# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1929_S37
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1929. 87

flower-beds. The student-body has placed a huge electric cross on
one of the towers of KFUO, which can be seen for miles.

In place of Prof. Theo. Laetsch, who had been elected member ‘of
the Board of Control at the last convention, but who since then was
chosen professor of Concordia Seminary, the Board of Control elected

Pastor Alfred Doerffler.
Requests.

The Board of Control makes the following requests: —

1. We ask that residences be built on the Seminary grounds for
Profs. R. Heintze and Theo. Laetsch, who at present are greatly in-
convenienced by not living near the Seminary. It is very difficult to
rent near the Seminary, and the rents there are very high.

2. We also petition Synod to erect residences for the two. pro-
fessors for whom.the Board of Control is asking at the present time.

3. At the last convention of Synod, St. Louis was granted two
additional professors. Owing to the money stringency, however, the
Faculty asked your Board to call only one of these. We ask that
we be permitted to call the second man now whom Synod has
allowed us.

The Board of Control, together with the Faculty, joins the
Foreign Missions Board in its request to Synod to arrange a Mis-
sionary Department at Concordia Seminary as an experiment. The
Foreign Missions Board deems it advisable that students to be sent
into foreign fields stay in this country one year after their assign-
ment to make further necessary preparations for their calling in
foreign fields. If the petition of the Mission Board is granted, the
Board of Control asks Synod to call a second additional professor to
Concordia Seminary, since this will increase the number of students
as well as the work to be done by the Faculty.

4. KFUO broadcasts about thirty-five times a week. KFUO has
a good deal of difficulty in arranging its musical program and therefore
feels the need of.a musical director to supervise the music department
of KFUO. The Board of Control feels that the students of Concordia’
Seminary also should receive more musical training and have some
one to supervise all their musical activities. For all these reasons
‘we petition Synod to allow us to call a musical director conjointly
with KFUO, who is to divide his time between Concordia Seminary
and KFUO, Synod paying one half of his salary and KFUO the other.
He is not to be a member of the Faculty, but is to carry on his work
under its supervision.

5. At the last convention in St. Louis, Synod voted $10,000 for
the new library of Concordia Seminary. The student-body needs an
enlarged library for its important work. This sum was not paid dur-
ing the past triennium, and therefore the Board of Control petitions
‘Synod to instruct the Treasurer of Synod to pay this amount.