# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1033
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PARISH EDUCATION

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Status of Lutheran Secondary education: Icate the following

PARISH EDUCATION 275

High School Enrollments 1952—1953
: Name of School
Lutheran High School, Milwaukee, Wis. 876

Institute, Chicago,
Luthe® sia Lutheran High School, Fort Wayne, Ind. 446

Trinity Lutheran High School, Oregon City, Oreg.

Enrollment

theran High School, Racine, Wis. 305
lutheran High School, Detroit, Mich. 460 ,
Lutheran High School, St. Louis, Mo. 643
Lutheran High School, Cleveland, Ohio 415
Lutheran High School, Houston, Tex. 156
Luther High School South, Chicago, Ill. 310

4,089

‘ Total
Tn addition to these regular pupils in Lutheran high schools,
there were 244 pupils in separate ninth grades and 1,501 students
in'the high school departments of our synodical institutions. This
makes a grand total of 5,834 students, or 4.9 per cent of an estimated .

bo persons of high school age in our Synod. In 1950 the Board

ekh Education reported to Synod that it should be possible
for us to develop twenty new high schools during the next twenty
years. This is still an attainable goal. May God give us the con-
secration and leadership that is needed to provide Lutheran sec-
ondary education for our youth.

During the past triennium a number of communities have
begun or continued the exploration of the possibility of a Lutheran
high school. In addition to the communities opening new high
schools in September, 1953, the following communities have studied
the possibility of a high school: Metropolitan New York City, the
Niagara Circuit of New York, and Baltimore, Md.

The Board for Parish Education has worked in close co-op-
eration with the Association of Lutheran Secondary Schools in the
High School Curriculum Project. This project is a co-operative
endeavor on the part of the various Lutheran high schools through
the Association of Lutheran Secondary Schools. When completed,
it will provide a complete curriculum for Lutheran high schools,
with specific objectives for the various subject-matter fields, with
course content and resource units outlined for the various high
school subjects. All of these materials will be in harmony with the
Lutheran philosophy of education. This should be a definite step

forward in effective Christian education in our secondary schools.

G. Adult Education
The Church must help people answer two questions, namely,
(1) “What must we do to be saved?” and (2) “What must we do
now that we are saved?” Christian adult education is bound up
~ with the answers to both of these questions. Education precedes,
accompanies, and follows the conversion of every adult received