# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1039
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 841

7 in meeting assembled at Milwaukee, Wis., on June 21—30, 1950,

z. to order its Board of Directors and the Fiscal Conference to study

f the problem of salaries paid to our professors and instructors at
* our seminaries and colleges with the purpose of granting substantial
§. increases; and

: We furthermore earnestly petition Synod to request all member
... congregations to study the question of the salaries of pastors and’
~ teachers with the purpose of granting substantial increases.

Mitton CARPENTER Epwarp H. Scumipr
R. C. OBERMANN D. Netson Benrrup
Louis C. W. Hecnt Dr. THEO. A. BEHRENS

Cuar.es §. LOTTMANN

ACTION

Concerning these two memorials, Committee 1 brought. in the
following resolution, which was adopted:

Resolution 31
4 Wuereas, The salary scale for our teaching personnel as set
=. up by the Board for Higher Education in response to a directive
.. from the 1947 Convention could not take into consideration the
F economic situation subsequent to this action; and
Wuereas, The training of our future pastors and teachers in-

a volves a responsibility which calls for the best available talent in

* our Church; ‘and

Wuereas, It is the frequent experience of the Board for Higher
Education that men called into our educational system find it
extremely difficult, and at times impossible, to effect the adjustment
between the salaries which they had been receiving and the salaries
which Synod ‘is offering; and

Wuereas, The prevailing salary schedule frequently makes it
necessary for teaching personnel to supplement incomes from other
sources in order to provide sufficiently for the necessities of life
and for expenses connected with educational advance; therefore
be it

Resolved, That Synod instruct the Board of Directors and the
Fiscal Conference to give practical recognition to the need for
increased salaries by accepting up to 10% increase in the salary
section of the budget for higher education.

Memorial Concerning Salaries of College Presidents
(Unprinted Memorial 9)
The Board of Control of Concordia Teachers College has during
_ the past triennium been occupied with the introduction of sweeping
changes in the organization and administration of Concordia