# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S62
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

62 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

selves strongly in favor of a required year of vicarage as providing
preparation needed for the teaching profession in the church and
not otherwise available.

Additional supporting evidence and statistical data are on file
with the Board for Higher Education.

Quantitative concerns reflect themselves in requests for addi-
tional staff and expanded facilities.

The Needs for the Future

1. Additional Instructional Staff

Physical facilities are vital, for they provide the shelter and
the tools for the educative process which involves people.

A growing number of highly qualified students are seeking
admission. This is a tribute to the increased concern our pastors,
teachers, and congregations have for the recruitment of the kind
of student needed for the teaching ministry and their awareness
of the staggering need for more consecrated teachers.

More students at one end of the log require more teaching
personnel at the other end. In order to build and maintain a stable
and competent teaching staff, there needs to be a balance in the
staff of personnel on determinate and indeterminate tenure. The
variegated program required for training in the art of teaching,
for leadership in the musical program of the parish, and for the
development of skills in youth work, physical education, and Sun-
day school activity, requires skills of a high order on the part
of those who man the program.

Since we feel that some of the new teaching positions should
be in the ranks involving permanent tenure, we present the
following
Request:

That Synod allow at least three additional associate profes-
sorships at this time.

2. Additional Physical Facilities

Extensive additional data and background information for
these requests are in the hands of the Board for Higher Education.

We respectfully request:
A. Chapel-Auditorium

This request dates back to 1947. We still lack this integral
facility.
B. Additional Classroom Facilities for Science and the Fine Arts

These needs inevitably appear as the student population
increases, in spite of the lengthening of the academic day.

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