# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S174
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

172 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

the Midwest Lutheran high schools, will be attracted to this instity.¥
tion. The details on these adjustments are included in the Boarg; 4
recommendations on “Integration of Lutheran High Schools” ;
Section VI of the current report.

An adequate recruitment program is to be developed durj
the next five years, becoming fully effective in 1956, when the;
synodical high school will no longer supply college freshmen. Re
cruitment efforts are to be concentrated on the seven Lutheray
high schools which are now located within a four hundred mil,
radius of Fort Wayne.

A student scholarship plan (detailed in Section VI of this
report) is to be part of the recruitment program. If necessary’.
a religion teacher could be furnished to the Fort Wayne Lutheran
high school by Synod. :

In addition, the Board recommends the establishment of a two-
year pre-teacher training course at Fort Wayne. For the present
the total enrollment in this department is to be limited to 60 stu-
dents in order to enable the River Forest college to absorb the
graduates produced and also to assure Synod that the ministerial
program can be carried forward without significant additional
capital investments. If experience shows that the demand for |
additional teachers warrants the expense, then the Board for
Higher Education stands ready to adjust the experimental quota
to a production rate dictated by the possibility of providing the
required physical and teaching facilities at River Forest and at
Fort Wayne. As an alternative the possibility of transferring Fort -
Wayne graduates to Seward would be explored. Integration of °
the River Forest program and the courses proposed at Fort Wayne *
has already been satisfactorily worked out by the two institutions.
involved. .

For the present, women students who receive a two-year col-”
lege training at Fort Wayne would be required to complete a min-”
imum of one summer session, with practice teaching, in residence
at River Forest or at Seward, in order to qualify for a temporary
appointment in a Lutheran parochial school; however, the Board.
for Higher Education strongly recommends that it be authorized. .
and directed to explore, in consultation with the staffs of the two -
institutions involved, the possibility of developing a plan which:
would make use of the excellent and numerous Fort Wayne Lu-
theran schools in the program of practice teaching. The Board.
for Higher Education further recommends, that it be authorized
to inaugurate such a program if and when a satisfactory pro-.
cedure is developed. p

To receive a three-year diploma, of course, would require
a full year of residence at one of the teachers’ colleges. Male stu