# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S61
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 61

2. Every indication exists that the number of Lutheran high
schools will continue to grow, and the demand for adequately
prepared teachers to staff them will increase.

3. The Lutheran high schools have an interest in securing as
many members of their staffs as possible from our own institutions
of teacher training.

4. The Houston Convention of Synod in 1953 resolved “to
authorize that ‘intensive planning for training high school teachers
should be inaugurated and pursued with vigor during the coming
triennium’ by the Board for Higher Education in consultation with
the faculties of our teachers colleges; and . . . that specific recom-
mendations be submitted to the 1956 Convention.”

5. The problems involved in high school teacher training have
been thoroughly studied, and a workable program has been devel-
oped which will offer preparation adequate to the needs of the
high schools and to the requirements of accrediting authorities,
with a minimum of adjustment in the existing elementary teacher-
training program.

3. Required Year of Vicarage for Male Students
Request:

That the faculties of the teachers colleges, with the approval
of the Board for Higher Education, be authorized to study the
advisability of instituting a required year of vicarage for male
students at the teachers colleges, inserted between the third and
fourth college years; and

That if it is ascertained that a required year of vicarage for
male students at the teachers colleges is in the best interests of
the church and of the students preparing for teaching in the
parishes of the church, the faculties and Boards of Control of the
teachers colleges and the Board for Higher Education be authorized
to institute such a program.

Reasons:

1. Students at the teachers colleges have served as vicars on
an elective basis for many years.

2. Follow-up records on student vicars indicate that this
experience has been universally helpful to them as a period of
introduction and orientation to teaching and serving in the parish
and has provided them with a desirable degree of maturity and
clarification of purpose during the pursuit of their subsequent
college work.

3. Professional guidance of such students was greatly facili-
tated by the reports received on their vicarage, indicating areas of
strength to be encouraged and areas of weakness to be improved.

4. Graduates of our teachers colleges have expressed them-