parochial school

[Herb Stahlke]

That would have been the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, the rather
conservative group I grew up in.  They did have a prep school system
with nine campuses around the country.  These were boarding schools
offering high school and junior college and based on the model of the
German Gymnasium.  I attended the one in Milwaukee.  The purpose of
these schools was to prepare boys for the ordained Lutheran ministry.
I ran away and joined the Peace Corps in 1963 rather than go on to
seminary.

Herb

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> While Lutherans represent a small minority in this country compared to
>> Catholics, Lutheran congregations have operated parochial schools
>> since the 19th c. and have used the term "parochial" in that sense for
>> at least the last seven decades.
>>
>
> FWIW, Lutheran High School in Saint Louis - seat of the Lutheran
> Church, Missouri Synod, "The Church of The Lutheran Hour" - like my
> own high school alma mater, is considered to be a private, prep
> school.
>
> I lived in StL back in the day and, in those days, the bad old days,
> there was only a single black, Lutheran parish parish, St. Philip's,
> and it had no associated school.
>
> Oh, and it's located in the same block as Chuck Berry's boyhood home,
> on Goode Avenue. Berry's song, "Johnny B. _Goode_," is an hommage to
> his old 'hood. When we first came up from Texas, we lived in the same
> 'hood, next door to the church. I have no idea where Chuck lived in
> relation to our house, since he would have been much older, some
> eleven years older than I was. He wouldn't have bothered with a little
> kid like me, hardly more than a toddler at the time.
>
> --
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