# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S165
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 165

The Retirement Program

» Board has now had six years of experience with Synod’s
tirement plan, which provides that all teachers and ad-
tors in the colleges and seminaries must be retired or
modified service at the close of the school year in which
the age of 70. At present ten men are on modified
“which engages them in work related to the college, but not
aching of any regular, required courses.
been found that the program of modified service is of
est value to the Church and to the men involved. Through
the college retains the benefit of the experience which
rkers have accumulated; on the other hand, the reduced
ually available at this age in life are applied to produc-
in the field most familiar to these people, and at a rate
ate with their capacities.
dverage age level of several of Synod’s faculties is com-
high. Accordingly, a substantially increased rate of re-
ts:(15 to 18 in the next triennium) must be anticipated for
fly future. Since these brethren have been made subject to
licy, our Church has the moral obligation to retire them
ircumstances of dignity and with adequate provision for
h conditions are met quite well, according to the Board’s
in cases where modified service can be provided; how-
wie advancing age levels of the faculties would indicate that
d'be expected that some of the men placed under com-
tirement in the immediate future cannot be fitted into
ogram, especially since the number promises to become
Board for Higher Education, therefore,
amends that Synod authorize the Board to supplement
sion provisions may apply by the addition of payments
‘per. month in all cases where compulsory retirements
fective under circumstances which do not permit the
ee: of modified service at a college or seminary; and the

ends, further, that it be authorized to approve items for
es in the budgets requested by any institutions in-

Advanced Scholarships

soard’s experience during the past triennium indicates’
st majority of District Presidents would prefer to see
d Scholarship Fund provided directly through the
gned to the Board for Higher Education rather than
rate District contributions as is now done. The posi-
istrict Presidents is that all funds in the general budget