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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1926, Page 48

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48 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

Requests.

1. To add two years to the course, making the institution a junior
college.

2, An administration building, costing $66,000.

8. A dormitory, costing $57,000.

4, Additional land, costing about $4,300, for professors’ resi-
dences.

5. To purchase two houses which have been occupied by our pro-
fessors, for $12,200.

6. To remodel the present building, costing $5,500.

Resolved: — Action. .
1. To approve the excess expenditure of $450 for equipment and
improvement.

2. To appropriate: a. $66,000 for an administration building;
b. $12,200 for the purchase of two professors’ residences; c. $3,950
for the purchase of a tract of land; d. $5,500 for rebuilding the
present building, changing it into a service building; e. up to $4,000
for a heating-plant; f. $5,000 for equipment.

3. To decline the request to extend the institution so as to make
it a junior college.

Concordia College, Edmonton, Alta., Can.
(Report of the Board of Control. Condensed. — German Report, p. 74.)

On September 10, 1924, the Board of Directors to which the
question of locating our Canadian Concordia had been referred, de-
cided to keep the institution in Edmonton. The present site of ten
acres was purchased in the fall of 1924. The site is equipped with
sewers, water, light, telephone, and street-car connection, and a resi-
dence worth at least $6,000, some smaller buildings, and a stable were
on the tract. The entire cost, including the right to mine coal,
amounted to $13,800. Ground was broken for the. building May 20,
1925; the building. was dedicated January 10, 1926. The cost of pur-
chasing the: site, erecting an administration building, a dormitory,
and a service building, and remodeling the director’s residence totaled
$146,873.46. ,

The present faculty consists of four professors and an assistant
professor. Profs. W. A. Baepler and J. H. Hereilers were called .
during the past three years. Enrolment: 1923—24, 48; 1924—25,
65; 1925—26, 68. Three girls who are preparing themselves for
teaching in our schools or for deaconess work attended this year.

Requests.
1. To extend the institution into a junior college.
-9. To grant $30,000 for the erection of three professors’ resi-
dences.