# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S612
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28 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Synod to take favorable action. :
Professors’ Residences: Three of our professors are still liv
off the campus. Since it is becoming increasingly difficult to:
suitable homes for our professors, we request that the Board
Directors be urged to erect at least one new professor’s residen
We thank God for the blessings of the last triennium and
Him to continue to abide with us with His grace for Christ’s sakey

Board or Controt or Concorpra Coueg
St. Paut, Min.

Rost. G. HEYNE

Under the continued guidance and blessing of God, St. Pau
College, Concordia, Mo., was able to observe its sixtieth anniv
sary in 1943. Appropriate cognizance of the anniversary was tak
at the graduation exercises in June and also on the day. of th
annual college festival in September. ,

The anniversary year witnessed a demonstration of the lait
interest in the school through the organization of St. Paul’s College
Association. This group, whose membership approaches the thou.
sand mark, fosters the welfare of St. Paul’s particularly in tho
areas of activity for which no provision is made by Synod.

1943 was a notable year for St. Paul’s also in other respects
Three member of the faculty, Professors A, W. Reese, L. W. Spitz,
and E. C. Weis, completed twenty-five years in the service of é
Church. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was granted Profess
Spitz by the University of Chicago at the close of the su
session. :

The Faculty .

Several changes in faculty personnel have occurred since ‘thi
last convention. Dr. W. R. Roehrs was released to Conco
Teachers College, River Forest, in the summer of 1941. Because th
vacancy created by his transfer to River Forest was not filled unit##
the following year, Candidate Max Beck, assistant professor sinc
the fall of 1940, remained for his second year as instructor. Profes
" sor Lorenz F. Wahlers accepted the call to the chair of mathe
matics, science, and physical education in the spring of 1942 but digi
not assume teaching duties until the fall. After having served
school faithfully since 1906, Prof. William Schaller resigned
June, : 1942, During the summer of that year Pastor Lando
Otto accepted the call to the professorship left vacant by Professo