# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S951
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 253

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 can
be made no later than the meeting of the synodical conven-
tion of 1953.

. 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,
to a 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.

. 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 already .
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).

. 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 the following
schedule: .

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 land 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.