# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S105
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Report of Board for Higher Education 103

stitutions is to consider himself a servant of Synod at large, not
merely of the institution to which he is called.

Concerning the question of differentiating between several
ranks of teachers, we are not yet in a position to make definite
recommendations. Your Board recommends that the study of this
question be continued during the coming triennium in connection
with the general survey which will be recommended to this con-
vention.

H. The Board was instructed by the 1938 synodical convention
to make definite grants to our individual schools for their program
of physical education. (Proceedings 1938, p.47.) Upon request of
the Board the Fiscal Conference of 1940 appropriated the sum of
$2,400 for this purpose. This amount was allocated to the individual
schools by your Board on the basis of its needs. The Board recom-
mends that this practice be continued but that the maximum allow-
ance for each institution per annum be reduced to $500.

I. Your Board was instructed by the 1938 convention to insti-
tute a comprehensive program of personnel work and student
guidance (Proceedings 1938, p.44). On the basis of studies made
by several subcommittees of the Board such a program is now
being introduced at several of our institutions. This work should
be continued during the coming triennium.

J. Your Board was instructed to gather records on available
teaching personnel for the purpose of selecting and calling.the best
possible men as instructors and professors (Proceedings 1938, p. 45).
Your Board now has on file a complete academic and biographical
record of all instructors and professors now serving at our institu-
tions. This file will gradually be expanded to include available
teaching personnel throughout Synod. a

K. Your Board was instructed to study the problem of voice
culture and speech-training at our synodical institutions (Proceéed-
ings 1938, p. 47). On the basis of a survey conducted by Prof. R. R.
Caemmerer, M.S.T., M.A., Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and
Prof, L. Blankenbuehler, M. A., Concordia College, St. Paul, Minn.,
a number of definite suggestions and recommendations concerning
the work in voice culture and speech-training have been adopted
by the Board and the Advisory Committee and forwarded to our
individual institutions. The work in speech-training has received
special emphasis at our theological seminaries during the past

triennium. Report of Committee 1

Concerning a Regulative, Section A:

In view of the fact that the situation in our various educd+
tional institutions is still in a state of flux, we recommend that
.the Board for Higher Education continue to function under: ‘the
temporary regulative until such a time as the Handbook’ Com-