# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S126
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126 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 1

respect been declared qualified by the faculties for their specific
type of service in the church.

e. Women graduates of Synod’s teachers colleges or women
who have given satisfactory evidence of having met the minimum
requirements of the Synod are eligible for teaching positions in the
schools of the church and shall receive their teaching placement
through the Board of Assignment.

f, A graduate of one of the Synod’s terminal schools who
desires to continue his professional studies after he has completed
the prescribed undergraduate curriculum or who for another valid
reason is not ready for his first placement in the church shall con-
tinue to be eligible for unqualified recommendation for placement
as long as he can be recommended by the faculty of the institution
from which he has graduated. The respective faculty is expected
annually to ascertain through personal interviews with the candi-
date or through satisfactory testimonials that each candidate so
classified is still qualified for recommendation for regular place-
ment in the church.

6.167 Concordia Seminary at Springfield

The admissions policies of Concordia Seminary, Springfield,
shall be determined by the faculty of the Springfield institution in
concurrence with the Board of Control and the Board for Higher
Education and should be reviewed periodically in the light of the
needs of the church.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Appraisal of Retirement Plan
RESOLUTION 6, COMMITTEE 1

Memorial 516, pages 466—468, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, Eighteen years have elapsed since the Synod insti-
tuted a mandatory retirement program for those who teach and
administer in her educational institutions; and

Wuereas, The lengthening interval between the initiation of
the program in higher education and its broader application to
called or appointed personnel constitutes an embarrassment to
those who are required to administer the program and an inequity
to those who are required to conform to it; and

Wuereas, It is the considered conclusion of those who have
administered this program over the years that the plan has oper-
ated in the best interest of the Synod; therefore be it

Resolved,.That we petition the Synod to make the necessary
arrangement for an objective appraisal of its own experience with