# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1971_S63
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PRESIDENT’S REPORT 63

the completion of two consecutive terms of service on a standing
committee and a person’s reappointment thereto. For the sake
of computing eligibility for continued membership on a standing
committee of a division, department or commission, a person who
has served more than half of a three-year term shall be counted
as having served a full term.

It is recommended that this concern, “To Amend Consti-
tution of LCUSA,” be incorporated in the work of Floor
Committee 5 for possible implementation through a resolu-
tion to be brought before the convention.

2. Many overtures have been received that touch at least
in part on the problem of the involvement of the public and

church press in the internal affairs of our Synod. So I am
addressing to Floor Committee 2, which has such overtures
under consideration, further documentation on this problem
—as well as at least one overture which was received after
the deadline date and which is not to be treated as an over-
ture but as a communication (Bylaw 1.27 g) giving additional
information to be weighed by the committee in arriving at
its conclusions regarding those matters which are on the
agenda of the convention. It may be that the floor commit-
tee will see fit to offer one or more resolutions regarding this

problem.
J. A. O. Preus, President

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