# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S910
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 65

teachers in the field, emergency training of new teachers, and
~ eleration of the graduation of regular students. Workshop

courses in Visual Aids, Arts and Crafts, Adult Education, Secon-
~ Gary Education, Kindergarten, Physical Education and Recreation,
_gnd Parish Music have been offered during the triennium.

president Enrollment in Summer Sessions Enrollment in Correspondence Courses

1950 481 1950 pene a B48
11 ______--__-_--___ 444 1951 ___ 486
5952 T1952 640

It is interesting to note that though our crowded capacity in
:.. the regular school year has never permitted us to enroll beyond
560 students, we have, by the grace of God, actually been able to
give accredited educational services to about 1,000 different
teachers and future teachers on the campus each year, besides
the hundreds of others enrolled in correspondence courses. ;
In addition, the Summer School has repeatedly been host to
the synodical Educational Conference and the Lutheran Education
Association, as well as to other groups interested in Christian
education at all levels, or in synodical endeavors of any kind. Both
'.+ the English District and the Northern Illinois District of Synod
- fave continued to be welcome visitors to our campus for their
regular conventions. We have also been happy to be able to serve
conferences of pastors and teachers quite frequently. We grate-
fully acknowledge the cheerfulness with which these groups were
willing to share our crowded facilities with the hundreds of summer
school students on the campus.

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Graduates and Supply Teachers

The effects of discontinuing our Concordia Teachers College
High School on the college enrollment and graduations are now
beginning to become evident in the steadily increasing number of
fully trained teachers turned over to Synod during the past two

Men Women Total
1946—1947 43 23 66
1947—1948 37 30 67
1948—1949 55 20 75
1949—1950 _ — 58 - 32 90
1950—1951 69 338 107
1951—-1952 89 49 138
1952—1953 * __ 82 56 138

* Anticipated figures

The number of graduates, especially of women, could have —
been much larger each year if we had held back our finished sopho-
a ‘More students to take the three-year or four-year diploma instead
¢f giving them an extra summer of training and sending them out
te help meet Synod’s shortage of teachers. In general, however,