# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S952
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

122 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

the amortization of the $25,000 granted to the Colegio Co .
of Porto Alegre, of which one half is already promised 1.70
Ginasio in Santa Rosa as partial payments. the

3) That we present to the Delegate Convention the follo
reasons for this reorganization: wing

a) Since 1946 new students have been accepted annually
the Seminario Concordia. Since 1949 the theological course with
' its preparatory courses lasts ten years and the Pedagogical course
seven. Because of the alterations, necessitated by the growth of
our Church, the courses and classes have constantly increased
so that at the present time we require 13 professors and by 1956
we would have to have 15, which, considering the lack of manpower
and the growth of our Church, would be practically unattainable.

b) Because of the lack of the necessary Personnel in the
faculty in the past year, 1952, we were obliged to employ students
and other assistants to help teach the 62 hours weekly, This
abnormal condition evidently cannot contribute towards improving
the curriculum of studies and therefore must not become a per.
manent arrangement.

c) By removing the high school course from the Semi
nine professors will be sufficient. These we already have. The
calling of six additional professors (adding a yearly expenditure
of Cr 300,000.00 for salaries), the construction of six new residences
(an expenditure of about Cr. 1,500,000.00), and the enlargement of
buildings (Cr 500,000.00) — we already lack space in the dining
hall, the dormitories, and the study rooms— would all be un-
necessary. On the contrary, it would afford us the necessary space
to install a classroom for geography, for history, and especially for
visual education (showing of films, etc.).

d) Up to now our fifth year — first year of college — never has
had many students, rarely exceeding one dozen. However, if the
three high schools that are favorably situated in distinct regions of
our District send students to the Seminary, the number of students,
without a doubt, will increase so that more laborers can be sent out.

e) With this new arrangement our students when entering the
Seminary would have their high school diploma,. which would
enable them later on to obtain their official registration as teachers
of elementary schools in the State Department of Education. This,
then, would make it unnecessary for our students to pass the
examinations of the “Artigo 91” (the equivalent for the high school
credits), chiefly in the fifth and sixth years, which has always
caused much disturbance in our classes.

- f) The living together of the very young students with the
older students of the pedagogical and the theological courses cer-

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 123

ly cannot be recommended as being ideal, and, in fact, has

: some serious problems of discipline.
caused

) Furthermore, it cannot be recommended as psychologically

“a have students remain ten years at the same institution.
“) The expenses of maintaining needy students in the city are

ingly high, and in consideration of the fact that the number
of students during the first years is the largest, by having a part
of these students study in Santa Rosa, where there are about
50 congregations round about, and in Baixo Grande digo Guandu in
Espirito Santo, our major problem of supporting our indigent
students, in part, would be solved.

i) Finally, since the mentioned high schools. are favorably
located in distinct regions of the District, the congregations there
would get in closer contact with the education of our students.

4) That at this 3lst Convention a Board of Secondary and
Superior Education be created for the purpose of co-operating
intensively with the management of the various high schools exist-
ing in the District, with the object of establishing the program of
discipline, of religious instruction, of instrumental and vocal music,
of the teaching of the German language, etc., in harmony with the
requirements of the admission into the Seminario Concordia, so
that the students that come from these high schools readily fit

into the courses of the Seminary. Tue PROFESSORS

Orro A. GorrL Hans Rorrmann
Octaciuio ScHveteR Pau. W. ScHELP
WERNER K. WapEewrrz
For THE Boarp or Controu
Gero. Mutter, Pastor
ACTION .
Committee 2 recommended the following resolution which was

adopted:

Resolution 15

1, If the blessd work of our Church in Brazil is to continue its
rapid expansion, the training of future workers for the Church is
an absolute necessity.

It is possible to furnish the necessary workers if, as in recent
years, we can continue to receive new classes annually and to
increase the enrollment. ;

2. To make this possible, necessary relief will have to be given
to our faculty.

Our present educational system includes the full high school,
the two-year college, the three-year seminary, and in addition