Concordia College - White and Blue Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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(§ixr Nnu lutliiinqB In 1881, when the Concordia College at Milwaukee was founded, it had no build- ing that it could have called its own, and classes were held in one of the rooms of Trin- ity school. Already in the following year, however, the Old Building was erected This contained the sleeping quarters, the living rooms, the class-rooms, the mess-hall, the kitchen, and the chapel. Expansion of the college during the subsequent decade rendered the facilities offered by this building inadequate, and another brick structure, the New Building was erected in the early nineties. In this building, besides the living rooms and dormitories, were two class-rooms and the dining room. In 1900 a third edifice, the Administration Building, containing the faculty library, the conference room, the college museum, the chapel, and all the class-rooms, was added to the group. This arrangement left the Old and New building free to be given o er entirely to living and sleeping rooms, with the exception of the mess-hall and the students ' library, which remained in the New Building. ' et with the ever in- creasing enrollments of the past years, even this solution of the housing problem proved unsatisfactory. So the conditions prevailing at Milwaukee were placed before the Delegate Synod in convention at Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1923, which thereupon voted a generous share ($300,000) of the Synodical Building Program appropriation to provide better living conditions for the students of our Milwaukee college. Two buildings were to be erected, one a dormitory, the other a heating plant and mess-hall. The former, named after the sainted Doctor H. Wunder of Chicago, who was largely instrumental in the location of the second Concordia at Milwaukee, was to be built first. So bids on the various parts of the work were received, contracts awarded, and the ground-breaking took place on June 8th, 1924, with appropriate ceremonies. The work proceeded very slo v-ly, but finally, after long delays and many postponements, it was possible to dedicate the building to the service of the Lord on Quasimodogeniti Sunday, April 19th, 1925. The structure is located at the corner of State and Thirty-third Streets. It consists of a central portion, with wings on the east and west. There are three en- trances, the main one in the center opening on State Street, while the secondary entrances in wings lead, one on Thirty-third Street, the other on the grounds of the college. Three stories in height, of red brick trimmed with Bedford rock, the exterior presents a pleasing appearance. Within there are living rooms for approximately one hundred students , four to each pair of rooms. In addition it contains the President ' s suite, consisting of an ante-room and an oflice, also a committee room, a reception room, and a room each for two assistant professors. In the basement a spacious stationery replaces the hole-in-the-wall in the Old Building that was previously occupied by this important institution. In the basement there is also a recreation room for the students as well as a trunk-room. Sanitary arrangement are on every floor. The ringing and lighting system in the building is provided with both manual and automatic controls. Corridor floors and staircases are of terazzo, while rooms are of cement plaster, with the woodwork finished in dark oak.

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The other building erected out of the appropriation is, as before mentioned, the combined central heating plant and commissary. The heating plant, employing as main unit a Kewaunee smokeless boiler, was built late last year, and was doing duty for the greater part of the past winter. The refectory and hospital is being erected on the foundation formed b - the heating plant. Although it has but two floors it is about as high as the rest of the buildings. The first floor will contain the kitchen and the dining-room. The latter is designed to seat 336 students without crowding. Incidentally, a unique feature is embodied in its construction, the usual unsightly pillars being done away with by utilizing a special method of supporting the ceiling. On the second floor there will be quarters provided for both male and female help. Separated from these there will be the hospital with room for about twenty-five beds. This section will be divided into a large ward and several smaller rooms, together with the nurse ' s quarters. This building is also of red brick trimmed with Bedford vock. Thus our Milwaukee Concordia is able to take excellent care of the students entrusted to its charge, for the present at least. May these quarters be filled, and not 3nly those of the Milwaukee Concordia, but of all our church ' s colleges and semin- aries, with ever increasing numbers of pious, talented Lutheran boys and young men, imbued with the ardent desire to become workers in the Great Reaper ' s harvest-field, that the prayer so often uttered by the sainted Doctor Walther may be fulfilled, God give us a pious ministry! A cheerful heart a treasure is, A jewel is content, A pleasant sunshine cheers the day. Though trouble lower on the way, A cheerv smile is lent. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. — The Bible. Everybody ' s lonesome sometime. Makes no difference how they smile ; Everybod needs a little bit of sunshine To make life really seem worth while. It ' s nice to know someone will miss you, It ' s nice to know when you feel blue That someone waits at home to kiss you. And someone else is lonesome, too. — Adapted. [58]