# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S88
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. special meetings as urgency demanded.

88 Seminaries and Colleges

by the removal to the Middle. West of Mr. B. Lessing. In addition

to its regular monthly meetings, the Board has held numerous

Tue Boarp. or ContRoL
Louis S. Waaner, Secretary

The erection of a new Library Building at Bronxville was

advocated also in the following memorial.

New Building at Bronxville
(Memorial 124)

Since 1907 the Lutheran Education Society has supported Con-
cordia Collegiate Institute in Bronxville, N. Y.. Throughout these
years it has been possible for our organization to render extensive
service. to the school in numerous ways;- by financing the removal
of the school from Hawthorne to Bronxville, by endowing pro-
fessorships, by purchasing necessary equipment for its program of
education, especially by undertaking the collection of funds for
the erection of. Schoenfeld Memorial Gymnasium ($175;000.00),
and by providing the funds for one of the women’s residences. For
almost four decades our Society has assisted. the Board of Trustees
and Synod in enabling Concordia to meet the demands for minis-

‘terial and lay education in the Lutheran Church of the East.

_ For some time the Board of Trustees, no less than the Lu-
theran Education Society, has recognized the urgent need for more
adequate facilities in library services and in the science courses.

Library. The library is housed in a double classroom most
inconveniently located on: the fourth floor of the Administration
Building. Since the library separates the two classroom wings on
this floor, it is impossible to avoid frequent disturbances when
students pass through the library from classroom to classroom.
The space is wholly inadequate for housing the book collection, and
the crowded conditions do not provide a suitable atmosphere for
concentrated study.

A single adjoining classroom must house all the general stacks |
as well as the valuable E.’G. Sihler Collection. ‘The stacks extend
to the ceiling and are reached by a’ wooden’ scaffolding on two
sides of the room. In addition, this one room must serve ‘as book
‘bindery -and:-librarian’s office.. Under these conditions the ‘stacks:
simply cannot ‘be made accessible to ‘the students. '

- All of ‘these inadequacies are a constant handicap to teachers _

and to students; they tend to discourage the use of the library,

which is the heart of ‘the school’s academic -program.

Science. Three laboratories are located in ‘the basement of the -
Administration Building and are converte storage rooms. The.