# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S151
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 151

atil-the applicant reaches the minimum training stand-
the emergency, the students at River Forest and
e-not being granted a two-year diploma, will be given
Wilege as in paragraphs d and e.

the collaboration of the District President concerned,
¢ Higher Education (or an agency designated by the
gupervise and follow up the holders of the provisional
): prevent lapses, and request congregations to make
possible for the woman supply teacher to take addi-
with the understanding that the recipient will serve

tion for a minimum of one school year after taking
financed summer or extension course.

teachers’ colleges will issue the three- and four~year
heretofore and encourage all women to take these
the two-year-plus-one-summer program as soon as
of women teachers approximates the demand. If and
resent emergency ceases, the whole problem will be
th a view toward having the training of all women
at.of the male teacher. The Board for Higher Educa-
‘to. estimate the annual demand for teachers and to
tiles as necessary, guarding, however, against an over-
chers.
roposals are to be interpreted in harmony with the

established relationship between the teachers’ colleges
r colleges.

FP ilities for Carrying Out the Proposed Program

sbove plan is adopted, it will require action in several
Among them will be the determination of a reasonable
: number of two-, three-, and four-year graduates,
vailable and those to be provided, the recruitment
of ‘students, the certification of graduates, the co-
‘the ‘program, the constant study of supply and de-
tious other concomitant factors.

to the total number, the Board recommends an
ch will enable the college system to furnish 140
women graduates annually. This is admittedly a
redicated upon the assumption that Synod cannot
or a greater number, that it will take considerable
ve even the moderately increased goal, and that
ill be found to make up the differential.

e of the men, the goal should be attainable within
years, The ratio of three- and four-year women