# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1352
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890 CONVENTION MINUTES

Board for Missions to the Deaf: Pastors W. A. Buege, Otto H.
Lottes, Chas. Niemann; Messrs. George Kruse, J. P. Miller.

The Nominating Committee presented its slate for the Board
of Directors, which was amended by adding the name of Pastor
Harold Romoser and was then adopted. The motion to use the
information sheet as a ballot was rejected. The slate for the Board
of Control of Concordia College, Milwaukee, was adopted.

Greetings were received from the Slovak Church and from the
Minnesota District of the Wisconsin Synod. The Chair recognized
presence at the convention of Dr. Wm. Dallmann.

Sessions were closed by singing the stanza “Feed Thy Chil-
dren, God Most Holy.”

Session 8
June 26, P.M.

The opening devotions of Session 8 were conducted by the
Rev. S. H. Beckmann, President of the Argentina District.

(Committee 1, T.B., pp. 77—79)

The proposed change for Handbook Section 6.51 as presented
in Resolution 23 was adopted. A new section, 6.52, was adopted
in the wording found in Memorial 148, Section F, with the change
proposed in Resolution 24. In Resolution 25, Synod resolved to
raise the sum of $3,164,432 in order to complete the program pre-
sented in the Schedule of Current Requests under the following
headings: Approved Building and Grounds (Column 1), Approved
Equipment (Column 2), and Minor Items Immediately Necessary
(Column 6). The recommendations submitted by the Board for
Higher Education in Section D were adopted with the changes
listed in Today’s Business, page 80 (Resolution 26); however, action
on Paragraph 4 of their recommendation was postponed (Reso-
lution 26). Section 6.53 of the Handbook was ordered changed to
the version given on page 81 (Resolution 27).

(Committee 1)

The Board for Higher Education was authorized to disburse the
speech funds available to it from the Centennial Thankoffering
for all purposes that will contribute to a program for greater
proficiency in public speaking and to approve the introduction
of a course in public speaking at our institutions. The Board for
’ Higher Education was also instructed to study the feasibility of
establishing an institution in the Southeastern section of our
country and to bring in recommendations to the next convention.
(Resolutions 29 and 30.)