# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_OCTOBER 8 9 1964_S3
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D) The Determination of Staggered Terms for all Boards Committees,
ee fOr Ot oaras, vommiuttees,
and Commissions,

The Commission agreed that Resolution 6,39 (page 132 of the
1962 Cievcland PROCEEDINGS) would answer at least some
of these questions and that apparently this Resolution gave the

Committee on Convention Nominations a great deal of authority
to decide difficult situations,

Note: On Novemver 10, 196), Pastor Richard F. Jesse called the undersigned
while the Committee on Convention Nominations was in session in St.
Louis and desired additional information. Pastor Jesse was advised
to consult with Lr. Fred Kuhlmann, the Synod's Legel Counsel.
Subsequently if. Kuhlmann spent several hours with the Committee
on Convention Nominations and orfered e solution to this baffling
problem.

205. A letter was now presented from Dr. Clarence H. Peters, St.
Louis in behalf of the Committee on Convention Nominations, Brother
Peters asked for a ruling on the question whether Professor Walter Reiner
is eligible to be nominated as a candidate for the Board for Young People's
Work, It was explained that Pastor Reiner is the head of the Youth Leader -
ship Training Program at Valparaiso University. Although the duties of this
position were not exactly defined, the Commission was of the opinion that a
conflict of interest might develop between the Youth Leadership Training
Program at Valparaiso University and the Synod's Board of Young People's
Work and agreed to advise the Committee on Convention Nominations to that

effect.

206. The Rev. Lewis C, Niemoeller, President of the Central Illinois
ee ice of thee Ventral illinois

District, had requested an opinion whether the old or the new regulations
Se en the old or the new regulations
regarding tenure of office would be put into effect at the Detroit Convention

relating to the Board of Control of Concordia Seminary, Springfield, Illinois.