# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S800
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 108

Enrollment
Enrollment statistics for the three years are as follows:
Year Enrollment Pretheological
1947—48 151 129
1948—49 147 133
1949—50 150 131
Faculty

At the opening of the last triennium the chair of History and
Social Studies was vacant. After calling unsuccessfully a number
of times, a call was extended to the Rev. Wilbert Rosin, then serv-
ing as instructor at our institution, on December 17, 1947. After
accepting the call Instructor Rosin was installed as Associate Pro-
fessor of History and Social Studies in a special academic service
on February 1, 1948. Vice-President T. A. Weinhold preached
the sermon. Chairman O. E. Heilman was in charge of the installa-
- tion ceremony, assisted by Prof. E. C. Weis and Pastor O. G.
-. Tiemann.

The Rev. Allen Nauss, A. B., B.D., has served as instructor at
St. Paul’s since 1948. The Board has asked him to serve two
more years.

q Student Wentzel served as housemaster in Biltz Hall, which
. houses the High School Department, 1947—48. Student M. Ww.
; Riedel served in that capacity during the 1948—49 school year,
and the present housemaster of Biltz Hall is Student David

Krampitz. New Courses Inaugurated

In harmony with the accreditation of our school as required
by the State of Missouri, two new courses were added during the
last triennium.

Course 1. Fine Arts — music, choral work
Course 2. Practical Arts — typing

St. Paul’s College Association, a group of some 1,500 friends
who have set for themselves the goal of working for the welfare
of St. Paul’s College, particularly in those areas of activity for
which no provision is made by Synod, provided the equipment —
typewriters, tables, and chairs— needed for the course in Prac-
tical Arts. The cost was more than $3,500. This group of loyal
friends also made available $5,000 for campus beautification. At
the present time the Association is gathering funds for a pipe organ
to be installed in the chapel of the new administration building.

Building Program
After the Saginaw Convention in 1944, which guaranteed the.
continued existence of St. Paul’s College, Synod’s Board of Direc-
tors, according to a directive of Synod, studied the situation at our