# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S45
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1926. 45

The faculty consists of nine regular professors, three assistants.
supplied by Synod, and two instructors giving courses in modern
languages, public speaking, and physical education, who are supported
by the Lutheran Education Society.

Requests.
1. An educational building to house: science classrooms, the
library and stack-room, and an auditorium.
2. Two professors’ residences.
3. One additional ‘professor.
4, Increase of library allowances for all institutions.
5. A gymnasium.

Resolved : — Action.

1. To approve the following excess appropriations: a. $33,960.90
for the dormitory; b. $18,162 for the director’s residence; c. $24,782
for the purchase and grading of the athletic field; d. $3,607.29 for
equipment and repairs. -

2. To refuse the request of $185,000 for an educational building.

3. To decline the request for a gymnasium.

4. To appropriate: a. $26,010 for two residences, $500 for walks,
$2,500 for the necessary sewers; b. $1,840 for sidewalks; c. $7,875 for
repairing the walls in the dormitory.

St. John’s College, Winfield, Kans.
(Report of the Local Board. Condensed. — German Report, p. 62.)

During the past three years the faculty was increased by two
men: Prof. G.C.Schroedel, inducted into office January 13, 1924,
and Prof. A. C. Gieseler, inducted September 14, 1923. The teaching
force numbers nine professors and four assistants. Rev. E. W.
Luecke, of Winfield, also teaches ten hours a week. To the above
must be added the teachers of the Commercial Department, three
music teachers, and one teacher of expression, none of whom, how-
ever, are salaried by Synod. The enrolment for 1925—26 was 232
(33 girls), distributed as follows: Classical Course, 196; Normal
Course, 20; Business Course, 36. Myr. D. Meyer having resigned from
the local board, Mr. W. D. Weinrich, of Winfield, was elected in
his place.

Three professors’ residences, a central heating-plant, and an
administration building with auditorium were erected since the last
convention. Plans for the hospital, to cost up to $20,000, are in
preparation. A donation of $1,000 for a girls’ dormitory was received.

In June, 1922, the three lower classes were accredited with the
State Board of Education as St. John’s Academy. In the fall of 1924
the State Board of Education decided that the law providing, that
only those high schools could be accredited whose teachers possessed

‘High School Teachers’ Certificates applied also to private schools.