# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1009
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bina feumends, further, that authority be conveyed
ti e the Program or to reactivate the program artes

en discontinued whenever, in the Board’
warrant such action; and the Board °°

Recommends finall
; y, that Synod convey fin:

‘or all aspects of the administration of the Luth - hie ty
scholarship Program to this Board. sran

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if at Should have
Pinion, conditions

C ACTION
ommittee ] recommended, and Synod resolved:

Ware th Resolution 28
EAS, The synodical scholarships i
Milwaukee Convention in 1950 mainly to insure an iene oy the
° sscents for the Fort Wayne Experimental Program a re
‘ 2 ‘ovide an adequate supply of male students for fe) tes a
olleges at River Forest and at Seward; and Mr teachers

Wuenreas, It appears that the enrollment at Fort Wayne during

Additional Professorship at Edmonton

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requested sma in school year the president of the college
e local. Board of Control approved and recom-

- SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 229
the Board for Higher Education that the president at
be permitted to retire from the administrative duties and
-of the professorships at the institution.
been Synod’s policy to attach the faculty rank of pro-
the presidency at all of Synod’s institutions. If one of the
70 which a president might properly serve, is vacant at a
gnstitution, the opportunity for retiring from the presidency
marily been made available upon request. Under the cir-
ces obtaining at Edmonton, however, the Board was not
ition to grant this petition, even though it recognized that
i ion of the teaching demands at that institution required.
a’ Jief: which could be provided only by additional faculty per-
soanel: Accordingly, permission to appoint an additional instructor
was conveyed in order to enable the college to carry on its work
duting the 1952—53 school year.
To bring the faculty strength at Synod’s Canadian’ Concordia
to.its proper level, the Board for Higher Education now
Recommends that one additional professorship be authorized

at Edmonton.
ACTION

Committee 1 recommended, and Synod resolved:

Resolution 11
WuereEas, The request of the president of our Edmonton Con-
cordia to be permitted to retire from the burdens and responsi-
bilities of the presidency and to fill a professorship at this insti-
tution has been received and approved by the local Board of
Control and recommended to the Board for Higher Education; and
Wuereas, The expansion of teaching demands at Edmonton
requires additional faculty personnel beyond the professorships
that have been created for this institution; therefore be it
Resolved, To accept the recommendation of the Board for
Higher Education that “one additional professorship be authorized
at Edmonton.”
Capital Investment Funds
When Synod has completed its latest expansion of the physical
properties of her colleges and seminaries, the combined replace-
ment value of these campuses with their buildings and equipment
will be in excess of $25,000,000.

Since the age of these buildings varies from one to almost.

100 years, it is readily understandable that a continuous program
of replacement of obsolete facilities and remodeling must be ‘ex-
pected. Under present policy, however, no provision is made for
supplying capital improvement funds except as these become avail-