# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S118
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118 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

sultants, particularly in the areas relating to accreditation, s
aids, accounting. Deep appreciation is expressed, especially,
the extensive services freely offered by Mr. Theodore Buen
chairman of the board of one of Chicago’s largest investment f
and the Rev. Wilbert C. Koester, executive secretary, Luth
Church Charities Fund, Chicago, in connection with the B
lengthy search for a suitable Senior College site.

A more extensive and detailed report on some of the prog
in progress, together with appropriate recommendations, wi
offered in a later section of the Board’s report. At this point S;
will be glad to learn that the numerous administrative adjustmepa
approved by the Milwaukee Convention have been placed in’ :
effect, bringing greater efficiency to the Church and satisfac
almost 600 persons now included in the various faculties, op
tional staffs, and boards of control. In addition, completion o}
introduction of the new accounting system is expected by the
of the current year. Financial controls and budgeting have
gressed sufficiently to enable your Board to report, also, that h
education has completed the trienhium without an overdraft, ins
year, of its large and complex synodical subsidy budget.

Since the Milwaukee Convention, 27 elections were condue

under the new plan, with greater satisfaction reported by the
ident and other electors. The program of retirement, of fac
ranking, of sabbatical leaves, and of supporting additional grad
study for junior faculty members has been carried forward
out interruption. Regional accreditation was secured by three t
school divisions and one college. Libraries were expanded,
two additional units were placed in charge of trained libre
Funds for an expanded use of visual and auditory teaching-%
were supplied. The Advanced Scholarship Fund was estab
but has not yet been put to use; however, the Lutheran high
scholarships have already been made available to 60 stude!
this early date. The Board sponsored a convocation of all
ical faculties. Considerable music equipment was furnish
preparatory schools for use in the teacher-training program:
ing and guidance techniques were given a fuller application:
dent. aid policies were reviewed. Salaries were improved
staffs expanded where necessary.

In 1950 Mr; Martin Strieter of Rock Island, IIL, replac
late Dr. Walter Goetsch as a new appointee to the Board.
that addition, under God’s gracious protection, the mem
of your Board remained unchanged during the triennium,
giving a desirable continuity to the work, which involved so
adjustments. Among the college presidencies, however, it pie
God to remove three presidents (Moeller, Sieck, Rincker) by:3%