# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1929_S44
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44 Proceedings of Thirty-Fourth Regular Convention,

ments. We have purchased only the most necessary material. - For °
this purpose we request $3,000.

We must also request an appropriation for musical instruments.
An old reed-organ which has been pressed into service again and
again can now no longer be repaired and must be replaced with an-
other organ. Two additional practise organs ought to be provided.
These organs with equipment and transportation will cost $7,000. . :
Old, worn-out pianos must also be replaced at approximately $1,200.
We also petition an appropriation of $650 which were expended on.
some unavoidable grading before the Administration Building.

Resolved: — Action.

To grant the following appropriations: 1. Dormitory, $125,000;
2. heating-plant (addition), $28,000; 3. tunnels, $25,000; 4. side-
walks, $1,000; 5. laboratory equipment, $3,000; 6. musical instru-
ments, $8,200; 7. grading, $650.

Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.
' (Extract form the Report of the Board of Control.)

A number of changes occurred in the faculty. April 13, 1996,
Director M, Luecke, who had headed the institution since 19038, died.
August, 1926, Prof. W. C. Burhop, who had served as director during
the interim, was elected as director and inducted into office Septem-
ber 12. On October 27 Assist. Prof. Karl H. Henrichs was elected to
succeed Professor Burhop. September 18, 1927, Prof. em. F. Zucker,
D.D., died at the age of eighty-five years. In October, 1927, Assist.
Prof. W. Herrling succeeded Prof. J. Kunstmann, who had resigned,
In December Prof. H. D. Mensing accepted a call as city missionary
in Baltimore, Md. He was sueceeded by Rev. E. E. Foelber. In
September, 1928, Prof. Henrichs resigned to serve Valparaiso Uni-
versity as endowment manager. His successor has not yet been
chosen. The number of assistant professors has been reduced to one.
The total number of professors salaried by Synod is fourteen, in-
cluding the director and the successor of Professor Henrichs. Prof.
J. Vojtko, who is salaried by the Slowak Synod, has charge of the .
Slovak students. :

Upon the death of the steward, Prof. M. Stoeppelwerth began to .
serve as buyer for the kitchen, an admirable arrangement. The
Martha Society of Fort Wayne, which makes the hospital the object
of its care, purchased an electric dishwasher and provided funds for
painting the hospital and for additional repairs. Last year professors
and students collected enough money to remodel the gymnasium,
which now serves its original purpose as well as that of a concert a
hall and assembly hall for the Central District, a