# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S977
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 279

Board of Control of the respective institution in which the
person involved is serving. shall submit a recommendation in
writing to the Board for Higher Education with respect to the
nature of the member’s prospective modified service, pay, and
housing. This arrangement is to be subject to annual review
and annual recommendations.

“7, In the light of the existing situation, it is recognized
that a complete and immediate application of the indicated
procedures might well result in some inequities. To make
Handbook Section 6.79 effective, therefore, all presidents and
Boards of Control will be held to bring their local arrange-
ments into conformity with this policy no later than the end
of the current triennium: July 1, 1950.

“8. Sections (A, 2, 3; B,7) covering procedural relations
between local administrations and the Board for Higher Edu-
cation are to become effective after January 1, 1949.”

Because of the fact that there is such an extreme variety of
circumstances involved, that a mere mechanical application of the
pension and retirement laws at this time would not satisfactorily
discharge the Church’s obligation in this matter, and that a deep
regard for the welfare of the brethren who are required to retire
under this directive is a solemn obligation of Synod, the Board for
Higher Education recommends

“That the Fort Wayne directive in this matter, as inter-
preted by.the quoted policy statement of the Board for Higher
Education, continue to guide the deliberations and the actions

of the local Boards of Control and the Board for Higher Edu-
cation over a period of the five years subsequent to 1951.”

We recommend finally

“That the Board for Higher Education be directed to convey
its further recommendations to the convention of 1956, when
it makes its report on the status of the retirement program
at that time.”

ACTION

Upon recommendation of Committee 1, Synod resolved:

Resolution 45

Wuereas, Synod has required the Board for Higher Education
to implement Section 6.79 of the Handbook (Continued Service
after Retirement); and

Wuereas, The Board for Higher Education has accordingly
submitted a general policy on retirement and on modified © serv-
ice; and

Wuereas, The extreme variety of circumstances involved in
effecting retirement and modified service make a mechanical appli-
cation of the rules an unsatisfactory manner of discharging the
Church’s obligation in this matter with due regard for the welfare
of the brethren; therefore be it