# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S75
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Seminaries and Colleges _ - 76:
Requests
os ‘For the sake of improvement in teaching and administration,
- we respectfully petition Synod to grant us the following requests:.
, 1,.An additional professor
2. A full-time music director
3. A maintenance ‘man
4. A. bookkeeper: |
eee 5, Equipment: for ‘a’ second ‘laboratory
‘6: New lighting in the chapél” °°
7. Enlargement and equipment of office

“1, Becaiisé ‘of additional burdens falling on the present faculty,
we request that the group be augmented by an additional man..
-The problem of fitting in students transferring to us from the
- high schools became acute at our Concordia later than at some
others. More and more time is required of many teachers’ to
help these special students make up their deficiencies in the
languages, in religion,‘and other subjects. As an additional argu- _
ment for a new professor we urge the extra and continued hard
work required by the -accelerated program.

2. For two years during the past. triennium we enjoyed the
services of Mr. Gerhard Schroth as full-time music director.
When Mr. Schroth accepted a position with KFUO, we found it.
impossible to engage another man to take his place. Reluctance:
on the part. of teachers to accept a position without a permanent
call was one of the reasons. We have had to ‘be satisfied with
~ three. part-time men, and these do not begin to equal the service:

“we received from a single full-time man. Believing the various:

fields of music to be vital in the education of a minister and that
. the musical training of our students can best be achieved by the
service of a full-time man, we request Synod to extend a call to-
supply this need and to offer the man an adequate salary. _
3. The main buildings of the school and their equipment, plus:
the faculty homes, represent an assessed valuation of almost.
$1,000,000. Some of these buildings and homes are more than.
| sixty years old.’ Repairs are constantly necessary... We are con-.
~ vinced that a permanent maintenance man would find sufficient:
work to do the year round and that the employment of such a man
at Synod’s expense would. mean a real. saving of money to the:
Church. We urgently request Synod to grant-us a yearly allow--
ance of $1,800 to employ’ ‘such a man. .
4. The administrative work at our - school. cannot be done-
promptly ‘and well without additional office help. | Concurring: