# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S31
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 31

Additional Dormitory Building for Men

d system of ministerial and teacher training. However, as
‘one: of the two professional teachers’ colleges, we are painfully

ware of the fact that the field needs for graduate teachers, par-
ularly for women graduates, are not being met.

On December 19 and 20, 1952, a Conference on Teacher Train-
uthorized by the Board for Higher Education, was held on
campus, with representation from the Board for Higher Edu-

ion, each of the two teachers’ colleges, and the synodical junior

Heges at Fort Wayne, St. Paul, and Winfield. We appreciate the

; that the Board for Higher Education feels the same concern

that we do about the need for teachers and is willing to work with

us and Seward and try to co-ordinate and unify everyone’s efforts
the direction of meeting the need. We had hoped that it would

‘possible for the junior colleges to assume a substantial share
the responsibility for pre-teacher training of women in the

eshman and sophomore years, using existing facilities at these

fistitutions for that purpose. Upon completion of their two-year
reparation, these young women would be able to finish our synod-
minimum requirement of the three-year diploma in one year,
fof the four-year diploma and Bachelor’s degree in two years,
is what Synod envisioned in accepting the recommendations

the Board for Higher Education in 1950.

While it seems likely that the two teachers’ colleges will be
to meet Synod’s needs for male graduates within the next

years, the prospects of meeting the needs for women graduates

conference felt that something should be done. Our recom-
dation to the Board for Higher Education and to Synod is in

equest: If the junior colleges prove to be unable with present
ities to supply a significantly larger number of finished sopho-
..women to enter the third year at the teachers’ colleges in
“to insure the graduation of enough women to satisfy Synod’s
we respectfully request that further dormitory space be
d at Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, for the
of an additional 100—110 students. Such a dormitory unit
a’ cost a minimum of $350,000,

OTE: ‘This new unit would ‘be planned for men students, so that

» could in their senior year at least hope to live in modern
The old dormitories would continue to be allocated to men or

nally, we hope, remove the overcrowding that has now plagued
ents for over ten years.)