# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S237
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 236

ACTION

Upon recommendation of Committee 1 Synod resolved:

1. That the Lutheran High School Association be requested to
effect as soon as possible a separation of its high school student
body, staff, and equipment from the synodical plant of Concordia
College at Fort Wayne;

2. That to assist in initiating this program Synod authorize the
local Board of Control to lease a suitable part of the college campus
to the Lutheran High School Association in order to make it pos-
sible for the Association to erect a building which will provide suf-
ficient classrooms, offices, laboratories, and other teaching facilities
for its student body and staff;

3. That the High School Association be asked to erect a suit-
able building as soon as possible after the requisite land has been
made available;

4, That final action on the leasing of the site be contingent upon
approval by the Board of Directors and the Board for Higher Edu-
cation;

5. That the Lutheran High School student activities be sepa-
rated as much as possible from those of Concordia College. For the
present, among others, athletics, music, and military activities
would probably have to continue to be conducted jointly.

6. That Synod continue to make available to the Lutheran High
School Association, under conditions to be agreed upon, the use of
the college chapel, gymnasium, library, athletic field, and, as occa-
sion may demand, the limited use of other facilities; —

7. That adequate financial adjustments and the conditions of
joint use of physical facilities be determined by the Concordia Col-
lege Board of Control and the Board of the Lutheran High School
Association. Any financial contracts are to become effective after
approval by Synod’s Board of Directors;

8. That Synod’s Board of Control be recognized as having ulti-
mate responsibility for the operation of the total project as long as
any joint activities are conducted on Synod’s campus or units of”
Synod’s physical plant are utilized by the Lutheran High School.
It is to be understood, however, that the administration of the en-
tire academic program of the Lutheran High School has been dele-
gated to the Lutheran High School Association’s Board by Synod’s
Board of Control.

VIII. Support for Lutheran High Schools

Your Board has been instructed together with the Board for
Parish Education “to enter upon active support of a program of
general education on the high school level.” In an effort to clarify