# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S761
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 761

Restudy the Policies and Purposes of Schools
at Greensboro and Selma

(Memorial 411)

The undersigned congregation, a member of The Lutheran
Church — Missouri Synod, respectfully submits the following reso-
lution for consideration at the triennial convention of said Synod,
to be held in St. Paul, Minn., June, 1956:

Wuereas, The program for higher education of The Lutheran
Church — Missouri Synod is in process of change; and

Wuereas, The two schools for higher education operated by
The Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America
at Greensboro, N.C., and Selma, Ala., are in more than one respect
inadequate; and

WHEREAS, The United States Supreme Court decisions of
May 17, 1954, and May 30, 1955, call for a change in the education
system as found in many states of our nation; and

Wuereas, These decisions and other fast-moving events in
the world and in our nation are a cause for much concern on the
part of many relative to the policies and purposes of the two schools
of higher learning owned and operated by The Evangelical Lu-
theran Synodical Conference of North America, located at Greens-
boro, N.C., and Selma, Ala., and

Wuereas, The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod, as the
largest contributor to the support of the above-mentioned schools,
thereby carries a large measure of the responsibility for these
schools and their policies; therefore be it

Resolved, That we request The Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod at its convention in St. Paul, Minn., in June 1956, as a mem-
ber of The Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North
America, to authorize and direct the Board for Higher Education
of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod to make a study of
the institutions above referred to in the light of the circumstances
herein set forth, to the end that said Board present its findings
and make recommendations based on its findings to The Evangeli-
cal Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America as soon as
possible concerning the future of these institutions.

Passed by the voters’ assembly at St. Philip’s Evangelical
Lutheran Church, St. Louis, Mo., at its regular meeting on
March 12, 1956.

St. Puir’s Ev. Luraeran Cuourcs, Sr. Lovis, Mo.
Ors E. Fintey, President
Rosert Srrearor, Secretary