# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S120 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 120 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES ministerial and teacher training. In many instances such use volves also the introduction of coeducation (more than he Synod’s preparatory schools are now coeducational). The Analysis of Preparatory School Enrollments 2800 2600 2400 2200 2000 1800 1600 1400 1290 Total Prepar School Enroll: 1000 900 800 700 600 TN TINT _ ° B _ DAE Enrollment Non-professio Enrollment ; 500 450 400 350 300 HTH NOE 250 CUA 200 150 100_L , 1946 47 ; 48 4 49 50 _ 5) 52 automatically brings a corresponding reduction of the use of: facilities for students who are not preparing for full-time se in the Church. The graph on this page illustrates the tremen inerease of teacher-training students at the preparatory sch and the ‘parallel decline. in general education enrollments. enrollments and ministerial enrollments at these schools rem almost static. ae e ; -‘The main reason for the shifting enrollment ratios is, of cou the increasing demand for women ‘teachers (illustrated by4 chart on page 121) by: the parish schools: ‘The use of the ¢