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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1981, Page 37

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Church, Boise, Idaho, which had previously been accept-
ed into membership with the Synod, was declined.

Task Force

Res. 2-03A (TB 233), which defined the membership
and function of the Board of Directors, was introduced
to the delegates after the word “shall” had been
changed to “may” in line 51 (TB 233). An amendment
which would have added the words “no District shall be
represented simultaneously by both a pastor and a
layperson” in line 19 was declined. During discussion of
the amendment a delegate stated that an identical
amendment had been rejected by previous convention
action. The Chairman declared that this was an amend-
ment to a new resolution, Res. 2-03A rather than Res.
2-03. The resolution was adopted.

Elections

Chairman Simon of the Floor Committee on Elec-
tions reported the results of the election for the remain-
ing position of Fifth Vice-President of the Synod. The
results of the election were Maier—524, Mueller—503.
Dr. Walter A. Maier, Jr., was declared to be the Fifth
Vice-President of the Synod.

Recognition

Dr. Ralph Bohlmann, president of Concordia Sem-
inary, St. Louis, introduced Dr. Hoerber of the faculty of
the seminary, who called upon Dr. Martin Scharlemann

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to read the citation for conferral of the honorary doctor
of divinity degree upon Bishop Fierla of Poland. The
degree was conferred upon him because of his outstand-
ing leadership in the Polish Lutheran Church. The
citation is found on page 270 of Today’s Business. Dr.
Fierla responded with thanks to the seminary and to
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.

President Preus also announced that Concordia
Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, was conferring an
honorary doctorate upon Nelson Unwene, president of
The Lutheran Church of Nigeria.

Chaplain Milton Ernstmeyer introduced Rev. Leland
Stevens, chairman of the Armed Forces Commission, to
present the Martin of Tours Silver Medal to Dr. Preusin
recognition of his many years of personal support of the
Armed Forces Commission and for his spiritual leader-
ship in support of the Armed Forces. This is the highest
medal which is awarded by the group.

Mr. James Kirchoff was introduced to the conven-
tion. He was given the honor of presenting the Christus
Magister Award, an award conferred by the Lutheran
Education Association, to Dr. Walter Hartkopf as an
outstanding educator. Dr. Hartkopf had been selected
from among 113 nominations which were received.

Task Force

At this point a motion was introduced calling for
reconsideration of Res. 2-25 (7B 185). After brief discus-
sion the delegates declined to reconsider this motion by

The new President and Vice-Presidents