# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S762
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762 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

Re Recommendations to the Synodical Conference
Regarding Greensboro and Selma Schools
(Memorial 413)

We beg to submit the following memorial for the prayerful
consideration of our Synod at its convention in June 1956:

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

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Wuereas, The two schools of higher education operated by
the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America
{ a at Greensboro, North Carolina, and Selma, Alabama, are in more
i than one respect inadequate; and

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

Wnereas, 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 Lutheran
Synodical Conference of North America, located at Greensboro,
North Carolina, and Selma, Alabama, respectively; therefore be it

Resolved, That we, the undersigned, request The Lutheran
Church — Missouri Synod at its convention in St. Paul, Minn., in
June 1956 (as a member 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 above-referred-to institutions in the light
of the circumstances herein set forth, to the end that said Board
present its findings and make recommendations based on its find-
4 ings to the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North
i 4 America concerning the future of these institutions.

‘ ResurREcTION LUTHERAN CHURCH
WiLtiaAM Harris, Sr., Chairman M.S. Dickinson, Pastor

Unprinted Memorial 52 also called attention to this.

ACTION
This matter was taken care of by Resolution 17, brought in
by Committee 13.

Compulsory Church Attendance of Military Personnel

ACTION
i Reacting to Unprinted Memorial 53 from the New York
fo Pastoral Conference, Synod adopted Resolution 18, presented by
i Committee 13: