# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S7
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 7

-- J, Bwo semesters of observation and participation in the
parishes of the St.Louis area correlated with classroom work in
Administration and Religious Education.

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II: Two semesters of work with groups and individuals in the
institutions of the St. Louis area correlated with classroom work
. in Pastoral Theology.

_ I. Summer Field Work is carried out either in parishes or
secular-parish assignments. The requirements for approved sec-
ular-parish assignments are: (1) The student must work with
people; (2) The student must submit personal reports of his
contacts; (3) The supervisor of the student submits an evaluation
of the student as a person; (4) Fulfillment of minimum pastoral
work: preaching four times, altar services, active participation in
two areas of church work (administration, education, calling and
visitation, group activity).

Assignments of students are made on the basis of the student’s
- neéds, viewed in conjunction with his resident field work per-
ss formarice. —

Clinical Training

. Meeting the standards of the National Conference on Clinical
~ Training, the Seminary now requires a course of Orientation to
"Clinical Training of each Il§-year student.
i In addition, a Clinical ffyaining program is being offered to
. students completing a minitdlim of two semesters’ hospital orien-
:. tation and orderly work. #& }.
\. ‘A Clinical Workshop c ;is being offered for pastors in the
graduate school. A Clinica aining program for pastors in the
field is planned, and will be offered as soon as the details can be
worked out and arrangements with a hospital completed.

ra Pritzlaff Memorial Library

. Pritzlaff Memorial Library has, up to the present time, shelved
46,000 volumes—an_ increase of some 5,000 volumes since our
‘peport to the Milwaukee convention. Some 2,000 volumes, already

lved, had to be reworked for various reasons. Rev. E. J. Saleska’s
staff includes a woman cataloguer, office assistant, desk clerk, and
art-time catalogue worker, plus part-time student help. We are
ced by the annual $5.00 student library fee, the synodical
gentribution fixed by the educational budget of Synod (the 1952—53
owance was $3,000), and, until 1952, by an annual $500 contri-
tion to the Pritzlaff Endowment Fund by Mr. F. Pritzlaff of