# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S693
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS _ 693

. at large, the various boards and committees, and-the indi-
congregations are being effectively met.

je management of Concordia Publishing House isto be com-
led for its initiative and its forward-looking policies regarding’
tentials of audio-visual education. A complete Audio-Visual
RService has been augmented at the Publishing House, and its’
wth and increasing services to The Lutheran Church—Missouri

Publishing House in terms of new productions and general
ting costs of the Audio-Visual Aids Service. Activities of the
tment have been conducted in consultation with the Board:
Audio-Visual Education, as provided for in the operating

; Important strides forward have been made in many aspects of
Rudio-Visual Education, and it is hoped that during the. next tri-
nium special attention and effort can be devoted to the area of
oper utilization of Audio-Visual materials, in addition to main-

ing and increasing the schedules of new productions.
.. We are thankful that the Board for Audio-Visual Education,
finder the chairmanship of Professor C. T. Brandhorst, has been
ible to carry on its work throughout the past triennium without

change in membership from those elected at the 1950 synodical
nvention.

Mr. Melvin F. Schlake, who served as Executive Secretary for
the Board for Audio-Visual Education during the greater part of
the past triennium, was given a leave of absence from May 1, 1952,
through December 31, 1952, to serve in executive capacity with
Lutheran Television Productions. Mr. Schlake’s experience emi-
nently qualified him for the work in conjunction with “This Is the
Life.” He was then asked to devote full time to the work of the
television Committee, and accordingly submitted his resignation
s Executive Secretary of the Board for Audio-Visual Education,
fective December 31, 1952.

Rev. Victor B. Growcock then assumed the
ixecutive Secretary, as of January 1, 1953.

The continued prayers of our Church are requested in behalf
f the Board membership and its work.

Major activities have been as follows:

L Film Rental Libraries

Il. Motion Pictures
HI. Filmstrips
IV. Servicing of Foreign Missions

V. Audio-Visual Equipment
‘VE. Wholesale Distribution
VII. 35nim. Theatrical Distribution

duties of acting