# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S948
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

250 ' SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

immediate expansion program to meet our current shortages and 3
our future volume requirements for trained workers, and with the 4
synodical resolution calling for the achievement of higher standards 4
of ministerial training through the addition of a senior college. ‘

Your Board for Higher Education sees no alternative to an 4
immediate and determined effort to solve this combination of crucial’ 4
problems, since our failure to do so will inevitably, as far as human r
beings can see, have a tragic effect on every existing and future ;
undertaking of our Synod.

The Board’s report presents a detailed analysis of our present
situation and proposes an adequate solution. The following perti-
nent factors which summarize the extremely complex and inter- ;
related considerations developed in the Board’s extensive report .§
deserve careful appraisal:

1. Every phase of our work as individual congregations and .§
as a Synod depends, under God, on an adequate supply of i
properly trained workers. 4

2. We have already passed the 250 mark in ministerial vacan~ 4
cies in our regular North American parishes. The work of -4
our parochial schools is handicapped by a similar shortage. @

3. To meet today’s demand for teachers and the ministerial
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, i,

6. The only adjustments which can be undertaken without 4
further synodical authorization have already been com-
pleted: - , 7g
a. The entire high school department at River Forest has -

been eliminated in order to double the college capacity 4
of the institution. 4
b. The high school departments of all preparatory institu- —
tions have been opened to teacher training students.
c. The preparatory school at Winfield, Kans. has been:

authorized to operate a teacher training department for ©
women, ,