# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S218
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

' 218 Constitutional Matters

property. There was no time for consultation, and the easiest way
at the moment was to appoint the Trustees of the Oregon and

Washington District as Trustees of the new corporation. Since
’ then changes have occurred in the personnel of the Trustees of

the District, and Paul Neils now is the only Trustee’ still serving
on the Board of the Oregon and Washington District,
The duties of the Trustees of Concordia College, as enumerated

‘in the Articles of Incorporation, are synonymous with the work :

of the Board of Control, and the Trustees of the College, there- .
fore, are legally responsible for the affairs of the institution, but.
have no. voice in its management. ‘For this reason it appears
desirable to choose the Trustees of the Corporation from the
personnel of the Board of Control. According to the Articles of
Incorporation, appointment of the Trustees is to be made tri-
ennially by the convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of

Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. | Concorpra CoLLEece

Paut Nems, Trustee
F.Rems, Trustee —
ACTION

The following three recommendations brought in by Com-
mittee 6 were adopted by Synod:

_ 1. That at this convention, after the election of the Board of
Control for Concordia College, Portland, Oregon, the Nominating
Committee prepare a ballot to elect the three trustees for Concordia
College, Portland, Oregon, the candidates on this ballot to be the
members elected to'the Board of Control of Concordia College,
Portland, Oregon, and that the election for the trustees be then
carried out.

2. That the trustees of Concordia College, Portland, Oregon,
be encouraged to amend the Articles of Incorporation so that. the
number of trustees be the same as the number of members of the
Board of Control, -

3. That thereafter the members of the Board of Control, when
propesy elected or appointed, be at the same time designated as
trustees of the institution. ,

A Change in the Method of Electing Professors
at River Forest
(Memorial. 511)
On February 12, 1944, the President of Concordia Teachers
College, in the name of the Board of Control and the Faculty,

wrote to Dr. M. F, Kretzmann, Secretary of the Committee on the
Revision of the Handbook, the following: