# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S34
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

84 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Summer Session: To help supply the needed personnel for the
growing system of Lutheran schools, summer sessions have been
held to serve such teachers as desired to shorten the time of prep-
aration, or aS returned for additional training. The summer school
enrollment has been relatively constant.

Workshops and Evening Classes: The college has instituted
workshops for choir directors and church organists. A successful
and significant Visitors’ Workshop was conducted last summer
under the able direction of Vice-President Arnold Grurmm, D. D.
Evening classes are scheduled for both on- and off-campus
students.

The September F ield Experience: An innovation of consider-
able promise was introduced this year. Under this program junior

class students spend a week before coming to the campus in a
Lutheran elementary school, usually near their home, to gain 4
firsthand practical experience during the opening week of the new @
school term. The initial effort proved to be very satisfactory, and 4

the program is being further developed.

The High School
Few changes have been made in the curriculum of Concordia
High School. That the present courses are successfully accomplish-
ing the task of training students is evident when comparison of ;
the group with national norms is made. Such inspection of their «
performance indicates that our high school students rank far above
the average in performance.
With the exception of one or two day students all boys and
girls enrolled in the high school are preparing for the work of
the Church, the majority for the teaching profession and some of
the boys for the ministry.
Enrollment
The college enrollment at Seward has grown steadily while
the high school has been limited to about 35 students per class in
order to favor the college. The average total enrollment has ex-
ceeded 600 students for the past three years. A summary. report
shows the following: :

COLLEGE
Regular Session Summer Session :
Men Women Total Men Women ‘otal .
1950-51 _---— 152 116 268 71 155 232
1951-52 149 135 284 56 147
1952-53, ___— 156 140 296 83 120 203
. HIGH SCHOOL
. Grand Total
Boys Girls Total (counting each name but once)’
1950-51 _--- 82 58 ~ 140 1950-51 __------------ _. 613
1951-52 —.---- 85 54 139 1951-52
4952-53 ___—_ 79 54 133 1952-53 __-—---—_—- 60!