# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S202
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 191

Report of the Committee on Incorporation Matters.
. (Memorial 403.)

Pursuant to the resolution of Synod appearing on page 168 of the
Proceedings of 1982 the Ven. President Dr. Pfotenhauer appointed the
undersigned committee. This committee desires to submit herewith
its report. .

I.

At the present time it appears that in the matter of incorporation
of colleges, Synod has not pursued a uniform policy. In the earlier
history of Synod, colleges were incorporated, but later this policy
appears to have been abandoned. At present the following colleges
and seminaries are incorporated under the laws of the particular
State where they are located: —

Concordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri.
Concordia Teachers’ College, River Forest, Illinois.
Concordia Teachers’ College, Seward, Nebraska.
Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Concordia College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
St. John’s Lutheran College, Winfield, Kansas.
Concordia College, Conover, North Carolina.

The following colleges are not incorporated: —

Concordia College, St. Paul, Minnesota.
St. Paul’s College, Concordia, Missouri.
Concordia Institute, Bronxville, New York.
Concordia College, Portland, Oregon.
California Concordia College, Oakland, California.
Lutheran Concordia College, Austin, Texas.
Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois.
The following colleges and institutions are not located in the
United States and are not incorporated: —

Concordia College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Concordia College, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Colegio Concordia, Crespo, Entre Rios, Argentina.
Seminary at Nagercoil, India.

Theological Seminary, Hankow, China.

II.

Your Committee recommends that all colleges be incorporated.

1. To secure uniformity. To incorporate those colleges not now
incorporated will be less difficult than to dissolve the corporations
and also will no doubt involve less legal consequences as to title,
operation, etc.

2.a) It is the opinion of your Committee that the legal advantages
of incorporation outweigh the advantages of the present status quo.
The question of entering into contracts by Synod in States other
than its own incorporation, even by the local boards of control as
agents for the Synod, raises the question of a foreign corporation
doing business in another State and may therefore involve the neces-