# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S213
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items involved, therefore the Board for Higher Education recom.

mends

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

1. That the major emphasis in the 1950—1953 triennium },
placed on providing the means to secure increased produc.
tion of professional workers and higher standards of minis.
terial training.

2. That the total program of financing and meeting the accumy.
lated needs of Synod’s educational institutions, of ye.
organizing the system to produce greater volume, and of
raising the standards by establishing a senior college be
undertaken and completed, God willing, in two sections
extending over the next six years.

a. Fund-raising and reorganization to be completed during
the 1950—1953 triennium.°

b. The organization, construction, and staffing of the senior
college to be completed during the 1953—1956 triennium

3. That preliminaries for the adjustments at Fort Wayne and
at St. Louis be initiated by the Board for Higher Education
as soon as feasible after this convention, so that the first
phases of the new program may become effective in Sep-

tember, 1951. The remaining sections of reorganization are
to be initiated in the sequence dictated by the practical
circumstances involved and at the discretion of the Board
for Higher Education.

4, That as soon as possible after this convention the Board of
Directors and the Fiscal Conference arrange to organize
and lead a ministerial training appeal for $6,000,000 and to
prepare the necessary detailed and elaborate program to
alert our Synod and to enlist every available support for
a tremendous effort to meet the challenge presented; that
this group be instructed to proceed with preliminary activ-
ities at a date sufficiently early to make possible the presen-
tation of all details of the final plans at every District con-
vention in 1952; and that the group be instructed, finally,
to arrange to gather offerings in response to this appeal at
such a time that the final announcement of the outcomes cat

be made no later than the meeting of the synodical conven-

tion of 1953.
5. That the enormity and the urgency of this entire under-
taking be recognized by postponing any and all other

Synod-wide, extra-budgetary fund-raising efforts or projects -

toa subsequent triennium in order that such synodical

activities or the ministerial training appeal or both be not:
handicapped by the resultant competition for synodical ;

interest.

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6. That an advance fund, up to $750,000, be made available to
the Board for Higher Education and that the Board be
authorized and directed to allocate the funds required to
make the early stages of the reorganization program effective
by September, 1951, and to complete the projects alread
approved by the 1947 convention (included in the “Building
for Tomorrow” collection, but not built because the collec.
tion did not achieve the goal set).

1. That the Board for Higher Education be authorized and
directed to proceed with the organization and the estab-
lishing of a senior college according to th i
ieling ig e following
a. The selection and, if possible, the acquisition of a site for

the senior college shall be completed before the close of
the calendar year 1953, if it is necessary to erect a new
plant on acquired land. It is understood, of course, that
the Board of Directors participates in procedures involv-
ing and and construction, in accordance with the pro-
visions of Handbook Section 2.79.

b. The same schedule of action shall be attempted if the
Board finds it possible to acquire, through purchase or
other means, a complete educational plant which may
require more or less of repairs, alterations, or additions
It is understood, of course, that the Board of Directors
participates in such a procedure in accordance with the
provisions of Handbook Section 2.79,

c. snmediately after the selection of a site and when its
acquisition is at least assured, a local
shall be appointed Board of Control

d. If an existing educational i

plant is to be adapted t i
college use, every effort shall be made to have it, ‘in
readiness for occupancy and use by August 1, 1954. If
on the tee and, a new plant is to be constructed, its

on s planned f leti )
August 1. sats, or completion and use by

e. The election or appointment of ini
administrative offi
ane the faculty should be timed in relation to the avail.
a ility of the plant. In any event the procedure for elec-
on and appointment shall be initiated immediately after

; Stances and the needs of the institution.
- That Synod expect all students who would otherwise