# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S80
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80 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Summary

High School Teacher-Training Students: Men Women Total ‘¥

Institutions without teacher-training course 92 10 102
Institutions with a teacher-training course _ 43 60 103

Seward 22 SCO 55 115
Totals ee ee —~ 195 125 320
College Teacher-Training Students: Men Women Total
Institutions without teacher-training course 17 14 31
Institutions with a teacher-training course _ 62 208 270
Teachers’ colleges: River Forest — 327 231 558

Seward 2 129 116s

Totals oo 535 (569-1104 4

With the foregoing enrollments in the fall of 1952, the institu-4
tions placed the following number of graduates and students in
service in 1953:

Table IE
Graduates and Students in 1953
Graduates Two-Year Training Total
Men Women Men Women

River Forest .. 74 52 35 35 196
Seward 336 20 10 24 90
Fort Wayne . 10 10
St.Paul __ a 16 16
Winfield ___ _ 50 50
Totals __... 110 72 45 135 362

In December, 1952, representatives of the colleges for teacher}
training and the Board for Higher Education met in River Fore tg
to determine the teacher demand in the near future. On the basis#
of data on hand, they set a tentative goal of 125 men graduates an
375 women teachers a year —a total of 500 persons.

The Excessive Teacher Demand
At the time of the River Forest meeting, no one knew precisely:
what the annual demand for teachers was or what it might be
during the immediate future. At the assignment meeting in theg
spring of 1952, a total of 528 calls and applications for teachers was
received. It is a mistake to regard this the annual needs o
nearly so. Since only 339 persons were available, 189 positions re:
mained unsupplied. While the School Office expected that
figure, 189, would mount to 250 by summer or fall, it did not havi
the facts then, either, and completely underestimated the deman
THE REMAINING DEMAND WAS 494, or almost 500. This f:
was. established by the Teachers’ Bureau of your Board for Parish
Education through a name-for-name comparison of the 1951
teachers with those of 1952—53. This was possible only because th
new statistical blanks require the listing and classification of th
teachers and because the returns were practically 100 per cen
complete. The study, which was finished only by the end of Jana