# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S51
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Ev. Luth, Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1926. 61

consists of Dr. J. H. Jahn, President, Professors Rehfeldt and Schelp,
and Rev. K. A. Rupp, whom the Board of Control engaged as as-
sistant when the two assistants, A. O. Meyer and E. M. Plass, returned
to the United States. A third professor’s residence was erected at
a cost of $4,000. $25,000 has been received for the new administra-
a tion building, which must be completed by March, 1926, Owing to
f, the rise in exchange this amounts to about $5,000 less than it did at
B= the time the contract was let.

Needs and Requests.

1. Extension of our college course to six years.

2. Two additional. professorships.

3. Permission to establish .a Pedagogical Department.

4. Three additional professors’ residences,

5. Permission to draw the $200 a year allowed each college for
musical instruction and apply it to.the purchase of reed organs.

6. An increased library allowance of $200 annually.

7. $670 for repairs. .
8. $2,500 to make the final payment on the property purchased
directly east of the institution and to grant permission to retain the
plot north of our property, which was to have been sold and the pro-
_ ceeds used to purchase the tract lying to the east.
gy $5,000 to complete the payment for the administration
building.
- 10. $1,561 for alterations in the dormitory.
11. $2,175 for a combined hospital and steward’s residence.
‘12. $1,088 for a fence. LO
13. $62 for draining the athletic field.

_ Resolved: — Action.

1. To grant the request of the Board of Control and extend the
four-year preparatory course to a six-year course.

2. To decline the request for the establishment of a pedagogical
department.

3. To decline the request pertaining to music instruction and to
encourage the Brazil District to provide for such smaller expendi-
tures from its own resources.

4. To pay the debt of $670 incurred for repairs.

5. To appropriate up to $2,500 for the purchase of land to be used
for professors’ residences. ,

6. To appropriate: a. $5,000 additional for the administration
building made necessary by changes in the rate of exchange; b. $1,561
for alterations in. the dormitory; ¢. $2,175 for hospital rooms;
‘d. $1,088 for a fence; e. $62 for drainage.

* 7. To approve the excess expenditure of $24,203.59,