# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S744
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744 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

Centennial of Formal Teacher Training in Synod

ACTION
Unprinted Memorial 66 by the Board of Control and the
faculty of our River Forest Teachers College had called attention
to this matter. Synod resolved to adopt Resolution 9 of Com-
mittee 13:
Resolution 9

Wuereas, As early as 1847, when Synod was organized, train-
ing for the ministry of teaching was an objective of the theological
seminaries in St. Louis and Fort Wayne, Synod’s first institutions
for preparing workers in the church; and

WuereAs, The growing demand for specially trained men for
the ministry of teaching in the congregations prompted three
pastors in Milwaukee to establish a private teachers seminary in
their city in 1855; and

Wuereas, This private seminary was taken over by Synod in
1857, transferred to Fort Wayne, and in the fall of that year
incorporated as a department of teacher training in the Fort Wayne
seminary; and

Wuergas, This step marks the beginning of formal synodical
training for the ministry of teaching, which in 1864 resulted in
the establishment of our first teachers seminary at Addison, IIL,
followed by the establishment of a second teachers seminary at
Seward, Nebr., in 1894, and finally by the transfer of the Addison
school to River Forest, Ill., in 1913; and

Wuereas, The growing demand for workers well trained for
the ministry of teaching in the congregations has prompted Synod
constantly to expand its teacher-training facilities and to raise
the standard of such training; and

Wuereas, This interest has, under the blessing of God, resulted
in a remarkable expansion of the program of Christian education
in our Synod, reflected in the increase of our parish schools, the
growth of our Sunday schools, and the development of other
educational agencies in the church; therefore, be it

Resolved, That Synod recognize this blessing of God by pro-
claiming the next school year, 1956—1957, the Centennial Year of
Formal Training for the Ministry of Teaching; and be it further

Resolved, That appropriate observance of this centennial be
suggested to our congregations and to our seminaries and colleges;
and be it further

Resolved, That to this end a committee be appointed under the
chairmanship of a member of the Praesidium, consisting of mem-

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