# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S100
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96 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

were produced in an age when a school was maintained in
midst. We- greatly fear that another generation will tell a
ferent tale.

8. When a nucleus of weak congregations in the south
knocked at the door of our Synod in the year 1892, they
bringing with them an educational institution, even though small}
As fruits of that institution we still have many able pastors and
many more consecrated laymen at work in the Church.

9. When in 1935 an effort was made to reduce the finangi
burden of Synod by the elimination of four educational ins
tions, the elimination of the lone weakest one, viz., Conover, N. Cy
did not make even a noticeable change in the synodical budget!
We are making no complaint about the retention of Springfielé’
Concordia, and Portland, but the history of our Church in the
southeast territory during the past 15 years convinces us that the
abandonment of Conover was a mistake, a mistake not too lak

as yet to rectify.

40. In response to the calls of the church at large the con!
gregations and. individuals of the southeast territory have bees
making generous contributions both in finances and persona
service, but unless an equitable distribution is made of the workinj
units of the Church, it is only natural to suppose that this arde

will cool in the course of time.

11. The time when our Church is inaugurating a “Building fa

Tomorrow” program seems to be an appropriate time for S ra

to give serious consideration to the advisability of re-establishit

and maintaining 4 synodical educational institution in this soul

eastern section of our country. Jn order to supply the future nee
be a marked increase

of the Church for men, there will have to
production. An addition of one new school will naturally he

to solve this problem.

12. We, therefore, members of the Conover Concor
Alumni-ae Association, do petition The Lutheran Church —M
souri Synod, in 1950 convention assembled in Milwaukee, ¥
to give serious and prayerful consideration to the re-establishm
of such an institution

in said territory.
CoNovER CONCORDIA ALU:
Rev. J. FRANKLIN Yount, President
Mrs. Lois KREINBEDER-BORNMANN, Secretary

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Waereas, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod has i
two (2) theological seminaries, tw’

United States of America
normal schools, and nine (9) preparatory schools of higher e&€