# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S133
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

General Institutional Matters 131

also at our institutions, which enables those in the high school
- to earn six dollars a month. . They. must put in their hours ac-
“ gording to the schedule of the N. Y.A. authorities.

; .. Now, if these same students are to pay off their board, as
it were, at the rate of from twenty-five to fifty cents an hour,
_then work under the N. Y.A., and, besides put in some hours of
work gratis for the Synod, ‘their time will not be sufficient. Our
- students need some leisure time also, and especially the very con-
scientious ones, who are your most diligent workers, too.

C. The supervision, or management, of this work and the
secretarial work connected with the records of hours put in, etc.,
is‘no mean consideration either and must be provided for in some
manner at each of our institutions. Not all our institutions have
business managers. Unless the work is supervised, it is un-
satisfactory. Who shall do all this?

Therefore Synod ought to instruct its institutions, through the
Board of Directors, just how this work is to be carried on and
how much we are to demand of the students. Possibly a com-
mittee of men directly concerned with this question might make
some helpful recommendations.

The undersigned would like to offer this as a possible solution:

1. That all students at our institutions give five hours of work
per year gratis. This will help to dignify work done at the col-
leges and seminaries and eliminate any feared stigma.

2. That no student is to be asked to put in the full equivalent
of his board fee, since this takes too much of his leisure time.

8. That all conferences and indigent students’ boards either be
asked to give the institutional authorities power to designate how
many hours are to be required, or that each treasurer send the
money directly to the work administrator, who will no doubt be
a member of the faculty of that institution, and that this ad-
ministrator pay the students for the work done and let the stu-
dent, in turn, pay his board fee at the office of the institution in
question. This may help to remove some of the stigma and make
the student feel more independent about the entire matter. He will
then feel that he is actually working his way through by paying

his own board. Respectfully submitted,

Orromar KrvueEcsr, President
Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind.

Report of Committee 1
Committee 1 recommends that the matter of student employ-
ment be referred to the Board of Directors for further study
and planning.
Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.