# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S995
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 208

In. reviewing the studies made by others and by its own
itee on Teacher Training, the Board has found that the
* t¢ made in 1950 happened to be in harmony with develop-
fas actually took place during the past triennium. The Board

erefore need to do no more at this convention than repeat
tements and proposals made in Milwaukee, which dealt with
“Jong- and a short-range program and furnished extensive
supporting data reproduced on detailed charts and graphs. Without

ing ‘as high a birth rate as was actually maintained up to

snd including 1952, the projection placed the anticipated demand
forsinen at 125 and for women at 446 within a five-year period
ending in 1955. This estimate took into account the aim of Synod
to increase the enrollment in its schools up to 50 per cent of its
child membership by 1972. Even though the percentage may not
have advanced according to schedule, the birth rate has contributed
toward the establishment of 200 new classrooms annually, so that
the requests for men in 1952 already reached the 1955 estimate,
and those for women passed the 400 mark.

2. The School Office of the Board for Parish Education has
produced studies indicating a demand for even more than 600
women, and for 150 to 175 men. The conference of college men
referred to above has proposed a basic output of 125 men and
315 women. The conference of District superintendents of educa-
tion voiced the opinion that our congregations would call more
men if they were available, since their services are especially re-
quired in the opening of new schools and in the areas of music
and youth leadership. It was likewise pointed out that men are
being called out of the elementary classrooms by other agencies
and institutions, such as Lutheran high schools, colleges, and boards
requiring executives in education.

3. If tentative figures may be adduced at the time of this
writing prior to the meeting of the Board of Assignment, there were
over 550 applications for teachers from the congregations of Synod
in April of 1953. It may be assumed that these applications do
not represent all of the current vacancies, since many congregations
are in the process of calling experienced teachers from the field.
It is therefore apparent that 140 men and 460 women teachers
would be a compromise number to be set as a goal to be attained
within the next five years. No doubt Synod desires to retain the
standard of a three- and four-year college preparation for its
teachers. If this standard is to be applied to women as well as
men, it would require dormitory space and instructional facilities
for at least 2,200 college students to yield 600 teachers annually,
even though half of the women would be trained for only three
college years. The space occupied by the teacher-training students

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