# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S116
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116 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Resolved, That this “Supplementary Manpower Committee” be
directed to work closely with the various missionary boards of
Synod and its Districts to institute and implement a program to
utilize lay workers in full-time positions in congregations and
mission fields; and be it further

Resolved, That the conventions of Synod triennially review
and evaluate the work of this “Supplementary Manpower Com-

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H. Eart Miuer, Chairman
Ruvotr J. Key, Jr., Secretary

See action of Synod on Memorial 202.

To Eliminate High School Departments
from Preparatory Schools

(Memorial 124)

Wuereas, It is a generally accepted fact that adolescent young
men in their high school years need the attention and understand-
ing love of their parents and the religious and emotional influence
of a normal family life; and

Wuereas, Our young men preparing for the ministry: currently
are being subjected to an abnormal social situation for many years
in our boarding schools; and

Wuereas, The average student on the high school level has not
reached the degree of intellectual, emotional, and spiritual maturity
requisite to make a consecrated and relatively certain vocational
choice; and

Wuereas, Our curriculum virtually forces this vocational choice
on Freshmen and Sophomores in the high school departments of
our preparatory schools; and

WHEREAS, Our present curriculum, which includes high school
training, causes considerable difficulties for many more mature and
consecrated high school graduates who desire to enter ministerial
training in our schools; and

Wuereas, Discipline in our preparatory schools conceivably
could be easier and of a higher order if all the students had
achieved the relative maturity of Junior College students; and

Wuergeas, The faculty and facilities now dedicated to high
school training could be utilized for a larger number of Junior
College students than is now possible if the high school depart-
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