# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1917_S21
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1917. 94

2. A campus or athletic field is sorely needed. <A suitable field
an now be secured near the Seminary for about $7,000. The Board
was authorized to make the purchase with the expectation that nfuch
of the money will be contributed by friends in St. Louis.

CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AT SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Attendance during the past three years: 1914—1915: Students
enrolled, 206 (of these 32 are special students, preparing for foreign-
tongue service in this country or for sister synods); out as vicars,
36;. entered ministry, 26.—1915—1916: Students enrolled, 196
(38 special); vicars, 47; entered ministry, 19.—~1916—1917: En-
rolled, 202 (35 special); out as vicars, 44 for the whole year, 22 part
y of the time; entered ministry, 25.

A legacy of $2,000.00 was received for needy students.

1911 and 1914 had appropriated $15,000, could not be erected for
lack of funds and rise in cost of building material and labor.
A building is now being erected at a cost of $23,000, to include
kitchen and dining-rooms, and a small hospital with separate entrance,
Class-rooms could not be provided for. ~ The Central Illinois and .
South Illinois Districts have generously raised $21,000 of above sum,
‘and Synod voted the remaining $2,000, with hearty thanks to these
two Districts.

Synod appropriated $700 for fencing in the campus and $600
. for cement walks. >

The matter of regulating the salary and rent of Prof. E. Wege-
-haupt, special instructor, was left with the Springfield Board in
onjunction with the General Board.

CONCORDIA COLLEGE AT FORT WAYNE, IND.

; This school suffered two severe losses: the one in the death of
. Rector George Schick, Ph. D., who fell asleep in the Lord, J anuary 8,
1915, after serving our Concordia as teacher of classics for nearly
fifty-nine years; the other in the resignation of Prof. Aug. Crull,
m account of age and illness.

Prof. Louis Dorn has been transferred to the chair of German;
nd Prof. George V. Schick, Ph. D., has been added to the Faculty.

ACTION.

Synod granted the request of the Board to retain beyond the
regulated time the services of Assistant Prof. E, Schnedler, the .
‘salary to be determined by the local Board and the General Board
‘of Supervision.