# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S247
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Constitutional Matters 247

for any other cause, the President fill the vacancy by nominating
a suitable person and that the Board of Directors of Synod or
the College of Presidents confirm such nomination.
Very respectfully,
BETHLEHEM Ev, Lutu. CONGREGATION, MILWAUKEE
Countersigned: Oscar Kaiser, Pastor
C. F. Katser, Assistant Pastor
Epwarp A. JENNE, President
A. K. Grams, Secretary

(The Committee also considered Unprinted Memorial 79, which
recommended that the College of Presidents fill vacancies.)

Report of Committee 6

A. The Committee recommends to the convention to maintain
the present status of having all Vice-Presidents pastors of congre~
gations; and

B. Recommends that a vacancy in the Vice-Presidency be filled
by the President from the reserve list of nominations, that is, from
the nominees left after the previous election, according to their
ranking.

Action of Synod: These recommendations were adopted.

Reduction of Number of Delegates to Synodical
Convention
(Memorials 505, 506, 507)
These memorials (cf. pp.175—177 of the book of Reports and
Memorials 1941) requested Synod to reduce the number of dele-
gates in representation to the general triennial conventions.

Report of Committee 6

The Committee recommends that Memorials 505—507 be re-
jected.

Action of Synod: This recommendation was adopted.

Changing Name of Synod
(Memorial 508)

The following resolution was passed by the voting body of
Immanuel Lutheran Church, 88th Street and Lexington Avenue,
New York City, at its regular meeting on April 1, 1941:

Wuereas, The present name of our Synod, “The Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States,” is a very
long one and, if abbreviated “Mo. Synod,” looks bad in print; and

Wuereas, The official and legal name is a detriment in mission
work, since it is sectional and must be explained in any territory
removed from Missouri; and