# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S111
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 111

by St. John’s College for service as teachers and have served in
Lutheran elementary schools in all parts of the country; and

WHEREAS, Statistical studies show that the number of women
teachers needed annually is likely to increase greatly in the fu-
ture; and .

Wuereas, St. John’s College has proved its ability throughout
the years of its service in this area of work to attract and hold
young women of high quality in preparation for this work, drawing
them from many sections of the country; and

Wuereas, This is evidence that St. John’s College has long
passed the experimental stage as an institution for the training
of women teachers; and

Wuereas, It is evident that the Board for Higher Education
and the Board of Directors of Synod consider the training of
elementary teachers a permanent part of the educational program
of St. John’s College, since they authorized the issuing of a call
with permanent tenure as associate professor to a member of the
staff whose chief field of activity is elementary education; and

Wuereas, St. John’s College has excellent housing facilities
for women students in its two new women’s dormitories, which
can accommodate two hundred occupants; and

Wuereas, Educational developments in the United States with
regard to elementary schools indicate that within ten years or
less it will be customary or required for all new teachers in el-
ementary schools to have completed four years of college training;
be it therefore

Resolved, That we petition the St.Paul Convention of The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod to take action regarding the
teacher-training program at St. John’s College as follows:

A. To authorize the introduction of an optional third year
of teacher training for women which would parallel the third year
of the teachers colleges, and at the same time to begin to make
preparations for the establishment of a full four-year teacher-
training course for women;

B. To authorize the continuation of the present two-year
terminal program, from which young women may enter directly
into positions as teachers in our elementary schools, for as long
a time as it can render useful service in meeting the present
emergency,

In convention assembled August 22—26, 1955, at Winfield, Kans.

Tae Kansas District
R. H, Raepexe, Secretary