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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1926, Page 89

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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, afd Other States. 1926. 89

7. We furthermore request: $2,500 for changes in the heating-
plant; $750 for building a carpenter-shop and club-rooms in the base-
ment of the dormitories; $960 for door-checks in the dormitories;
$620 for shield-plates on about 160 doors; $1,870 for further equip-
ment of the laboratories.

8. We suggest that Synod consider the employment of a night
watchman.

The Proviso Teachers’ Conference assembled at Maywood, IIL,
addressed a memorial to Synod petitioning it to provide the necessary
instructors and facilities for carrying on correspondence courses at
River Forest.

Resolved: — _ Action.

1. To approve the following excess expenditures: a. $14,506.86
for the administration building and the dormitory; b. $5,511.57 for
new residences; c. $19,110.40 for equipment and repairs.

2. To appropriate: a. $23,000 for practise organs and pianos;
b. $2,500 for necessary changes in the heating-plant; . $750 for in-
stalling rooms in the basements of the new dormitories; d. $960 for
the installation of door-checks to keep the doors from slamming and

thereby ruining the plaster; e. $620 for shield-plates for some 160

doors; f. $1,370 for further equipment of the laboratories; g. $2,500
for the purchase of adequate reference works for the library; h. $5,000
for sidewalks and for grading the site; i. $250 for the purchase of
fire-extinguishers.

3. To table the recommendation that a correspondence course be
established and an additional professor called at River Forest if at
least twenty-five students apply for such work.

Teachers’ Seminary, Seward, Nebr.
(Report of the Board of Control. Condensed. — German Report, p. 41.)

During the past three years the enrolment has constantly in-
creased, as appears from the following figures: 19283—24, 191 (grad-
uates, 14) ; 1924—25, 235 (graduates, 9) ; 192526, 301 (graduates, 9).
The small number of graduates is accounted for by the fact that
a large number of students of the two upper classes has been vicariat-
ing in schools and that the first of the large classes will graduate
in 1928,

The following changes have taken place in the faculty: Decem-
ber 17, 1924, the first director of the institution, Prof. G. Weller,
passed away to his eternal reward after having resigned a year pre-
viously. His successor, Rev. H. A. Koenig, was inducted into office
September 5, 1923. On October, 1923, Director Jesse accepted a call
into the ministry. His successor, President C. F. Brommer, was in-
ducted into office February 10, 1924.