# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S183
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 183

Scholarships

We are just beginning to realize the possibility of scholar-
ships as an inducement and incentive. The colleges have made
a beginning toward stimulating and soliciting such scholarships and
other student-aid funds in an effort which ought to be expanded
with synodical approval. In recent months there has been a com-
mendable stirring of activity on the part of interested individuals
and by such organizations as the Aid Association for Lutherans and
the Lutheran Laymen’s League in the establishment and provision
of scholarship funds.

The 1950 convention of Synod established a regulated Lutheran
high school scholarship program and authorized the Board for
Higher Education to make budgetary provision for it. Up to the
present, the benefits of this scholarship program have been avail-
able for community Lutheran high school graduates only who
have been admitted to the Fort Wayne Junior College, River
Forest, and Seward. Since community Lutheran high schools are
not available to all high school graduates within Synod, causing
many who desire a church-sponsored secondary education to incur
the extra cost of attendance at a synodical high school, your Board
believes that the excellent results obtained with this scholarship
program should be extended and strengthened. Consequently, the
Board for Higher Education recommends

1. That the scholarship program for graduates of community
Lutheran high schools be continued under the regulations devel-
oped by the Board for Higher Education, with the inclusion of the
other synodical junior colleges in the program; and

2. That the scholarship program pe extended, under com-
parable regulations, to benefit the aera uates of synodical high
schools; and

3. That this extended plan become effective for the 1957—58
school year and thereafter with the necessary budget allowances *
to be provided in the annual budget of the Board for Higher
Education.

Your Board further recommends that it be authorized to work
with the colleges and seminaries of the church in developing
further techniques and materials of recruitment and, as these
appear desirable and helpful, to make necessary budgetary pro-
vision for them.

Who Shall Do the Recruiting?

To the extent that some students are moved by the Spirit to
volunteer for training for the work of the church, they recruit
themselves. Parents and other relatives often receive support and
encouragement from interested lay individuals in furnishing