# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S89
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Seminaries and Colleges. 88

windows open. at. soil level and. ventilation without surface grit is
impossible. Consequently these basement rooms are entirely un-
suited for science ‘courses requiring the use of such necessary:
‘equipment as microscopes and other delicate instruments. Prep-.
’ aration rooms are wholly lacking. Storage facilities are most.
inadequate. . There is no. lecture-demonstration room for the
. sciences in the whole: Administration Building. Two of the labora-
tories provide inadequate facilities for recitation purposes, since;
they are crowded with table equipment. The rooms are so small
and consequently the laboratory space so limited that in two rooms
only 16 students can be accommodated at one time, and in the
third only 24. These science rooms are used by all students at
_ Concordia, by the pretheological and the ‘general students.

The needs of the school are’ apparent. As long ago as 1926
the Board of Trustees of Concordia submitted to Synod a request
for an educational building to house scierice classrooms, the library,
‘and.an auditorium. (Cf. Proceedings, 1926, page 45). The inter-
‘ yening years have added urgency to the ‘present request of the
Beard. We believe that Synod can no longer delay in meeting
these: needs. The. Lutheran Education - Society recognizes the
willingness of Synod to furnish ‘adequate facilities for training its
future pastors. As in the past, we wish to continue to assume the
obligation of supporting primarily the program of general education
at Concordia. We believe that Synod will want to furnish the
funds for the new library facilities. The Society pledges, with the
"help of God, to raise an equal or larger amount for the other neces-

sary facilities. Tae LurHeraAN Epucation Socrety

E. B. Prrese, President
Hzrene Nenrine, Secretary

ACTION
Committee 1 recommended that Synod appropriate approxi-
mately $80,000.00 for a new library at Bronxville. This recom-
“mendation was adapted.

St. John’s College, Winfield, ‘Kans,
® (Memorial 110)
the Board of Control of St. John’s College, Winfield, Kans.,
‘herewith submits its report covering the years 1941 to 1944,
The enrollment statistics for these three years are as follows:
oF 1941-1942: Total, 181; boys, 118; girls, 68° Ss
. : 1942-1943: .Total, 190; boys, 131; girls, 59 ’
. 1948-1944: Total, 222; boys, 140; girls, 82 .
The pretheologicat enrollments were as follows: |
1941—1942: 84; 1942—1943: 8; 1943—1944: 102