# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S66
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66 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, I.
(Memorial 103)

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL

The Board of Control has met monthly for the performance of
its synodical duties and has had a number of additional meetings
each year, according to the needs of the institution, including sev-
eral joint meetings with the Electoral College. Much time has been
given by the members individually and as a group to the care and
maintenance of the property and physical facilities, and, together
with the Administration and Faculty, to the study and improve-
ment of the total training program of our future parish school
teachers,

The chairman of the Board, the Rev. E. T. Lams, D.D., of Oak
Park, Ill, after nine years of devoted service, retired from the
District Presidency, and the Rev. Arthur Werfelmann of Elgin, IIl.,
formerly a member of the Electoral College and Vice-President of
the District, succeeded him as District President and chairman of
the Board of Control in the summer of 1945. In 1946 Dr. Paul
Schulze completed forty years of continuous service to the insti-

, tution and Synod as a member of the Board of Control. This occa-
sion was observed by a testimonial dinner, at which time the Board
also acknowledged the forty years of devoted service rendered by
Prof. F. H. Schmitt, at first in the capacity of a professor and then,
since 1938, as full-time business manager. Professor Schmitt re-
tired, effective at the end of 1946,

Faculty

A number of changes have taken place within the called faculty
during the triennium. Instructor Albert Huegli was called to the
vacancy resulting from Dr. Walter Roehrs’ acceptance of a call to
Concordia Seminary at St. Louis and was installed in September,
1944, along with Mr, Victor Hildner, teacher at Trinity Congrega-
tion at St. Joseph, Mich., who was called to replace Prof. H. C.
Gaertner. retired. Early in September, 1944, one of our new pro-
fessors, Herbert Reifschneider, after a very brief illness, was called
to his eternal reward. The vacant professorship was filled by Prof.
John Klotz of Bethany College, Mankato, Minn., who began his
work at Concordia in the fall of 1945. Mr. Emil Deffner, formerly
a teacher at St. Paul’s Congregation, Melrose Park, Ill, and then
temporary instructor in Art and German in our High School, was
called to the new professorship created by Synod at the Saginaw
convention in 1944, After thirty-three years of service to Con-
cordia, the chairman of our Music Department, Prof. Martin
Lochner, was called to his heavenly home. He was replaced by