# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S613
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614 FINANCIAL MATTERS

[817] Publication of Salaries

It is suggested that the following proposal be discussed and
voted upon at. the 1950 convention of our Synod:

That the salaries our professors at our various institutions and
other Synod officials receive be published in the Lutheran Witness
annually. (The salaries paid them should be no secret and
especially so when Synod’s budget is stressed so greatly and the
members who support it are asked for higher needed budgets.
If it is shown specifically where Synod’s money goes and why it
is specifically needed here and there, it will help considerably
in reaching the necessary goal.) Aurrep Oprrz, Pratt, Kans.

[818]
Report of Board of Support and Pensions

The Board of Support and Pensions herewith submits its re-
port for the past triennium to the honorable convention.

The personnel of our Board underwent a number of changes.
The Executive Secretary, Rev. F. G. Kuehnert, retired from active
service with the Board on October 31, 1948, after having directed
its activities and endeavors ever since it was created by Synod
in 1917. His efforts during the thirty-one years of his tenure of
office brought comfort and relief into the lives and homes of
thousands of Veterans of the Cross and their dependents. Under
his energetic direction the Pension Fund was inaugurated, and its
membership has grown in a very satisfactory manher. Since No-
vember 1, 1948, Pastor Kuehnert has been enjoying his well-
deserved retirement. Pastor Edwin A. Sommer of Beardstown, Ti,
became his associate on July 15, 1947. Since Pastor Kuehnert’s
retirement, Pastor Sommer has been the Executive Secretary of
our Board.

The only two other members of the original Board, ap-
pointed in 1917, and permitted to serve with Rev. F. G. Kuehnert
for thirty-one years, Mr. Theodore Doering and Mr. C. H. Dehn-
ing, were called away by death, Mr. Doering in May, 1949, and
Mr. Dehning in February, 1950. Both men gave willingly and
wholeheartedly of their time and abilities in the service of Synod’s
Board of Support and Pensions and its thousands of beneficiaries.
President J. W. Behnken appointed Mr. Arthur Hahn of St. Paul’s
Church in Melrose Park to replace Mr. Doering. The Board de-
ferred till this convention the act of filling the vacancy caused by
Mr. Dehning’s death. Mr. George Halter of Cleveland, Ohio, was
elected to membership on this Board in 1947. However, because he
had also been asked to serve on the Board for Public Relations