# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S171
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 169

teachers required, the welfare of our parochial schoo] demands
that a considerably increased supply of such teachers be made
available to our constituency.

The studies made by the Board reveal that the facilities of
River Forest and Seward alone are inadequate to supply present
and future needs, nor could they be expanded sufficiently without
too great a cost to Synod. In a later part of this section the Board
therefore proposes that certain adjustments be made at some of
the preparatory schools for the addition of a Pre-teacher train-

1. River Forest, Ill.

If the programs of the Preparatory institutions are successful,
there will be an appreciable increase in the number of college
juniors who will enroll in River Forest. For this reason it is recom-
mended that the River Forest institution be equipped to enrol]

Forest a total of 600 students is considered to be sufficient for
economical operation and at the same time not too large to achieve
the objectives which the Church has established.