# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S30
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80 Committees of the Convention

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 also
the revisions announced in the first session.

Committees and Their Work

(Unless memorials are identified as being in the book of Reports and Memo-
rials, they are unprinted, there being about 170 unprinted memorials.)

Committee 1: Seminaries and Colleges. Reports and Memorials
101—132. 208, 801, B, II. 801, C, 1—3. 801, C, 5—8. 806. 907. 509. 807. 803.
Unprinted memorials: 10: Request for coeducation. at Fort Wayne.
53: Request to refer closing of colleges to Board of Directors. 5457.
103. 120: Altogether 13 unprinted memorials came in protesting the
closing of St. Paul’s College, Concordia, Mo. 58: Protest against closing
Springfield, Ill. 61: Suggestion to use Springfield for missionary insti-
tute. 65: Request of River Forest for a Women’s Building. 77. 156:
Re reducing the teaching load of Dr.Maier. 78: The restoration of
professors’ salaries. 90: Government aid for parochial schools. 96: Re-
quests from Board of Crespo College asking for theological department,
additional professors, and dormitory space. 97: Request for support
of Mexican students at the seminaries. 108: Request to change the old
main building at St.Paul into a Lutheran elementary school. 109:
Honorarium for Secretary and Vice-Presidents of Synod. 112: Request
for a new dormitory at Portland. 116: A protest against the closing
of any institution. 118: Request to cancel the debt on the Edmonton
property. 119: A letter of President O. Krueger on Student Employ-
ment. 125; Letter from President Heine concerning the seminary
at Crespo. — Committee: All District Presidents. The Committee
on Colleges of the Board of Directors. Pastors: Lederer (Mich.),
Heise (N. Ill.), Kleiner (Engl.), Meyer (South.), Friedrich (Minn.),
Teachers: Jaebker (Cent.), Wunderlich (Cent. Tll.). Laymen: Weber
(S. 11.), Goehring (Atl.), Gahwe (East.), Wacker (Iowa E.), Lahr-
mann (West.). Professors: P. E. Kretzmann, Coyner, Krueger, Klinck.
Advisory member, Dr. E. Seuel, Treasurer of Synod. Chairman, Schin-
nerer. Vice-chairman, Lichtsinn.

Committee 2: Missions. Reports and Memorials 401—405. 407—413.
415, 801A. Unprinted memorials: 59. Decentralization of our cities.
(S. W. Conference of Engl. District.) 93: Request for appropriation to
acquire property for mission-school in Penha, Brazil. 94, 95: Request
to take over the Cornwall, England, mission. 102. 123. 139: Various
reports of the Call-of-the-Cross Committee. 130. 135: Support of
Memorial 408. 146: Resident advisers in China and India requested,
148: Letter on management of China Missions. — Committee: Pastors:
Harms, chairman, Raedeke (A.-B. C.), Menzel (Cal. Nev.), Scholz (Cent.),
Wegehaupt (Cent. II].), Haas (East.), Fackler (Engl.), Starke (Iowa E.),
Wittkopp (Iowa W.), Leitz (Mich.), Bohnhoff (Minn.), Grumm (N. Dak.),
Thies (N. Ill.), Amling (Oreg.-Wash.), Ressmeyer (S. E.),° Behnken
(Tex.), Lohmann (West.). Teachers: Brauer (S.IIL), Wolkenhauer
(S. Wis.), Wittmershaus (S. Nebr.), Meyer (N. Nebr.), Hinz (Kans.),
Pittelkow (Atl.), Freudenburg (N. Wis.). Laymen: Niermann (Colo.),
Lauppe (Okla.), Laub (Ont.), Fuernisse (S. Dak.), Burkart (So.), Den-
ninger (S.Cal.), Hacker (Atl.), Kendt (Cent.), McDonald (Cent. IIl.),
Meyer (East.), Steffenhagen (Engl.), Mast (Mich.), Lueders (Minn.).