# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S147
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 147

The Teacher-Training Program

: A. Review of the Past Triennium

known that Lutheran as well as public elementary
suffered from an acute teacher shortage during the
s. Today the shortage has reached the proportions
The unprecedented number of births has brought, and
to bring, unprecedented numbers of Pupils into the

‘provide our parish schools with 350 women teachers an-
Ais: goal is far from being in sight. Synod’s standard for
? g is four college years, with a minimum of three,

of the Program), and about 30 in 1953.
the colleges together have sent into the field an
B15°persons for teaching Service, which is 100 short of