# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S178
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178 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

shall have final responsibility for the construction and locatioy
new buildings and for major remodeling. In the area of hight
education, however, it shall discharge its responsibility thro
the procedurgs provided in Sections 6.07j and 6.37 da”; and
Board
Recommends, further, that the word “duties” be changeg
functions, in the introductory paragraph of 6.07; and your
Recommends, further, that the content of the present Pz
graph i be made the last paragraph of this section, regardl
how many paragraphs are included in the regulation; and ;
Board
Recommends, further, that Paragraph j of the present.
lation be reworded so that it reads: “be responsible to the B
of Directors for all matters relating to planning, locating,’
constructing educational facilities as well as for the general su;
vision of maintenance and repair of Synod’s educational prop :
and for the discharge by the Board of Control of their respons
in constructing or maintaining the physical property of
institution, except that the Board of Directors is directly respo
for all legal aspects of such operation”; and your Board :
Recommends, finally, that Section 637d be modified
adding the words, at the end of the present paragraph, “accor
to the procedure prescribed in Sections 2.79j and 6.07j.”

Handbook Section 6.21

In 1950 the Board for Higher Education called Synod’s attent

to the fact that accreditation requirements indicated the d
ability of adjusted tenure regulations for Board members a
colleges and seminaries. It was found that the changes prop
would require modification of the Constitution. Accordingly, 5
submitted the question to the congregations, and the congreg 1
approved a change in Constitution Article X, B, 2, so that
reads: “The time.of service of all officers, boards, commissidi
shall be fixed by the By-laws of the Constitution. of Synod a
Since it was impossible to change the wording of Secti
until after the result of the Synod-wide congregational vote cat
be recorded, your Board now
Recommends that Section 6.21 be adjusted as follows:

1, That the entire paragraph now constituting Section
become Paragraph a of a revised Section 6.21.
2. That the following two additional paragraphs be added
Section 6.21:
“b, The District President, who is a member ex offitiog§
elected by his District for a three-year term of office. All offj