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V'J. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
Number of graduates in 1945-46 13
Those receiving the B.Th. degree 12
Receiving the Pastor's Certificate 1
We are now certain that this seminary must»serve the Negro Baptist people
where they are—not where we wish they were.
Our students hail from seventeen States and the Bahama Islands as follows
Alabama 2
Arkansas 3
California 2
Georgia 5
Kentucky 1
Mississippi 5
Missouri * 3
Oklahoma 3
Tennessee 32
Texas 7
West Virginia 1
Illinois 7
Iowa 1
Kansas 1
Michigan 4
Ohio 4
Bahama Islands 3
Grand Total 87
Nashville Students 12
Other cities in Tennessee ... 20
Total from Tennessee 32
Our New Building Program: The Commission has gone into every angle
of the buildings which will be required for the operation of this Seminary. In
order to take care of 300 students at this Seminary, we must complete the
two buildings now under construction and make definite plans for the erection
of seven more buildings, as follows:
The Library Building
Two more dormitories
A Great Chapel
The President's Home
A Teachers' Apartment House
A Married Students' Apartment
The President of the Seminary believes that he can have 300 students in
actual attendance by 1950—if Southern Baptists will provide these buildings.
It is our obligation, therefore, to make definite plans for these seven additional
buildings, and to erect every one of them by October, 1950. We had hoped
and planned to erect our new and desperately needed Library Building, also
the President's Home, by October, 1946. But the Government has issued orders
forbidding the beginning of any new construction, except for war veterans
Also we still lack some 835,000 having the funds in sight for these two new
buildings. In the meantime and because the Seminary is located on the very
outskirts of the city, we are in desperate need of the two great apartment houses
which we have planned—one for the six teachers and their families, and one
for the married students and their families. All the seven new buildings now
planned for this Seminary will cost Southern Baptists approximately $560,000
or $140,000 a year for the next four years. But if this Seminary is to have
300 students by 1950—300 out of the 1.500 young Negro Baptist ministers
who ought to be in the Seminary—then we must go on with this building program
and never slacken or halt our speed until all these new buildings crown
Seminary hill in Nashville.
E. P. ALLDREDGE
Business Manager of the Commission