# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S82
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

80 Seminaries and Colleges, — Individual Institutions

A ladies’ auxiliary was called into being, which meets annually
on the college campus and in smaller groups at intervals in various
sections. This body has shown a willingness to face problems and
to find a solution. When the city vacated a part of a street in
favor of the college, two members of a local congregation paid $200
to cover the legal costs and pay for the necessary extension of
curbing and sidewalk. Another member recently handed the
Treasurer a check for $250. The District has for some time added
a substantial item to its budget to take care of the Commissary
Special. The congregations, far and near, regularly supply a great
variety of food for the kitchen.

The number of students enrolled during the past three years
was 27, 33, 32. This enrolment speaks volumes for the school-
mindedness of the District. While Synod at large sends one
student to its institutions for every 362 communicants, the Oregon
and Washington District furnishes one for every 245 communicants.

The local Board wishes to acknowledge the sympathetic support
of Synod’s Board of Directors. Two years ago the bedroom re-
ceived new flooring; a year ago the kitchen was enlarged, and the
old stove, which had served for thirty-two years, was supplanted
by a modern gas range; when upon the insistence of the fire
department additional storage space had to be provided, the Board
of Directors granted about half of the cost of an addition to the
gymnasium, which made the necessary storage space available.
The ladies’ auxiliary paid the rest.

The present building was erected in 1907 at the cost of about
$6,000. It has served long and well. It is still too valuable to be
razed. But it is entirely too small. The classrooms do not afford
sufficient seating space for large classes; it is not desirable to
have the entire student-body sleep in one room on the third floor
of a wooden building; the placing of six desks into a room 11X13
feet poses questions in discipline which are all too apparent. The
inadequacy of a thirty-three-year-old wooden three-story build-
ing 38x72 feet is obvious. Synod’s officials have repeatedly gone
on record to this effect. In 1935 the sainted Pastor Hagen said at
Cleveland that a vote for the continuation of the school at Port-
land was a vote for a new building; President Behnken has re-
ported on “the crowded and deplorable conditions at Concordia
College, Portland, Oreg.” As far back as 1926 Synod recognized
Portland’s need and granted an appropriation for a new building;
at St. Louis, three years ago, Synod resolved that Portland should
have a new building.

Thus, exercising its duties of stewardship, the Board of Control
again comes to Synod with the request that a dormitory be erected
according to plans approved by the Board of Directors fifteen years