# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S12
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

12 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

student mission speakers where they are requested. The Mission
Call, published by the Society until the end of 1952, attained to
a circulation of 19,000. It is now published by Synod’s Department
of Stewardship, Missionary Education, and Promotion.

The Extension Division
This consists of three departments:
A. Correspondence. School

B. Extension Centers
C. Pastors’ Institutes

A. The Correspondence School: The Correspondence School
was established by resolution of Synod and opened in 1924. In 1946
it was completely reorganized and brought into line with modern
practice in this field of instruction. It aims to bring the regular
theological courses, as offered in the five Seminary departments of
study, within reach of the lonely missionary in distant lands, and
the pastor and teacher in neighboring or distant or isolated rural
parishes in the United States and Canada.

Courses. — Courses are offered in the five departments of the
undergraduate and graduate divisions of the Seminary. A total of
forty-one courses are Now available. Additional courses are added
when instructors can be secured. The courses are given by twenty-
one members of the Seminary staff and four other qualified men.

Enrollment. — The total enrollment for the current triennium —

was 216 students. These students live in 33 States and the following
foreign countries: Australia, New Guinea, Canada, Cuba, Guam,
India, England, Germany, China, the Philippines, South America,
and Hawaii.

B. Extension Centers: Students enrolled in the Extension Cen-
ters are given graduate credit. During the past triennium a center
was operated in Milwaukee under the deanship of Prof. Paul F.
Koehneke. Professors of the Seminary faculty and other instructors
approved by the faculty taught the courses at the. Milwaukee
Extension Center. This service should be expanded.

C. Pastors’ Institutes: Pastors’ Institutes were conducted at
Portland, Oreg.

The Summer School .

Complying with a resolution of Synod,. Concordia Seminary
established a Summer School. The purpose of the Summer School
is to give pastors and other professional church workers and
graduate students an opportunity to continue their studies in
theology on an advanced level. The first session was conducted in
the summer of 1951, consisting of two terms of three weeks each.