# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S60
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

60 Action Regarding Individual Institutions

Our Board of Control can testify that the accrediting agencies
have not in a single case recommended anything that might have
been to the detriment of our institution or required the elimination
of any courses; on the contrary, the efforts toward accreditation
have been entirely of benefit to our Concordia.

We want to call attention, however, to the need of full accredi-
tation of the college department by the North Central Association
and to the memorial in regard to the elective fourth year and to
full accreditation.

Requests

Library. —— For five years Synod has paid nothing to our in-
stitution for the up-keep and development of our students’ library.
It is absolutely essential for the effective instruction of the students
that they make use of a good library. We earnestly plead there-
fore that beginning with 1938 Synod again pay the annual ap-
propriation of $500 and that during the next three years the $2,500
which had to be withheld from 1933 to 1937 be made available.

Laboratory. — We are urgently in need of $3,500 for arranging
and equipping a biology and a psychology laboratory and ask that
Synod kindly make this amount available in the course of the next
three years.

We are grateful that beginning with 1938 part of the annual
appropriation for laboratory equipment will again be paid. We
hope that Synod will soon find it possible to pay the full amount
again.

Correspondence Work. — For the development of courses and
the preparation of materials for correspondence work voted by the
Cleveland Convention it will be necessary for Synod to secure the
part-time services of one man for approximately three years. In
addition an appropriation of about $300 a year will be needed for
the next three years for secretarial help and to cover other neces-
sary expenditures in connection with the preparation of these
correspondence courses. After three years the correspondence
school ought to be self-supporting.

Acknowledgments

We wish to extend sincere thanks to the Lutheran Laymen’s
League for the annual scholarship of $125 and to the Northern
Illinois Walther League for its annual appropriation to our indigent
students’ fund, to the congregations of the Northern Illinois and the
Michigan District for their donations to the Commissary Fund.

Special thanks are due the members of the C.T.C. Ladies’
Auxiliary and the Concordia Men’s Club for their faithful and
generous support. .

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