# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S117
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 117

functions to each position, determine the qualifications necessary to
fill the respective offices, and, with the approval of the President
of the Synod, engage the necessary personnel;

o. provide professional guidance in harmony with the synodical
Board of Parish Education to area Lutheran high school associa-
tions and to community Lutheran high schools;

p. have such additional powers, duties and jurisdiction as may
from time to time be prescribed and authorized by resolution of
the Synod.

6.21 Personnel of Boards of Control

a. The Synod administers each educational institution through
a Board of Control which is to provide effective local administra-
tive organization, to facilitate the achievement of the purposes for
which the Synod operates and maintains the respective institution,
and to foster and safeguard its religious, academic, and financial
interests in them.

b. Each Board of Control shall include in its membership the
President of the synodical District in which the institution is
located or his standing representative.

c. The elected Board of Control members, as set by the insti-
tution’s charter or corporate articles, shall include:

1. one to three pastors

2. one or two teachers

3. three to five laymen.

d. The Boards of Control of the theological seminaries are to

include a synodical Vice-President in their membership.
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6.23 Qualifications of Board Members

a. Pastors elected to Boards of Control are to be voting mem-
bers of the Synod or advisory members who also hold membership
in a voting congregation.

b. Teachers elected to Boards of Control are to be advisory
members of the Synod and hold membership in a voting congrega-
tion of the Synod.

c. Laymen elected to Boards of Control are to be members of
voting congregations of the Synod.

d. Board membership is to be broadly representative of the
Synod and preferably is to include representation from more than
one synodical District. Not more than two of the total elected
membership shall hold membership in the same congregation.

e. Lay members of the Board of Control are to be engaged
in a variety of occupations.

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