# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S255
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 258

work for an adequate and geographically well-distributed supply
of male students for our teachers’ colleges, and to that end

A. Use effective means to recruit boys in our respective areas;

B. For a quicker supply solicit especially high school graduates
or near-graduates;

C. Petition Synod, either directly or through its Board for
Higher Education, to consider:

a. Gradual elimination of the high school departments from
our teachers’ colleges at River Forest and Seward over a four-
year period;

b. Adapting the high school departments of our preparatory
colleges to serve in part as preparatory schools for our teacher-
training institutions, in addition to the present function of these
schools as preparatory schools for our seminary. This would
involve guidance at the high school level, so that a proportionate
number of students would be led to take up teaching in our
Lutheran schools as their life work. Such students would be sent
to River Forest or Seward upon completion of their course in the
high school departments of our preparatory schools. Adoption of
this policy would require the inclusion of music and some adjust-
ment of courses at the preparatory schools;

c. Preparation of courses and sequence of courses at our
Lutheran high schools which would prepare students for our

Teachers Colleges. SUPERINTENDENTS’ CONFERENCE

H. J. Bozrrcner, Chairman
ACTION
Upon recommendation of Committee 1 it was resolved:

1. That the Board for Higher Education be directed to study
the entire teacher-training program and the problems of our
Teachers Colleges in the light of current demands;

2. That the Board for Higher Education be instructed to take
immediate action on the basis of its findings, even if such action
involves suspension of part or all of the High School Department
at the Teachers Colleges;

3. That the Board for Higher Education be directed to author-
ize any necessary staff adjustments, including election of additional
college professors, if such action becomes necessary as a result
of the Board’s findings;

4. That the Board for Higher Education be empowered to
recommend to the Board of Directors payment of properly certi-
fied railroad fare and room subsidies which might become charge-
able to Synod as a result of the matriculation at Seward, Nebr.,
of students who attempt to enroll in the College Department at