# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S945
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 247

i entitled to some allocation from the total fund which has been
umulated.
* However, the absolute needs of the seminaries and the teacher
aining colleges have completely absorbed the part of the collec-
on which has been received to date. In order to carry out the
resolutions of the 1947 convention, and in order to prevent a very
extensive backlog of real needs from overwhelming Synod at some
ter date, the Board for Higher Education urgently recommends
that the remaining “Building for Tomorrow” needs be met and
that the necessary funds be included in the one large collection
which is recommended in Section D of the Board’s current report.
We estimate that a total of $500,000 will completely cover the
remaining grants which were made by the 1947 convention. If,
owever, the institutions were to wait until these funds can be
collected, then the needs already recognized and the grants made
by the 1947 convention could not be applied for still another four
years. On the basis of a careful resurvey of the entire situation,
the Board for Higher Education is convinced of both the moral
obligation and of the educational necessity involved, and it recom-
mends, therefore,

That a sum up to $500,000 be made available for immediate
allocation for these purposes; and the Board recommends further,

That this sum be advanced from the current reserve of Synod;
and we recommend further,
“That the first receipts of any educational collection during the
E next triennium be assigned for repayment of any sums advanced;
t and we recommend finally,
¥ . That any educational projects involved shall be authorized by
4 the Board of Directors only upon the expressed approval of the
* Board for Higher Education.

ACTION
‘ The above schedule on Current Requests from Institutions
B is given as revised by Committee 1, upon whose recommendation
Synod adopted the following resolution:

Resolution 25

Wuereas, Section 6.147 of the synodical Handbook provides
that after consultation with the Board of Directors, the Board for
Higher Education is held “to present its recommendations” (for
major repairs, capital improvements, and expansion of the physical
plant and equipment, and the requirements and program for
improvement and expansion of its educational facilities for the
succeeding triennium) “to the President of Synod for action at
the triennial convention”; and