# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S20
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

20 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Education, Synod’s professional periodical for teachers. Acting 4
upon the authority granted by Synod in 1947 and with the approval 4
of the synodical boards, the Board of Control advanced five asso- 4
ciate professors to the rank of professor: Theodore C. Appelt, 3
Ph. D., chairman of the Department of German; Herman O. A. #
Keinath, Ph. D., chairman of the Department of the Social Sciences, ;
Wilfred F. Kruse, M.S., Registrar and chairman of the Department *
of the Sciences; Theodore Kuehnert, M.S., Professor of Education, }
our representative to the synodical Board for Parish Education, ;
and editor of the monthly professional magazine, Lutheran Educa-i
tion; and Alfred Schmieding, M.A., Academic Dean and chairman?
of the Department of Education. The fine spirit of co-operation |
of our officers of administration and individual faculty members!
with the President and the Board of Control, and their willingness ‘|
to assume heavy duties and extra responsibilities is herewith:
gratefully acknowledged.

The Student Body ;

With the gradual discontinuance of Concordia Teachers College:
High School it has been possible to increase the college enrollment
year by year to the full crowded capacity of our buildings. Though:
we regret the necessity of crowding, the pressing need of the.
Church for our college graduates makes it impossible for us to do:
otherwise. ;

Enrollment, 1947—1950 i

High School Resident * College Students Grand;

Boys Girls Total Men Women Total Totals:

1947—1948 _...... 61 53 114 209 142 351 465
1948—1949 ..... 34 44 78 223 178 401 4193
1949-1950 _... 13 17 30 265 226 491 Sal

* In addition to the college resident enrollment, an average of about 100 stu
dents served as supply teachers each year. ;

For many years only students who have declared their inten%
tion of becoming Lutheran teachers and whose qualifications gave
good promise of attaining that goal have been admitted. Throw
a careful program of guidance, students whose purpose changes
whose general record makes them ineligible for teacher traini
are directed to other colleges or occupations at the close of
term in order to make room for teacher-training students. Duri
the school year 1948—1949 alone twenty-two transfer students wii
good records entered with advanced standing (sophomore or abov
from eighteen different colleges and universities, ‘from Califo:
to Ohio, and from Florida to North Dakota. In general, th
transfer students did good work and readily adjusted themselv
to our environment, thus speeding up our production of gradua'
teachers. Not quite one half of our entering freshmen now co