# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S22
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

22 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

a six-year term and three for a three-year term. In 1951 Pastor
Paul Kluender, for seven years the faithful secretary of the Board,
asked to be released in order to take a position on the District
Board of Directors. Upon the unanimous invitation of the Board,
Pastor Erwin Paul of Forest Park took his place. In 1952 Mr. Fred
Linstead also asked to be relieved of his duties after twelve years
of valuable service to the school. No replacement has been made
at this writing. The following were designated for the six-year
term as Board members: Pastor Erwin Paul, Mr. Emil Ruprecht,

_and Dr. Waldemar Link. Accordingly, the following will finish

their terms of office this June: Mr. Alwin Roschke, Mr. Walter
Peckat, and the successor to Mr. Fred Linstead. One teacher and
two laymen will therefore need to be elected at the delegate con-
vention of 1953, each for a term of six years. President Arthur
Werfelmann of the Northern Illinois District continued to serve as
chairman of the Board, and Mr. C. H. Garbers, formerly a Board
member and for many years treasurer, was appointed by the Board
to continue in the latter capacity.

In regular monthly and special ‘meetings the Board ad-
ministered its affairs within the regulations of the synodical Hand-
book, keeping in constant touch with the faculty and its major
committees through the president, and seeking in every way to
promote the interests of Synod’s professional teacher-training pro-
gram, to which the school is exclusively devoted.

The Faculty

During the triennium three devoted and effective teachers of
our college entered into the joy of their Lord. Prof. Edward
Koehler, D. D., for forty-two years Professor of Religion, including
five years on modified service, died May 12, 1951, at the age of
seventy-five after an illness that kept him away from active duty
only a few months. Prof. Henry C. Gaertner, M. Mus., for thirty-
one years Professor of Music and on modified service since 1943,
died March 7, 1952, at the age of eighty-two. Only two of the
members of the faculty who moved with the college from Addison
to River Forest in 1913 still remain: Professor Emeritus Albert H. 4
Miller and Professor Emeritus Ferdinand H. Schmitt, both living —
in retirement. Graduation Day, 1952, was saddened by the sudden
death of Prof. Herman Keinath, Ph. D., professor since 1943 and 4
chairman of the Department of Social Sciences, who after several *
months of leave due to an illness from which he was apparently 4
recovering, was stricken with a fatal heart attack while walking 4
home from the baccalaureate service. 4

The five new associate professorships allowed by the con-
vention of 1950 were filled during the course of the triennium,