# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S751
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 53

partment Building, which was granted by the last convention (see
Report on Missions Department — $150,000).

IV. To provide additional classroom facilities by extending the
Academic Building westward to link up with Dormitory G, accord-
ing to the original plans (see Report on Capital Investments —
$495,000). ,

V. To provide additional on-campus student housing, by erect-
ing an additional dormitory (see Report on Capital Investments —
$294,000).

VI. To grant two additional professorships. At present there
are two vacancies in the faculty. If the professorship vacated by
the retirement of Dr. Th. Graebner is filled by calling a'man to
the office to which Dr. Th. Graebner had been called, namely,
editorial work, specifically at present the Lutheran Witness, it will
relieve the editorial burden carried by some faculty members but
will not reduce the increasing teaching load. Dr. Th. Graebner
carried a teaching schedule in addition to his editorial work.

The emergency in the Systematic Department is temporarily
taken care of through the engagement of an instructor who is
carrying a full teaching load. This professorship should, if pos-
sible, be filled by the time of expiration of the instructor’s term
in 1951.

The large admissions class in September, 1949, necessitated

_. additional divisions in Homiletics, Hebrew, and Greek. The Board

for Higher Education approved the request of the Board of Control
to engage an instructor for elements of Hebrew on a two-year
basis. As this large class, which entered September, 1949, advances,
the problem of additional sections of the class continues. The
admissions class of September, 1950, will be larger than that of
1949. It may necessitate an additional section.

In the Graduate School, members of the faculty are carrying
sixty hours of instruction out of the sixty-eight total a week.

In the Correspondence School sixteen members of the faculty
are carrying over a hundred students. Correspondence courses
require a great deal of time-consuming work from the instructor.

The importance to our Church of further development and
growth of both the Graduate School and the Correspondence
Course is recognized by Synod. If it is to be done, equitable staffing
of the faculty becomes a “must.”

_In view of all the facts given above, the Board of Control
respectfully requests Synod to grant, at least, two additional pro-
fessorships to Concordia Seminary.

THE Boarp or Conrrot or ConcorpIA SEMINARY
Lovis J. Steck, Executive Officer