# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S904
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

206 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

curriculum at St.Paul. The offerings of this institution would be
available to men and women. Women students who receive a two- j
year college training at St.Paul would be required to complete 3
a minimum of one summer session, with practice teaching, in
residence at Seward or at River Forest in order to qualify for
a temporary appointment in a Lutheran parochial school; how-
ever, the Board for Higher Education strongly recommends that
it be authorized and directed to explore, in consultation with the
staffs of the two schools involved, the possibility of developing
a plan which would make use of the excellent and numerous
St.Paul and Minneapolis Lutheran schools in the program of
practice teaching, and the Board for Higher Education recom-
mends further that it be authorized to inaugurate such a program
if and when a satisfactory procedure is developed. To receive
a three-year diploma, of course, would require a full year in
residence at one of the teachers’ colleges. Male students would
require two years in residence at one of the teachers’ colleges in
order to qualify for the Bachelor of Science in Education degree.

The St. Paul program is proposed in order to secure an appre-
ciably increased volume of, primarily, women pre-teacher train-
ing “graduates” at an early date. (For startling evidence of the
tremendous growth of the use of women teachers in Synod be-
tween 1938 and 1948, see Exhibit 8, page 207.) Since the St. Paul
institution is the only synodical institution in which vacant space
is now available, the arrangement would appear to be ideal. An
entire building, for which remodeling plans were already drawn
some years ago, could be converted to a women’s dormitory. The
very large demand of the Minnesota area for parochial school
teachers also makes St. Paul a natural recruiting station for this
type of professional student.

Although the school has had some experience with emergency
teacher training programs (two summers), it would be planned to
establish the new program with the help of the River Forest col-
lege. This might mean that a staff member would be transferred
to St.Paul in order to serve on the St. Paul college faculty as,
possibly, dean of the school of education.

The fact that the St.Paul institution is scheduled to receive
a library from the “Building for Tomorrow” collection and a phys-
ical education building from the District (memorial building): is
another favorable factor. Relationships with the University of
Minnesota are also well established. “Minor staff and equipment
additions would be necessary.

Under these. circumstances it appears that the school could’
absorb an additional 60 to 70 students, could set up the program
and operate it with a minimum of disruption of the present six-
year program for ministerial students.