# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S894
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 197

ie Midwest Lutheran high schools, will be attracted to this institu-
Mion. The details on these adjustments are included in the Board’s
recommendations on “Integration of Lutheran High Schools” in
Section VI of the current report.

An adequate recruitment program is to be developed during
he next five years, becoming fully effective in 1956, when the
thodical high school will no longer supply college freshmen. Re-
truitment efforts are to be concentrated on the seven Lutheran
gh schools which are now located within a four hundred mile
fadius of Fort Wayne.

_ A student scholarship plan (detailed in Section VI of this
Teport) is to be part of the recruitment programm. If necessary,
fa religion teacher could be furnished to the Fort Wayne Lutheran
gh school by Synod.

In addition, the Board recommends the establishment of a two-
ar pre-teacher training course at Fort Wayne. For the present
e total enrollment in this department is to be limited to 60 stu-
ents 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
gher 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
kWayne graduates to Seward would be explored. Integration of
the River Forest program and the courses proposed at Fort Wayne
thas already been satisfactorily worked out by the two institutions
Finvolved.

4 For the present, women students who receive a two-year col-
‘lege training at Fort Wayne would be required to complete a min-
fimum 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
E for Higher Education strongly recommends that it be authorized
F and directed to explore, in consultation with the staffs of the two
‘institutions involved, the possibility of developing a plan which
F 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-
F cedure is developed.

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