# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1983_S64
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

64 MINUTES OF THE CONVENTION

Ballots
(1) (2) (3) (4)
George C. Royal (SO) ......--.-.---- 237 .
*John Willhardt (SO) ..........-...-- 467
Board of Regents—Seward
TEACHER
*F. William Chandler (NEB) ......... 599
Melvin H. Schroeder (NI) .......---- 306
LAYPERSONS
Warren Biermann (NEB) ........-.- 360 388 360 410
Paul R. Dumke (CO) ........--.----- 218
*Albert Hokamp (NEB) .............- 3885 443 472
Robert G. Horn (SC) ...........---- 225 195

Ballots
ql) (2) (3) (4)

*David Krohn (3 years) (NEB) ....... 3861 388 381 457
*Gordon Schlechte (NEB) ........... 521

Paul J. Steiner (NEB) .............- 285 216 225

Joyce Verrett (SO) .........-------+- 242 248 250

Board of Regents— Winfield

LAYPERSONS

*Larry Bass (KS) ........-...-..+++5- 552

Sidney G. Beltz (KS) ..............-- 326

Bob Hamann (KS) .............--.- 207

Ed Newcomer (KS) ..........---00+5 228
*Robert Perry (OK) ............+-005+ 505

Special Standing Rules

(These standing rules were adopted in the first session.)

1. The Chair shall see that the agenda is followed as
closely as possible.

2. Resolutions of each floor committee shall be pri-
oritized by number and shall normally be presented
in the numerical sequence published in Today’s
Business.

3. Each member of the convention, when recognized
by the Chair, shall state his name. He shall also
state the name of his District or of the administra-
tive unit (board, faculty) he represents.

4. The two-minute rule shall apply for all who speak
from the floor.

5. While any voting delegate may call the question at
any time, after every 30 minutes of debate on any
one motion there shall be an automatic call of the
question by the Chair.

6. Instead of only a voice vote on motions before the
convention, the Chair shall ordinarily also call for
the raising of the right hand.

7. If a substitute motion is offered, the convention
shall first decide by majority vote whether or not to
consider the substitute. If the decision is in the
affirmative and the substitute motion is adopted,
the original motion falls; if the substitute motion
does not receive favorable action either to consider
or to adopt, the original motion is again before the
house. (This is the so-called “Behnken rule” for
dealing with substitute motions.)

8. Questions of privilege shall be addressed in writing
to the Chair, or its appointee, instead of consuming
convention time.

9. In the sessions of the last two days the President -
shall have the privilege of calling up for action
resolutions which in his judgment must be acted
upon by the convention before adjournment.

10. Resolutions prepared by the floor committees which
are not acted upon by the convention before ad-
journment die. The subject matter may be reintro-
duced at the next convention by means of an
overture.

11. Minutes shall be distributed every morning in
Today’s Business. The first item of business in the
afternoon session shall be the formal approval of
these minutes. However, at that time only correc-
tions involving convention action shall be offered
from the floor for consideration. Simple editorial
corrections involving, for example, misspelling of
names and faulty titles and references shall be
submitted in writing to the Secretary for incorpora-
tion in the minutes after verification.

12. The preface, preamble, and whereas sections shall
be considered an integral part of the resolution or
overture, and as such subject to the same serious
consideration and adoption in all its parts as the
main motion itself.

13. Unless covered by these standing rules of the con-
vention, parliamentary procedure shall be governed
by Roberts Rules of Order, newly revised (1981
edition). ;