# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S949
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 251

7. The current report proposes additional reorganization within
the existing system by providing for:
a. Some expansion of the capacity at River Forest (from
500 to 600).

b. Opening four additional preparatory institutions for pre-
teacher training work (Fort Wayne, St.Paul, Oakland,
Portland).

ce. Providing additional capacity at St. Louis through the
removal of one year from the current program and
through the establishment of some additional, off-campus
facilities for the Department of Missions and the Graduate
School.

d. Eliminating the high school and establishing a two-year
junior college (Fort Wayne) to produce additional minis-
terial candidates and to test the possibility of using the
Lutheran high schools as a substitute for synodical high
schools.

e. Experimenting with a four-year junior college at, pos-
sibly, several locations to see whether that plan can be
made to contribute a larger volume of ministerial candi-
dates without requiring Synod to expand the preparatory
system.

8. The current report contains the specific detail and the
recommendations which Synod ordered prepared on the
senior college and which the Centennial Convention resolved
to establish.

9. To carry out this program successfully will inevitably make
it necessary for Synod to meet the often-postponed problem
of putting our currently declining educational properties
into sound condition, to take action on the backlog of genuine
needs which has accumulated from a series of unmet re-
quests in the past, and to provide for the expansion required
by the addition of a senior college. The financial implications
of our situation are correctly reflected in the following:
a. Required to complete the education section of

the “Building for Tomorrow” collection (the
projects approved by the Centennial Conven-
tion), approximately 202. eee eee $ 500,000

b. Required to meet the college and seminary
requests now pending before the 1950 conven-
tion (excluding the column headed “Minor
Items, Immediately Urgent” in Section C),
approximately eae 2,750,000