# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S598
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

for mission activity at some period of their college life.

14 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

The Student Teaching Program oo
Concordia Teachers College operates its campus practice teack

ing in conjunction with the Christian day school of Grace Luthe
Church, River Forest. This school has made rapid strides dur
the past triennium and now has four well-trained and experience
teachers, two men and two women, who are vitally interested.
adding to the experience and training of Synod’s future teacher
in co-operation with our own Director of Teacher Training. I;

the specific needs of that type of school, which many of them will
be called upon to teach when they enter the educational service
of the Church. The co-operating schools are: Immanuel L

theran School, Hinsdale, Ill, Teacher A. W. Obermann; St. John’s
Lutheran School, Bellwood, Il., Teacher Milton Eggerding; and
the Colored Mission School, Chicago, IIl., Teacher F. H. Colba. The
latter school is adjacent to the Ida B. Wells Housing Project, where

neighboring Lutheran schools and in selected public schools of
River Forest and Oak Park. ° ;
The Board of Control gratefully acknowledges the valuable
service rendered by all co-operating schools and their respective

teachers.
Extracurricular Activities

The extracurricular program of the college department con
tinues to be more and more closely linked with the life work of
the future teacher. The members of the Mission Activities Group;:
a voluntary organization begun four years ago, assist in spreading?
God’s Word through canvassing, teaching Sunday school classe
serving as organists and choir directors and giving instruction tO:
young people’s societies in ‘carrying on mission work. All ac

Illinois Mission Board, under the direct leadership of the Rev. D. Cc
Hennig, whose services are herewith gratefully acknowledged..--.:
In gratitude to God we note that while all other extracurricular
activities have suffered and some have even been discontinue
owing to the accelerated program and the work which many stu=
dents must do in order to pay their own college expenses, nearly
all teacher candidates have found time and inclination to volunte