# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S96
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84 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

Committee 1 reported: —

Your Committee recommends that the Board of Control of Con-
cordia College, Fort Wayne, be authorized to enter into an agreement
with the congregations at Fort Wayne regarding the use of college
property for high-school Purposes, subject to the approval of the Board
of Directors, under conditions set forth in the overture,

Action of Synod.
This recommendation was adopted.

Coeducation at Our Colleges.
(Memorial 121.)

Wuergas, The injunction of God’s Word concerning religious
training pertains to girls as well-as‘to boys, a truth stressed in utter-
ances of the fathers of Synod as well as by the Lutheran pulpit and
press of our own day; and

Wuergas, The laws of many States have extended compulsory
education beyond the eighth grade, a procedure affecting girls as well
as boys; and :

WHEREAS, Many parents and pastors are greatly concerned in
these perilous times about the environment of secondary education
for girls; and

Wuenreas, In some Districts of Synod it seems possible to satisfy
this concern only by admitting girls to the classrooms of our synod-
ical colleges 3 and

Wuereas, Coeducation has already been introduced in some
educational institutions of the Missouri Synod and of affiliated
synods; and

Wuereas, The California and Nevada District, in its convention
of 1984, was confronted with such forceful pleas for the privilege
of coeducation at California Concordia College; and

Wuergas, An overture pleading for coeducation at California
Concordia College was presented to your Hon. Body in 1929 by a pas-
toral conference of the California and Nevada District, which is still
pending (see Proceedings, 1929); therefore be it

Resolved, Respectfully to petition your Hon. Body to empower
the Board of Control of any synodical college to introduce coedu-
cation; provided —

1) That there is evidence of a strong desire for coeducation on
the part of its constituency ;

2) That coeducation will hot interfere with the paramount pur-
pose of our colleges, namely, the preparation of young men for the
public ministry of the Word; my