LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1932, Page 59

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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1932. 59

seem Very unfavorable to the undertaking of building programs of
‘any kind; but consider the following; —
- Our present building, of the very cheapest construction, it having
cost but $6,000 at the time it was built, has served us for twenty-five
ears and ought now to be replaced by one more serviceable. Be-
sides being old and worn, it is pitifully lacking in room and facilities.
It is utterly incapable of caring for more than thirty-five students,
and that would mean putting six boys into rooms of ten by thirteen
feet each. It has no storage facilities whatever, no room for bedsteads
or desks not in use. The laboratory is in one corner of the basement
in a dark and very small room, and the equipment is very primitive.
The sick-room is poorly furnished, if indeed it can be said to be
furnished at all. The toilets are not adjacent to it, but in the base-
ment, while the sick-room is on the second floor, and the dormitory
ig in the attic! Imagine a boy getting sick in the night and having
to go to Our very faithful and efficient stewards, a couple with
two children of school age, have to live in the building in very
crowded quarters.

Surely the need of a new building is quite apparent. And now
consider the following: —

While the present business and industrial depression is very
unfavorable in one way to the undertaking of building operations, in
another way it is very favorable. The cost of a new building should
be much lower now than it would have been in 1926 or in 1929.
Material is decidedly cheaper, and labor is coming down for the
time being.

The Call of the Hour is for missionary expansion. Give us this
new building and see what an impetus it will give to missionary
expansion in the great Pacific Northwest. Many a boy whom we
could otherwise have had, has been denied us on account of our
present poor facilities, though at that the average attendance during,
the last three years has been thirty. But give us a new and suitable
building, and we shall no longer be denied the boys we should have
and both our college and our mission-work will expand. Pn

In the name of the Board of Control, mo
’ J. A.Rimpacn, Chairman.
Ricnarp Kuunav, Secretary. —

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Action.

Upon recommendation of Committee 1 Synod declined the request
for a new building under present conditions.

The recommendation of the Survey Committee to discontinue the
college at Portland was met with a memorial of the Oregon and Wash-
ington District (Memorial 134) petitioning Synod not to discontinue
the school. This matter will be considered by the new Committee on
Higher Education.