# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S104
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

104 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

service at our school but that his valuable influence would continue
as part-time professor. It is now our unusual privilege to report,
with deep gratitude to our gracious Lord, that our revered Dr.
Stein is completing his 54th consecutive year of devoted and
faithful service on our campus.

The vacancy caused by the retirement of Dr. Stein was filled
when Prof. Henry Proehl accepted the call to the chair of Latin
and Greek in the High School. His installation, together with that
of Pastor Carl F. Weidmann, our housemaster, took place at the
Lutheran Hour rally held in New York City in October of 1945.
Since his installation Professor Proehl has also served as Registrar
for our High School. Prof. Theodore Hausmann continues to serve
as Dean of the College.

In addition to the regularly called professors, our teaching
staff includes six instructors, of whom three are women, and two
assistants whose engagement is necessitated by our varied cur-
ricula of non-ministerial and co-educational courses. However,
with the exception of one of the assistants, these instructors are
salaried at no expense to Synod.

In October of 1944 we were permitted to observe the 25th
anniversary of Prof. Theodore Hausmann’s service at our Con-
cordia in Bronxville.

The customary inspection by the Middle States Accrediting
Association again resulted in a very favorable report for our
school in all its departments. The only recommendations made by
the Association were that we pay higher salaries to our professors
and that we improve our science and library facilities.

God has kept the members of our faculty in good health, and
they have given themselves faithfully and effectively to their tasks,
which have been made more arduous than ever by our greatly
increased enrollment.

Our Student Body

A far larger number of the youth of our churches than ever
before is now receiving the benefits of Christian higher education at
our school. The enrollment figures for the past triennium are as
follows:

1944—1945 1945—1946 1946—1947
226 250 320

Our dormitories are filled to capacity, and many qualified ap-
plicants could not be accepted last fall, because room to house
them was lacking. However, no qualified applicant for the min-
isterial course was denied admittance. In the High School, 73 out
of a total of 162 are ministerial students. The enrollment of our
Junior College is 158, of whom 68 are women students. There