# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S233
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 281

biology are no longer offered. The general science work has been
assigned to quarters designed to serve its particular needs.

Only an extremely minor number of high school students are
still included in classes taught by the synodical faculty. It should
be pointed out that even the present limited extent of this situation
has been created in part by the transfer of high school teachers
to the synodical faculty when calls were issued to them by the
College Board of Electors. Unless further emergency conditions
arise, however, the high school staff will be ample to teach all high
school students by September, 1947. It is the ideal of the adminis-
tration to achieve completely separate teaching by that date. Cross
teaching (synodical professors teaching Lutheran High School
classes and vice versa) has already been completely eliminated.

The administration of the school has also been consolidated.
The Registrar of Synod’s faculty no longer serves the high school.
The major offices have been concentrated in the Administration
Building, and it is planned, also, to move the College President’s
office as soon as facilities can be mide available in the College
Administration Building. The College Board of Control has dele-
gated responsibility for the academic administration of the high
school to the Board of the High School Association. This progressive
step makes the Principal of the High School responsible directly
to the High School Board and relieves the College President of all
responsibility for the high school program except in the case of
those high school boys who are quartered in one of Synod’s
dormitories.

Your Board feels that the philosophy of separation should
remain the ideal. It recognizes, however, that under present cir-
cumstances two major factors still demand that Synod’s Board of
Control retain ultimate responsibility for the entire project:

1..As long as the High School Association makes use of some
synodical space and facilities, it is necessary to locate responsibility
for the entire project in Synod’s Board of Control.

2. In view of Synod’s expressed desires in the matter of
accreditation; it should be noted that the Indiana State Department
of Public Instruction declines to consider for accreditation high
schools which offer only one program of studies.

If complete separation of the two high schools were attempted,
this situation would require Synod to offer in the ministerial high
school some course of study in addition to the ministerial program.
Such a situation would not only duplicate and compete with offer-
ings in the Lutheran High School, but would also constitute an
infringement upon Synod’s freedom in the operation of its minis-
terial training program. On the other hand, it would become