# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S212
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

' 2. We have already passed the 250 mark in ministerial vacan.

cies in our regular North American parishes. The Work of
our parochial schools is handicapped by a similar Shortage

3. To meet today’s demand for teachers and the ministeria}
needs indicated for 1958 to 1964, we must initiate Some ad.
justments of our training system now.

4. The exhaustive statistical studies of the Board’s current re_
Port indicate that if our Synod maintains the same rate of
growth which it has enjoyed since 1930, our present educa.
tional facilities are hopelessly inadequate for our require.
ments after 1964,

5. We can no longer delay the planning of expanded educa.
tional facilities, because the practical effects of a Program
which will achieve increased volume become available to
us ten years after the fund-raising and the adjustments
involved have been completed.

6. The only adjustments which can be undertaken without

further synodical authorization have already been com.

pleted:

a. The entire high school department at River Forest has
been eliminated in order to double the college capacity
of the institution.

b. The high school departments of all preparatory institu.
tions have been opened to teacher training students.

¢. The preparatory school at Winfield, Kans., has been
authorized to operate a teacher training department for
women.

The current report proposes additional reorganization within

the existing system by providing for:

a. Some. expansion of the capacity at River Forest (from
500 to 600).

b. Opening four additional Preparatory institutions for pre-
teacher training work (Fort Wayne, St. Paul, Oakland,
Portland).

c. Providing additional capacity at St. Louis through the
removal of one year from the current program and
through the establishment of some additional, off-campus
facilities for the Department of Missions and the Graduate

School.

d. Eliminating the high school and establishing a two-year

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‘ junior college (Fort Wayne) to produce additional minis-

terial candidates and to test the Possibility of using the

Lutheran high schools as a substitute for synodical high :

schools.

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e. Experimenting with a four-year junior college at, pos-
sibly, several locations to gee whether that plan can be
made to contribute a larger volume of ministerial candi-

, dates without requiring Synod to expand the preparatory
system. .

8. The current report contains the specific detail and the
recommendations which Synod ordered Prepared on the

9. To carry out this program successfully wil] inevitably make
it necessary for Synod to meet the often-postponed problem

a. Required to complete the education section of

the “Building for Tomorrow” collection (the

projects approved by the Centennial Conven-

tion), approximately $ 500,000
b. Required to meet the college and seminary

requests now pending before the 1950 conven-

tion (excluding the column headed “Minor

Items, Immediately Urgent” in Section C),

approximately Torrrent ccnnneenene cee eee 2,750,000
ce. Required to cover the costs of the reorganiza-

tion recommended in the Board’s current pro-

. Section C), approximately oa 270,000
d. Required to cover the costs of building the

Senior college, approximately Tne 2,500,000

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$6,020,000

10. According to synodical resolution no educational construc-
tion (except faculty housing) may be undertaken unless
all funds required are available in cash.

Because the Board for Higher Education believes that the facts