# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S760
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

62 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

of God’s Word, and Participation in activities in harmony with it,
the daily contacts in corridor and classroom, in dining hall and
chapel, in study groups and committee work, in training school
tours and mission activities, have, by God’s grace, led to a mutual
respect between the men and women and a fellowship which is
remarkable. Coeducation has done much in the twelve years of its
existence at Concordia to prepare not only our women, for whom
it was intended, but our men as well, for their places in Christian
congregations as teachers of the boys and girls, counselors of the
young men and women, and co-workers with their colleagues of
both sexes and with the fathers and mothers of their school chil-
dren. We are thankful that the synodical convention of 1938 saw
fit to establish a coeducational environment for our teachers in
training because of the wholesome attitudes it creates and the high
moral tone of the coeds we have been able to recruit.

Summer School, Extension, Correspondence, and Other
Educational Services

For the past eighteen years the Summer School has played
a very significant part in the in-service training of our Christian
day school teachers, both men and women. Especially during the
war it also served well in the acceleration of our teacher-training
program for regular students, in the training of pre-theological
students for a year or more of teaching in the parish schools, and
in the preparation of large numbers of emergency teachers of
various types. During the past triennium it has continued these
activities as needed and has added workshops in Arts and Crafts,
Visual Aids, Elementary Education in the One-Room School,
Secondary Education, Adult Education, ete. The Summer School
operates under a separate Dean, but is integrated with the regular
program of the college, and its courses carry the same credit.
The resident enrollment of the Summer School during the trien-
nium: has been as follows: -

Resident Enrollment in Summer School

Men ‘ Women Total
19470 160 190 350
1948 176 303
1949 a =—s-« 162 249 411

The pattern of many years of operating extension centers and
giving correspondence courses was continued during the past
triennium, with total annual enrollments of 233 in 1947—-48, 243 in
1948—49, and 258 in 1949—50. Thus the total number of students -
of: all kinds served by Summer School, Extension, and Corre-
spondence offerings in the past three years has been 583, 546, and
669 respectively.