# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1005
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 807

clude required courses in public speaking; 2. There is a need
* trained men to teach such courses); therefore be it

Resolved,

1. That the Board for Higher Education be authorized to
disburse the speech funds already made available to it through
the Centennial Thankoffering for all purposes which in the
Board’s opinion will contribute toward improvement in the
program of training professional and pre-professional stu-
dents for greater proficiency in public speaking;

2. That the Board for Higher Education be authorized to
’ approve the introduction of a course in public speaking into
: the curriculum or the substitution of such a course for cur-
rently required courses at institutions where present curricular
requirements make it impossible for ministerial students to
take such training as part of their regular program of in-
struction.

“Indigent Student Funds”

Adhering to its original purposes for the professional schools,
e Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod has long maintained a
program designed to provide for the needs of students in its
colleges. Synod was remarkably foresighted in arranging that
jualified students should not be denied the right to train for its
service, by providing for free tuition, for student work funds, and
y encouraging District aid funds.

The Board for Higher Education has had so many and such
Finsistent requests for reviews of this system that it undertook to
rovide for a detailed study of the entire subject of “student aid”
Within the Church. This study was made by Dr. Albert Huegli
sf our River Forest college at the request of the Board for Higher
Education. It was presented for detailed discussion to the college
4 presidents and sent to the “Indigent Student Fund” representatives
B cin every District for analysis and comment.

_. The reactions conveyed to the Board indicate that some specific
uggestions on basic principles, organization, and procedures would
-- be welcomed by most Districts. The information and the recom-
™ mendations supplied to this convention are based upon two mo-
ivating premises:

1. The intention of the Church in operating a system of pro-
fessional schools is that it shall receive from them a con-
tinuous supply of apt and able, well-qualified and well-
trained leaders in school and parish life. In pulpit or in
classroom the Church cannot afford mediocrity. The times
are too urgent, the task too great, the opportunities too
limitless. The strategy of the armies of the Lord must be
planned and executed by the best we have among us.

2. No young man or woman who has the necessary gifts, con-
secration, and zeal for professional service in the Church