# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S69
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 67

Prof. Walter Buszin of Concordia College, Fort Wayne, who began
his work at River Forest in the spring of 1946. According to synod-
ical regulations, Prof. Edward Koehler has been granted honorable
retirement, effective this summer. This vacancy is in ‘process
of being filled. Dr. Koehler, still mentally and physically vigorous
after forty-eight years of synodical service, will, God willing, con-
tinue to carry on his work in the field of Christian doctrine. During
the triennium three of our professors attained their Doctor of
Philosophy degrees: Prof, Albert Maurer, in the field of education;
Prof, Albert Huegli, in the field of political science; and Prof. John
Klotz, in the field of biology.

Owing to the continuing crowded capacity enrollment of stu-
dents and with an ever-increasing proportion of these students in
the College Department, all regular faculty members are now
teaching either fully or at least part time in the College Division,
leaving the High School to be taught largely by temporarily
assigned instructors, several of whom also teach part time in the
College Department. We are presenting this fact and some of its
implications to Synod in the form of a memorial, asking for seven
additional regular professorships.

Much faculty time is consumed by synodical duties which
necessarily devolve upon our institution. The editing of The
Lutheran School Journal now occupies a considerable part of one
man’s time and extracurricular time of other editors. Since this
Journal is now to be broadened and expanded, it will require
a still larger portion of manpower. The needs of the field, which
have forced us to enroll and graduate students four times each year,
have added greatly to the complexity of the work of registration,
student guidance, counseling, and placement service, all of which
additional responsibility has been absorbed within the called
faculty.

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Student Body

For the past several years Concordia Teachers College has
enrolled only those students who on their application forms stated
that they were preparing for the service of the Church as Christian
day school teachers. Thus, with the exception of a few non-
boarding students held over in the Senior High School, all students
of both divisions are registered for teacher training. Students
whose purpose changes or who cannot keep up with the standards
set for synodical teacher training are asked to discontinue at the end
of the respective school year to make room for others. In spite of
these measures and the expansion of our capacity by the use of
doubledecked beds, the institution has had to deny admission to
large numbers of boys and especially of girls who wished to enter
the High School and prepare to become teachers. In addition we

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