# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S160
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158 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

detailed 65-page report, supplemented by numerous §statig;
studies and supporting graphs. These materials were then py!
sented in successive meetings to the large advisory commi 7
which had been appointed by President Behnken (at the req 2
of the 1949 Fiscal Conference) and to the Plenary Council, oo):
sisting of all the college presidents of our Synod and some specig
consultants. Only the essential features of this plan can be liste
here. (For complete detail, see Exhibit 2, next page.) It
‘proposed to separate the specialty services from the main seming
at St. Louis in order to allow room for an undergraduate stu
‘body of 500 students on that campus. The Springfield seminary:
would become a school for 250 students and would be held tof
produce 40 graduates annually when the plan would be in fuj#
effect. A senior college for 450 students would be established ot
the present St. Paul, Minn., campus. This would involve the loss gf?
high school and junior college services for that entire region an
would also mean that the entire current faculty, administrati e:
and student body (except seniors) would withdraw in order t
leave all facilities available to the senior college and to create a?
opportunity for free choice of staff. The school would have ap¥
enrollment of 380, with 175 graduates moving to St. Louis =
nually. A library (included in “Building for Tomorrow” collection)
would have to be built; a physical education plant (promised by;
the District) would be needed; and a building would have to bes
remodeled. The geographic location to existing synodical colleges
is indicated on Exhibit 3, page 160.
In order to secure sufficient space to train the required numbe
of ministers and teachers in the existing system (without the
St. Paul institution), it was proposed to reduce all of the ing
remaining preparatory institutions to four-year junior colle
(junior and senior year of high school plus freshman and sophom
_year of college).
Still further adjustments were proposed to supply incres
teacher production. The River Forest enrollment would be re
stricted to male students with a total enrollment of 500 and’
consequent production of 125 male graduates annually. The Seward,
institution would be left relatively undisturbed; however, the pot
sibility of elimination of the high school would be explored fi
In this plan a terminal teacher-training course would be in!
duced at both the Fort Wayne college and the college at Winfield
Kans. Each of these institutions would be held to train approt
imately 150 women teacher training students and to produce abo
75 graduates annually. This would involve the addition of facilities

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