# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1018
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244 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

ings and for major remodeling. As a board or through ;
sentative it shall approve all plans and the locatio

planning, locating, constructing, and major remodeling 9 ca,
tional facilities, and for discharge by each Board of Control of its
responsibility in constructing and major remodeling of educations}
facilities.”

The Committee recommends that in Section 6.9
unction” be substituted for the word “duties,”

The Committee further recommends that 6.07 i become 6.07
and 6.07 j, k,1 become i, j, k, respectively, ,

Wuenseas, 6.07j now reads: “be responsible to

6.

‘7 the Word

responsibility in constructing or maintaining the physical
ties of its institutions, except that the Board of Dir
directly responsible for all legal aspects of such operations,”
Wuersas, Section 6.37d now reads: “. +. Under the direction
of the Board of Directors,” your Committee recommends to strike
out “under the direction of the Board of Directors” and to,sub-
stitute the following: “. , . under the direction of the Board for
Higher Education, which is responsible to the Board of Directors
of Synod for the discharge by each board of control of its respon-

In order to bring Section 2.79m into conformity with the
procedure followed above, your Committee recommends that this
paragraph be reworded so that it reads: “The Board of Directors
shall have final responsibility for the maintenance of all Synod’s

education by holding the Board for Higher Education responsible
for all matters relating to maintenance and repair of Synod’s
educational Properties, and for the discharge by each board of
control of its responsibility in maintaining the physical properties
of its institutions. ,

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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 245
Ste ing Term of Office for Boards of Control .
Stagger Handbook Section 6.21

] Board for Higher Education called Synod's attention
50 tbat ~ wcereditation requirements indicated the g oe
fas i r Board mem!
ot aginst vies. ewan found ‘that the changes proposed
ant ndification of the Constitution. Accordingly, Synod
rea he au tion to the congregations, and the congregations
go aee ra Constitution Article X, B, 2, so that it now
ToT ime f service of all officers, boards, commissions,
nee ‘by the By-laws of the Constitution of Synod.
fe fee was impossible to change the wording of Section 6.21
ce i

ke after the result of the Synod-wide congregational vote coul

ie corded, your Board now
fe, Pe0 mends that Section 6.21 be adjusted as follows: on 621.
“we hat the entire paragraph now constituting Section 6.

1. Tha

“become Paragraph a of a revised Section 6.21.

--«. That the following two additional paragraphs be added to
— me District President, who is a mente 2 officio, 3s
cette ot the Board ot Control shall be elected for a term of
™ ee otis of Bend members shall be so arranged hat
at each triennial convention the terms of one half of the membe:

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i d those
i ed for six-year terms an
i t the candidates propos }
mittee son three-year terms may be designated.)

ACTION .
Upon recommendation of Committee 6 Synod resolved:

Resolution 2 thet ,
HEREAS isable to stagger the term
It has been found advisa é
fice . of boards of control so that not all members go out of office
oO
time; and — ;
. * Wumeas The accrediting agencies in some instances recom
i ' 31 fore be it
nd this procedure; there . 5
™ Resolved, That Section 6.21 of the by-laws be amended by
adding two additional paragraphs as follows: her ex offci i
“b. The District President, who is a men a e off to, is
elected by his District for a three-year term of office.