# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S94
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

92 Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions

2) The financial] difficulties of Synod during the past years
kept us from making any such requests,
But today conditions have changed. Through the establish-

A. Building

The right wing of the main seminary building should be erected
very soon.

1) The students have heretofore been crowded in sleeping
quarters which do not meet the requirements of the Department
of Public Health (six square meters to the bed). In the present
study-rooms there js not sufficient space to accommodate com-
fortably the number of students assigned to them. There is also
a lack of larger classrooms, Forced by the existing conditions,
a number of students have had to live in an old shack or in pro-
fessors’ houses. In reality, too, the present seminary building is
only the left (north) wing of a projected building.

2) The Department of Education of our state of Rio Grande
do Sul demands that our institution have a well-equipped sick-
room, laboratory, and meeting-hall for patriotic lectures and ex-
ercises.

3) The Department of Public Health has condemned our
kitchen and dining-hall because of low ceiling and lack of light and
air. The kitchen and dining-hall must therefore be relocated in
the new wing, where there will also be built adequate housing
facilities for domestic help.

4) The year 1942 brings a new class of students to our sem-
inary. Where shall we house them, seeing that the present atten-
dance cannot be adequately taken care of? — Our greatest handicap
at this time is the lack of trained laborers in our mission-field. We

almost due. The graduates for the next SIx years of our seminary
barely suffice to fill these vacancies, even if they all complete their
studies. And up to now we have not even spoken of, or touched