# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S761
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 68

4 The college has been privileged to aid in the development of
s an Adult Education Institute, conducted by the Northern Illinois
| District, with an enrollment of 182 in its first session in the fall of
. 1949, and a similar one planned for this spring. We have also
f permitted the use of our buildings and facilities by various District
; and synodical boards and committees for workshops and other
| group meetings. Thus Concordia Teachers College seeks to devote
' its resources and teaching personnel to all possible phases of the
Church’s educational program.

Graduates and Supply Teachers
The past three school years saw the following number of
graduations from the synodically prescribed teacher-training

curricula: Men Women Total
194647 20 20 40
1947—48 . _— 34 29 63
;. Nearly all the men took the four-year diploma and Bachelor’s
degree, and most of the women the three-year synodical teacher-
training diploma, from which point many will work on toward
the degree in summer sessions and correspondence courses while
they are teaching in the field. While the tabulation will not be
completed until the end of the summer session in August, it appears
that the total number of graduates granted diplomas at the four
graduation exercises of the current school year 1949—50 will be 81,
including 26 for the three-year teaching diploma and 55 for the
Bachelor’s degree. Within two years, when the effect of the dis-
continuance of the High School becomes fully operative, the num-
ber of graduates will be much larger. If Synod can grant our
request for additional dormitory space (Memorial C) and other
facilities, the number of graduates supplied will, by God’s grace,
be correspondingly increased. In the meantime we are urgently
requesting all pastors, teachers, and congregations of Synod, as
well as our Lutheran high schools, to help us recruit well-qualified
young Christians to enter freshman or advanced: college classes,
Though we have often been forced to keep highly qualified young
women on our waiting list because of lack of space, we have never
yet excluded a male high school graduate whose official record
showed the proper physical, mental, and educational qualifications
and who had the recommendation of his pastor as to his religious
attitude and moral fitness for the teaching profession. We inten
to continue this policy.
The ten-year summary report of our Director of Student
Teaching and Placement shows that in the past triennium 99, 99,