# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S933
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 93

Director of Public Relations in order to assume a Position else-
; Since then the duties of this office have been carried out
: by a committee from our faculty.

Our Student Body
Enrollment during the past triennium:

Total College High School Ministerial
1950—1951 235 98 137 93
ele ro —— 261 107 154 124
1952—1953 311 124 187 146

It is gratifying that the consistent increase in enrollment is
= “mostly due to the increase in the number of ministerial students.
a Our ministerial enrollment includes a number of young women
and several young men who are preparing to enter the teaching
profession in the parish day schools of our Church. It is the hope
of our Board that this phase of our work can be developed to in-
. ude increasing numbers of students in the interest of greater

. service to the Church. With this in view we have recently requested
official recognition as a synodically designated school for teacher-
training students on the junior college level.

The enrollment of 187 boys in our high school is the highest
in the history of our school. Of these, 63 are day students. The
rest are housed in Bohm Hall, our high school dormitory. This
building, one of the oldest on our campus, was erected in 1910.
It is not of fireproof construction. Our present enrollment has
taxed its capacity to the limit. In view of this our Board believes
it to be all the more urgent that an adequate automatic sprinkler
system be installed in Bohm Hall for the protection of our students. -
Application for such a sprinkler system has been included in our
request for capital improvements, and we sincerely trust it can
be granted.

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Academic Matters

In May of 1951 the Regents of the State of New York accepted
our application for an amendment to our charter authorizing us
to grant the following degrees upon successful graduation from
our junior college: Associate: in Arts (A.A.) and Associate in
Applied Science (A. A. S.). ,

In March of this year a commission from the Middle States
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools visited our -campus
in order. to re-evaluate our junior college. All accredited schools
are required to request such a re-evaluation every twelve years

. in order to retain their accreditation. The commission, consisting
of six qualified persons, devoted several days to a thorough inves-
tigation of every phase of our junior college. At this writing we
have not received the report of their findings. :