# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S2
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2 . ' SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

B. Graduates and Degrees Conferred:

Year Graduates B.A. B.D. 8.T.M. Th.D. D.D,*
1949-1950 __.___. 91 103 33 8 0 5
1950—1951 __...... _ 67 140 24 9 1 5
1951—1952 __.. 72 165 34 n:) 0 5

* honoris causa

Faculty

A. New Professors.—In the Department of Historical Theol-
ogy, Dr. J. J. Pelikan, who had been instructor in the Department
of Systematic Theology since 1949, succeeded the late Dr. W. G.
Polack. He was elected to this professorship January 2, 1951.
The vacancy in the Department of Systematic Theology, created
by Dr. Pelikan’s acceptance of the call, was filled when Dr. A. C.
Piepkorn accepted the call tendered him in the summer of 1951.
‘He began his teaching career at the Seminary in November, 1951.
The vacancy in the Department of New Testament Interpretation,
caused by the retirement of Dr. William Arndt, was filled by
Dr. Martin H. Scharlemann, who entered on his new duties in
September, 1952. The position of editor of the Lutheran Witness,
from which Dr. Th. Graebner retired in 1949, was filled when
Dr. Lorenz F, Blankenbuehler accepted the call extended to him.
He is editor of the Lutheran Witness since September, 1952, and
has a very limited teaching program.

The Milwaukee convention referred the matter of additional
professorships for which the Board of Control had applied “to the
Board for Higher Education with power to create the maximum of
two additional professorships at this time” (Proceedings, p. 55).
The Board for Higher Education resolved to create two new pro-
fessorships. One of these was assigned to the Department of
Practical Theology and the other to the Department of Systematic
Theology. The first incumbents of these newly created professor-
ships are Dr. A. G. Merkens, who began his teaching duties in

- September, 1951, and Professor Lorenz Wunderlich, who joined the
faculty in February of this year.

B. Instructors. — Rev. C. T. Schmidt, who had been Director
of the Field Work Office since June 15, 1946 (half time to Febru-
ary 1, 1947), resigned his position on June 22, 1951, to re-enter the
chaplaincy. His successor is Rev. Edward J. Mahnke, who was
inducted into office October 29, 1951, and re-appointed in 1953.
Mr. Holland H. Jones, who had been appointed in 1949 to teach
elementary Hebrew, was re-appointed for another two-year term
in 1951, and for another two-year term in 1953. In 1951, Mr. William
Goerss was appointed for a two-year term to teach New Testament
Greek. In the spring of 1952, Mr. Donald W. Backus was appointed