# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S32
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32 Proceedings of the twenty-seventh convention

from the college. The girls must in all weather every day come early in the morning on an unpaved road to devotions, go back for breakfast, come to the classes, go to dinner, then come again to classes, etc. This cannot go on so. We must build on the college grounds. The building site is there and will cost nothing further. Already at the *Synodalkonferenz* [Synodical Conference] at Milwaukee in 1914 it was resolved to build a dormitory as soon as two thirds of the necessary sum should be on hand. Had the resolution been carried out at once then, it would undoubtedly have been built far too small; for it was thought at that time that $3000 would suffice. In the meantime experience has taught that a small dormitory would not help. We need a larger building, and in particular also because experience has shown that we must train many women teachers. The shortage of teachers has become great. We have in our Negro Mission only two white teachers left (Rennegarbe and Dr. Meibohm; the latter is in his 75th year). All calls have been in vain. Our colored boys are encouraged to prepare for the holy ministry, and for good reasons. While there is now a shortage of teachers, our mission work has expanded. Four years ago we had 12 women teachers, now there are 33 of them. Among these, however, is in part very weak material. We simply could not help ourselves and had to take what was to be had. The school is our best means of mission work. If we get no dormitory where future women teachers can live, it will be a heavy blow to our whole mission work. So your Mission Commission has resolved to send out two of the Greensboro professors (Kunzmann and Schwehn) this summer to collect gifts for a dormitory in Greensboro.

Endowment Fund.

The considerable expenditures for our higher education should no longer be met from the mission treasury. Experience teaches that this no longer works. The Commission recommends that a so-called Endowment Fund be established. If other well-to-do people in other circles give large sums for educational purposes in their wills or even during their lifetime, why should that not be possible in our circles also? The Rev. Synodical Conference is asked to take this important matter of providing the necessary funds for its Negro colleges into serious consideration and to give its Commission the necessary instruction. Perhaps it would be possible to convert the Million-Dollar Fund into an Endowment Fund.

Our Two Mission Papers.

The "Missionstaube" and the Lutheran Pioneer have rendered great service to the Negro Mission in particular. They ought therefore to be promoted in every possible way. The readers and especially our pastors and