# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S219
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 219

“a, The need of available facilities for the immediate produc-
tion of more workers at a given institution.

“b. The availability of Lutheran high schools in such an area
which would compensate to some degree for the conversion of
these facilities to a training program at the college level only.

“ce. The quality and variety of public high school offerings in
that area.

“d. The possible inherent values involved in retaining a core
of synodically trained students at the various levels of training
to provide comparative data and occasion for mutual beneficial
interaction.

“4. We recognize the urgency of keeping our system under
constant review and offer our services and support to the Board
in its efforts to keep pace with the growing needs of the church.
On the other hand, the changes now in progress in our system
would seem to make it desirable that additional changes be under-
taken at this time only on the basis of compelling evidence that
immediate action is consistent with the best interests of the
church.”

Your Board recommends that Synod approve this program of
study and instruct the Board for Higher Education, in co-operation
with the synodical colleges and seminaries, to carry out this study
and to report to the 1959 synodical convention.

Meanwhile the Board recommends that the general synodical
policy be established that there be no current expansion in capacity

or enrollment of existing high school programs in Synod’s institu-
tions and that there be no current extension or transfer of a synodi-
cal high school program to any new campus that may be
established, at least until this study is completed and further
recommendations are made available for action by Synod.

An analysis of the high school level enrollments for the past
four school years indicates that more than half of such enrollments
are made up by students who have declared themselves to be pre-
paring for the study of theology. On the other hand, in each of
the past four school years the number of nonministerial training
students and non-teacher-training students enrolled in the synodi-
cal high schools was greater than the number of boys and girls
enrolled in the teacher-training program.

In view of this fact your Board recommends that Synod urge
its member congregations, pastors, and teachers to be active in
recruiting students in such numbers that Synod’s institutions can
grant priority of admission to qualified professional-training
students in all cases where valuable capacity is now in use for
nonprofessional students.