# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S92
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

90 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

agreement with the congregations at Fort Wayne regarding the use
of College property for High School purposes, subject to the ap-
proval of the Board of Directors, under conditions set forth in
the overture.”

The High School Association has as its definite policy to pro-
vide for all of the teaching necessitated by reason of High School
enrollment. Beginning with the fall term this year, this policy will
be in full effect. At present the Lutheran High School staff
numbers 16, including the principal and a part-time music in-
structor. The vacancies caused by calling two High School men
to the synodical faculty were filled by calling in two local pastors
as part-time instructors. These two men will be replaced by two
regular instructors before the fall term of 1947. Another full-time
instructor will replace the student assistant now on the High School
staff. The services of a librarian will be provided, Synod and the
High School Association paying his salary. All of these teachers
must meet the stringent certification requirements of Indiana.

Enrollment in the High School: 1944—1945, 374; 1945—1946,
398; 1946—-1947, 408.

Since from the synodical point of view the primary purpose
of our Concordia is the education of pre-ministerials, the religious
training and affiliation of our High School teachers is necessarily
an important matter. To date, all full-time teachers in the High
School have been Lutherans, and all but six of the present High
School staff have been trained at Synod’s institutions at St. Louis,
River Forest, or Seward. These and other related facts should
make it evident that the conservative atmosphere of the school
and the campus, so far as it is the product of the faculty’s opinion,
is in no way impaired by the members of the High School staff.
No one can be on the campus long or mingle very much with
the students without becoming distinctly aware of the fact that
Concordia has a ministerial school, which is in fact the dominant
school. Dormitory life, in so far as it is regulated by students, is
controlled by student members of Prima and Secunda, who are
almost all ministerials.

The advantage to the High School with the present arrange-
ment has been almost inestimable. In fact, it is hardly open to
question that without this arrangement there would today be no
Lutheran High School in Fort Wayne. The gratifying increase in '
High School enrollment says the same, as does also the willingness
of the local congregations to subsidize the High School to the
extent of $2.00 per communicant member each year.

Nor has this arrangement been without advantages to the
ministerial school. We enumerate some.

1. The State of Indiana requires credits in health, physical