# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S248
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

246 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

certification requirements demand participation in physical and
health education in the professional preparation of teachers; and

Wuereas, Participation in physical and health education is im-
portant also at our ministerial colleges and seminaries; and

Wuereas, The present system in which the various institutions
must appeal to the good graces of the congregations for such help
is very unsatisfactory; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Colorado District, assembled in convention
in Brighton, Colo., August 6—9, 1946, petition Synod to allow
sufficient funds in the synodical budget to erect and equip adequate
and suitable buildings for the purpose of providing physical, health,
and social education facilities for our colleges and seminaries.

Tue CoLoravo DisrrRicr
Ray H. Bers, Secretary
ACTION

Upon recommendation of Committee 1 it was resolved:

1. That Synod officially recognize Physical Education as an
integral part of its educational program;

2. That Synod express its desire to supply adequate facilities
and equipment for Physical Education programs;

3. That Synod recognize the position of Director of Physical
Education at each institution and direct the Board for Higher
Education to authorize the appointment of full-time instructors,
upon the recommendation of the local Board of Control, wherever
it finds these to be necessary and warranted;

4, That wherever part-time instructors are authorized, the
Board for Higher Education be directed, upon recommendation
of the local Board of Control, to approve warranted and necessary
adjustments in the teaching load of the instructors involved.

XII. Curricular Music Program

Accepting the view that one of the most important and at the
same time most neglected fields of instruction at our preparatory
educational institutions is the field of music, especially the great
music of the Lutheran Church, the Convention of 1944 adopted a
resolution directing “that a committee be appointed by the Board
for Higher Education for the purpose of making recommendations
concerning the development of music training and study at our
synodical institutions.” In its effort to carry out this directive,
your Board has had the benefit of the extensive discussion oc-
casioned by the presentation of a scholarly and exhaustive treatise
on the subject at the Professors’ Conference of 1946. The brethren