LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1962, Page 169

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COMMITTEE 1 169

UNPRINTED MEMORIALS

Nore: These “Unprinted Memorials” were received
too late to be printed in Reports and Memorials but
were mimeographed in Today’s Business. They are re-
printed here for the benefit of those who were not
delegates at the convention and therefore did not obtain
a copy of Today’s Business.

COMMITTEE 1
[124-A]

To Establish a Seminary in the
West Coast Area

Wuereas, The population of the Western States is
growing with phenomenal rapidity, and correspondingly
also the membership of our Synod in the West; and

Wuerras, The distance from many areas in this
region to our present seminaries is considerably more
than 2,000 miles, requiring about two days of travel
time each way by fast train and costing our parents
considerable additional expense for which there is no
equalization of costs; and

Wuereas, Many parents hesitate to encourage their
sons to prepare for full-time Kingdom work, knowing
that because of distance and expense the youths will not
be at home with them even for Christmas and perhaps
not even for the summer vacation; and

Wuereas, The present facilities at our seminaries
will be filled to capacity in the near future; and

WHEREAS, It is much easier to interest young people
in regional schools than in schools that are far away;
and

Wuereas, The Synod now owns the needed building
site in the San Francisco, Calif., area for a third semi-
nary; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod proceed immediately to
establish its third seminary in the above-mentioned
or in another practical Western States area.

St. Perer’s LUTHERAN CONGREGATION
Medford, Oreg.

Joun E. Srmon, Pastor

Miuan H. Bever, Secretary

[125-A]
To Establish a College in Southern California

Wuereas, The church has the holy responsibility to
provide professional personnel for its ministry; and

WHEREAS, The Southern California area has ex-
perienced a tremendous population increase and the
population is predicted to continue to increase rapidly;
and

Wuereas, The distances to synodical schools pres-
ently prevent proper utilization of our manpower in
the Southern California area for professional church
work; and

Wuereas, Property values are rising in our rapidly
expanding area, thus making it urgent to purchase land
immediately; therefore be it

Resolved, That the forty-fifth regular convention of
The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod authorize the
immediate establishment of a college in the Southern
California District to meet the needs of the church.

ZION LUTHERAN CONGREGATION
Anaheim, Calif.
Bert JANzow, President
C. W. Gustav Enric, Secretary
[125-B]
To Establish a College in the
Southern California District

Wuereas, The needs of our church in providing ad-
ditional pastors and teachers to serve in our expanding
number of congregations and schools already exceed
our ability to train sufficient workers; and

Wuereas, Future expansion will only multiply this
problem; and

Wuereas, Parents in our populous area, because of
expense and distance, hesitate to send sons and daugh-
ters hundreds of miles to our present schools; and

Wuereas, A greater number of synodically trained
young men and women should be coming from Southern
California to serve the church, and the lack of a college
in this area has prevented this; and

Wuereas, Southern California can expect to double
or triple its own pastoral and school placement needs
within another fifteen years; and

Wuereas, No synodical institution exists within 450
miles of this second-largest population center in the
U.S. A.; and

Wuereas, The Southern California area has doubled
its population in the past fifteen years, and conserva-
tive estimates predict a doubling of the present figure
of 8,500,000 (ten counties), to some 16 million by 1985;
and

Wuereas, Land values are increasing constantly, and
available property in large parcels will become in-
creasingly scarce and prohibitively expensive as time
goes on; therefore be it

Resolved, That we, the pastor and members of Saint
Paul’s Lutheran Congregation of Long Beach, Calif.,
URGENTLY request the Synod to resolve to establish
a college in the Southern California area at the earliest
possible time; and be it further

Resolved, That we pledge our prayers and support

to this cause.
St. Pauu’s LuTHeran CONGREGATION

Long Beach, Calif.

Ciaube Wricut, Chairman
Norman Guu, Secretary
Witam J. Fackter, Pastor