# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S117
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

117

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

WuereEas, The great demand for more workers in our rapidly
expanding church in many areas of the world will necessitate in-
creased facilities for larger student bodies in our preparatory
schools which would be available in our present preparatory col-
leges if the high school departments were eliminated and thus
would forestall great expenditures for additional colleges; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That we respectfully petition and memorialize the
Forty-Third Plenary Convention of The Lutheran Church — Mis-
souri Synod:

1. To eliminate the high school departments from our minis-
terial preparatory schools; ,

2. To inaugurate this elimination in the year 1958;

3. To carry out this progressive elimination by means of the
successive annual elimination of matriculation from the Freshman
through the Senior year. 7:0 Lurneran Cuurcu, Datias, TEX.
Watter W. Datue, Jr., Secretary
C. A. GAERTNER, Pastor

ACTION

Committee 1 brought in the following resolution (No. 18),
which also covered the item “Planned Modification and Extension
of the Training System” in the report of the Board for Higher
Education (pp. 161—164 in the book of Reports and Memorials).

Wuereas, The Council of College and Seminary Presidents
urged the Board for Higher Education to conduct a study of the
synodical high school, which involved:

a. A study of drop-outs of all types of students at various
levels;

b. A similar study of the achievement records of all types of
students;

c. An appraisal of the contribution made by the synodical high
school in reference to spiritual insights, synodical consciousness,
and the development and preservation of professional intent;

d. A study of practices in other church bodies with comparable
problems;

e. The impact of a possible program of universal military
training;

f, Cost analyses of our existing synodical high schools and the
economic implications involved in using the available facilities for
instruction at the college level only;