# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S151
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 149

into the social, cultural, and political problems of humanity, so
that we might develop both the vision and the program which will
properly give effect to Christ’s command to preach the saving
Gospel among all nations. Our Savior’s love to us will impel us
to carry forward a world-wide mission program in robust vigor
and strength. If we hope to supply the needs of such a program,

we shall be required to maintain the educational projects which .

must produce the hundreds and thousands of workers without
whom no plans, policies, and proposals can be translated into action.

The Board’s Program

In carrying out its work during the past triennium your Board
conducted 28 separate meetings of one or two days’ duration in
addition to two sessions with the Board of Directors, five with the
Advisory Council (College and Seminary presidents); one Pro-
fessors’ Conference; and one joint session with the Board for
Parish Education. We acknowledge with gratitude to God the
full and ready co-operation with which these officials and boards
of the Church have responded. The current educational problems
are so vast and complex that your Board has felt more keenly than
ever the need for such a constant supply of expert and interested
advisory service.

Approximately 60 resolutions were referred to the Board for
Higher Education by the 1944 Convention at Saginaw. It has not
been possible to bring all of the actions indicated to their final
conclusion, but your Board has been able to give attention to the
majority of the items referred to it for consideration.

The most serious handicap encountered has been an extensive
delay occasioned by the Board’s inability to secure the Executive
Secretary authorized by the Saginaw Convention. The Board’s
appointment was accepted in September, 1945, but it was not until
January 1, 1946, that the Board was able to establish a central
office in Chicago and to install Martin J. Neeb, for 16 years a pro-
fessor at our College in Austin, Texas, as its Executive Secretary.
All survey materials have now been transferred to and filed in
the Chicago office. Considerable progress can be reported toward
the co-ordination of the activities of Synod’s schools, an activity
which has been made very considerably more complex by the
demands for expansion in general education and by the numerous
adjustments and activities authorized as a result of the Hausmann
survey presented to the 1944 Convention.

One of the major projects claiming the attention of your Board
and which has consumed large portions of our extensive studies
and deliberations is included in the Handbook recommendations