# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S81
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 81

953, revealed that the elementary school system (not in all
Church) had lost 634 teachers of all types, the largest
y:temporary teachers, from September, 1951, to September,

had a net gain of 199 classrooms — causing a demand of
“teachers in one year. Of these 833 teachers, Synod fur-
nly a.fraction over 40 per cent (339 persons), and the con-
ms and District officials had to find almost 60 per cent (494
).. The details of the study are given in Tables III and IV.

Table III -
Teacher Losses and Transfers
September, 1951, to September, 1952
Elementary Schools, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod

g g
#22 g 23
of ‘Teachers g E a 24 no oy 88 sa $ § a 8
: # 8 5 0 8% 8 ag q Sg
e © Be sk $ st 28 § g #8
a 2 ¢ 3 ge * & 88
* Ff 4a 2 a
32.13 3 3 13 1 «65 125 190
60 1 61 36 97
10 37 47 3 50
57 24 81 30 Ili
100 15 1 116 36 152
131 4 1 136 26 162
3 aa =—.20 20 20
en Teachers 13 1 14 1 15
vomen Teach. 87 7 94 ._ 14 108
wee 510 13 3 92 14 2 634 19.9 271 905 27.4

MI-steady women teachers are “vegular women teachers,” includ-
men graduates and many women students who remain out teach-
EI e only those not trained by our teachers’ colleges are meant,

led men teachers constituted 44.7 per cent of the whole

force in September, 1951. If the losses among them had
reat as among the other teachers, they would have to: show
44.7 per cent of the total loss. But their loss was only a

of the 10-per-cent Ioss of installed men, their number
47 since September, 1951.

Bure of 125 transfers of installed men is also moderate.
ears it has been as high as 165 or 175.