# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S86
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

66 Action Regarding Individual Institutions

Happily we can report that. he now seems to have regained his
health.

In 1935 we were privileged to celebrate Professor Riedel’s
twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination to the ministry. The
occasion was observed by special services.

One change occurred in the personnel of the faculty. Prof. W.
A. Baepler, in 1936, accepted a call to the seminary at Springfield.
; Because of the comparatively small number of students enrolled it
fy was considered inadvisable to call a successor immediately. With
te the consent of the Board of Directors an assistant teacher, Mr. W.
; Schwane of St. Louis, was engaged for the rest of the year, and
another one, Candidate H. Witte, also of St. Louis, for the past year.

The new courses suggested by the Committee on Higher Edu-
cation have been introduced and are being taught as well as it can
be done by so small a staff as ours is.

Board of Control. — The Board has endeavored to keep the col-
lege buildings in good repair and the entire institution in proper
running order. Regular monthly and a number of special meetings
were held.

We have to report the loss of one member, viz., Mr. E. Forster,
who was called to his eternal rest in 1937. His place was filled by
the election of Mr. A. Nickel.

Requests

1. Library. — Our library is still very small and woefully in-
adequate. Some years ago we were granted a special appropriation
of $1,000 for library purposes. However, owing to financial con-
ditions the money could not be made available to us. The Com- —
mittee on Higher Education holds that our colleges should have a
library of at least 10,000 live volumes. We fully agree with the
committee. But our library, we regret to say, numbers only 3,000
volumes, and of these 2,000 at most can be classified as live ones.
We need and urgently request the following sums for books and
other library purposes:

Mathematics and science department ........-......--- 50 55- $135.00
Sociology, economics, and political science .............-... 115.00
History 0000. eee eens 65.00
English and German .........00...6.55 00000 e vets eee eens 300.00
Religion 00.0000... c cece eens 100.00
Humanities ..........0.000 00 cece ects 135.00
Latin and Greek ......... been teen eet ne teres 200.00
Periodicals .............. Occ e vce b ve bbb ebb t bt tee sees 42.00
Shelves and Filing Cabinets ................0.02 005 esse eres 105.00
Total .......... $1,097.00

Deduct regular allowance for 1938 .............-...--- 262.50
Special appropriation requested .................-5-5- $834.50