# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S814
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812 CONVENTION MINUTES |

their Youth. programs financially when necessary. Districts were
encouraged to provide the District Youth Committees with neces-
sary funds (TB:135,10). The recommendation to rename the
Student Service Commission was referred back to the committee.
Synod encouraged its Student Service Commission to establish up
to five chairs of Religion at universities during the next triennium
and requested the Fiscal Conference to provide the necessary
finances (TB:175, 12).

Time having been extended for 15 minutes, Synod on recom-
mendation of Committee 1 passed the following resolutions:

To endorse the programs of the teachers colleges that provide

for the needs of community Lutheran high schools (TB:191, 21);

To authorize financial assistance to Trinity Lutheran Church

of Winfield, needed to make its school serve as a center for

teacher training (TB:192, 31);

To authorize a 30-year lease to enable Bethel and Luther

Memorial congregations to erect and operate a Christian day

school on the seminary campus at St. Louis (TB:191, 29);

To authorize the sale of land from the Concordia Senior College

as needed for road widening and street purposes (TB:292,

35 (1) );

To decline to lease unused sections of the Concordia Senior

College campus (TB:292, 35 (2) );

To adopt the proposals for unified systematic recruitment of

professional students as set forth in Today’s Business, p. 77

(TB:77, 4);

To authorize the appointment of a Planning Commission to

study the matter of enlisting and training laymen for service

in the church, this Commission to report to the convention of

1959 (TB:176, 22).

Committee 1 was then dismissed.

The following election results were reported: Selections Com-
mittee, Pastors Erwin Paul, Martin Zschoche, W. W. Stratmann,
Teacher P. A. Brauer, Messrs. Jay Pfotenhauer, Carl Koester,
Herman Eggert; Board for Support and Pensions, Pastors Carl
Pfotenhauer, Oscar Fedder, B. W. Janssen, Teachers Elmer Roth,
Adolph Obermann, Messrs. John Nolte, Herbert P. Buetow, Louis
F. Bartelt, Otto C._ David, Norbert Fleischer; Seminario Concordia,
Porto Alegre, List I; Brazil Junior College, List I; new institution
at Rio de Janeiro, List I.

Dr. M. F. Kretzmann, who at this convention concludes 36 years
of service as Secretary of Synod, read his final statement to this
convention, which was ordered printed in the Proceedings.

The session closed with the Apostolic Benediction. °