# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S28
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28 Committees and Their Work

Committees

The reports and memorials to Synod as contained in the book
of Reports and Memorials, including also a large number of un-
printed overtures, were submitted by the President of Synod to
twenty committees as reported in the official organs of Synod.
These committees and their work are listed below, including the
revisions announced in the first session.

Committees and Their Work
Numbers over 100 refer to printed, under 100 to unprinted memorials

Committee 1: Seminaries and Colleges. Reports and Memorials
101—115. 117—122, 124-246. 148. Addendum to pp. 82 and 83 on page 100.
701 B, I, 1, 2, 4. 701B, II, 1—5. 701B, II, 1~—7. 712. 713. 6: Report of
Valparaiso Advisory Committee. 22: Developing of educational
departments at Crespo and Porto Alegre (Bd. of Missions for S. A.).
41: University Chapel at Berkeley, Cal. (Bethlehem Church, Berkeley).
44; Request to relieve commissary department (Seward Bd. of Control).
45: Coeducation at Bronxville (N.Y. Past. Conf.). 46: High School and
Coeducation at Crespo. 50—53: Letters regarding coeducation and higher
education (Southeast Dist. Teachers’ Conf. of Wisconsin, Wm. Carmann,
S.Ind. Teachers’ Conf., Fox and Rock River Valley Teachers’ Conf. of
S.IL.). 54: Four-year courses for Seward and River Forest (South and
East Mich. Teachers’ Conf.). 56: Tuition plan for all students (Teacher
Nuoffer). 57: Letter regarding grants for professors taking advanced
courses (Rev. Manz). 58: Letter regarding fourth year at. St. Louis.
59: Comment regarding Memorial 137. 61: Material on missions at
St. Louis Seminary (Southeastern Pastoral Conf.). 62: Coeducation at
St. Paul, Minn. (South Central Minnesota Dist. Conf.). Besides. these
there were other unprinted and unregistered letters, among them a re-
quest of Professor Rehfeldt for the Board of Control at Porto Alegre and
a letter of Edgar Monke regarding higher education. — Committee: All
District Presidents. The Committee on Colleges of the Board of Directors.
Pastors: Meinzen (Cent.), Brammer (Iowa E.), Klinck (S.'Nebr.),
Boerger (S. Wis.), Schramm (Minn.). Teachers: Weiss (Mich.), Stich-
weh (S.Ill.).. Laymen: E. W. Meyer (Atl), Spindler (East.), Engel
(Engl.), Frevert (Kans.), Kuntz (Minn.). Professors: Th. Graebner,
Albrecht, Schmieding, Rincker. Advisory members: F. Pfotenhauer,
E. Seuel. Chairman: Schinnerer. ;

Committee 2: Missions. Reports and Memorials 401. 403—405. 407
to 412. 414, 701A, 5. 701C. 709. 710. 10: Creation of a Southern and
Northern District of Colored Missions (Northern Pastoral Conf. of Iowa
Dist. East). 15: Report and Recommendations of Board of Home Mis-
sions in Europe. 16: Memorial on recommendations by the Committee
on Church Extension Fund. 19: Memorial on New Guinea Missions of
Australian Synod. 21: Memorial on Indian Missions (Sam Miller,
Gresham, Wis.). 26: Letters of Calvary Church, Kansas City, and others
regarding request of Pilgrim Lutheran Missions to the Deaf of Kansas
City. Correspondence with Rev. H. Levihn on resident adviser and
a memorial of Victor Richter were also considered. — Pastors: Lankenau,
chairman, Mensing (East.), Rehwaldt (N. Nebr.), Lehenbauer (S. Ill),
Kuechle (Cent.), Koepchen (Atl.), Engel (Cal.-Nev.), Neitzel (Cent. IIL),
Proehl (Engl.), Frese (Iowa E.), Buss (Kans.), Erthal (Man.-Sask.),
Bernthal (Mich.), Rudolph (Minn.), Harre (N. Dak.-Mont.), Piehler
(N. ML), Dietz (S. Wis.), Erb (S.Dak.). Teachers: Twietmeyer (Cent.),
Suelter (Colo.), Meier (Okla.), Troester (S. Cal.), Ehlen (Iowa W.),
Kersten (Oreg.-Wash.). Laymen: Nieting (Iowa W.), Heidorn -(N. Ill),