# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S40
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

40 Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions

Report of Committee 1
Committee 1 recommends to advise that the Lutheran Lay-
men’s League consult with the Board of Control of Concordia
Seminary and the Board of Directors of Synod in the matter of
relieving Dr. W. A. Maier’s teaching load and that the Board of
Control and the Board of Directors be given power to act.

Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

Concordia Seminary, Springfield, Il.

Report of Board of Control
(Memorial 102)

The Board of Control of your College and Theological Sem-
inary at Springfield, Ill., begs leave to submit the following report.

We have again been permitted to enjoy the heavenly Father’s
grace and blessing in full measure during the past three years
and this year can look back over 95 years of blessed service in
preparing young men for the holy ministry in our beloved Church.

With pleasure and gratitude we bring to your attention the
fact that the vexing problem of many years’ standing presented
by the Old Building No.1 has finally been solved in a most satis-
factory manner. In 1939 the Board of Directors made available the
amount granted by your body at the St. Louis convention to re-
model the building, and on May 26 (the birthday of the sainted
“Uncle” Craemer) of the following year we had the joy of dedicat-
ing a completely remodeled building as the Administration Building
of the Springfield Concordia. The cost of remodeling the exterior
and interior of the building was kept well below the amount granted
by Synod. That was made possible, in part, by careful manage-
ment and, in the case of the renewed and modernized chapel (which
was not included in the contract), largely by the activity, efforts,
and labor of members of the student-body.

The two-manual electropneumatic Austin organ in the chapel
is also the result of student effort. While the Seminary has been
a focal point for this territory ever since its removal to Spring-
field, it has in recent years become more and more the center of
District activities. In addition to serving as a regular meeting-place
for conferences and circuit meetings, it annually plays host to the
young people of the District Walther League on the occasion of
their field day, to the missionaries of the District who meet with
the District Mission Board in the annual Mission Conference, and
to large numbers of the good women of the churches in the Dis-
trict, who come from all parts of Central [linois to bring their
various gifts on Donation Day. .

The Concordia Seminary Guild, an organization of somewhat
over a hundred ladies from the congregations of Springfield and