# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S42
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

42 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

To serve the Seminary and our Synod more adequately, we
need a new library as soon as possible. The present building is
utterly inadequate for our needs, and there is no feasible way of
enlarging it. Reading rooms, stacks, offices, and work space are
less than half sufficient for the number of students we expect as
our normal enrollment in the future, even though there will be
only three classes and the Graduate School.

Summer Session
During the past two years the offerings of the summer session
have been enlarged so that courses were offered during both
a five-week and a three-week term. The enrollment for 1953 was
thirty-nine; 1954, ninety-seven; 1955, ninety-three. The increased
number of scholarships and the air conditioning of Graduate Hall
have been factors in the continued growth of the summer session.

Workshops

In connection with the summer session a number of workshops
relating to the practical work of the ministry have also been
conducted. Five such workshops were conducted in 1954, drawing
122 Participants; six in 1955, drawing 88 Persons. One of these
workshops was for laymen, “Training for Leadership in the
Congregation.”

School for Graduate Studies

After ten years of faithful service, Prof. A. M. Rehwinkel asked
to be relieved as director of the School for Graduate Studies. The
Board appointed Prof. Martin Scharlemann, effective February 1,
1954, and under his aggressive leadership the school has continued
to grow. The increased staff strength and the appointment of
Dr. Paul Bretscher as a professor of Graduate Studies have made
it possible to increase the number of courses and to do more
effective work. Enrollment in the school has continued to grow,
with promise of increased growth for the future, since it is
attracting more and more pastors from the field as well as men
outside of the circles of our synod. While formerly the figures
of the Graduate School included Seminary graduates who had
not yet completed their requirements for the degree of Bachelor
of Divinity, the following figures represent students who are
actually doing graduate work: 1953—54, 62; 1954—55, 78;
1955—56, 76. .

It will be noted that the name of the school has been changed
from Graduate School to the School for Graduate Studies. This
was done to broaden the purposes of the school, which includes
among its objectives the following:

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