

With due respect,
The Board of Control of St. John's College at Winfield, Kansas:
                                         R. Mießler.
                                         Hy. Müller.
Winfield, Kansas, March 1911.           J. P. Baden.
                                         D. Meyer.
                                         H. F. G. Wulf.
                                         F. Drögemüller.

Concordia College at New Orleans, La.

To an Honorable Delegate Synod, assembled at St. Louis, Mo., in May 1911.

Dear fathers and brothers!

Mindful of the kind goodwill that our Concordia College at New Orleans, La., has enjoyed thus far from an Honorable Synod, we turn to you once again with confidence this time as well, asking for further support, and again request an annual appropriation of $1500.00. This request is sufficiently justified by the fact that, without this support, we cannot maintain our institution — an institution which an Honorable Synod has repeatedly encouraged us to found and continue. The institution belongs to the Southern District, and