# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S595
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 11

Pursuant to Synod’s resolution in 1941, our three other vener-

ble septuagenarians, Prof. Albert H. Miller, Prof. Henry C. Gaert-

r, and Prof. E. H. Engelbrecht, were granted honorable retirement

the end of the school year in June, 1943. All three continued

part-time service to our college as the Lord gave them strength

‘and energy. Through a succession of paralytic strokes, which

ndered him more and more feeble, the Lord gradually called

“Professor Engelbrecht away from his activities for the school and

finally took him into eternal rest on February 28, 1944.

. The new professorship allowed by Synod in 1941 in order to

take, care of the needs of the library was filled in the fall of 1941

when our assistant professor and acting librarian, Prof. Edwin.
‘Wibracht, M.A., was permanently called. Under his leadership
oth the book holdings and the administration of the library have

heen greatly improved.

. In the spring of 1943 the Board of Control took measures to
bring our regular Concordia faculty back to its full strength. Prof.

Carl Scaer, M.A., of Luther Institute in Chicago, Prof. Herman.
Keinath, Ph. D., of Concordia Teachers College, Seward, and Prof..
G. Herbert Reifschneider, M.A., Principal of St. John’s Lutherar
School, Cleveland, Ohio, were called to teach English, Religion,
and Social Sciences, and Biology and Mathematics respectively.
These men took up their new duties in the fall of 1943.

At this writing two regular professorships remain vacant. As
stated above, Professor Gaertner has been granted honorable re-
tirement. Dr. Walter Roehrs, dean of college students and pro-
_ fessor of Bible and German, has. accepted the call to Concordia
Theological Seminary, St. Louis. It is hoped that these vacancies
will be filled by the time Synod convenes.

Staff Members in the Armed Forces

In June, 1942, we lost the services of a number of valued
workers. Our nurse and supervisor of women, Lt. Adale Stauske,
R.N., went to the South Pacific with a local hospital unit. She
is now recuperating from a serious illness, which, after a year of
hardship and privation, forced her to return home, Our college
physician, Major Robert Sharer, M. D., is still in the South Pacific
after two years of service. Assistant Professor Herbert C. Albrecht,
M.A., instructor in Religion and Languages, entered the service
as a Navy chaplain. He was accompanied by his bride, the former
_Miss Irma Beck, M.A., until then a critic teacher in our training
‘school. Assistant Professor Emory Bauer, M.A., instructor in
' Physical Education and Biology, was granted leave of absence in
-May, 1943, and entered the Navy as an ensign.