# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S5
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 5

Bresses. from stage to Stage in the Field Work program. The
ector of Field Work also instructs several classes and works
iitimately in the counseling program of the students. In view of
hei importance of his Position and the fact that he also teaches
toral Theology courses on the upper level, his position should
“made a full professorship. The position would still remain,
owever, administratively under the office of the Dean of Men.
hig, arrangement was made in the past and should continue in ‘the
iture because of the nature of the work of the Field Work Director.
: tk involves personnel requirements, and all personnel re-
sponsibilities are under the Dean of Men at the Seminary. .The
istrative position should be included in the Synodical Hand-
00: ‘under Section 6.52 e.
_ The on-the-job reports of all student workers in the field, to-
gether with a comprehensive report from the supervising pastors,
v again aided the administration to achieve a better understand-
ing of our students. The outcome and findings resulting from these
reports and the interviews that follow are carried to the faculty
inorder that the Seminary program as‘a whole may be given
thor ugh consideration in terms of the needs of the field. By this
“inethod it is hoped to co-ordinate the training program with the
Stual instruction of the classroom to an ever-increasing degree.
Sthe individual student proceeds through the Seminary, a careful
drd’is kept of his progress and constant attention is given to his
éds'as a total personality. In connection with this program, as
Hl"'as the entire Field Work program, a word of sincere appre-
tion is in order for the splendid co-operation and help extended
by ‘pastors, teachers, and congregations of Synod. Without their

sinderstanding and sympathy an effective program could not be
ntinued and improved.

Bie Housing of Students

#oDuring the past triennium, because of the increase of students,
itubecame necessary to acquire apartment units off the campus.
Ssarrangement is not a very happy solution to a very pressing
toblem.. Synod is advised to move as quickly as possible in
Morrecting this emergency measure. Experience has demonstrated
tour students are actually divided into two campuses: the one
#the ‘original De Mun campus, which involves, in the main, first-
d second-year men; and the second, the apartment campus which
olvés third- and fourth-year men. This dividing of the student
d some serious problems in student control. The