# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S152
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

152 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 1

spared in impressing pastors and people with the acute shortage
of qualified professional workers which the church faces.

Proposition 2. That priority in enrollment be given to the
students who enter at advanced levels. The granting of this pri-
ority implies that qualified students will be recruited at the
advanced levels.

Proposition 3. That the goal be the balancing of the enroll-
ment at all of the church’s preparatory schools so that the high
school enrollment nowhere exceeds 50 per cent of the total student
body on the same campus.

Proposition 4. That consideration be given to the gradual
elimination of coeducation on the high school level on all campuses.

Proposition 5. That a coeducational teacher-training program
be authorized and encouraged for all the Synod’s junior colleges.

Proposition 6. That the junior college pretheological program
be authorized and encouraged in the freshman and sophomore
years of the colleges at Seward and River Forest. (This proposi-
tion is to be referred to the Board for Higher Education for further
study.)

Proposition 7. That existing physical plants be expanded
where a realistic appraisal of available land indicates such a plan

to be feasible and educationally sound. This expansion is to be
carried out, however, so that a proper balance of all the facilities
is achieved and maintained.

Proposition 8. That the admission standards at the Spring-
field seminary be in accord with par. 6.167 of the synodical Hand-
book as amended in Resolution 5, Committee 1 (T.B., page 186),
of the 1959 convention.

Proposition 9. That the Synod continue to train as high a per-
centage of its Christian day school teachers as possible. We further
recommend that beginning with women students entering in Sep-
tember 1962, only those holding a baccalaureate degree from one
of the church’s teachers colleges, or properly admitted to the
profession by colloquy, be certified as Lutheran teachers.
(Cf. Resolution 26, Committee 1, of the 1959 convention.)

Proposition 10. That the Board for Higher Education be
authorized — within Handbook limitations —to purchase property
for additional campuses and to sell unimproved campus sites;
that the actual establishment of new colleges and seminaries, how-
ever, be reserved to a synodical convention.