# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S975
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 277

Handbook Section 6.79

One of the important functions which Synod requires its Board
-Higher Education to perform is the implementation of Sec-
n 6.79 of the Handbook. Since there are so many delicate per-
al problems and intimate family considerations involved in the
charge of this responsibility, it can readily be understood that
1. minimum of publicity would attach to the Board’s activity in
is area of its work.

-During the past triennium your Board for Higher Education
Baas had to participate in more than a dozen retirements from
“the administrative and teaching positions at our educational insti-
utions. At all times we have conscientiously attempted to carry
ut the intent of Section 6.79: _

“Administrative officials and professors shall be honorably
retired at the age of 70. Any continued service after that shall
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
zbe read, the Board felt, in the light of the resolution of the con-
ention of 1941 (page 105):

“That a plan of retirement be introduced in our synodical
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.”

2 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
E.. 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 .

“7, 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