# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S637
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 68

ir ping the libraries so that a desirable minimum standard may
teached.” The first time Professor Hausmann, Survey Director
the Board, officially visited River Forest, he immediately felt it
essary that we plan for a new library building.

By granting a building for library, the shortage of classrooms
‘ould be somewhat relieved, since some of the rooms vacated by
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library could be used for that purpose.

In view of these facts, we respectfully petition Synod to grant
“Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, a new library

uilding.
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River Forest, It.
E. T. Lams, Chairman P.L. Kivenner, Secretary

Tue Facutty, Concorpra TEACHERS COLLEGE
River Forest, Inu.

Artuur W. Kuinck, President

Epwin J. Wisracut, Secretary

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A Dormitory for Women at River Forest

.. Though both of the Concordia Teachers Colleges have been
training women for service.as Christian day school teachers, Seward
or the past generation and River Forest since 1938, the needs of the
eld for teachers of this type have never been adequately met.

While there has not been a sharp increase in. the over-all
umber of woman teachers in our Synod, and while there have
een times when more woman teachers were employed than at
yresent, there has been a more and more insistent demand for
adequately trained women. Congregations want women who are
thoroughly grounded in Bible history and Christian doctrine. Some
f them need women who are able to assist in the musical program
f the congregation in school and church. All desire women who
‘are trained to meet the educational. standards of the States and
ommunities in which they are called upon to teach.

Recognizing these trends, Synod in 1938 permitted the in-
«troduction of co-education at Concordia Teachers College, River
* Forest, for teacher training only. In harmony with Synod’s man-
“date, the college has admitted no women who are preparing for
“ any other profession than that of service in our Christian day
schools. The rigid quota of woman students established in 1938
was adhered to at River Forest (up to 30 per cent of the male en-
_rollment) (see Proceedings, 1938, pp.61,62). But by 1941 the
demand for synodically trained woman teachers had become so