# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1954_S152
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152 Proceedings of the Forty-Third Convention,

Alabama Lutheran Academy Report

ALABAMA LUTHERAN ACADEMY AND COLLEGE
SELMA, ALA.
By the Rev. Wm. G. Kennell, Chairman, Board of Control

With the increasing tensions in this world due to the continued
threats to world peace, and with the resulting fears due to the fan-
tastic weapons of destruction, the Church, more than ever, must
take the lead in convincing men of the need for faith in a living and
victorious Savior, Jesus Christ.

In no better place can this objective be begun and steadfastly
continued than in the Christian day schools of our land, where
day by day, the sure and comforting Word of God is taught and
applied.

Alabama Lutheran Academy-College, through the Christian
training given its 129 students (Grades 8 through Normal), and
its supplying of teachers for the many day schools in its area, is
contributing much to offset the nervous tensions which grip people
today.

Since 1922 Alabama Lutheran Academy-College has been
teaching and training according to the inspired Word, and through
its doors have passed many upright Christian leaders. Its president
is the Rev. W. H. Ellwanger.

The school, operated by the Synodical Conference and man-
aged by the Missionary Board through a local Board of Control,
is strictly a Lutheran school, with a 100-per-cent Lutheran faculty,
and only one out of its 129 students a non-Lutheran. The school
is intended, primarily, to prepare Lutheran girls for the teaching
profession, and Lutheran boys for either the ministerial or the
teaching profession. The school is located in a strategic position
for this work, ministering to the Alabama Field with its 39 congre-
gations and 30 day schools, and being within reasonable distance
of the congregations making up the Louisiana Field.

The school consists of three departments:

A. Kindergarten and Elementary (which provides fine oppor-
tunity for practice teaching for the Normal students.)

B. High School
C. Normal Training

Enrollment at the end of the 1953—1954 term was as follows:

Kindergarten 2 32 11th Grade 14
Grades 17 oe 94 12th Grade -_ .. 25
Total Elementary Grades .... 126 Total High School Grades .... 119
8th Grade 1st Year Normal Training _...... 10
9th Grade .. —_—
10th Grade Total Normal Training _...... 10
TOTAL ENROLLMENT ..___. 255

Of the 129 students enrolled in the High School and Normal
Training Departments, 94 are boarding students — 36 boys and 58
girls. Seven States are represented: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Ohio, and California.