# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S39
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13th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1911. 39

House] of Pittsburg, take the appropriate steps toward the legal transfer of
the latter board's property to the General Synod.

"2. Resolved, that the interests of the English District with regard to the
training of its pastors do not require that the school at Conover, N. C., keep
its present character.

"3. Resolved, that in view of the current interests of missions and of our
continuing work in the southeast of our country — of German work as well
as English — the maintenance of a school in Conover is for the present
urgently called for.

"4. Resolved, that an authorized committee be sent by the General Synod
to Conover at once to negotiate on the spot with the board of control there
concerning the institution's future status, and to settle and fix it.

"5. Resolved, that this committee consist of General Vice-President P.
Miller, Pastors Obermeyer and Dallmann, and Mr. B. Bosse.

"6. Resolved, that the said committee carry out the Synod's resolution,
examine the charter and deed of Concordia College at Conover, and
complete the legal transfer of the said institution to the General Synod.

"7. Resolved, that the Synod pay the professors at Conover their present
salaries from the synodical treasury until the above committee has acted
further.

"8. Resolved, that Prof. Romoser, the present president of Concordia
College at Conover, be transferred to a German preparatory school of our
Synod, to promote the English work there with particular regard for
students from English congregations, and further, that Prof. Romoser serve
the Synod as chief editor of the Lutheran Witness and the Lutheran Guide.

"9. Resolved, that Concordia College at Fort Wayne, Ind., being centrally
located, be this preparatory school.

"10. Resolved, that the present editorial staff of the Lutheran Witness be
asked to continue serving until the resolved transfer of Prof. Romoser has
taken place.

"11. Resolved, that the Literary Board of the English District, Pastors
Sommer and Buchheimer, be asked to take over the editorship of the
Lutheran Guide until the resolved change has been carried out.

"12. Resolved, that the minutes of the English District's proceedings this
year be published by the Concordia Publishing House.

"13. Resolved, that whereas the English District has elected a two-man
committee, President Eckhardt and Vice-President Romoser, authorized to
act in all the