# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S841
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Financial Matters 841

cooperation with the local boards of control. A few specific

eferred to the Board of Directors should be reported on.

. Concordia Seminary, St.Louis. The last convention in-
cted the Board of Directors, in consultation with the St. Louis
ty and the Board for Higher Education, to establish a Depart-

for Missions at the Seminary, and the Board of Control was
thorized to call a qualified man as the head of this department.

discussions of these matters with the Board of Control and
.;Board for Higher. Education have so far led to no definite
clusions. — Although Synod itself, according to its policy in
matter, did not entertain the request to build a gymnasium at
he. St. Louis Seminary, the student-body and the Board of Control
ould not be denied the privilege of collecting the necessary funds
OF. this purpose, with the understanding that the collection be
ade between January 15 and July 15, 1941, and that a substantial
of the $150,000 which they expect to raise be collected in the
uis area.

2. The Springfield Seminary Board was also given permission
collect up to $50,000 for a gymnasium, this collection to be
restricted to the territory allotted to the Seminary.

_3. At Fort Wayne the remodeling of the service building and
terrazzo floor in the dining-room have been looked into by
Committee on Colleges and are being carried out according
to the resolution of Synod.

4. It is to be reported that under the powers granted to the
,-Board of Directors by resolution of Synod (Synodical Proceedings
1938, p. 272) the charter of Concordia Teachers’ College at Seward
was amended, and a form of transfer of the property at Seward
to the new incorporation was effected by the following resolution
of the Board of Directors:

 Wuereas, The Board of Trustees of the Lutheran Seminary
ocated at Seward, Nebraska; did on the 6th day of November,
1939, make certain amendments to its articles of incorporation; and
Wuereas, Said Board directed that said amendments be sub-
ed to the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and
ther States for its approval; and

_. Wuerzas, This Board has examined said amendments and finds
them'to be regular and that they should be approved; there-
fore be it

_ Resolved by the Board of Directors of the Evangelical Lu-
“theran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, That we approve
e. amendments to the articles of incorporation of the Lutheran
Seminary of Seward, Nebraska, as made by its Board of Trustees