# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S951
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120 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Remarks -

1. On the average our professors are teaching five different
subjects and giving 22 lessons per week.

2. All professors are helping neighboring pastors and .
as speakers on special occasions, some even preach every Sunday

3. Due to a lack of communication and the geographical situa.
tion, professors serve on many committees of Synod.

4. Since many of our parochial teachers (laymen and synod.
ical teachers) must pass an examination before the State
of Education if they wish to continue teaching, some of the pro-
fessors are conducting summer courses and maintaining a corre.
spondence course to help them.

5. In view of the crying need of more men at our Sem}
three of our professors have not enjoyed their leave of absence as
outlined in Synod’s Handbook, although long overdue, and they are
awaiting an opportune time:

B. Requests
1. Professors

In view of the above presentation it is very clear that till 1956
some 334 lessons must be given weekly. This would mean that
we must have 17 professors in all, taking as an average 20 lessons
per professor. We have only. nine and some assistants.

We kindly ask Synod, therefore, to grant us six more professors
in the next triennium: four for the High School and College
Department, one for the Normal School, and one for the Theo-
logical Department.

’ 2. Residences for Professors

Since we have only nine residences for professors, and since
renting is very expensive and well-nigh impossible in the neighbor-
hood of our Seminary,

We kindly request Synod to grant-us the necessary funds for
the construction of six more houses for professors. Approximate
cost: 400,000 cruzeiros for each residence.

3. Third Story on Our New Building
We have at present 144 students, of which number 20 are
vicaring or serving in the army. If these 20 were here at present,
we would not have adequate quarters for them.
We therefore petition Synod to furnish the funds necessary
for the third story of our present new building” Approximate cost:
750,000 cruzeiros.

In conclusion we repeat once more that we do not need extra
professors (except a few perhaps during the years of transition),

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 121

the additional residences for professors, nor the third story on
nor new building, if Synod adopts the plan of reorganizing our
higher educational system as outlined in the following memorial.
Tue Facuiry or Concorpra SEMINARY
Porto ALEGRE
Orro A. Gorrt, President
THE Boarp or ContrRoL
Georce MuELter, Secretary

REORGANIZATION OF THE HIGH SCHOOL COURSE AT OUR

SEMINARIO CONCORDIA AND OF THE SECONDARY AND

SUPERIOR COURSES OF OUR CHURCH IN BRAZIL
(Memorial 134)

At the jubilee of our Seminary, when by the grace of God
we have the opportunity to look back over fifty years of constant
growth of our theological and pedagogical institution, it behooves
us to focus our attention upon a complete reorganization of our
program of instruction.

To this 31st Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of
Brazil, in session from the 18th to the 25th of January, 1953, in
Porto Alegre, the professors and the members of the Board of
Control, whose signatures are affixed to this document, recommend
the following

Plan of Reorganization

1) That the brethren of Baixo Guandu, Espirito Santo, and the
congregations of Santa Rosa, of this State of Rio Grande do Sul,
have their institutions of secondary education accredited by the
government;

2) That we mémorialize the Delegate Convention meeting in
Houston, Tex., U.S. A.:

a) to acknowledge the three institutions: the Colegio Con-
cordia of Porto Alegre, the Ginasio of Santa Rosa, the Ginasio of

' Baixo Guandu (last two named in formation), as also other insti-

tutions to be founded within the District, as institutions in which

the future pastors and teachers are to receive their high school .

training; ©

b) to permit the gradual removing of the high school: course
from the Seminario Concordia at the time that the Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Brazil at a regular convention will deem
opportune;

c) to grant to these Ginasios, if necessary, the financial aid
saved by the exclusion of the high school course from the Seminary;

d) to grant to the congregations of the Distrito Missioneiro
(Santa Rosa), principally for the construction of a building for
student boarders, an immediate loan of $12,500, to-be paid back by