# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1929_S40
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40 - Proceedings of Thirty-Fourth Regular Convention,

“Concordia Teachers’ College, River Forest, Ill.
I. Students and Faculty.
Under the gracious protection of God our institution has been

privileged to give instruction, training, and guidance to the f
number of students during the past three years: —

ollowing

Year Enrolled a Vicaring Present
1926—27 381 26 355
1927—28 382 27 355
1928—29 389 31 358

In spite of the continued large enrolment the Board and faculty
succeeded, by arranging for class instruction in music, in reducing

the number of required assistants, with the result that the salary of
two instructors was saved.

II. Requirements for the Next Three Years.
a. Roapways, SipewALxs, ETC.

At the meeting of Synod in 1926, in St. Louis, our Board of
Control asked for an appropriation of $11,500 for the purpose of
constructing necessary roadways around the college buildings, laying
sidewalks in connection with the new gymnasium, grading the place
around the new gymnasium, equipping the gymnasium, changing
the electrical wiring necessitated by the building of the new gyn-,
nasium, and constructing roads. Committee No.1 recommended to
Synod at its last session an appropriation of only $5,000 for the above
purpose, and this amount voted by Synod, the Board of Directors
made available to us in a notification dated April 17, 1998. Since,
however, the amount was entirely too small to carry out the entire
work, we drew only $533.76 for the construction of a part of the side-
walk in front of the gymnasium and left the balance of $4,466.24 in
Synod’s treasury. We then purchased the gymnasium equipment with
money which we collected especially for that purpose, did the most .
necessary grading around the gymnasium with the help of the stu-
dents, but had to leave the roadways unimproved.

According to bids received, the cost of building roadways, of
changing the electric wiring, of doing further grading around the.
gymnasium, and completing the sidewalks will be $8,145.50. Against 34

this we have an unused appropriation of $4,466.24, making it necessary
for us to ask an additional $3,679.26.

b. Equipment.

1. Organs and Pianos.—We are urgently in need of several
pianos and organs and therefore ask that the balance of the appropria-
tion made by Synod in 1926, amounting to $12,245.24, be made avai
able to us by September, 1929. : :