# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S251
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 249

further directed to approve load adjustments commensurate
with the needs in such cases where Synod’s interests require
such modifications of present staff assignments.

3. That the Preparatory School be directed to include estimates
of equipment requirements in the budgets which they will
submit in June, 1948.

Consideration was given to a resolution passed by the Val-

paraiso University Church Music Conference assembled at She-
boygan, Wis., in August 1946. (Memorial 9.)

ACTION

Upon recommendation of Committee 1 it was resolved:

1. That the Board for Higher Education, in consultation with
the local Board of Control, be directed to analyze the needs at
each preparatory school and the theological seminaries;

2. That the Board for Higher Education be authorized to
establish full-time music services on a professor or instructor basis
where these appear warranted and that the Board be further
directed to approve load adjustments commensurate with the
needs in such cases where Synod’s interests require such modifi-
cations of present staff assignments;

3. That the preparatory schools and seminaries be directed to
include estimates of equipments in the budgets which they will
submit in June, 1948.

XIII. Mission House at St. Louis

With regard to the erection of a Mission House on the campus
of Concordia Seminary as proposed to the Convention of 1944 by
the St. Louis Seminary Board of Control and referred by Synod to
the Board for Higher Education for consideration in consultation
with the Board for Foreign Missions and the representatives of the
St. Louis Seminary, your Board finds itself in agreement with the
findings of the representatives of the Seminary and of the mission
boards and concurs, therefore, in the recommendation that $150,000
be made available for the purchase of apartment buildings for the
purpose.

We recommend further that consideration be given to the pos-
sibility of using the “pre-fabs” (now on the campus) for the pur-
pose when these are no longer required by the former chaplains.

Realizing that the establishment of an adequate program is the
primary factor to be considered if there is to be hope of improved.
service in this area, your Board recommends further study of the
curricular modifications implied by the expanded and intensified
mission school program.