# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S272
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 271

Resolved, That the Board of Directors upon recommendation
of the Board for Higher Education be authorized to make necessary
adjustments in the priorities and amounts listed on pages 178—180,
Reports and Memorials, during the coming triennium.

Unprinted Memorial 77
(Submitted by the Board for Higher Education)

Since circumstances indicate that Synod will be confronted by
certain proposals prior to the 1959 convention, the Board of Control
believes that it will be in Synod’s interest to convey provisional
authority to the boards involved to lease or to sell certain minor
portions of the Concordia Senior College campus:

1. We are informed that a highway improvement program is
now being initiated by the Indiana State Highway Department for
the highway along the entire west front of the Senior College
campus. If this improvement materializes, it will create a dual-
lane, divided highway to replace the present State Route 427.
Our present information is that this improvement might require
the sale of a fifty-foot strip of campus. Since the State of Indiana
could institute condemnation proceedings to acquire this property
in any case, it is felt that the orderly approach to the problem is
to request Synod to pass the necessary legal authorizations now
to empower the boards involved to take appropriate action if, as,
and when the demand is made.

2. With regard to the possibility of leasing a portion of the
campus, the Board of Control has been approached, tentatively,
by a large local nursery, with a request that consideration be
given to leasing an unused portion, or portions, to the nursery.

Since several fairly large areas (20 to 30 acres) are remote
from the campus areas which will be in immediate, active use,
the Board believes it would be in Synod’s best interest to create
conditions under which serious considerations could be given to
such a proposal. With the proper restrictions, Synod could be
relieved of very substantial costs of grounds maintenance and
improvement. At the same time the appearance of the campus
could be materially improved without synodical expense.

All implications, including the tax situation, would have to
receive careful and expert analysis, of course, but it does appear
prudent to convey the required legal authorization at this time,
so that the way is cleared for action, if, as, and when Synod’s
best interests seem to require it.

The Board for Higher Education, therefore, having examined
the request of the local Board of Control, respectfully memorializes