# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S52
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52 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Synod’s Board for Higher Education, Synod’s Committee on Col-.§
leges. Again we bespeak for our school and the other schools of’
learning maintained by our Church, Synod’s continued prayers and 4
participation for the strengthening and widening of their Kingdom- :

building program! Boarp or Controt, St. Paut’s CoLLEece

O. G. Tremann, Secretary

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Concordia Collegiate Institute, Bronxville, N. Y.

In submitting this triennial report your Board gratefully ac-%3
knowledges the guidance and blessing of Almighty God, which
have continued to be very evident in the work and development 4
of our Bronxville Concordia. :

Our Faculty
In April of 1950 Prof. Albert E. Meyer accepted the call ex-*
tended to him by the Electoral College to the presidency of our4
school. His installation took place October 15, 1950. He succeeded @
President Arthur Doege, who in the fall of 1949 had accepted ag
call into the parish ministry.
In May of 1950 Prof. Herman Grunau was granted a peaceful§
dismissal in order that he might accept the position offered to him#
on the staff of Valparaiso University. He had served our school §
faithfully and well since 1927. Prof. Wilbur Luecke, who had been:
teaching Social Studies in our high school, was assigned to the;
courses in our college formerly taught by Professor Grunau. To
the vacancy on our high school staff, the Rev. Paul Gabbert wags
engaged as instructor for a two-year term in accord with synodi
regulations.
At the close of the 1952 school year, Prof. Louis. Heinrichs
meyer, having reached the synodically designated age, entered
status of voluntary retirement. For forty-six years Professo:
Heinrichsmeyer had served on our staff with notable devotion
effectiveness. By authority of the Board for Higher Education
has been retained on our faculty on a part-time basis, and we ar
grateful and happy that we are still permitted to benefit from h
‘valued services in the classroom and on the campus. Upon thé
retirement of Professor Heinrichsmeyer the rank of full professord
was conferred upon Prof.-Emil Luecke by authority of the Boa dj
for Higher Education. Prof. Theodore Hausmann is the other me
ber of our faculty now holding ‘this rank.
In December of 1952 the Rev.. Paul Gabbert accepted the
extended to him by the Electoral College as teacher of So
Studies in our high school, the position he had filled with manif