Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1950, Page 122

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122 Proceedings of the Forty-First Convention,

IV. Attention is also directed to the increase in cost of African Mis-
sions from $10,701.98 in 1941—42 to $85,137.98 in 1949-50, due to ex-
pansion, greater number of workers in that field, increases in equipment
costs, and construction of permanent buildings.

V. We commend Treasurer Charles E. Groerich for his faithful and
efficient services and for the sacrifices he made in the interest of the
Synodical Conference,

Action by the convention: The proposed budget as well as the entire
Floor Committee report was adopted.

Additional amounts which must be added to the budget are $20,000
appropriated by the convention for the school at Selma, Ala. (1951 Pro-
ceedings, pp.110 and 111), and $30,000 for acquiring the property of
Trinity Congregation, Seattle, Wash. (1951 Proceedings, pp. 21 and 111).

Memorials Re a Lutheran High School at New Orleans

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The Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America
in session at Fort Wayne, Ind., August 8—11, 1950.

Dear BRETHREN:

On the day after Easter, this year, most of the pastors and
teachers of the New Orleans churches of the Synodical Conference,
together with representatives from these congregations, met at
St. Paul’s Church for the purpose of discussing the need of a N egro
Lutheran High School in the city of New Orleans, La.

In this meeting the Synodical Conference workers and. dele-
gates of the churches of the Synodical Conference in the city of
New Orleans expressed, without a single dissenting voice, the
exceedingly great need of a properly equipped and accredited
Lutheran High School in New Orleans. The reasons which were
given for such an institution of higher learning in the city of New
Orleans were the following:

Reason 1. A Lutheran High School in New Orleans is of great
necessity, so that the children who finish our Christian day schools
may be able to continue their religious instructions in such a school.

a. Such a school of higher learning would make for a stronger
faith and for a stronger Church.

b. Such a school would also be a wonderful mission agency,
inasmuch as some of the children who are not won through the
day schools now would, through a longer period of instruction in
the Word of God and through a longer period of contact with the
Lutheran Church, be gained for Jesus and for the Church.

c. It is certain that many parents of non-Lutheran children
would send their children to such a Lutheran High School, for
many parents insist that their children continue their schooling in
a religious high school when they have completed their schooling
in one of our day schools.

Reason 2. A Lutheran High School in New Orleans is of great
necessity, so that our Lutheran children may not feel compelled to
attend high schools of heterodox churches to continue their studies
after they have completed one of our parochial schools.

New Orleans has only three public high schools for Negro