# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S589
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES , 5

ear supply work as vicars. The faculty and Board of Control
fed this request. Forty students volunteered to teach and were
itted to be absent from the Seminary for one year; and the
ors to whom these students were assigned as teachers were
ied to make it possible for the students to participate in pastoral
tivities as time and opportunity would permit.
The National Headquarters of the Selective Service System in
gton, D.C., issued a directive in January, 1944, amending
er regulations governing the deferment of men in pre-
ogical schools. This directive, which was to become effective
1, 1944, states:
‘Students preparing for the ministry should not expect to
joy an exemption from training and service and, at the same
devote no more time and effort to their training than they
in peace time. Theological and divinity schools should
erate their courses and place their training on the same
alve-month year-around basis as is necessary in other fields of
cation during this critical period in our national history.”
Pursuant to this directive of the Selective Service Commission,
aculty and the Board of Control together with the Board for
er Education decided to join hands with our junior colleges
‘carrying out a program of acceleration. As. far as possible,
jtudent vicarages will be so ordered as to constitute two trimesters.
Course Committee of the faculty will devise a plan by which
thé instructors will be given periodical relief. The Easter vacation
ept for Good Friday) will be dropped. The following calendar
adopted for this accelerated program for one year:
First semester: June 7 to August 25 (twelve weeks).
. Second ‘semester: September 20, 1944, to January 19, 1945
fifteen weeks).
; Third semester: January 22, 1945, to May 12, 1945 (fifteen
eeks).
A vacancy was created on the Board when Dr. L. J. Sieck
ame president of the institution. The undersigned was ap-
ated by the Board to fill the vacancy.

‘The Board met monthly for its regular meetings and had many

écial meetings throughout the triennium to transact the ever-
Aricreasing amount of business coming before the Board.
‘The Concordia Historical Institute has now secured the serv-
‘of a permanent full-time curator in the person of Dr. Karl
tzmann. This service has been made possible by the resolution
yriod in 1941 to grant the Institute $2,400 a year for this purpose.
‘erection of the Historical Institute Building has had to be
poned for the duration of the war.