# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S258
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260 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

a moral obligation to give the Church some return in point of
service (or tuition) for its investment, your Committee was not
ready to recommend any form of contract or legislation in this
matter because of the social implications involved; be it

Resolved, That this memorial be referred to the Board of
Directors.

To Examine Scriptural Correctness of Retirement
Regulations
(Unprinted Memorials 19 and 49) .

Overture 19 by Dr. Martin Graebner questioned the Scriptural-
ness of applying the new retirement rule making the call of a pro-
fessor a determinate one also to the professors called under an in-
determinate call, like our pastors.

The St. Louis Faculty, Memorial 49, requested:

1. That the rule to lessen the teaching load at age 65 be made
mandatory; and that the Board of Control be empowered to make
the necessary additions to the faculty to compensate for this re-
duction;

2, That the actual retirement of a professor be made dependent,
not on age, but on physical and mental ability to continue teaching.
The determination of this eventuality may well be arrived at by the
Board of Control in consultation with several competent physicians.

ACTION

Upon recommendation of Committee 1 Synod passed the fol-
lowing resolution:

Wuereas, Synod’s retirement plan for professors does not mili-
tate against the Scriptures; and

WuereAs, This plan serves the best interests of Synod’s insti-
tutions and in brotherly love makes adequate provision for these
servants of the Church; therefore be it

Resolved, That the present retirement plan remain in operation.

Election Resolution
Upon recommendation of Committee 1 the following resolution
was adopted:
Wuereas, Synod has decided to make the new Handbook
effective immediately; and
Wuereas, Four elections to professorships are now in progress
at our institutions; therefore be it

Resolved, That all election procedures which have been ini-
tiated prior to the date of the Centennial Convention shall be com-