# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S742
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742 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

process and prepare the materials for use. The loyal membership
-of the Institute has contributed faithfully, but the group is not
large. We are deeply grateful to Synod, which has assumed
a greater financial responsibility of the work with each passing
year. As in former years, we again plan to present our require-
ments to the Fiscal Conference this summer.

Future Projects

1. To work for a greater co-operation between the Institute
and the Synodical officials, boards, and agencies, both in the pres-
ervation of vital records and the disposal of useless records.

2. To work for a greater activity in completing indices of the
Institute’s holdings and in the preparation of inventories of our
manuscript collections.

3. To work toward a greater participation and activity in the
collection of oral and visual historical records (interviews with
the “fathers” of Synod, recordings of worship services of ethnic
groups served by Synod, both home and foreign; and the prepara-
tion of slide lectures visualizing phases of Synod’s activity, both
past and present).

4. To work toward the expansion of existing facilities, espe-
cially in the area of museum displays and storage.

With the overwhelming increase of accessions, visitors, and
services to the synodical constituency, at least one additional full-
time staff member must be planned for in the future.

We wish to take this opportunity to thank Synod for the
greater financial support it has rendered the work in the past
years and thus has enabled us to perform greater service.

Board Members
The officers who are serving the Institute at present are:
’ Dr. Arthur C. Repp, president; Dr. A. C. Stellhorn, vice-president;
Dr. Carl S. Meyer, secretary; and Mr. Erwin H. Marting, treas-
urer. O. A. Dorn, Justus P. Kretzmann, J. A. Walther, Edgar
Ellerman, Theo. W. Eckhart, E. T. Schumm, and J. J. Pelikan
serve as members of the Board. Ave. R. Surtriow, Director
ACTION

Two resolutions regarding this report were adopted:

Wuereas, The Concordia Historical Institute was organized on
March 31, 1927, and will be thirty years old next March 1957; and

Wuereas, It has served as the official records agency and
archives of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod for the past
twenty-seven years; and

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