# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1975_S349
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HIGHER EDUCATION 349

Elections be instructed to call for a caucus of voting delegates
from the three Canadian Districts for the purpose of electing
the members of the Board of Control of Concordia College,
Edmonton, Alta.: and be it further

Resolved. That the synodical convention Committee on
Nominations be instructed to provide those attending the caucus
a list of acceptable nominees for Board of Control election from
Canada.

Faculty
Concordia College, Edmonton
R. Willie, Secretary

6-103

To Restructure Irvine Board of Control

WHEREAS, The Lutheran Church-— Missouri Synod assem-
bled in Cleveland in 1962, Resolution 1-22, established the plan
for the organization of a Lutheran college in Southern Cali-
fornia. now known as Christ College Irvine: and

WHEREAS, Cleveland Resolution 1-22 indicates that the
Board of Control of this college “is to consist of the District
President, two pastors, one teacher, and three laymen": and

WHEREAS. It was not the intention of Committee 1 of the
Cleveland convention to set up a different permanent ratio of
Board of Control members than that which presently exists at
other synodical colleges: therefore be it

Resolved. That the membership of the Board of Control of
Christ College Irvine be the same as that designated for other
synodical colleges in Bylaw 6.23 a 2: “at least five and no more
than nine members. ... The elective members shall include one
to three pastors, one or two teachers, and three to five laymen."

Board of Control

Christ College Irvine

Charles L. Manske, Acting President
Arnold G. Kuntz, Chairman

Glenn Molyneaux. Secretary

6-104A

To Support Milwaukee in 4-Year
Program

WHEREAS, The New Orleans convention in Resolution 6-2
graciously identified the strong support of the South Wisconsin
District for a 4-year college program at Concordia College,
Milwaukee, Wis.: and

WHEREAS. The New Orleans convention directed the Board
for Higher Education to review requests for such an extended
program at Concordia College, Milwaukee, reminding the board
that one of its tasks is to assist in developing careful 4-year
programs in and for the church: and

WHEREAS. Such a 4-year program in the Milwaukee area will
be of great recruitment value for the teaching and preaching
program of the Synod as well as provide a general Lutheran
college program for the greater Milwaukee area and the upper
Midwest: therefore be it

Resolved. That the Board for Higher Education and all others
responsible for such educational changes be urged to exert all
efforts and speed in offering the opportunity to Concordia Col-
lege to begin a 4-year college program.

Peace Lutheran Church
New Berlin, Wis.

Donald Schwerin, President
Jan Blanchard, Secretary
Martin W. Bangert, Pastor

Identical or similar:

6-104B

Cross, Milwaukee, Wis. Joseph Ellwenger

6-105

To Support 4-Year College Status
for Milwaukee

WHEREAS. The faculty and administration of Concordia
College, Milwaukee, completed two extensive research studies,
one in 1969 and the other in 1974, in reference to 4-year status
for the college: and

WHEREAS. The Board of Control of Concordia College, Mil-
waukee, has unanimously resolved that every effort should be
made toward expanding the college to 4-year status: and

WHEREAS. The position of the faculty and the Board of
Control has been endorsed by the South Wisconsin District at
its 1972 and 1974 conventions: and

WHEREAS. The Concordia College Century Club, an organiza-
tion of 2,500 “friends of Concordia,” at its annual meeting on
June 14, 1974, unanimously resolved to “set the attainment of
4-year college status for Concordia as its primary and all-
encompassing goal”; therefore be it

Resolved. That the Synod seriously take into consideration
the studies and resolutions mentioned above as it deliberates
on the suggestions of the Synod’s Higher Education Task Force.

Concordia College
Milwaukee, Wis.

Faculty

Walter A. Jennrich, Secretary
Board of Control

Gordon R. Fairbert, Secretary

6-106

To Halt Expansion Until Action
Is Taken on Task Force Report

WHEREAS. Many of the Synod’s schools for training persons
for various professions in the church are not being used to their
capacity: and

WHEREAS. The purpose of synodical schools is to train
full-time church workers: therefore be it

Resolved. That all expansion at existing schools and building
of new schools be halted until actiun is taken on recommenda-
tions of the Synod’s Task Force on Higher Education: and be
it further

Resolved. That synodical support to synodical schools be
based on the number of full-time church workers being trained.

St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church
White Creek, Ind.

Paul Kerkhof, Chairman
Norman Schroer, Secretary
Loren A. Boettcher, Pastor

6-107

To Modify Task Force Recommendation

WHEREAS. The Synod’s Task Force has recommended the
moving of Concordia Seminary, Springfield, IIl., to the campus
of Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, Ind., and the latter
to the campus of Concordia College. St. Paul, Minn.: and

WHEREAS. The moving of the Springfield seminary shows
wisdom in that it would give us a seminary more removed from
its sister seminary in St. Louis and also a city in which there
would be more congregations to use as stations for the fieldwork
experience of young seminarians; and

WHEREAS. The current synodical budget difficulties being
caused by the withholding of congregational funds to be chan-
neled to ELIM and Seminex have forced drastic cutbacks; and

WHEREAS. These cutbacks could in some vases be more
beneficial if directed against the educational institutions rather
than the various mission fields: and

WHEREAS. The building of a new campus at Irvine, Calif.
seems unwise at this particular time in economic history; and