# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S956
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180 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

sionary work to our Synod over which we rej
we desire to make the utmost use; and

Wuereas, The Lord of the Church has unlimited
His command to bless the efforts of trained workers
ice; and :

pice and of which

Wuereas, We should encourage as’ many of our
sible to enter God’s full-time service; and

Wueress, The thought of limiting enrollment of students
Synod’s institutions for pastor-teacher training by way of estab,
lishing a quota for such institutions is occasionally expressed amo
us; and

Wuereas, Synod has not previously expressed its Policy with
regard to such limitation by quota; therefore be it

Resolved, That Synod declare as its conviction that it does
not wish to limit the blessing of God by quota limitation of enrol]
ment at its colleges and seminaries; and be it further

Resolved, That Synod direct the various Boards entrusted with
the facilitation of its pastor-teacher training program and the
faculties of its colleges and seminaries to encourage as many of
our youth as desire training for full-time service in the Lord’s
kingdom. Pastoral CONFERENCE OF THE WonneN Cincurr

OF THE SOUTHERN ILuiNo1s District
Frank C, FELLBaum, Secretary

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ACTION

Committee 1 recommended and Synod adopted the following
resolution:
Resolution 55
Wuereas, The matter referred to in this memorial has‘ been dis-
posed of by the action of the Convention in accepting the first
recommendation on page 144 of Reports and Memorials; there-
fore be it

« Resolved, That we take no further action on this memorial.

Re: Senior College

; (Memorials 120, 140 to 151)

These memorials, which advocated that the plans for a two-
year senior college be either reconsidered, abandoned, or amended,
as far as the location is concerned, were disposed of by the action
on Section D of the report of the Board for Higher Education.
This includes also Unprinted Memorials 36, 40, 41, 42, and 43, and
Memorial 135.

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 181

Senior College at Fort Wayne
(Memorial 152)

Committee 1 submitted the following resolution, which was
thoroughly discussed and adopted almost unanimously:

Introductory Statement

At the Milwaukee Convention in 1950 Synod reaffirmed its
decision of 1947 to ‘establish a Senior College.* The choice of
location of this Senior College and the site on which it should be
puilt were left to the decision, by vote of Synod, of a group which
included the Praesidium, District Presidents, a layman from every
District, Synod’s Board of Directors, and Synod’s Board for Higher
Education; the presidents of our colleges and seminaries served as
advisory members. This committee became known as the Com-
mittee of 99 and is hereafter referred to in this way.

The Committee of 99 met in St. Louis on January 30 and 31,
1952. After a thorough discussion it was decided that the Senior
College should be located in the Chicago or Milwaukee sub-
urban area.

In the months that followed, the Board for Higher Education
was authorized by Synod’s Board of Directors to take options on
suitable parcels of real estate and to employ the service of an
architect in a preliminary way. However, the Board of Directors
requested the Board for Higher Education not to proceed with the
purchase of property or with the letting of contracts until Synod,
assembled in Houston in June, 1953, would have had another oppor-
tunity to review its previous action regarding the Senior College.

This decision to postpone action was due in part to the lack
of funds to construct the Senior College (while the “Conquest for
Christ” offering exceeded its “goal” of $10,000,000, the estimated
construction costs had advanced even more, and the Board for
Higher Education felt that the physical expansion program voted
in Milwaukee for existing institutions should have priority of funds
after the original allocation of $3,000,000 for the Senior College —
$2,750,000 for construction and $250,000 for purchase of real estate
—had been made). There was, also, an awareness that many of
our people believed that the construction of a Senior College which
would increase the number of campuses to be maintained con-
stituted a lack of good stweardship, and that others among our
people were of the opinion that a four-year Senior College would
be more desirable. ;

* Definition of Senior College: “The term ‘Senior College’ is under-
stood to designate an academic level of the Junior and Senior years of
the standard American college.” — Proceedings 1947, page 200.

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