# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S884
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 39

Students
mrollment Figures:
In Residence Not in Residence Total

—- 489 70 559

575 101 676

638 118 756

Graduates and Degrees Conferred

Graduates B.A. B.D. 8.T.M. Th.D. D.D.«

1950 _.. 91 103 33 8 0 5

1951 +3967 140 24 9 1 5

—1952 + 72 165 34 6 0 5

* honoris causa

Faculty

iNew Professors.—In the Department of Historical Theol-
. J. Pelikan, who had been instructor in the Department
atic Theology since 1949, succeeded the late Dr. W. G.
He was elected to this professorship January 2, 1951.
cy in the Department of Systematic Theology, created
: Yelikan’s acceptance of the call, was filled when Dr. A. C.
mn accepted the call tendered him in the summer of 1951.
his teaching career at the Seminary in November, 1951.
acancy in the Department of New Testament Interpretation,
} by the retirement of Dr. William Arndt, was filled by
in H. Scharlemann, who entered on his new duties in
er, 1952. The position of editor of the Lutheran Witness,
ich Dr. Th. Graebner retired in 1949, was filled when
renz F. Blankenbuehler accepted the call extended to him.
editor of the Lutheran Witness since September, 1952, and
ry limited teaching program.

Milwaukee convention referred the matter of additional
rships for which the Board of Control had applied “to the
© Higher Education with power to create the maximum of
tional professorships at this time” (Proceedings, p. 55).

for Higher Education resolved to create two new pro-
ps... One of these was assigned to. the Department of
Theology and the other to the Department of Systematic
. The first incumbents of these newly created professor-
Dr. A. G. Merkens, who began his teaching duties in
er, 1951, and Professor Lorenz Wunderlich, who joined the
February of this year.

tructors. — The Rev. C. T. Schmidt, who had been Direc-
“Field Work Office since June 15, 1946 (half time to Febru-
947) ,. resigned his position on June 22, 1951, to re-enter the
-- His’successor is the Rev. Edward J. Mahnke, who was
into office October 29, 1951, and re-appointed in 1953.