# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1962_S52
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52 MINUTES OF THE CONVENTION

read a statement in which he thanked the Synod for
its confidence in the past but declared that in view
of his advancing years he would be grateful if the
convention would elect another man to the presidency.
In any event he would be happy to serve until the
close of the convention.

Committee on Nominations

Chairman Martin J. Zschoche of the Committee on
Nominations presented the list of candidates for various
offices and boards. At various junctures the following
names were added from the floor:

Secretary: Pastor A. O. Gebauer; Board of Direc-
tors: Dr. George Beto, Pastor G. C. Schramm, Pastor
Harold Romoser, Pastor Theodore Wittrock, Mr. Theo-
dore Smithey, Mr. William Fenske, Mr. Theodore
Schlacke, Mr. John Rhame; Board of Appeals: Dr.
Alfred Rehwinkel, Teacher Vincent Hohmann; Board
for European Affairs: Pastor Horace H. Erdman; Board
for North American Missions: Pastor C. Thomas Spitz,
Pastor John Uhlig, Pastor Arthur Yoss; Board for Mis-
sions to the Blind: Pastor Edward Heinicke (replacing
Martin Lieske), Pastor Fred Hertwig; Board for Mis-
sions to the Deaf: Pastor Theodore Gerken (replacing
Edward Wescott); Commission on College and Univer-
sity Work: Pastor Richard Jesse, Pastor Fred Gumz;
Stewardship Board: Pastor Carl Hiller; Board of Par-
ish Education: Pastor Carl Hoffmeyer, Pastor George
Reule, Pastor Paul Lassanske, Pastor Wilbur Fields,
Professor Wilbert Rusch, Dr. Waldemar Link; Board
for Young People’s Work: Pastor William Backus, Pas-
tor Paul Lehenbauer, Pastor Julius Dahms, Pastor Ed-
win T. Brown, Mr. Ben Jorns, Mr. William Zeitler;
Concordia Publishing House Board of Directors: Pastor
Richard Koenig, Dr. L. W. Faulstick, Dr. Robert Preuss,
Mr. William Lahrmann; Committee on Nominations:
Pastor C. F. Baase, Pastor Kenneth Miller, Pastor Ed-
win T. Brown, Mr. Ewald Hubb. The nominations were
closed, and the slate was adopted as amended.

Appeals Case

The President asked the Committee on Nomina-
tions to prepare a list of candidates to review an appeals
case. A point of order was raised as to whether the
case could be reviewed since neither party had made
an appeal within the prescribed 10-day period. The
President explained that a tie vote made the matter
difficult to decide and stated that he would take the
point of order under advisement until the following day.
A delegate who objected was informed that he could
record his objection after Dr. Behnken makes his ruling.

After various announcements the meeting adjourned
with the Apostolic Blessing.

Session 2
June 21, Morning
Opening Devotion
President Edgar Kroeger of the Argentine District
served as liturgist for the opening devotion. Dr. H. J. A.
Bouman presented his essay “The Inspired Word and

the Lutheran Confessions.” We strive to be the kind
of church which the Confessions picture: a church com-
mitted to the Scriptures, preaching repentance, truly
evangelical, anxious to share the Gospel, doctrinally
sensitive, with a strong sense of history, and insisting
on a solid theological education for its servants.

The minutes of the previous session were adopted
in their corrected form. The chair gave special recog-
nition to Dr. M. F. Kretzmann and Dr. Herman Harms.

Elections Committee

The elections committee distributed ballots contain-
ing the following men who had polled the highest num-
ber of votes in the write-in primary balloting: O. Harms,
O. Hoffmann, W. H. Krieger, T. Nickel, R. Wieder-
aenders. ;

Committee 15— Applications for Membership

The following were received into membership:

- Congregations: St. Paul, Tomahawk, Wis.; Immanuel,
Plum City, Wis.; St. John, Bay City, Wis.; St. John,
Cameron, Wis.; Bethany, Bruce, Wis.; Salem Barron,
Wis.; St. John, Rice Lake, Wis.; St. John, Buffalo, Minn.;
Good Shepherd, Canandaigua, N. Y.; Good Shepherd,
Mentor, Ohio; Trinity, Culver, Ind.; Prince of Peace,
Martinsville, Ind.; Faith, Avon, Ohio; Holy Cross, Por-
tage, Ind.; Our Savior, Plantation, Fla.
_ Pastors and Ministerial Candidates: John Schaadt,
Roger Uitti, Edwin R. Becker, Theodore Zaremba, E. R.
Berwald, Robert Faga, Wendel Brustman, Richard
Radde, Melvin Spenn, Clifford Gade, Henry W. Bojarzin,
Philip Florip, Emanuel Blomquist, Douglas Laub, Her-
man Fink, Frank Machina, Charles A. Brehmer, Robert
Holst, Charles Webb, Richard Holland, Robert Coleman,
Robert Brueckner, Paul Albers, Dave Anderson, Paul
Tuchardt, Arthur Dauer, Arthur Mead, Roddy Braun,
James Wiese.

Teachers: Robert Barnes, Herbert Treichel, Frank-
lin Martens, Marlin Schulz, Orville Walz, Kenneth
Koehler, Clinton Haertling, Robert Golnitz, Jerome
Kline, Terry L. Hovis, Gerald Rabe, Jerald Fangmann,
Gerald A. Boyles, David Briese, Lowell Dickmeyer,
Glenn Geffert, Donald Sandor, Ron Stallman.

Dr. Wolbrecht’s Address

Executive Director Walter F. Wolbrecht gave an
illustrated presentation of the accelerating growth of
our church and delineated the meaning of this growth
for our present and future planning.

Elections Committee ; .

Ballots for President were distributed containing the
following names: O. Harms, O. Hoffmann, T. Nickel,
R. Wiederaenders.

Committee 1— Colleges and Seminaries

The convention adopted resolutions stressing the
necessity of recruiting especially for the parish ministry
and doing this primarily on the local level (Today’s