# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S187
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 187

Wuereas, The preliminary study of recruitment results in the
individual Districts (page 127, 1956 Reports and Memorials) indi-
cates that some of the Districts of Synod may not be furnishing
a proportionate share of their young men and women as students
at Synod’s training institutions; therefore be it

Resolved, (a) That each District of Synod be instructed to
create a District Recruitment, Committee; and be it further

Resolved, (b) That a District Committee on Recruitment per-
form the following functions:

1. Act as a clearing house and distribution center for congrega-
tions, 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 synodical
boards and agencies.

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

3. 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 seminaries.

4. Report to the District, to its circuits, and to its congregations
on the committee’s work and need.

5, Furnish reports on its needs and achievements to the Board
for Higher Education and receive and distribute reports from
the Board for Higher Education on the District’s needs and per-
formance in recruitment; and be it further

Resolved, (c) That when the membership and organization of
the District committees on recruitment is complete, your Board
be authorized to convene a general meeting of a representative
from each of these committees, preferably at a time of a plenary
meeting of the Board for Higher Education, to develop plans and
procedures for the effective co-ordination of this Synod-wide
effort; and be it

Suggested, That where feasible in the synodical District, the
functions of the Committee on Recruitment be combined with those
of the Committee on Student Aid; and be it finally ’

Suggested, That each District study the nature and function of
its present Student Aid Committee to the end that greater con-
formity with the principles adopted by the representatives of the

various Districts at River Forest in 1952 might be achieved.