# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S6
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8 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

our future pastors. This particular splitting of the student body
has jeopardized the program seriously and should be corrected as
speedily as feasible. It is hoped that Synod will approve the
erection of two new dormitories at the earliest possible moment,
in order that the training program at the Seminary can go on
unimpeded.

Physical Education Director

The Field House, which was erected in 1949, has greatly assisted
in integrating the group and giving adequate facilities for the
physical health program of our students. Mr. Eldon E. Pederson
has continued to develop the program and has succeeded in gaining
the co-operation of better than 94% of the students. Once again
the value of this work was reflected in the generally excellent
health condition of the students. While it is true that graduate
and professional schools, generally speaking, do not have physical
education, the Board feels justified in requesting Synod to increase
its allowance of $2,000 a year to $4,000 a year toward. this physical
exercise and health program at the Seminary. We contend that
this program at the Seminary is as important in training a physically
strong ministry‘as the program of physical education at our colleges.
We also urge that Synod grant the allowance requested for the
completion of the Field House, in order that the ever-increasing
student body might be more efficiently served and that a general
assembly place be provided which would be large enough to take
care of our student body and visiting guests. In fall our present
auditorium will be too small for our Seminary constituency. It is
apparent, therefore, that we will need an auditorium larger than
the one available at the present time. A solution to this problem
may be found only in the completion of the Field House as an
auditorium as well as a physical health building.

During the past year 4 part-time registered nurse was engaged '
to assist in the student clinic. The student clinic is also manned
by two students who ‘act as clinical helpers. During the past years,
it was the Seminary’s good fortune to have students as medical
aids who had training in the military service. In the future, it will .
be necessary to consider seriously expanding the clinical health
program. It is hoped that in one of the contemplated dormitories
a hospital unit can be established to serve the needs of the students
more adequately.

Field Work Department

The Seminary requires for graduation that each student com-
plete four semesters of approved field work in residence and two
summers (minimum of eight weeks each) before he is assigned
to his year of vicarage by the Dean of Men.