# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S19
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 19

Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, Ill.
- The Board of Control of Concordia Teachers College herewith
submits its triennial report on the institution committed to its care.
In the summer of 1948 the Lord of the Church took unto Him-
self our aged colleague Dr. Paul Schulze, who had faithfully served
Synod as a member of the Board of Control for over forty-two
years. Upon the unanimous invitation of the Board, Walter Peckat
of Riverside, Ill, consented to fill the unexpired term. -In monthly
and special meetings the Board took up policies and business falling
within its jurisdiction, according to the regulations of Synod, ‘and
through its executive officer, the President, worked in close co-
operation with the faculty in the over-all operations and improve-
ment of Synod’s extensive teacher-training program at River

Forest. The Faculty

Only two changes have taken place within the membership
of the called faculty during the triennium. The Rev. Siegbert
Becker, M. A., of Sac City, Iowa, was called to replace Prof, Edward
Koehler, D.D., whose honorable retirement was reported three
years ago, and took up his duties in September, 1947, Dr. Koehler
has continued to serve as professor emeritus. Mr. Carl Halter,
M. Mus., teacher at Grace Church, River Forest, was called to re-
place Prof. Walter Buszin, M. Mus., who accepted a call to Con-
cordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis. Professor Halter took up
his duties in the fall of 1948. Prof. C. W. G. Eifrig, who had been
living in retirement in Florida since 1942, entered his eternal rest
in the fall of 1949. In 1947 the University of Chicago conferred
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy upon’ Prof. Herbert Gross’ in
the field of Geography. The additional teaching load brought about
by the steady rise in student enrollment and by the increased
emphasis on the senior college, was filled by the appointment of
temporary instructors, with the approval of Synod’s Board for
Higher Education.

creased need of the field for trained teachers, involving the opera-
tion of an extensive Summer School each year, in addition to an
Extension and Correspondence Division, a much-expanded Student
Teaching and Placement Service, and the editing of Lutheran