# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S78
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78 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

3. The third request to the Honorable Synod is to provide
more adequate space for college recreation in the form of a large
recreational room and lounge for students. Again a portion of the
necessary funds — $28,602 —will be provided locally. We ask
Synod to provide an amount of $37,377.00. The total cost is esti-
mated at $65,979.

Besides these requests for capital-investment funds we request
the Honorable Synod to act favorably on our overture, printed
elsewhere in this book of memorials, to expand the teacher-training
program to include four years of college training, thus, in effect,
opening a third terminal four-year teachers college to provide
a larger number of fully trained professional elementary Christian

day school teachers. Tue Boarp or Contror
H. W. Britt, Secretary

Wuereas, The need for additional facilities for training women
teachers for the three- and four-year diplomas has been expressed
repeatedly by Synod (Proceedings 1953, p. 141): “The solution lies
in an immediate, valiant action of Synod to train more teachers . . .
it may be impossible for Synod to meet the demand even with
increased facilities at the present teacher-training institutions . . 2”;
p. 266: “In our opinion (Board for Parish Education) even the
present plans for increased teacher training will not supply the
demand. It is obvious, too, that our schools are harmed by un-
suitable teachers. District educational leaders point it out to us,
and they fear that such harm will affect the school cause also in
the future . . . we shall need far more teachers than are now in
prospect”; and

Wuereas, Classroom facilities for instructing 600 students and
chapel facilities for 600 students have been built at Concordia
College, St. Paul, through the generous grants of funds by Synod
during the past triennium, thus providing room for an additional
180 students beyond the present enrollment; and

WHEREAS, In close proximity to Concordia there is a large,
well-equipped school, whose facilities could be used for practice-
teaching purposes, and the professional and academic standing of
our college would assure well-trained teachers; and

Wuereas, The creation of a third terminal teacher-training
institution, granting a three- or four-year Lutheran teacher’s di-
ploma, would have little or no effect upon the capacity and more-
than-capacity enrollments enjoyed by the existing two teachers
colleges, because of the favorable geographic location of Concordia
College, St. Paul; and

Wuereas, The enrollment of women college students in the
teacher-training course at Concordia College, St. Paul, has grown

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