# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S123
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 123

ACTION

The following resolution (No. 31) of Committee 1 was adopted:

Wuereas, The program for training teachers at St. John’s Col-
lege has given to the elementary schools of our Synod a gratifying
number of graduates each year during the past decade; and

Wuereas, An important element of this program of training is
the semester of observation of, and participation in, teaching and
another semester of practice teaching; and

Wuereas, These valuable student-teaching experiences are at
present restricted to the public schools of the city of Winfield; and

Wuereas, The program of training should include experience in
a Lutheran elementary school; and

Wuereas, Many of the students who are training as teachers
for Lutheran elementary schools have not themselves attended such
a parochial school or have not had satisfactory experience in them
as pupils; and

Wuereas, Trinity Church, Winfield, Kansas, is at this time
planning a building program to provide more adequate worship and
educational facilities as a small church serving the rather large
student body at St. John’s College; and

Wuereas, The resources of this congregation are perhaps not
sufficient of themselves to provide facilities in its parochial school
which would be adequate for student-teaching purposes; therefore
be it

Resolved, That Synod authorize the Board of Control of
St. John’s College to enter into an arrangement with Trinity Lu-
theran Church for the use of its school as a center for teacher
training. The provisions of the arrangement are to receive prior
approval of the Board for Higher Education; and be it further

Resolved, That Synod authorize its Board for Higher Education
to give financial assistance to Trinity Lutheran Church for addi-
tional staffing so that the school can be used as a center for student
teaching.

Closing of the Immanuel Theological School
at Greensboro, N. C.

(Memorial 406)

Wuereas, Our Immanuel Lutheran Theological Department at
our institution at Greensboro, N. C., does not meet the high qual-
ifications of our sister institutions of the Missouri Synod preparing
students for the high calling of the ministry; and

Wuereas, The said institution, by reason of its very geograph-
ical position, is on the fringe of the bulwarks of Lutheranism in