# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S218
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

218 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

system of junior colleges and high schools should remain sub~
stantially intact” (Proceedings, 1947, pp. 179—182). It is still too
early to assess fully the implications of the introduction of senior
college training of St.Louis entrants as regards the traditional
level of high school training.

Both the Council of College and Seminary Presidents, acting
as a group of advisory members of the Board, and the Board for
Higher Education have repeatedly explored this knotty problem.
In October 1955 the Council of College and Seminary Presidents
unanimously adopted and presented to the Board for Higher
Education this resolution:

“1. We believe that the synodical high school is a valuable
unit in the training of professional workers and affords unique
educational and recruitment opportunities to the church.

“2. We further believe that there is a sufficient discussion
in our circles which sincerely questions the advisability of con-
tinuing to maintain synodical high schools to warrant a careful
study by the Board for Higher Education of the educational,
professional, and recruitment values of this unit. Some of the
specific areas of concern might be:

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“c, An appraisal of the contribution made by the synodical
high school in reference to spiritual insights, synodical conscious-
ness, and the development and preservation of professional intent.

“d. A study of practices in other church bodies with com-
parable 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.

“We suggest that as much of this study as possible be com-
pleted before the synodical convention in St. Paul in 1956 and that
the data be furnished the college and seminary presidents prior
to the convention.

“3. We believe that a uniform approach of abolition or reten-
tion or modification of the present system is unwise, but that each
existing high school’s value to the synodical program needs to
be judged according to a variety of factors, e. g.:

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