# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S229
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES . 227

tember, the Association has agreed to increase this to $4,000 an-
nually. In addition it maintains the plant space used exclusively
by its students. It has financed the original renovation of Hanser
Hall at a cost of approximately $6,000 and has since made other
improvements in this building at a cost of an additional $6,000.
Scholastic equipment, for the teaching of shop, laboratory, and
business courses, and additional modifications in other synodical
buildings, have also been financed by the Association.

The Teaching Staff

In the fall of 1947 the high school teaching staff will number 17,
including the principal and two part-time instructors in the music
department and in the library. The services of a librarian will
be made possible by the Lutheran High School Association, which
will be responsible for providing more than one half of his salary.
In the field of music, Synod at present provides less than one third
of the music instructor’s salary; however, approximately one half
of the students participating in music activities are in the pre-
theological department. Naturally, the pre-theological high school
and college students also benefit from the services of the men
trained in these specialties. However, if the high school were
operated separately it would still require such services and would
be obliged to defray the entire expense.

It should be noted, further, that the State of Indiana requires
credits in Health, Physical Education, and Safety for graduation
from high school. All accredited schools are required to offer these
subjects in their curriculum. The Lutheran High School Associa-
tion has up to the present provided the instruction in these subjects,
both for its own students and for the pre-theological department.

The Student Body

The high school student body numbered 408 at the census date
1946, 192 girls and 216 boys. Of these 345 were local residents,
63 were from outside of the city. 51 high school boys were quar-
tered in the Synod’s dormitories, 12 out-of-town girls lived in
Fort Wayne homes. Although the entering freshman class in
September, 1946, numbered 109, only 54% of the Fort Wayne
parish school graduates entered the Lutheran High School. In
view of the fact that education until the age of 16 in the Sate of
Indiana is compulsory, it appears that the Lutheran High School
has not yet reached the peak of its enrollment. A reliable projec-
tion of available statistics indicates that the enrollment in the fall
of 1947 will approximate 430. There is sound indication, however,
that the rate of growth will be less vigorous in the future than it
was during the past decade. Barring economic dislocations, an