# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S53
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 53

work. God has given them the children to be taught by a teacher;
He will surely also give the necessary means to support a teacher
adequately.

In order to keep down the costs for Synod, the students have
again gladly and willingly given a considerable amount of their time
each year to work without remuneration on the campus and in the
buildings.

Our heavenly Father has graciously protected the students from
epidemics and serious illness. Dr. Kohn very efficiently cares for the
health of the students, and he is given kind assistance by Dr. George
Schroeder, who also has performed quite a number of minor and
major operations without any charge to the institution.

Request.

- Your Board desires to call attention to the fact that one of the
most important problems confronting the institution is the question
how to meet the constantly increasing demands of public authorities
in the accreditation of our Christian day-school teachers, how the
institution, in the interest of providing Christian education, must try
to meet these demands by seeking additional accreditation for its
high-school and college deparments and by providing additional train-
ing of our teachers through the extension of the courses. In order to
meet the needs of our Church and the requirements of the State, the
board and faculty of River Forest, with the consent of the General
Board and the College of Presidents, added a third college year pro-
visionally. We earnestly beg and hope that your honorable body will
make this arrangement permanent and add an elective fourth year.
For further information we respectfully refer the brethren to the
report of the Survey Committee on Higher Education and to various
memorials, among these the memorial from River Forest.

A. W. Bartina, Secretary.
Action of Synod.
4. A third year was added to the normal course at River Forest.

9. No action was taken at this time on the request to add an
elective fourth year.

3. The faculty was encouraged to institute correspondence and
extension courses for teachers.

Concordia Teachers College, Seward, Nebr.
(Memorial 104.)
The Board of Control of Concordia Teachers College at Seward,
Nebr., begs leave to submit the following report: —
We have again been permitted to enjoy our heavenly Father’s
grace and blessing during the past three years, and last year we were