# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S30
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30 Proceedings of the Forty-First Convention,

Dale, matron. The grade school teachers are: Mrs. Emma Hunt
and Mrs. Beatrice Jenkins. The enrollment by grades is as follows:

Kindergarter cece ccc -. 24
Grades 1—7 _.. . 85
Eighth Grade _ 30
Ninth Grade _..

Tenth Grade __..
Eleventh Grade ..
Twelfth Grade ...

Total in High School 76
Teachers’ Training 7
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Of this number, 65 are boarding students (27 boys and 38 girls).
Despite increased costs the price of board has been kept down to
fifteen dollars a month with a balanced budget. All but nine per
cent of the high school and normal school students are bona fide
Lutherans. It is the purpose of the administration to keep this
a distinctly Lutheran school. The nine per cent were admitted on
grounds of their Lutheran connection.

In view of the outstanding need for pastors, it has been
emphasized during the past few years that the prime purpose of
our school is to provide pre-ministerial training for gifted boys.
In answer to prayers the enrollment of boys in the high school
and normal departments has increased to fifty. Of this number,
sixteen have definitely declared their intention to prepare for the
holy ministry. Five (three from the class of ’50 and two from
the class of ’49) plan to enter Immanuel Lutheran College, Greens-
boro, the coming school year. Two students from Alabama, Samuel
Kent and Richard Dickinson, are now enrolled in the seminary at
Immanuel Lutheran College. It is our hope that a steady flow of
gifted students for the ministry will be sent to Immanuel College
from Alabama through all the years to come, that the Lutheran
Church may be supplied with an ample number of Negro
ministers.

A number of our ministerial students come from homes not
able to cope with living costs of today, and in order that gifted
young men should not be denied ministerial training on account
of a lack of finances, a few Sunday schools and ladies’ organiza-
tions of the Synodical Conference, along with a few individuals,
have contributed to our indigent student fund. This help is much
appreciated. Surely it is an investment in the building of the
Kingdom. Also the L. A.H.E. (Lutheran Association for Higher
Education) of Alabama helps a number of students through
scholarships.

Keenly aware of the outstanding need for more ministers, and
in answer to the pressing need for ample dormitory provisions,
the Missionary Board authorized the construction of a boys’ dormi-
tory, which was dedicated November 5, 1949. This dormitory has
twelve rooms, each large enough enough for two or three students,
a large reception room, and housemaster’s room, besides lavatories.
The cost was $17,450. Of this amount, $4,248.28 was raised by the’
Alabama congregations, the remainder being provided from the
Haubert legacies and the sale of the tract of land originally selected