# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S93
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONVENTION MINUTES 93

(TB 348, 9). This completed the committee’s work, and it was
dismissed with thanks.

Committee 11 — Finances

Dr. Martin Strieter, Treasurer of the Synod, presented a sum-
mary of his printed report. Resolution 23 (TB 405) again came
before the assembly. Paragraph 4 was amended by substituting
after “EMV” the words “for the purpose of obtaining monetary
pledges.” Discussion was then broken off.

Committee 13 — Miscellaneous

It was decided to meet in Detroit in 1965 (TB 200, 4). Repre-
sentatives from Cleveland, the site of the next convention, were
heard. A set of resolutions on racial discrimination (TB 328, 12)
was adopted after the word “innate” had been inserted after
“alleged” in line 26, page 329. The memorial to suspend capital
improvements at Selma and Greensboro was declined. (TB 448, 15)

Committee 1— Colleges and Seminaries

The Secretary was authorized to standardize the language of
the adopted convention resolutions and particularly of the adopted
Handbook revisions (TB 439, 52). The convention approved a pri-
ority listing of capital expenditures at the synodical schools and
thanked the Minnesota and Northern Illinois Districts for their
generosity (TB 152, 22), approved expansion of the School for
Graduate Studies in St.Louis (TB 424, 44), declined the request
for a junior college branch at River Forest at this time (TB 426, 46),
authorized that further study be made of compulsory vicarage
on the part of male teacher students (TB 426, 47), directed that
salary schedules at our synodical schools be reviewed annually
(TB 428, 49), and accepted a table of capital investments to be
recommended to the Fiscal Conference for inclusion in the synod-
ical budget over the next three years. (TB 187, 23, as amended)

Committee 2— Missions

A set of new Handbook paragraphs concerning medical mis-
sions was adopted (TB 321, 50), and it was decided to offer the
services of the Executive Secretary of Medical Missions also to
the Synodical Conference. (TB 323, 51)

The chairman closed the session with a prayer.

Session 18
June 25, Afternoon

The opening devotion was conducted by Rev. B. H. Jackayya.
_The minutes of the morning session were approved as read.