# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S225
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224 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

terial and teacher training within the territory of the Michigan
District.

The 1953 convention already authorized the Praesidium of
Synod, the Board for Higher Education, and the presidents of
Synod’s teachers colleges to direct an investigation of arrange-
ments whereby the training of women teachers might be under-
taken at Valparaiso under synodical control and under conditions
which would sufficiently meet the expectations of Synod with
respect to its women teachers, An initial meeting of this group
was held in which a comprehensive proposal prepared by Val-
paraiso University was received and examined and in which the
decision was reached to postpone final action on the proposal until
Synod could assure itself that fullest possible use was being made
of its own training facilities. It has not yet been possible to arrange
a further meeting of this group.

The youth of the congregations in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
and Ohio form a significant proportion of the recruitment poten-
tial of Synod. It seems doubtful that the existing synodical insti-
tutions serving this area, namely, Bronxville, Milwaukee, River
Forest, and Concordia, at present possess sufficient capacity to
absorb the significant enrollment increase expected and desired.

The Board for Higher Education accordingly recommends that
it receive authorization from this synod to carry on an intensive
analytical study of the adjustments necessary to provide for the
training on the junior college level of students to be recruited
Primarily from this central area and that this report be made
to the synodical convention in 1959. The possible restriction of
supplementary synodical training facilities in this area to the
junior college level appears initially to be particularly attractive
inasmuch as the area concerned includes most of the existing and
planned community Lutheran high schools.

The Senior College Level of Training

The senior college level of training is the most recently intro-
duced phase of synodical training for both pastors and teachers.

As has already been reported in the official journals of Synod,
the Board for Higher Education most regretfully saw itself com-
pelled in January 1956 to defer the opening of Concordia Senior
College at Fort Wayne in the 1956—7 school year because of the
impossibility of carrying on the hopeful construction schedule
originally envisioned and planned. The urgency of putting this
new and vital part of Synod’s training program into the earliest
and fullest possible use has never been greater. The impending
dedication of the new campus and its facilities to the glory of God

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