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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1973, Page 276

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276 HIGHER EDUCATION

6-36C

Immanuel Lutheran Church, Olivette, Mo. Walter J.
Hoffmann, Pastor; Kenneth Eckert, Secretary.

6-36D

Trinity Lutheran Church, Sauk Rapids, Minn., Elmer
Gottschalk, President; Harley D. Dunham, Secretary.

6-36E

St. James Lutheran Church, Lafayette, Ind., Kenneth H.
Beck, Secretary.

6-36F

Zion Lutheran Church, Anaheim, Calif, Stan Depue,
President.

6-36G

All Nations Lutheran Church, Rock Lake, N. Dak., Harold
Pantsari, Chairman: Leila Kaleva, Secretary.

6-36H

Our Savior Lutheran Church, Janesville, Wis., Ralph
Bobzien, President; Theodore Gundlach, Pastor.

6-361

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, R. 2, Shawano, Wis., Orris
Kroenke, President: Vendor Eggert, Secretary.

6-365

Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, New Orleans, La, M.
Lehnhardt, Pastor.

6-36K

Immanuel Lutheran Church, Wahpeton, N. Dak., E. Rut-
ter, Pastor; Earl G. Mittag, President.

6-36L

Zion Lutheran Church, Plainview, Nebr., Martin Hoyer,
Pastor; Dennis E. Johnson, Secretary.

6-37A

To Change College President
Election Procedure

Wuereas, Bylaw 6.113, “The Faculty Committee” (see
synodical Handbook, p.143, in conjunction with Bylaw 6.117
of Handbook), in effect gives a committee of the faculty
authority to limit the electors to calling or choosing or elect-
ing a candidate from the list of nominees selected by the
faculty committee from the total list of nominees; and

Wuereas, The above-mentioned authority to screen out
nominees amounts to a veto power by the faculty of a syn-
odical school (institution) through its committee and so
makes it possible for a faculty to in effect block the execu-
tion of the will of the Synod acting through its electors; and

Whereas, The accepted practice in American institutions
of higher learning calls for the faculty to be given an oppor-
tunity to express its judgment in the selection of a president
but reserves the power of decision in completely unabridged
form for those charged with the power — the goverance of
the institutions — that is, regents or boards of control, etc.;
therefore be it

Resolved, That the Iowa District West, meeting in con-
vention, petition the 1973 synodical convention, meeting in
New Orleans, to delete Bylaw 6.113 in the synodical Hand-
book (The Faculty Committee); and be it finally

Resolved, That a new Bylaw be added: “Election of a
President to a Synodical School (Institution) in the Event
a President Is to Be Called to an Institution”:

a. A faculty committee elected by the faculty
will be asked to make recommendations to the
electors. These recommendations are not to be
construed as binding on the electors.

b. The election shall proceed then as outlined
in Handbook Bylaw 6.117, Elections. However, the
electors have the ultimate responsibility and au-
thority to elect any nominee from the list of candi-
dates whom they judge to be qualified. They shall
in no way be bound to or unduly influenced by the
recommendations of the faculty committee.

Iowa DistRIicT WEST
D. E. Weiss, Secretary

Similar:

6-37B

Trinity Lutheran Church, Lowden. Iowa. Merlon Kruck-
enberg, President; Earl W. Elowsky, Pastor.

6-37C

Trinity Lutheran Church. Slayton, Minn., Milton Schroe-
der, Chairman: G. Pundt, Pastor, except that the second
Resolved reads:

a. An electoral committee of four be elected at each District
convention (where there is a synodical institution of learning)
who shall serve as the former faculty committee (6.113).

b. A faculty committee elected by the faculty will be asked
to make recommendations to the electoral committee of the feel-
ings of the faculty of any or all names submitted by the congre-
gations. These recommendations are not to be construed as
binding on the electoral committee.

ec. (like bin 6-37A).

6-38

To Limit Term of Office for Presidents
at All Terminal Schools of Synod

Wuereas, The only limitation placed on term of office for
president at our terminal schools is retirement at age 65,
and a man may now hold the office for 20 or more years
without reevaluation of his capabilities: and

Wuereas, Over such a long span of years the Lord of the
church might provide a man more suitable for the office, and
such gifts are given that the whole church might profit
thereby, 1 Cor. 12:7: and

Wuereas, Limiting the term of office at our synodical
schools would be in line with present policy in connection
with other important offices of Synod (the President and
Vice-Presidents of Synod are elected for 4 years at a time.
The same is true of all the members of synodical boards and
commissions, Bylaw 2.06. The term of office of all executive
secretaries of Synod is for 4 years, and an executive secre-
tary may be reappointed only after review and a decision
for reappointment, Bylaw 2.12); therefore be it

Resolved, That from henceforth the presidents of our
terminal schools of Synod be elected for four years: and
be it further

Resolved, That they may succeed themselves no more
than twice (a total of 12 years); and be it finally

Resolved, That the above become operative in the winter-
spring of 1974—75. (This’ means elections will be held at
those terminal schools where a president is serving his

fourth year or more.) Sr. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH

Giddings, Tex.
Eldon Heintze, Secretary

6-39

To Place Synodical College and Seminary
Presidents on Appointment

Wuereas, In American colleges, universities, and semi-
naries it ig not usual for presidents to hold permanent
tenure as president; and

Wuereas, The Synod’s present arrangement of granting
tenure to college and seminary presidents is a remnant of
an earlier day: and