# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S758
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

60 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

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.

We are presenting our needs for more permanent professor-
ships in Memorial G — Additional Professorships to Replace Some
of the Temporary Instructorships at River Forest, for which we ask
Synod’s careful consideration and favorable action. This action
becomes all the more urgent owing to the many additional duties
devolving upon our regular faculty members because of the in-
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
Education, Synod’s professional periodical for teachers. Acting
upon the authority granted by Synod in 1947 and with the approval
of the synodical boards, the Board of Control advanced five asso-
ciate’ professors to the rank of professor: Theodore C. Appelt,
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-
tion; and Alfred Schmiéding, 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

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 78 223 178 401 479
1949—1950 _.... . 13 17 30 265 226 491 521

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