# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S102
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

102 so Seminaries and Colleges

- A four-page, three~column news sheet’ named The ‘Concordia
Informer, going into every Texas congregation “in “ten. thousand
- copies three times each year with school news and pictures, also
illustrates and promotes the major project of the Association for
the current year. A contact man (or woman) “in “each ‘of these .
congregations solicits small individual gifts from everyone that -
can be interested in the cause ‘of the Association.
‘. ‘Through the College Association and The Concordia Informer.
efforts are being made to arouse and to retain interest. This effort
is being made in all the. congregations of ‘the ‘Texas District and .
in many congregations in the Southern District.

Concordia Gymnasium Fund

“We have a first-class school, except for one thing,” said Mr. H.
¥. Ritter, member of the Board of Control; “we are not properly
‘equipped to care for the Physical Education of these future servants
of the Church.” So he and Mrs. Ritter did something about the
school’s most pressing need. On October 15, 1942, they. handed to
Treasurer Neeb $1,000 to start the Concordia Gymnasium Fund.
This generous gift has promptly induced Mr. B. M. Woltmann of
Houston to add his check of $1,000 to the fund and has motivated
- many additional smaller gifts.

In order to.speed the day for the erection of a gymnasium at
our Austin Concordia. College, the lay delegates present at the
Texas District convention in July, 1943, presented the following
resolution: ‘

“That a collection of War Bonds and other contributions be
set in motion as a memorial to all our young men. and ‘women
serving in the armed forces of our country, especially who have
brought the supreme sacrifice of this global war. The goal of this
collection shall be $100,000. Unless otherwise specified, 75 per cent
of this collection shall flow into the Church Extension Treasury ;
of the District and 25 per cent into a°fund designated for a gym-
nasium at our Lutheran. Concordia College, Austin, Texas.”

‘ _ Kilian Hall .

Through the kindness of friends, our institution has greatly
been ‘beautified at no cost to the Missouri Synod. These friends
contributed more than $800 for the interior painting of every
room on the second floor as well as the corridor and stairwell,
‘besides the downstairs lobby and eight rooms on the first floor, in-
cluding the new hospital room, reception room, assistant professor’s
quarters, reading room, stationery, ‘and ‘three classrooms. The
color is buff, with green trim on the woodwork. 9° °° °=”