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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 71

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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 71

niums, and therefore the situation remains as it was and as a matter
of fact has become more urgent since on account of the rapid develop-
ment of the Southeast. And so the importance of the college and of
the aid of its professors both for synodical standing and for effective
missionary endeavor is rather greater to-day than ever.

“Your Board of Control of the college therefore, aside from the
importance of the college as an educational institution of Synod in
the Southeastern territory, herewith begs leave to take exception to
the conclusion of your committee respecting its missionary impor-
tance and your committee’s recommendation that the institution be
closed. We take exception thereto under the conviction that Synod
needs a representative institution in the Southeast for moral support
of its church-work and that it needs especially this institution for the
purpose of successful missionary expansion. This latter need to our
mind can simply not be overestimated.

“In view of all these facts therefore, as we see them, we regret
that your committee did not accede to the request of our local Board
of Control for a hearing on the part of your committee as a whole
and that now we are compelled to take issue with your formulated
opinion as to the closing of our school and to memorialize Synod to
this effect.

“With assurance of our very high regard for your committee and
with a view on our part to the best interests of the Synod as we see

them, we beg to remain, “Very respectfully yours,”

In conclusion we beg leave to state that it seems to us unfair
and misleading to compute the comparative cost of education at our
various institutions by omitting the capital investment made at
our various institutions. We call attention to this point at this time
because the situation at Conover cannot be properly evaluated with-
out the computing of that factor. Synod has in forty years made
no capital investment at all in institutional buildings at Conover.

Respectfully submitted by the Faculty and the Board of Control.
H. B. Hemmeter, President of Faculty.

Geo. E. Mennen, Chairman, Board of Control.
W. A. Brapy, Secretary, Board of Control.

Committee 1 recommended: —

1. That the institution at Conover be closed;

2. That the disposition of the property at Conover be referred
to the ‘proposed Southeastern District or, if Synod decides not to
organize this new District, to the English District and that the
money realized from its sale be placed by the respective District into
its Church Extension Fund.

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