# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_OCTOBER 3 1963_S9
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MEETING OF JOINT COMMITTEE REPRESENTING THE SYNOD'S BOARD
OF DIREC TORS AND THE COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS
l. The Joint Committee had come into existence as the result of Resolution
6-55 adopted by the Cleveland Convention, which had referred some items of the
unfinished business in the Survey Commission Report to a 'Committee appointed
by the Board of Directors and the Committee on Constitutional Matters, '' page 137,

Proceedings of 1962 Convention,

2. The first meeting of this Joint Committee was held in the Lutheran

Building, Saint Louis, on October 2, 1963.

3, Present were: Dr. George V.. Vittmer and Mr, Paul Friedrich
representing the Synod's Board of Directors; Mr. Herbert Kuenne and Dr. W. C.
Birkner representing the Committee on Constitutional Matters; and Dr, Walter

Wolbrecht, Executive Director of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod,

4, The meeting was opened with a prayer by Dr, Wittmer who had been

appointed Chairman of the Joint Committee by President Oliver Harms,
5. The undersigned was designated as Secretary of the Joint Committee.

6. It was agreed that the next meeting of this Joint Committee should be
scheduled for Friday, November 8, at seven o'clock in the evening with the prob-
able meeting place a private room at the Missouri Athletic Club; it was also
agreed that the meeting would be continued on Saturday, November 9, in the

Lutheran Office Building.

7. Mr. Kuenne called attention to the fact that the members representing
the Committee on Constitutional Matters should have been designated by that
Committee rather than having been appointed by the President of the
Synod; the Committee on Constitutional Matters will be asked to ratify these

appointments at its next meeting,