# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S92
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92 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

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Co-educational Teacher-Training Students
at Concordia College, Portland, Oreg.
Wuenreas, We believe there is need for a co-educational teache:
training school in the Northwestern region of the United Sta

Wuereas, We believe that such a school would provi
a stimulus for promoting more parochial schools in the Northwe

are too far removed to create that stimulus and interest in
Northwest;

Wuereas, We believe that o our existing institution in the No:
west, Concordia College at Portland, Oreg., should be utilized
an even greater advantage and for economical reasons (as
would not necessitate the building of a new institution);

Wuereas, We believe that since this program can and has b
carried on in other Concordias, it can be done here to great
advantage to our entire Church; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Board for Higher Education of The L
theran Church — Missouri Synod consider this matter in the d
velopment of our educational program and be encouraged to
such plans as would include co-educational teacher training.
Concordia College, Portland, Oreg., according to its own educ
tional pattern in the very near future.

MemoriaL LUTHERAN CHURCH, VANCOUVER, W.
Ewan BurcsTaHter, President
Lewis Moore, Secretary
Joun R. STERNBERG, Pastor

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Establishment of Terminal. Professional Trainin:
for The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod

on the. Pacific Coast
The Faculty and Board of Control of California Concor
College submit for serious synodical consideration and plan

the project of establishing a theological seminary and a termi
teacher-training school at a central location on the Pacific C

Toward the execution of this project the following propositi
and considerations are submitted: