# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S95
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Ey. Luth.-Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 83

Since the college has in the past, with Synod’s approbation, re-
ceived also non-ministerial students into its dormitories, we assume
that the granting of our petition will carry with it the permission
to lodge boys enrolled in the proposed high school in rooms of the
dormitories in so far as these are not needed for the -ministerial
students. It is our purpose to find lodgings for girls who may come
from a distance in suitable Lutheran homes. , .

Congregations of Fort Wayne and vicinity have promised to
pay all expenses which may be entailed in establishing and main-
taining the high school. To be more specific, they have undertaken
to pay the salaries of the additional instructors, the costs which the
alterations in Hanser Hall would involve, and all running expenses
not covered by the fees which would be charged non-ministerial
students taking the high-school course. Thus it will be seen that
this new arrangement would cost Synod nothing.

Apropos of fees, we should like to add that we assume that,
since our congregations have undertaken to shoulder financial respon-
sibility for this high school, Synod will be ready to permit us to
charge the tuition-fee which we find to be advantageous. A hundred-
dollar charge for this purpose would be prohibitive and would cer-
tainly defeat our end.

If Synod desires to exercise control over the proposed high school
by placing it under the supervision of its own college board and even
by engaging the instructors and auditing all accounts, we are ready
to enter into such an arrangement.

Since all expenses for the proposed high school are to be borne
by congregations in and about Fort Wayne, we trust that Synod will
find no difficulty in granting this request and that it will therefore
be in a position to act favorably upon it at its 1935 convention. We
should like to avoid delay because the sentiment for a Lutheran high
school in Fort Wayne is very strong at this time.

This overture has the hearty endorsement of the Pastoral Con-
ference of Fort Wayne and Vicinity.

Respectfully submitted by the following congregations: —

Chairman Secretary
ConcorpIa Fred C. Meyer Martin L. Pohimann
BETHLEHEM Ed. A. Franke H. Ruchel
ZION Henry W. Berning O0O.M. E. Heinz
EmMMAvus J.C. Haerner August Lohr
EMMANUEL F. W. Hitzemann Ed. Wiebke
St. PavL’s Fred Jaebker G. W. Witte
St. PETEr’s - _ Wm. Bruick Carl ‘Schlund
SaLEM A. C. Stein Herbert Miller
Martini F. W. Rodenbeck A. H. Meyer
SUBURBAN-BETHLEHEM A. J. Boester E. Knispel

Mount CaLvary O. C. Graft Victor Brock
(Waynesdale) : .

April 7, 1935.