# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1932_S47
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Ev Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1932. AT

an known as Division B, made necessary because of our present
= ngition period, which very materially. affects this branch of study.
ey It has. pleased our Lord to take to His heavenly home the late
pees Hink, for many years a member of the local board of control.
Jp Bink died on the 28th of June, 1929, just a few days after he had
. in been reelected by Synod to serve another term. May the memory
¢ his faith and Christian virtues, of his modesty, energy, and faithful
° vice, stimulate us to continue steadfastly as faithful workers in the
reyard of our Lord! The vacancy thus caused was filled by the
weal board; with the sanction of the President of Synod it selected
Mr. L. Pinkepank of Emma, Mo., in whom we have found a val-

yable man.
The enrolment for the last three years was as follows: —
1929—1930 1930—19381 1931—1982
Totals ......... 160 163 163
Prima ......... 15 24 _ 26
Secunda ....... 28° 30 18
Tertia ......... 30 18 31
Quarta ........ 22 _ 30 28
Quinta ........ 29 . 24 32
Sexta ......... 35 37 . 28

Having duly made our report, we now come to you with our
requests for improvements and appropriations, which, we feel, are
needed at Concordia at this time.

Administration Building. — Once more we come before you with
our request for an administration building. We are firmly convinced
that the same reasons which we mentioned in our overture of 1926
and 1929 are as valid as ever, perhaps even more so to-day. 1) We
need more classrooms. 2) Most classrooms in the present administra-
tion building are without proper ventilation facilities and lack the
proper lighting, permitting the light to enter the classroom from two
sides. 3) The laboratory is inadequate. 4) Our library quarters are
crowded, making impossible the desired access to the many volumes on
hand. 5) The faculty-room is inadequate. 6) The chapel (aula) is
not large enough.

All these reasons made a new administration building very
desirable, while we candidly admitted that it could not thereby be
presented as an absolute necessity. Hence we gladly agreed to wait
another three years, seeing that Synod’s finances would not warrant
this improvement, especially in the faee of other, more urgent requests.

However, at this time we must add another reason to those men-
tioned above, which makes it imperative for Synod to grant our
request. The local Board of Control no longer wishes to carry the
responsibility placed upon it by a further use of this building. As.
already stated, it répeatedly became necessary during the past trien-
nium to make repdirs, but without permanent results. In the fall
of 1930 we called in experts, who advocated the removal of the but-