# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S222
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238 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

During the past triennium your Board for Higher Education
has had to participate in more than a dozen retirements from
the administrative and teaching positions at our educational] instiz
tutions. At all times we have conscientiously attempted to carry
out the intent of Paragraph 6.79:

“Administrative officials and professors shall be honorably
retired at the age of 70. Any continued service after that
be determined by the Board of Control, in consultation with
the Board for Higher Education.”

Although this general directive is entirely clear, it must always
be read, the Board felt, in the light of the resolution of the con-
vention of 1941 (page 105):

“That a plan of retirement be introduced in our synodica}
institutions gradually over a period of ten years and with deep
regard for the welfare of the older men now in service in our
institutions. During the next ten years the local Boards of
Control and the Board for Higher Education will necessarily
have to consider each case individually. Exceptions to the
proposed plan will undoubtedly decrease as the younger mem-
bers of our faculties come to the age of retirement under the
protection of the pension plan.”

This will be the last convention prior to the expiration of the
decade specified by the Fort Wayne Convention. In carrying out
its responsibilities during the years involved, the Board for Higher
Education was able to accumulate considerable experience with
the problems involved in retirement procedures. On the basis of
these contacts the Board issued, in 1948, a detailed statement of
the policy which grew gradually from the variety of indicated
needs. We believe that the intent of the various resolutions on
retirement is carefully preserved and defined, and that the welfare
of Synod’s education program and of the men serving in it is safe-
guarded in the general policy quoted here:

A. Retirement

“1. All administrative officials and professors at Synod’s
colleges and seminaries shall be retired or transferred to modi-
fied service at the end of the academic year (July 1—June 30)
in which such personnel has reached the age of 70 years.

“2. Prior to.1951 the annual income and housing provisions
for retired personnel shall be determined by the Board of
Control and the Board for Higher Education after consultation
with the. Board of Directors and the Board of Support and
Pensions. : an

“3. Not later than March 1 of the academic year in which

a president’s or faculty member's seventieth birthday occurs, _

the president and the Board of Control of the respective insti-
tution in which-the person involved is serving shall submit
a recommendation in writing to the Board for Higher Educa-
tion with respect to arrangements for the member's retirement

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 239

:.,.“a. It is understood that all such proposals shall be presented

for the joint consideration of the boards involved as a
result of consultations between the local administration and
the personnel involved.

“p. It is further understood that Synod intends to supplement
the regular pension payments in all cases where any hard-
ship would result from the simple assignment of pension.”

B. Modified Service

“1. On transfer to modified service, retired presidents and
professors shall be classified as advisory faculty members with-
out vote.

“2. On transfer to modified service such faculty personnel
shall be relieved of all major administrative responsibility in
the operation of the institution (President, Dean, Registrar,
Librarian, Admissions Officer, etc.).

“3. On transfer to modified service such faculty personnel
shall also be relieved of all major administrational responsi-
bility which may have been carried with respect to an academic
department.

“a. On transfer to modified service, such faculty personnel
may be assigned to another type of work more suitable to
their capacity.

“b, The services of faculty personnel transferred to modified
service because of age shall be limited to the teaching of
elective courses, special courses or sections, special lec-
tures, research, publications, representing the institution
upon specific appointment, and minor administrative work.
“4. On transfer to modified Service such faculty personnel

shall not be required to render committee service for the

faculty. ;

“5. The standard annual salary for modified service shall
be one half the average regular salary recéived by such in-
dividual during the last full year of standard service. ;
“a. It is understood that this figure is to be used as a standard
. basis for recommendations by local presidents and boards.
b, It is further understood that one part of the salary is to be

-nature of the member’s prospective -modified service, pay, and

housing. This arrangement is to be subject to i
. ng. us” L to annual
and annual recommendations. peek So anom eae

that a complete and immediate application’ of the indicated
Procedures might well result in some inequities. To make