# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S969
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154 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES ©

extended as originally authorized and that it be. contin:
enough to permit an intelligent evaluation of its feasibility ange
outcome; and be it further a its
_ “Resolved, That the Board for Higher Education be autho .

to adjust budget subsidies and arrangements as May appear nee
essary to achieve the satisfactory extension of per} ent if
reduced enrollments make it difficult for the school to provide the
educational services which Synod requires.” os

Terminal Professional Training on the Pacific Coast
(Memorial 130)

The Faculty and Board of Control of California Concordia
College submit for serious synodical consideration and planni
the project of establishing a theological seminary and a term;
teacher-training school at a central location on the Pacific Coast,

Toward the execution of this project the following Propositions
and considerations are submitted:

1. The Church is required in a secularized and materialistic
civilization to provide a Christian education program for its youth
to the limit of its ability.

2. For its own perpetuation and growth the Church must
provide especially for a well-educated and doctrinally sound min-
istry of preaching and teaching.

3. With reference to the phenomenal population growth, as
well as the commercial, industrial, and cultural expansion of the
West Coast during the last decade, the following observations are
pertinent:

a. Missionary opportunities on the Pacific slope are among
the greatest anywhere.

b. The mission work of our Church has not been able to keep
pace with these opportunities,

c. For their development the support of the Church as a whole
is required.

4. Present facilities for higher education in the West are wholly
inadequate for the purposes of our Church.

5. It is self-evident that the future of the Church in the West
is limited only by the vision of those who one hundred years from
now will be called the “Fathers.”

In our opinion wise. planning for the future and consideration
of present facilities and population trends would indicate that both
a seminary and a terminal teacher-training institution should be
established on the West Coast.

Therefore we respectfully petition Synod that in the next

SEMINARIES AND. COLLEGES 155

, tional
‘ thorough study of the Church’s present educa ne
ae gether with plans for future development on the entire

ac Coast, be made under the auspices of the Board for Higher
We

cation in conjunction with church ‘and educational leaders in
the area involved. Canirornta Concorpia CouLece.

A.H. WESSLING, Secretary of the Faculty
Epwin MEEsE, JR., Secretary of the Board of Control

ACTION
Committee 1 recommended and Synod resolved:

Resolution 59

Wuereas, The shift of population toward the West is unmis-
takable; and

Wuereas, In view of this circumstance, the question of estab-

lishing a terminal training school or schools on the West Coast
has heen raised by our brethren of California Concordia College;

* therefore be it

Resolved, To grant the petition for a “thorough study of the
Church’s present educational facilities, together with plans for
future development on the entire West Coast”; and be it further

Resolved, That this study be made by the Board for Higher
Education with the request that a report be submitted to the 1956

convention.

Additional Auxiliary Courses at Edmonton

(Memorial 131)
Wuereas, Repeated resolutions of our District conventions show
that we favor the establishment of more parochial schools; and

Waereas, It has become apparent that the implementation of
these resolutions has to a large extent been frustrated by an acute
shortage of teachers whose qualifications will meet the require-
ments of the Department of Education in Alberta; and

Wuereas, It has become apparent that we shall not progress
in the establishment of more parochial schools until we solve the
teacher shortage; therefore -be it

Resolved, That this convention go on record in requesting
Synod at its next general convention to consider the addition of
auxiliary courses at Concordia College, Edmonton, whereby our
students may attend the University of Alberta and Concordia Col-
lege, Edmonton, thereby getting full accreditation as parochial
school teachers. ALBERTA-BRITISH CoLuMBIA DistTRIcT