# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1048
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

350 - PARISH EDUCATION

fore, likely to be considerably more than 300 a year, Nor will this
be a temporary demand. All indications are ‘that the school system
will rather grow than decline, even if the recent high birth rate »
were to level off.. In any case, teacher production should greatly :4
increase, and this is not possible to the required extent with the #
present facilities of River Forest and Seward. ii

The Fifty-Per-Cent-Enrollment Goal my

The Board for Parish Education, as well as the District Boards;

are making supreme efforts to reach by 1972 the fifty-per-cent- 4
school-enrollment goal set by Synod in 1947. Since this will mean 4
an expansion in relation to the growth of Synod, it calls for a growth ‘4
of our present school system to twice its size and for many more :
than 300 new teachers each year up to 1972.

Non-Lutheran Children in School

During the year 1948, children heretofore unchurched and
from non-Synodical Conference churches accounted for 18.9 per
cent of the enrollment, while the same two classes of children -in
our Sunday schools made up 17.2 per cent of the Sunday school
enrollment. At that, large numbers of children were turned away
from the schools for lack’ of facilities, and the growing waiting
lists of numerous schools are a matter of grave concern. If we
were to open the school doors wide to non-Lutheran children and
establish more schools in our mission stations, the above-men=
tioned percentage would rise considerably. :

New Teaching Materials for Schools

The production of teaching materials for schools during the
past triennium is indicated below. .

Concordia Primary Religion Series (Grades 1—3): A Child’s
Garden of Bible Stories, by Arthur W. Gross, 1948; A Child’s
Garden of Song, by Theodore G. Stelzer, 1949; Workbook in
Primary Religion, Old Testament, Grade 1, by Dorothy Bangert,
1950; Workbook in Primary Religion, Old Testament, Grades 2
and 3, by Verona Bloedel, 1950; Teacher’s Manual, by Frank H.
Colba and Wm. A. Kramer, 1950. Two workbooks on the New
Testament, to be published in 1951, will complete the series, =

The Lutheran One-Teacher School, edited by Wm. A. Kramer, -
1949, deals with administration and instruction.

The Church Through the Ages, by S. J. Roth and Wm. A.
Kramer, 1949. A complete Church History textbook for Grades 6—8,

Treasury of Christian Literature, by Wm. A. Kramer and
Alfred Schmieding, 1949. Reader for Grades 7 and 8.