# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S49
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Ev. Luth. Synod :of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1926, 49.

3. Grading of the site, costing $4,500.
4. To grant $5,271.10 for equipment and improvement,
5. To increase the library appropriation from $50 to $100.

Resolved: — Action.
1. To extend the institution into a junior college.

2..To appropriate: a, $4,500 for grading; b. $5,000 for teaching
equipment; e. to decline the request for professors’ residences.

Lutheran Concordia College of Texas, Austin, Tex.
(Report of the Local Board. Condensed. — German Report, p. 78.)

After selecting Austin as the most appropriate location for our
Texas institution, a site of nineteen acres was purchased on Septem-
ber-11, 1925, for $17,100, located a short distance from the State
University. The street forming the northern boundary of our prop-
erty, donated by the former owner, about one acre, will be ealled
Concordia Ave. The first building will bear the name Kilian Hall
in memory of Rev. J. Kilian, the first pastor of our Synod in Texas,
It will accommodate forty students. Since it became evident that it
would be impossible, with the money available, to erect a building
which would not destroy the symmetry of the plot plan, the Board
of Directors granted us an increase, with instructions to ask Synod
to approve such excess allowance. An unparalleled drought made it
impossible to raise the $30,000 which the Texas District promised.
The Board of Directors has advanced also this sum. The general
contract was let March 29, 1926, for $60,945; the special contract,
covering lighting, heating, and sewers, for $9,478,

May 11, President H. Studtmann was called as Director. The
architect was instructed to prepare plans for the first professor’s resi-
dence. The Spanish tile floor for the lobby, costing $375, was donated
by Mr. A.C. Knippa, of Austin. In spite of earnest endeavors your
Board succeeded in raising only $1,500 for a steel-roof construction,
one half of the sum needed. We request Synod to appropriate the
additional $1,500.

Since the present number of Prospective students will already
overburden the Director, we ask permission to engage an assistant
professor, say a student. No doubt the accommodations for 40 stu-
dents will be overcrowded before the next convention of Synod.
Hence we ask Synod to devise ways and means for providing addi-
tional facilities. We request $100 annually for our library. As soon
as a second professor is called, a second professor’s residence will be
necessary. If the uniformity of the plot plan is not to be disturbed,
& sum similar to the one appropriated for the first professor’s resi-

dence ought to be set aside. We request an appropriation of $10,000
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