# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S83
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions 81

ago. The cost of such a dormitory of fire-proof, brick-veneer con-
struction is $65,000 at the present building-material index. This
“. building will accommodate 64 students and leave room for the
‘library and an assembly hall. If these rooms are filled, provisions
for the library and the assembly hall can be made in the old
’ building, which will release space for sixteen additional students.
The old building will be used for classrooms, dining-room, kitchen,
and quarters for the steward.

The Pacific Northwest has taken great strides forward i in the
past decade. The nation’s newspapers furnish the evidence. Our
Church has striven to keep abreast of the times and to improve
its opportunity to lengthen its cords and strengthen its stakes.
From 1929 to 1939 Synod grew to the extent of twenty per cent.;
the Oregon and Washington District, sixty per cent.

The members of the faculty are carrying a very heavy load.
The average for the past eight years shows that the president has
taught twenty-seven periods a week, and each of the other teachers
thirty-one. Remedial action is indicated at this point.

The Board of Control earnestly pleads with the delegates to
make an effort to acquaint themselves with the situation in the
Northwest and to take action that will redound to the welfare of
our Church as a whole and of the Oregon and Washington District
in particular.

Respectfully submitted by
Tue Boarp oF CONTROL oF CONCORDIA Coutzce,
PorTLAND, OREG.
H.H. Koprpetmann, Chairman

Report of Committee 1:

Concerning the overcrowded teaching schedule of the faculty,
Committee 1 recommended that a competent graduate be engaged
to teach temporarily.

Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

Request for a New Dormitory at Portland, Oreg.
(Unprinted Memorial 112)
Wuereas, The Board of Control of Concordia College, Port-
land, Oreg., requests that a dormitory be erected; and
Wuereas, The Board for Higher Education recommends “that,
together with the Board of Directors, it be instructed to investi-

gate thoroughly the present and future possibilities of our Portland

Concordia in relation to the developmental trends of our Church
in the Northwest”; and
Wuereas, It further recommends “that, with the aid of in-
formation disclosed by the proposed institutional survey, the Board
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