# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S176
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

174 — SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

ful investigation of the pre-ministerial education possibilities j.4
herent in the Lutheran high school. a

Finally, the economic pressures which demand every posging4
economy in the training of ministers and teachers require thor, . :
exploration of any possible use of this new educational tool,

Wuy Fort Wayne? 4

At no other place in Synod do we find such a nearly ideal
combination offering favorable opportunity for experimentation, If j
Synod were to set out to create the conditions which exist ready:
made at Fort Wayne, it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars
to prepare them. i

Here we have a campus on which both a Lutheran high schog
and a synodical high school are in operation. Just at this time tha
Lutheran high school is ready to begin construction (over $300,000) 4
of its own building on a section of the synodical campus. The ®
faculty of this school is experienced and has proved its competence: #
Many of the major facilities which Synod has built on the college 4
campus are now being rented and used by the Lutheran High#
School Association. ;

Under the plan here proposed it would still be possible for
the pre-ministerial students from the general area to attend a Lu. *
theran high school because Synod would supply (at cost) a dor.
mitory for their use and boarding facilities on the Fort Wayne
campus. Synod has a vital stake in the high school training of i
future ministers and would be justified in making this contr
bution. The arrangement would make it possible for many of
the young men who are preparing for the ministry to be on the%
very campus where they would later enter college, and they could?
absorb much of the atmosphere which is now received. Instead
‘of taking their classwork in the college buildings, these students;
would follow the same program (with fewer language courses)
in. the high school building. Many of them would continue to?
live in the college dormitory and would also use other colleges
facilities (campus, gymnasium, library, chapel).

The situation also creates a unique opportunity to work
close harmony in the area of administration, since the coll
Board of Control must necessarily have final authority over all
the synodical properties. The Board and the Association have.
already had several years of experience in this type of co-operation,

Orner LotHeran Hicu ScHoorts

At no other place in Synod do we find a college located i
such favorable relationship to Lutheran high schools in the regi
Seven of them are located within a 400 mile radius: Cleveland
Detroit, Fort Wayne, Milwaukee, Racine, Chicago, St. Louis. (Se