# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S146
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146 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

students need on the national scene, applicants are tested as to ability,
character, and social attitude. Selective recruitment also reduces student
dropout, which in turn reduces costs.

All Districts maintain an Indigent Student Fund. The annual
amount of aid which students derive from this fund averages higher
than the national average for an undergraduate scholarship. It is recom-
mended that student aid be expanded in the service of selective recruit-
ment.

4. That the Praesidium and the Board of Directors continue
the study of Synod’s manpower needs on the basis of well-
documented analyses of Synod’s potential growth, the direction of
its growth, and the larger fulfillment of its missionary imperative.

This recommendation looks beyond 1965. In 1959 the Senior College
is expected to enroll a maximum of 240 students. Maximum enrollment
at the Senior College is expected to provide 210 St. Louis graduates six
years after. But Synod’s need for pastors will not stop with 210 St. Louis
graduates and 40 Springfield graduates. It will continue to rise. Synod’s
present training facilities and those under construction will not provide
sufficient numbers of pastors to reduce the pastor deficit that will obtain
in 1965 or to meet the constantly rising need for more pastors.

Synod is thus compelled to think in terms of additional pastor-
training facilities and to do so without delay because the major
supply of pastors requires a decade of training, and more.

Synod’s Teacher Need
From 1956 to 1965

God has blessed the growth of Synod’s elementary school
system. More classrooms, however, mean more teachers. Although
teachers enter the system in ever larger numbers, Synod’s supply
is still inadequate. ,

Several kinds of teachers serve in Lutheran schools. There
are men and women teachers, graduate and undergraduate teachers,
teachers trained in synodical schools and teachers trained in sec-
ular schools. Our schools are served by teachers who have two,
three, or four years of college training.

At one time Synod trained nearly all of its teachers; today
it is training less than half of the teachers. At one time Synod’s
teachers were almost exclusively men; today women teachers con-
stitute 52 per cent of the teaching force.

The Teacher Groups

There are various types of teachers who teach in Synod’s
schools. In 1955, there were the following numbers of teachers by
types:

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