# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S185
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 185

trict organization and to avoid any possible overlap in areas of
service, the Board for Higher Education has come to believe that
enlistment and transformation of existing District student-aid
committees into committees on ministerial recruitment would be
in the present best interest of Synod.

At the request of Synod the Board for Higher Education since
1950 has sought to confer with the District student-aid commit-
tees on various proposals for the improvement and co-ordination
of student-aid efforts. The 1953 convention adopted a series of
resolutions to guide both the District committees, the Board, and.
the colleges and seminaries, in this regard.

It is recommended, that Synod assign these functions to each
District committee on recruitment:

1. To act as a clearing house and distribution center for con-
gregations, church schools, confirmation classes, and other groups
for recruitment materials furnished by the colleges and seminaries
of Synod, by the Board for Higher Education, and by other synodi-
cal boards and agencies.

2. To develop and distribute recruitment materials designed
for, and prepared for, special use within the District.

3. To stimulate and solicit scholarships and scholarship funds,
contributions to loan funds, and other student-aid funds, to be.
awarded and administered by the synodical colleges and semi-
naries.

4. To administer the District’s student-support budgets on the
basis of the policies established by synodical resolution in 1953.

5. To report to the District, to its circuits, and to its congre-
gations on the committee’s work and need.

6. To administer pre-enrollment tests and special scholarship
tests in co-operation with the Board for Higher Education, which
would provide a central scoring and reporting service for a standard
program. Its function would not supplant the prerogative of the
individual synodical institution to administer supplementary pre-
enrollment tests on the basis of which its decisions of admission
are also to be based.

7. To furnish reports on its needs and achievements to the
Board for Higher Education and to receive and distribute reports
from the Board for Higher Education on the District’s needs and
performance in recruitment.

The colleges and seminaries of the church stand ready to

invite each such District committee on ministerial recruitment to
consult with, and to make use of, the profesional services available.

Your Board for Higher Education recommends that the mem-