# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S953
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 255

ACTION

Concerning Section “D,” Committee 1 recommended certain
ges in the proposed schedule in the following resolution, which

s adopted: Resolution 26

Wuereas, The far-reaching reorganization and expansion pro-
am proposed by the Board for Higher Education makes it neces-
y in the interest of orderly procedure to project a proposed
schedule of operations which indicates the order in which the
ious parts of the plans that have been adopted shall be carried
t; therefore be it
Resolved, To accept the recommendations submitted to us by
he Board for Higher Education (pages 252—254) with the fol-
Wing changes: .

a. Delete Paragraph 5, page 253.

b.. Delete Paragraph 6, page 253.

c. In Section f (last line) strike the word “expect” and sub-
tute the word “require.”

Nore. —- The collection referred to in Paragraph 4 is included under
$10,000,000 collection proposed in Memorial 804.

i‘ Section E. Integration of Lutheran High Schools

In its Centennial Convention, Synod adopted the: following
=. directive:
“That the Board for Higher Education be directed to study the
ossibility of developing a subsidy arrangement with the Lutheran
h school for the production of acceptable candidates for ma-
‘triculation at freshman college levels of our colleges at River Forest
and Seward and to report its conclusions to the next convention of
ynod.” (Memorial 127—-Resolution 7, Official Proceedings, 1947.)

Since their founding, our Lutheran high schools have been
a recruitment source for students for our seminaries and teachers
‘ colleges. In connection with the suggested elimination of the high
chool departments of our teachers colleges, the Centennial Con-
vention gave attention to the problem of recruiting more Lutheran
' high school students for professional service in the Church. It was
p felt that some kind of subsidy arrangement would be helpful in
f implementing this proposal. In recognition of the proposal to ex-
F periment with the elimination of the high school division at Fort
¢ Wayne, the Board’s recommendation expands the application of
F such a plan to include students for the ministerial preparatory
f college at that location.

4 While a direct subsidy to Lutheran high schools in ratio to the
¢ number of professional students enrolled would be a simple plan,