# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S459
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 459

terials, and equipment could well be undertaken by Concordia
blishing House; therefore be it

... Resolved, That the Board of Governors of the Lutheran Lay-
_ men’s League, at the meeting held in St. Louis on Jan. 11 and 12,
1947, memorialize Synod as follows:

1, That Synod provide that a Department for Visual Education
«be created.

2. That Concordia Publishing House be the Department for
Visual Education.

3. That said Department be the agency to produce and dis-
tribute audio-visual aids, materials, and equipment.

4, That Synod provide for the establishment of a board of seven
members whose function it shall be to approve and authorize
production of audio-visual materials, to be known as the Producing
Board. ;

5. That Synod initiate the work of the Department by appro-
priating not less than One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000),
this fund to be amplified by regular allotments in the annual synod-
ical budget.

6. That Synod encourage the Lutheran Laymen’s League and
other organizations within Synod to use this Department for pro-
duction of audio-visual materials, such organizations to finance
their own productions. Board or GOVERNORS

or THE LUTHERAN LayMEN’s LEAGUE
A.'T. Wuson, President
Oscar T. Doerr, Secretary

Re: Audio-Visual Aids
To be Referred to Board for Parish Education
. (Memorial 519) -

The Board for Parish Education of the Western District has
for several years carefully observed and studied the emphasis
being placed upon audio-visual materials and techniques in the
field of education. The Board has been encouraged to do this by
the resolutions of teachers’ conferences, other District Boards for
Parish Education, and its own interest in the field.

The Board has observed that in the field of secular education
materials of a very high standard have been produced and offered
to schools. It has, however, noticed with regret, that in the field
of religious education the audio-visual materials have been com-
paratively meager and often of a decidedly inferior standard. In
order to offer their pupils the advantages of these new techniques
and materials, many schools, Sunday schools, societies, and