# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S11
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES — . dt

’ Enrollment.— The total number of students enrolled in the
ast triennium in courses provided by the Mission Department
‘Was 51. In this group were: 20 men, 9 married women, 6 single
“women, 6 undergraduate students, 10 students from Springfield
and St. Louis preparing for a two-year vicarage in Japan.
A total of 163 persons have received training in the Mission
Department since its establishment. This figure does not include
‘graduate students who took courses in the Mission Department.
Former students of the Department have served or are serving
in India, Ceylon, China, Hong Kong, Formosa, Japan, the Philip-
pines, New Guinea, Nigeria, and Cuba.
Courses and Instructors. — Courses vary from year to year
“dééording to the needs of the students enrolled. The offerings
during the past triennium included History of India, of Japan,
éf Islam, of the Philippines, of New Guinea, of Africa, and of
". €eylon; History of Missions in India, in New Guinea, in Africa,
: {a Japan, in the Philippines, and among Moslems; Comparative
Religion; Missionary Methods, Missionary Administration; Health
- Courses for Missionaries; language courses in Japanese, Chinese,
* Arabic, Spanish, and Sign; and several courses in religion for
‘ women,
..» Most courses were offered by Professor Zimmermann, others
‘were given by two professors, two pastors, and one missionary.
"Five students were employed to teach Spanish, four Sign, and
ng Japanese. .
Mission Library. — The Mission Library was founded in 1946
. through a special gift of the Rev. and Mrs. Herman Mayer, both
tudents of the Mission Department. To date a total of 1,251 books ~
“has been catalogued in the Mission Library section of Pritzlaff
“Memorial Library. In addition, the Department owns over 525
¥ lumes of mission periodicals. Current mission magazines covering
ost mission fields are available to the student.
"The ‘Mission Department’s Influence on the Campus. —The
healthy interest in missions among Seminary students is directly
; traceable to the influence of the Mission Department and the
Presence on the campus of foreign missionaries, both men and
women. The Students’ Foreign Missions Society meets every two
weeks. It presents successful missionaries and moving pictures
‘¥elative to foreign missions. It also features pageants and open
forums. During this triennium, 110 students offered five cents
& ‘day, for missions. This made it possible to send one vicar more
into foreign fields than the Boards had planned, The 110-Plan has
grown, and more students are now contributing, so that three extra
jears were supported: during the past year. The Society sends