# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S86
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

86 a, Seminaries and Colleges”

site our school containing a large residence which will be used for
its own parish activities, At present the congregation is stil] wor-
shiping in our school chapel but expects eventually to erect a per-

manent church edifice, > , . :

Buildings and Equipment

Your Board has made every effort to keep our buildings and
equipment in good repair. The only. addition to our buildings on’
the campus since the last convention was the erection of a refrig-.
erator wing between the kitchen and dining room at a cost of $2,721,

At the beginning of this year it was found necessary to acquire
an additional dormitory for our women students, owing to our
increased enrollment, We were able to purchase a suitable prop-.
erty and building for this' purpose located off the campus directly
opposite one of our present women’s dormitories. The funds were.
made available by the Atlantic District.

Our school was host to the Atlantic District conventions of
1942 and 1943 and will again serve in this capacity for 1945. This
arrangement has not only afforded excellent facilities for the busi-
ness of the convention, but has also resulted in very favorable pub-

‘ licity for the cause of. Christian higher education as offered’ by

our school. -

In addition to many gifts from individuals and societies, par-
ticularly from the Lutheran Education Society and the Ladies’ Aid
Society of Concordia Collegiate Institute, our school, in May of 1942,
received a bequest of $500 from the estate of Mr. Andreas Dihlmann,

Concordia Place, the roadway serving our professors’ resi-
dences, which was reported in need of repairs in 1938. and again
in 1941, is still awaiting its long overdue resurfacing.

Request for New Educational Building
We herewith beg leave to renew our request for an additional
much-needed Educational Building on our campus. This request
was submitted already prior to 1938 and. again in that year but
was withdrawn at the time because of Synod’s financial status.

We believe the time has now come when we can no longer post-
. pone this long-needed improvement. The new building is neces-

sary, first of all, in order to provide a suitable library. Our present
reading room.is a makeshift arrangement, badly misplaced ‘on the:
third floor of our Administration Building, a building little used
after classroom hours. It is a room inconvenient of access, It has

. windows only at the two narrow ends. It lacks the space re-

quired by books and periodicals already on hand, to say nothing
of future additions to our stock. It affords no provisions. whatever
for a workroom ora browsing room, We are convinced that the

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