# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S41
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 41

fication, Prof. Martin H. Franzmann of Northwestern, College
¢ Watertown, Wis., for the Department of New Testament Exe-
ésis; and Dr. Louis W. Spitz of St. Paul’s College, Concordia, Mo.,
the Department of Systematic Theology.
"At the 1941 convention Synod instructed the Board of Control
in consultation with the Board of Directors of Synod and the Lu-
theran Laymen’s League to find ways and means of giving relief to
Dr, Walter A. Maier, so that he might devote more time to the
Lutheran Hour. (See Proceedings, 1941, p. 40.) A number of
meetings were held with the L.L.L., the Board of Directors, and
_ Dr. Walter A. Maier, at which the entire project was discussed from

‘many angles. The L.L.L. then asked that Dr. Maier be given a
_ leave of absence. Believing that the Lutheran Hour and Con-
cordia Seminary could best be served by granting this request,
n a two-year leave of absence, to begin at the

Dr. Maier was give
time when the newly elected professor takes over his duties at

the Seminary.
Dr. W. R. Roehrs of Concordia Teachers College, River Forest,
h in the Old Testament Exegetical

Tl, was duly called to teac’
Department. He began his work at our Seminary on June 7, 1944.

“When the Lutheran Laymen’s League asked for a continuation of
Dr. Walter A. Maier’s leave of absence, the Board of Control
decided to grant it and to continue his present status until Synod
in 1947, when a definite decision should be reached. |

Fifteen professors live on the campus in homes owned by
Synod. Four professors live off the campus, three in homes owned
by Synod and one in a home rented by Synod. The instructor in
the Mission Department lives off the campus in a home owned by
Synod. In June, 1944, Synod purchased two homes for professors;

the home at 18 Arundel Place at a cost of $12,437.26, and the home '
1945, Synod pur-

at 61 Ridgemoor at a cost of $14,125.78. In May,

chased a home at 6521 San Bonita Avenue at a cost of $10,682.38.
In spite of increased cost of commodities there was no increase
in student board rates until December, 1946, when an increase of
$10 per month was made for the five remaining months of the
present school year, to cover the increased cost for the board of
students during both semesters of the academic year 1946—1947.

Board of Control
In November, 1944, the Board of Control accepted with regret
the resignation of Mr. Richard Waltke. Mr. Charles S. Lottmann
-was elected to take the place of Mr. Waltke. On November 13,
1946, the Lord of the Church in His inscrutable wisdom took the
soul of Mr. Emil H. Hartmann from this earth to Himself in heaven.
Mr. Hartmann had served faithfully as a member of the Board