# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S67
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions 65

achievement of self-direction and self-discipline. Except for the
untimely death of two members of last year’s graduating class,
Richard Lichty and Victor Kolch, the health of the students has
been unusually good during the past three years. We thank God
for all this and pray that He may guard and keep our boys and
fill them with zeal to prepare for the high calling of the Chris-

tian ministry. . a
The New Library Building

In 1938 Synod in St. Louis granted a request we had already
made three years before in Cleveland. We were to have a new
building to make up for the loss of Kilbourn Hall by fire. This
new building was to house the library and to contain four class-
rooms. It was understood, however, that building could begin
only after all the money was on hand. A deficit at the end of
both fiscal years that followed therefore ruined our chances for
a building.

Sensing keenly our desperate need, the faculty and the Board
of Control explored every avenue that suggested any hope of
better success. We convinced the Fiscal Conference that some-
thing must be done at once, and the Fiscal Conference referred us
to the Board of Directors. A frank and fervent appeal to the ©
Board met with sympathetic understanding and willingness to help.
It was clear to each member of the Board that the situation
warranted an immediate solution and that this could be effected
only if the moneys were raised by a special collection. Accordingly
we were authorized to make an appeal to our friends in Wisconsin
and neighboring States. The Board promised to add a substantial
sum to the amounts we collect as an added inducement to us to do
our best. This, then, we decided to do: to place our needs before
our friends in the Central West and to appeal to their love of the
Church to help us raise the money for our new building.

At the time of this writing some $20,000 have been collected.
Many congregations in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa will have sent
in collections by the time of the convention, and it is the firm hope
of Concordia and all her friends and benefactors that building will
begin shortly after July 1. To all our friends whose loyalty has
helped us toward this goal we give the assurance of our sincere
and lasting gratitude. May God bountifully reward them all.

Respectfully submitted by
Tue Boarp oF ContTRoL, CONCORDIA COLLEGE
MILWAUKEE, WIs.

Gero. BEIDERWIEDEN, Secretary

(Since there were no requests, Committee 1 reported that no action was
necessary with reference to this report)

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