# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S114
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114 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

[148]

Use an Existing Plant for Senior College

Wuereas, Available funds at this time are not sufficien
carry out the program of erecting a new plant for the Sen
College; and

Wuergas, We do not believe that it would be good steward
in the Kingdom of God to erect new educational facilities, w! ie
would involve the collection of additional funds, at the expense’
the highly promising mission fields which the Lord has grant
us; therefore be it ;

Resolved, That; at least for the present, one of our exi
educational plants be used for the proposed Senior College.

Tue Srorm Laxe Circuit PastoraL CONFERENG
oF THE Iowa District WEST
Rev. Ricoarp LAMMERS, Secretary

[149]
Overture on the Senior College

plan of a senior college on a new and separate campus.
Two factors enter into this proposal. One is that Synod

course (two years) as at present. The other is that the exp
of Lutheran elementary schools in Synod will require increé
numbers of women teachers and that the time is approaching
throughout the country a four-year college program will be st:
ard preparation for teachers in elementary schools..

This situation would seem to suggest the conversion of se’
“preparatory schools” into four-year colleges, each with an en
ment of approximately 500 students, which would serve the
(a) by preparing men for Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,
(b) by preparing women for teaching in Lutheran elem
schools. ;

in the junior year from the remaining junior colleges would ;
our ministerial students and our Church better in student dev
ment: as well as student recruitment than a four-year pro:
which is broken in the middle for all students.

It would seem to us that with intensive preparation a