# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S44
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

44 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Radio Station KFUO

Since the last synodical convention our radio station completed
its payment of the $100,000 loan. This repayment was one year
ahead of schedule. In January, 1946, our radio station launched
its $300,000 Forward Movement, planning for the following projects:

Purchase and installation of a Frequency Modulation trans-
mitter, erection of a large auditorium-studio, enlarging of present
radio building, increase in power from 5,000 to 10,000 watts, un-
limited night time operation. In 1944 Dr. J. H. C. Fritz completed
twenty years of service on the KFUO Committee; and in the fol-
lowing year Rev. Herman H. Hohenstein completed twenty years
as director of KFUO. The following changes took place on the
KFUO Radio Committee:

Teacher George Stohlmann replaced Teacher M. C. Schlieske,
and Teacher E. F. Schoenleber later replaced Teacher Stohlmann;
Mr. Theo. E. Heinicke replaced Mr. Emil Hartmann.

Athletic Director

The students of our Seminary, desirous of having a full-time
director of physical education, petitioned the Board of Control to
engage such aman. Mr. John Krauss, a graduate of our Milwaukee
Concordia and formerly a student at our Seminary, was engaged for
this work. The salary of this athletic director is paid in full from
student funds.

Graduate School

Pursuant to a resolution of the convention of Synod in 1920,
the Graduate School of Concordia Seminary was opened in Sep-
tember, 1922. It continued without interruption, with varying
enrollments, until 1931. Owing to the adverse economic conditions
in the country at large and to the unusually large enrollments in the
undergraduate division, requiring the full time of the regular
teaching staff of the Seminary, classes for the Graduate study were
discontinued from 1931 to 1937. In 1938 Graduate work was re-
sumed, and the activities of the school expanded to include Pastors’
Institutes and Extension Work, in various areas of the Church.
The school is now well organized and offers advanced work leading
to the degree of S.T.M. and TH.D. Interest in the school has
been steadily growing during the last few years, as the following
enrollment figures will show:
1944—1944, both semesters ____ 36 1945—1946, both semesters _____ 104
1945—-1945, both semesters _.__. 92 1946-1947, first semester only _ 80

At the end of the war Concordia Seminary organized its re-
sources to provide so-called refresher courses for chaplains return-
ing from service in the military forces of the United States and
Canada. Courses were offered to make it possible for chaplains