# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S994
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296 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES
the preparatory institutions have also set up summer schools in #4
order to use both the time and the campus available for this worth-.4
while purpose. These have met with varied success. og
It would seem that Synod ought to make use of its very ex-
tensive investments on the various campuses of the preparatory
institutions. Great benefits could undoubtedly be achieved if good 3
teaching staffs could be made available for the in-service training 4
of ministers and teachers who would find it possible to take re-..4
fresher courses in such summer sessions. Such faculties could bes
recruited from the existing faculties at our seminaries, teachers’
colleges, and preparatory schools, and it should be possible, ‘in
addition, to secure outstanding. teachers from the ranks of our
own clergy and from the ranks of American colleges and univer-
sities, where summer school transfer of instructors is a well-es-
tablished practice. ue
Because it believes that a proper development of these avail-
able resources would bring inestimable blessings to the work of
our Church, the Board for Higher Education recommends that
a. The preparatory institutions be authorized to use their
synodical facilities for conducting summer schools for the
in-service training of pastors and teachers in their area,

. b. The Board for Higher Education be directed to assist these
schools in the use of their campuses for such purposes, by.
helping to secure personnel, by assisting in the preparation

of an adequate program where possible, by co-ordinating’

the programs of the various institutions, and by assisting

these schools financially where that becomes necessary. ;

ce. An annual appropriation of $5,000 be placed at the disposal -..3§
of the Board for Higher Education for this purpose annually...2
during the next triennium. ;

ACTION
Upon recommendation of Committee 1, Synod resolved:

Resolution 22
Wuergas, According to the regulations appearing in Handbook
Section 6.161d only the “seminary at St.Louis and the teachers’
colleges are authorized to conduct summer schools”; and
Wuereas, Other of our educational institutions have also’
sought to expand their service to the Church in this manner; and |
Wuereas, It appears that Synod should make fullest use of its:
very extensive investments also on the various campuses of th
preparatory institutions; therefore be it :
Resolved,
a. That the educational institutions be authorized to use their .

synodical facilities for conducting summer schools for the
in-service training of pastors and teachers in their area.