# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S953
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

368 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

continue the Christian training of our boys and girls during the
most critical years of adolescence and help to keep them with the.
Church at the time when they are most susceptible to adverse
moral and spiritual influences. It would make of them more in-
telligent church members and better stewards of the manifold
grace of God.

According to commonly accepted standards, everyone needs
a four-year high school education, and most of our children are
getting it. At present our parochial school graduates must seek
this education in the public high schools, where they receive no
religious training. The only remedy for this situation lies in the
establishment of Lutheran high schools.

The committee charged with studying this matter has found
that such a high school could be established and maintained with
the high school department of Concordia College. There are
several reasons for this:

1. Some of the old buildings are standing idle and could be
fixed up with little expense as rest rooms, classrooms, etc., to ac-
commodate as many students as we can figure on drawing.’

2. Some of the regular classrooms are also unoccupied during
part of the school day and could accommodate high school classes _
to the extent of one hundred or more students.

3. Concordia College has many other fine facilities which are
not being used in full measure and which could not be duplicated, :
such as a beautiful campus, gymnasium, laboratories, etc.

However the proposed arrangement would be of benefit not
only to us and to our high school; it would also be of considerable
value to our Synod and to the students of our St. Paul Concordia
College. Some of these benefits are the following:

1. One of the vacant buildings would be put into shape and —
kept in repair by our local congregations. Changes contemplated
would, of course, not be such as to prevent the future use of the
building as a dormitory if such use should again be required.

2. Expenses for heat, light, water, janitor service, etc., would
be prorated, and the high school would pay its proportionate share.
Furthermore a limited amount of teaching time could be exchanged
between the two schools with mutual benefit.

3. ‘The interest of our entire community in Concordia College
‘ would be greatly enhanced, a consideration of importance for the
future of our school. ,

4. A larger student body would create greater interest in all
activities of the college and help to provide better cultural stimula-
tion for our ministerial students, thus improving their loyalty and
morale.