# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S645
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 61

dical.Handbook to read, “At any time after reaching the age
‘professor shall be privileged to retire,” deleting the re-
rr of the paragraph, and to order that professors who have
luntarily retired be given the standing of professors emeriti;
it further

esolved, That we petition Synod officially to accord the title
sident emeritus to Dr. L. Fuerbringer.

Tur Curcaco ENGLIsH District CONFERENCE

Artuour A, Yoss, Secretary

Free Professors’ Garages

':The Synodical Handbook, edition 1937, pp. 69 ff., regarding the
ies of the professors at our seminaries and colleges, adds the
owing statement: “Salaries herein mentioned are understood
include a place of abode.”

In the proposed Handbook revision now before Synod for ap-
val we find the same regulation expressed in section 436D as
‘ollows: “In addition to the above (salaries), Synod shall provide
Suitable residence for each professor.”

Twenty to fifty years ago the “place of abode,” the “suitable
esidence,” under the then prevailing conditions included also the
‘of outbuildings, such as coal or woodshed, buggy shed, etc.,
ed by Synod. But times and conditions have changed.
Residences in our time have not such outbuildings as in former
times. Only one attachment is generally connected with the “suit-
able residence” of the present time, perhaps built under the same
of with residence or erected as a special building as the only
utbuilding. It is the shelter for the automobile, the garage. Synod
Zalso recognized this. change in the regulation recorded in Synod’s
‘andbook, p. 65, reading: “Boards of Control and Synod’s Board
f Directors shall build garages for professors at our institutions
‘whenever it seems necessary or expedient.”

The Boards do that at present, as the Boards in by-gone days
-built outbuildings as needed under the prevailing conditions of
former times. But in one respect there is a difference, namely, in
respect to the use of the outbuilding. Synod’s regulation says,
“=p. 69,5: “However, the professors are held to pay a reasonable
‘amount of rent for the use of such garages.” The former out-
buildings could be used by the professors without paying rent
for them.

When this ruling demanding rent for the use of the garages
“was made, there may have been a plausible reason for it, because
the automobile was something new and not in use as a common
vehicle, which is no longer the case.

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