# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S760
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

760 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

To Close the Theological Department at Greensboro
(Memorial 405)

Wnereas, The physical equipment and the man power of the
faculty of Immanuel Lutheran College at Greensboro, N.C., are
altogether inadequate for the multiple purpose of the school; and

Wuereas, The annual number of graduates of this school’s
theological department is very small compared with the cost of
maintenance and with the need of Gospel ministers; and

Wnereas, Our theological students at this institution are be-
cause of its very nature lacking a most necessary contact with the
church at large and its world-wide work; and }

Wuereas, Those preparing themselves for the ministry at this
institution are a very small minority within the total student body,
which condition creates an unfavorable atmosphere for theological
students; and

Wuereas, Students preparing for the same calling or profession
learn from one another as well as from work done in the class-
room; and

Wuereas, The theological students now enrolled at Immanuel
College could easily be absorbed into the established seminaries
of the synods involved; therefore

The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod is herewith petitioned
and requested

a) to go on record as favoring the closing of the theological
department at Greensboro and the conversion of Immanuel Col-
lege into a regular prep school for both white and Negro students;

b) to express to its sister synods within the Evangelical Lu-
theran Synodical Conference of North America its willingness
to accept at both of its theological seminaries such students as
may qualify academically who are now enrolled at Immanuel Lu-
theran College in the theological department;

ec) to petition the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference
of North America to close the theological department of Immanuel
College and to direct its theological students to seek enrollment
at established theological seminaries within the Evangelical Lu-
theran Synodical Conference of North America.

Resolution adopted by Board of Trustees of Mount Zion Lu-
theran Church, New York, N. Y., March 5, 1956.

Ciaupe T. FEREBEE, President —