# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1965_S231
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of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod in conven-

tion assembled at West Sacramento, March 30—April 2,

1964, respectfully memorialize the 1965 convention of

the Synod to instruct its Board for Higher Education

to include in its planning:

a. that a junior college for the training of pastors
and teachers be kept, or reestablished, in the San
Francisco Bay area even after the Southern Cali-
fornia junior college is opened;

b. that senior college facilities be built on the West
Coast prior to the establishing of a seminary;

c. that the Lake Chabot property be used for a
senior college in conjunction with a junior college
and/or the seminary.

CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA DISTRICT
E. THEO. DELANEY, Assistant Secretary

[6-76 Un]

To Transfer Alabama Lutheran Academy
and College of Selma, Ala.,
to Another Location, etc.

Wuereas, The academic level of the Alabama Lu-
theran Academy and College at Selma, Ala., appears to
be far below that of other Lutheran institutions; and

WHEREAS, The above institution remains an all-Negro
school, even though the Lutheran constituency of the
area is both white and Negro; and

Wuereas, Racial prejudice and bigotry in the gen-
eral community have tended to perpetuate the above
unfavorable conditions; and

WuEREAS, Recent events (during the month of
March) have demonstrated that such community big-
otry is violent and dangerous to the health and safety
of our student body and faculty in that institution; and

Wuereas, Such violence and bigotry make it physi-
cally dangerous to carry out the resolutions of the
Synod in conformity with the will of Christ and His
church, namely, to work for “the elimination of dis-
crimination, wherever it may exist in community, city,
state, nation, and world” (see 1956 Proceedings); and

Wuereas, A threat was made upon the student body
to do it harm unless certain Lutheran pastors discon-
tinued their activity on behalf of moral and civil right-
eousness; and

WHEREAS, It appears to be highly probable that such
threats will be made in the future in order to “black-
mail” the pastors of the church into silence (or at least
into disassociation from the church); and

Wuereas, Other areas of the Southern community
afford opportunity to Lutheran high school and college
students to study and live in comparative safety; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That the Synod close the academy and
college at Selma, Ala., immediately; and be it further

Resolved, That a Lutheran academy and college be

6. HIGHER EDUCATION 231

opened as soon as possible in the Southern or South-
eastern District with —
a) the academic standards comparable with other
synodical schools;
b) an integrated student body and faculty; and
c) in an area where the safety of students and
faculty would not be used to blackmail Lutheran
leaders into silence; and be it finally

Resolved, That the Synod give academic and finan-
cial assistance to present students at the above institu-
tion who would have to transfer temporarily to other
synodical institutions, as such aid is needed.

LUTHERAN CHURCH OF OuR SAVIOR

Inkster, Mich.

Cart L. Bornmann, Pastor

WarvELL Latt, Secretary, Voters Assembly

Almost identical resolution sent in by All Saints
Lutheran Congregation, Livonia, Mich., Edward Bode,
Secretary.

[6-77 Un]

To Change Section 6.79 a of the Synodical
“Handbook,” “Modified Service
and Retirement”

The faculty of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, recom-
mends that Paragraph 6.79 of the Handbook, “Modified
Service and Retirement,” be altered to read:

a. The president of a synodical institution may be
honorably retired from his presidential responsibilities
at the end of the school year in which he attains the
age of 60, or after 15 years of service as president at
the same school. He shall be relieved of his presidential
responsibilities at the end of the school year in which
he reaches age of 70.

Facu.tty or ConcorpIa SEMINARY
St. Louis, Mo.

RicHarD R,. CaEMMERER, Secretary
[6-78 Un]

To Make Certain Changes in the Synod’s
Constitution and Bylaws

The faculty of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.,
recommends the following alterations or changes (indi-
cated in italics) in the Bylaws to the constitution,
in Art. VI, “Higher Education”:

6.05 Functions of Board
The Board for Higher Education shall strive to main-
tain the educational institutions of the Synod at a high
level of efficiency and through their respective boards
of control and faculties generally promote, improve,
supervise, and direct ....
In Section 6:09, “Duties of Advisory Committee,” in
the interest of uniformity (cf. 6.03, “Advisory Council”)
the term Advisory Committee — twice used — should

be changed to Advisory Council.