# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S739
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES At

fment of Dr. John H. C. Fritz. The call was for a professor to teach
kin: the Systematic Department. No election resulted. A call for
additional nominations would have caused a lengthy delay. The
sneed for a teacher in that department, beginning with September,
E was so pressing that the electors and the Board for Higher Educa-~
tion approved the request of the Board of Control to engage an
; instructor who could take over the classes in symbolics in Sep-
ember of that year. In order to secure a capable man, it was agreed
F that an instructorship of two years should be offered. Prof. J. J.
Pelikan, Jr., of Valparaiso University, was requested to accept
f this instructorship and has been serving since September, 1949.
F The large admissions class of September, 1949, made an assistant
to teach two divisions (ten hours weekly) in Hebrew mandatory.
;Mr. Holland Jones, who had served satisfactorily in the spring
“semester of 1948 and graduated from the Seminary in June, 1949,
‘was engaged for this work. In May, 1949, Prof. Wm. Arndt was
‘granted a partial leave of absence at the request of Synod’s Com-
mittee on Scholarly Research, to direct the preparation and pub-
lication of a Greek-English Dictionary. Under the agreement with
g the Committee on Research, Prof. Wm. Arndt is teaching one pre-
Fe scribed course (three hours) and a two-hour course in the Post-
Graduate School. The Committee on Research is paying the salary
of such assistants as the Board of Control engages, to aid the faculty
; members who have assumed the class and editorial work re-
E linquished by Prof. Wm. Arndt. Mr. Walter Bartling, a graduate
. of 1948, who had continued his studies in the Post-Graduate School,
. has been engaged for two years. He is teaching two divisions of
f first-year New Testament Greek.

: All of the above-mentioned actions of the Board of Control
§ were taken in consultation with, and by approval of, the Board
:. of Directors or, respectively, the Board for Higher Education,
or both.

C. Leaves of Absence.— At the request of the President of
. Synod the Board of Control consented to the service of a number
tof faculty members in attending meetings in the interest of the
}, Church in Europe.

4 Professor F. E. Mayer spent the summer of 1947 in Europe
7 and in 1948, together with Professors Graebner and Bretscher,
: participated in the free conferences at Bad Boll. The repre-
e sentatives in the summer of 1949 were Professors Graebner,
; Bretscher, Mueller, and Franzmann. As ‘the conference in 1949
began early in the summer, Professor Graebner was excused from
classes after May 10, and colleagues took care of the classes of
the other professors during the last weeks of the semester.

Prof. Wm. Arndt is on partial leave since September, 1949,