# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S754
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58 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

1949—1950"
Missouri Synod Students 2... 277
Wisconsin Synod Students = 88
Finnish Students 018
Slovak Students eee eeeeeceneee eee — 6
‘ 337
Number of Graduates 0027
Number of Married Students —..........._ 80
Number of Veterans 144

The above tabulation indicates the increasing number of mar-
ried students attending our Seminary. The year of vicarage of
these married students posed a real problem for the faculty and
the students involved. Few congregations are ready to employ
a vicar who has a family. To separate the vicar from his family
for a year is not advisable. We have endeavored to solve the
problem by obtaining summer vicarages for married students in
two successive summers, the first after the Junior year and the
second after the Senior year. The married summer vicars must
write six. additional sermons during their last two years at the
Seminary to make up for the sermons which they would have
written during the year of vicarage. The Board for Higher Educa-
tion has approved of this arrangement.

The Faculty

Changes have again taken place in our faculty. Synod in
1947 having granted us an additional professor, the Rev. M. J.
Naumann, Altamont, Ill., was called for the courses in education
and was installed September 12, 1948. As successor to Prof. F. S.
Wenger, who has reached the retirement age of 70, the Rev. L. M.
Petersen, Peoria, Ill., was inducted into office on October 23, 1949.
With the consent of the Board for Higher Education Dr. R. .C.
Neitzel and Professor Wenger will continue on “modified service.”

_ In addition to Graduate E. E. Hackmann, the Rev. E. C. Pautsch
and the Rev. Geo. Klein are serving as assistants. During the ill-
ness of Prof. W. A. Baepler the Rev. R. Fessler served as part-
time instructor.

Four of our professors are living off campus, three in houses
owned by Synod and one in a rented apartment.

The arrangement with the Finnish National Church, whereby
our Finnish brethren make our Seminary the center of their
ministerial educational activity, continues. The Finnish students
are under the special supervision of Prof. Alexander Monto.

_, ‘On November 20, 1949, we were privileged to observe the
fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of Dr. Neitzel and the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordination of Professor Naumann.