# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S137
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 137

be urged to continue their in-service education until they have
fulfilled degree requirements and the standards of the church; and

6. That congregations and District Boards of Education be
made coresponsible for the continued in-service education of their
undergraduate teachers, and

7. That the Synod encourage all women students now in the
colleges or entering after September 1959 to complete their degree
program voluntarily before their first assignment; and

8. That the Synod grant authority to the Board of Assignment
to place women teachers with two years plus one full quarter of
professional preparation in the 1962 placement and women teachers
with three years plus one full quarter of professional preparation
in the 1965 placement in those congregations which can and will
accept their services, since the gradual upgrading of minimal stand-
ards may result in marked shortages of available teachers in these
years of transition.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Report of the Committee on the Centennial of
Formal Teacher Training

RESOLUTION 27, COMMITTEE 1
Memorial 164, page 221, Reports and Memorials
Wuereas, The Committee on the Centennial of Formal

Teacher Training worked diligently to make the church aware
of the blessings of teacher training in the last century and to alert
the church to the important and blessed task of training an ever
greater number of consecrated teachers for service in church and
school; therefore be it

Resolved, That the report of the Committee on the Centennial
of Formal Teacher Training be accepted and the Committee re-
leased with thanks.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Accreditation
RESOLUTION 28, COMMITTEE 1

Memorial 120, Section D, page 136, Reports and Memorials

Wuerras, Concordia College, St. Paul, Minn., has recently
achieved accreditation with the North Central Association of Col-
leges and Secondary Schools; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod commend Concordia College, Saint
Paul, Minn., for the achievement of this accreditation on the college
level; and be it further