# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S53
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 53

demonstration in the Music and Liturgics classes. Concerts and
recitals by our own students and by guest organists would add
immeasurably to the cultural life on the campus. Our local radio
stations are eager to broadcast organ and choral presentations,
and these would tend to enhance our relations with the public.
The new organ would be a great aid in our choral rehearsals and
choral presentations. Finally, since we hope that this new instru-
ment would be designed along “classical” lines, opportunity would
thus be given our future pastors to familiarize themselves with the
tonal qualities of a modern organ. Hence our request for $20,000.
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Concorpia THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

B. H. SetcxeE, D. D., Secretary

Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, Ill.

(Report 103)

When Synod in 1857 instituted a formal program of teacher
education at Fort Wayne, our fathers bequeathed a heritage for
which we thank and praise Him as we approach the centennial of
formal teacher education in 1957.

In 1864 Synod established a Teachers Seminary at Addison,
Ill., and in 1913 relocated the Seminary at River Forest. Through

the years God has been merciful to Concordia of River Forest.
It is in the spirit of thanksgiving that the Board of Control presents
its report for the manifold mercies of the past triennium.

Purpose
Since its inception in 1864, Concordia of River Forest has been
committed to the fulfillment of two of Synod’s eight objectives:
“2 The training of . . . teachers for service in the Evangelical
Lutheran Church,” and
“g§. The furtherance of Christian parochial schools. . . ai

Since 1939 Concordia has been operating as a four-year teach-
ers college granting to graduates the degree of Bachelor of Science
in Education. Since 1950 Concordia has been a member of the
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and
since February 1956, a member of the American Association of
Colleges for Teacher Education.

All students seeking admission have been required to meet
high standards and to certify their intention to serve the church
in its far-flung system of parochial schools. No “general education”
students have been admitted, because there has been a more-
than-sufficient number of bona’ fide teacher-training applicants