# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S124
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124 Proceedings of the Forty-First Convention,

The Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America
in session at Fort Wayne, Ind., August 8—11, 1950.

Dear BRETHREN:

We, the undersigned congregations of the Synodical Conference
in the State of Louisiana, do herewith petition the honorable Synod-
ical Conference, assembled at Fort Wayne, Ind., to assist our con-
gregations in making plans for the founding of an accredited,
modern Lutheran High School in the city of New Orleans, for
a larger and stronger Lutheran Church in the South, and for assist-
ing gifted boys and girls to continue their studies to become efficient
workers for Jesus and for the Lutheran Church.

Respectfully yours,
THE CONGREGATIONS
BETHLEHEM (New Orleans, La.) Sr. Paut’s (New Orleans, La.)

(Signed) Daviw Horn (Signed) Gro. HenpEeRSoN
Concorpia (New Orleans, La.) St. Purur’s (New Orleans, La.)
(Signed) Water Brooks - (Signed) ‘Rrcwarp Terry

Movunr Zion (New Orleans, La.) | Trinrry (New Orleans, La.)

(Signed) J. H. Porrsr, Pres. (Signed) Gro. A. DeMovy, Pres.

FLOOR COMMITTEE REPORT

(Committee: Pastors Martin Piehler, D. D., A. A. Brauer, Milton
Otto, O. A. Sauer, E. H. Wendland.)

Your Committee has given the request for financial assistance
for the founding of a Lutheran High School in New Orleans careful
consideration. We wish to commend our fellow Christians in New
Orleans for their interest in secondary education.

We are of the opinion, that Lutheran high schools anywhere
are a desirable and good thing, but a need the Synodical Confer-
ence should not be called upon to supply. The lack of high school
facilities in New Orleans and many other places raises a problem
which the locality should seek to solve rather than the Synodical
Conference.

Your Committee feels that the Synodical Conference must limit
its educational activities to the training of pastors and teachers.
We are hardly able to meet our mission opportunities and supply
proper facilities for the educational institutions of the Synodical
Conference at Greensboro and Selma and therefore are unable
financially to make funds available for general education on the
high school level.

We feel that our Negro constituency should intensify its efforts
to procure more pastors and teachers. This can best be done by
parents and pastors on the parish level. Experience has proved
that a Lutheran High School is not in itself the most effective
recruiting agency.

One of the signers of the memorial told the committee that the
motivation for the overture was primarily the dire need for colored
workers, which your Committee also recognizes as an _ acute
problem.

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