After Kelm is done transforming Milwaukee, he might bestow his blessings on Saginaw.
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MLS: The school no one wants to lead, but nope, it won't close anytime soon, according to some:
http://www.mlsem.org/news/prof-paul-zell-declines-mls-presidents-call/
Prof. Paul Zell Declines MLS President’s Call
Rev. Paul Zell, professor of homiletics and New Testament at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, Wisconsin, has informed the MLS Governing Board chairman, Pas. George Ferch, that he has been led by the Holy Spirit to decline the board’s call for him to become the next president of Michigan Lutheran Seminary.
The MLS board is scheduled to meet on campus on Friday, September 9, for its fall meeting. The issuing of the next call to fill the vacant president’s position will be a part of the board’s agenda for the day.
The most recent call was the seventh issued by the board since it asked for members of the synod to submit nominations in September 2010. While eleven months have passed since the calling process began, in 1993-94 the process took more than twenty months and fourteen calls before Rev. Paul Prange became the fifth president of MLS as a preparatory school.
Last Modified: Wednesday, August 24th at 11:30a.m.
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GJ - I just want to ask the Board of MLS, "How far can you go?"
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I don't get it...with at least some pastors being at churches that can barely afford to pay them, it seems like they would have plenty of candidates for a presidency of a prep school.
I still don't think we know the story on that last president that only lasted a month or two.
C'mon, Dr. Jackson, give us the REAL story.
Grumps
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GJ - I told you the real story about how Aaron Frey left his job. He was asked by a student in class, "How far can we go on a date?" Frey's answer was, "As far as your conscience allows." A firestorm developed. Silent Seifert, the DP, showed up and Frey resigned because of "stress" - as far as I can recall. That is the standard excuse used to cover up scandal in WELS. Stress. Lots of stress.
How do I know that is the true story? Several people verified it with their actions. Frey unfriended me on Facebook (gasp). His classmate from MLS, Tim Glende, denounced my true story on his Fake-a-blog. WELS put out their cover story. Two insiders also verified the story for me.
Why can't they get someone to take the call to close the school? Mark Schroeder wants MLS gone, but the Michigan District would secede from the fragile union known as WELS. Anyone taking the call would have an albatross to wear around his neck.
It would be more like the treatment of Jews and Huguenots in France. They were suspended between fighting dogs.
There could be much more to the fight over the call. I no longer get top secret messages from Schroeder, so I am not sure what the story is. But both preps will close. So will MLC. The Sausage Factory is superfluous in the long run. I expect the Syn Conference will re-unite to merge and close facilities. One seminary is enough for all three.
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Ever get the impression the Board is just throwing darts at names on the wall?
They are waiting for MLS to say, "Uncle!"
Say "Uncle".....
Dr. Jackson, it is NOT closing....
Say "BA-ZING-OO"
Grumps "Checking underneath beds and in closets for Ed Gein" Lutheran
You are right, Grumpy. If the board wanted to close MLS, they would call Kovo or Ski.
Can we say ministrial suicide?
I don't get it...with at least some pastors being at churches that can barely afford to pay them, it seems like they would have plenty of candidates for a presidency of a prep school.
I still don't think we know the story on that last president that only lasted a month or two.
C'mon, Dr. Jackson, give us the REAL story.
Grumps
One curiousity....they did not post anything on the MLS site regarding number of students for the 2011-2012 year...
Up?
Down?
Stable?
Also, is MLS depending more and more on foreign students to fill up the rolls? I also notice from at least some former alumni that their children have NOT attended MLS even if they live in the Saginaw area....some have gone instead to a area Christian (non-WELS) High School...
Wonder what's up....
The neighborhood? The talk of closing the school, starting 20 years ago? The cost? Being turned down repeatedly for the top job there? Staff cuts? Poor economy?
I heard on the news that according to FBI statistics Saginaw has the highest score for violent crime for a city of its size.
However, the neighborhood where MLS is actually quite good compared to the "bad" sections...it is actually quite a ways from what passes for the inner city in Saginaw.
I am sure everything is going just fine....once they get a new prez it will be back to normal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJ2Q0F8H80
Grumpy,
MLS enrollment is up.
http://www.wels.net/news-events/prep-school-enrollments
"Preliminary numbers at LPS show enrollment this year is 403, up from 360 a year ago. At MLS, initial enrollment is 228, up from 195 a year ago."
When LI attended MLS, the enrollment was 300, so they have lost 80 students. Multiply that times the tuition, room, and board. That is a loss of $720,000. Meanwhile costs are up, and I imagine support in real dollars down.
I'm no CPA, but that spells ba-zingo to me.
One must remember that MLS would have already been closed long ago except for the fact that Michigan pastors said they would break off from the WELS and form their only micro-synod if MLS was closed. So it's a transfer union really--for the privilege of having Michigan being part of the WELS, the WELS must fund their school to the tune of a million or two dollars per year.
Well, well, well...the numbers are UP, UP, UP....
Guess that is a BA-ZING-OO to Dr. Jackson....
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