# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S587
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES. 3

will cost about $25,000.00. The following reasons seem to
he erection of a mission house a necessity:
“The assistance of missionaries on furlough is absolutely
gary for the language work and other phases of practical
pgration; it will be extremely difficult to obtain such assistance
} furnished apartments are made available.
“We agree with the Board for Foreign Missions that mis-
ies on furlough should have an opportunity to spend at least
mester in graduate studies to refresh and intensify their the-
fical education; this means that living quarters be provided.
The presence of missionaries on the campus will have a
lesome effect on the student body.
d. The anticipated expansion of the Mission Department as
tlined in the Book of Overtures, 1938, p.117f., and Proceedings
8, pp.149 and 150, will require more space than is now
ble.
2. That the Mission Department be an integral part of the
duate School of Concordia Seminary and be under the direct
‘vision of the Faculty and Board of Control of the Seminary.

That the cost of administration, teaching, and maintenance
16 Mission Department be included in the budget of the Sem-
y,.. with scholarships offered by the various mission boards and
sted individuals. ;

t the last convention at Fort Wayne, Synod resolved to intro-
a retirement plan for our synodical institutions, according to
men reaching the age of 70 “shall be entitled to honorable
ement,” and men reaching the age of 65 shall possibly have
‘teaching load reduced. (See Proceedings, 1941, pp. 105, 106.)
‘943 Dr. L. Fuerbringer was 79; Dr. Theodore Engelder, 78;
“Dr. Martin Sommer, 74.

‘Since the retirement plan prescribed that the Board for Higher
ducation and the Board of Directors be consulted, a plenary ses-
“was held with the Board for Higher Education and then
meeting with the Board of Directors. Meetings were also held
ithe Faculty Committee and with Doctors Fuerbringer, Engel-
and Sommer. After the Board of Control had discussed the
‘ement plan with the three venerable doctors individually and
rotherly manner, these professors asked that the retirement
be. carried out in their respective cases.

‘However, Synod also stipulated: “Any continued service after
of retirement shall be determined by the local Board of
in consultation with the Board of Electors.” Therefore
rd asked the Board of Electors to ratify the recommendation
Hé Board. of Control to engage the three venerable doctors to

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