# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S444
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444 . ; ‘Report of Board for Higher Education

Table 2.
Cost to Synod _ .
THEOLOGICAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLS AND’
SEMINARIES IN NORTH AMERICA
; AND CANADA

1935 1936 1937.
Operating Costs ..$233, 508.64 $238,689.14 $244,906.91

“Repairs 23,621.00 35,802.68 35,844.55
Total -- $257,129.64 $274,391.82 $280,751.46.
. . 1938 - 1939 1940
‘Operating Costs ws-+--$283,812,79 $277,414.15 $270,777.11 :
, Repairs’... 69,917.64 47,274.89 64,925.6:
$353,730.43 $324,689.04 $335,702.73
1941 : 1942
Operating Costs $286,667.23 ‘$317,676.56
“Repairs” ...... 58,667.86 50,790.04
$345,334.59 $368,466.60

The above tabulation excludes allowances for rents and_tuitio
received, rents paid for professors’ residences, and rental payments:

: building-and-loan plan. The combined theological and teacher-train:
ing costs show a net average increase of approximately $27,000-a
nually for these items. . : ;

The average contributions for operation and maintenance for the;
eight-year period were approximately $340,000. No major. buildin
operations were undertaken during this period. Total operating cost
are considerably higher than $370,000, since the institutions have a
appreciable income from student fees and other sources. The cost o
meal services is, of course, additional. :

The complete course of study preparing for the pastorate cove
ten years plus an internship of one year. The shorter course at th
Springfield ‘seminary is five years long, exclusive of the year’s intern.
ship. . Only high school’ graduates are accepted at Springfield. Thi

Synod’s Future Needs for Pastors

Any ‘judgment of the numerical sufficiency of the system mus
necessarily consider a wide variety of factors; both general in .theit
nature and specific in their relation. to the individual institutions.
Synod’s future needs for pastors in relation to the productive capaci
of the existing schools, strategic location of the schools with reference <4
to constituency and suitable environment, the possible advantage of
many small schools to serve as recruiting. stations for ministeri

. students, ‘economies of operation and maintenance, obsolescence: g
Plants, the missionary contribution of the schools to their territories