# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S129
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 108

' ACTION
Upon reccommendation of Committee 1 this request for an-
other professorship was referred to the Board for Higher Education
for study in the light of Synod’s action in the matter of “Ranking
of Professors,” with power to act.

Concordia Collegiate Institute, Bronxville, N. Y.
(Memorial 109)

Under the guidance and blessing of the Lord of the Church
the Christian Higher Education of our youth has prospered and
advanced in unprecedented measure during the past triennium
at our Bronxville Concordia.

Our Faculty

In the fall of 1945 the United States Army granted President
Arthur Doege his release from the position of chaplain, which
permitted his return to our campus as active head of our school.
Having been an Army reserve chaplain before the outbreak of the
war, President Doege was called to active duty by the Govern-
ment in February, 1942, and with the approval of Synod’s Board
of Directors was granted a leave of absence from our school. His
return enabled Prof. Albert Meyer, who had served with great
efficiency as acting president during the interim, to resume his full
teaching load as Professor of German. The additional burdens
imposed upon the members of our faculty by President Doege’s
long absence were willingly assumed and capably carried out.

Pursuant to a resolution adopted at the last synodical con-
vention that “an experiment be made at the larger schools in
employing a matron or housemaster to take charge of the dor-
mitories,” we requested and obtained permission to put this ex-
periment into effect at our school. God led the Rev. Carl Weid-
mann of North Bergen, New Jersey, to accept this important posi-
tion; and since his installation in the fall of 1945 he has served
as housemaster in Bohm Hall, our dormitory for high school stu-
dents. The results have fully justified Synod’s foresight in
authorizing this experiment. Under the careful supervision and
guidance of our housemaster the attitude and the conduct of the
students have greatly improved, and their spiritual life has been
brought to a noticeably higher level. Our Board strongly recom-
mends the adoption of this plan at all our schools. Since the
number of boys in our high school is about equally divided be-
_ tween ministerial and non-ministerial students, half of the annual
salary of the housemaster is being paid out of tuition funds.

At the last convertion we reported that Dr. Henry Stein was
granted an honorable retirement after 51 years of continuous

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