# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S906
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 61

ber and for many years treasurer, was appointed by the Board
continue in the latter capacity.

In regular monthly and special meetings the Board ad-
sstered its affairs within the regulations of the synodical Hand-
book, keeping in constant touch with the faculty and its major
eanmatees through the president, and seeking in every way to
- te the interests of Synod’s professional teacher-training. Pro-
* em, to which the school is exclusively devoted.

The Faculty

‘ During the triennium three devoted and effective teachers of
ur college entered into the joy of their Lord. Prof. Edward
~ Boebler, D. D., for forty-two years Professor of Religion, including
° fwe years on ‘modified service, died May 12, 1951, at the age of
 geventy-five after an illness that kept him away from active duty
 qaly 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
o River Forest in 1913 still remain: Professor Emeritus Albert H.
Miller and Professor Emeritus Ferdinand H. Schmitt, both living
‘yj retirement. Graduation Day, 1952, was saddened by the sudden
“" @eath of Prof. Herman Keinath, Ph. D., professor since 1943 and
f° chairman of the Department of Social Sciences, who after several
a “months of leave due to an illness from which he was apparently
“ pecovering, was stricken with a fatal heart attack while walking
“home from the baccalaureate service.
7 sy The five new associate professorships allowed by the con-
‘Yention of 1950 were filled during the course of the triennium,
é "faking the place of an equal number of instructorships which had
; _vbeen introduced through the years on account of the constantly
: .'fyereasing enrollment. At the opening service in September, 1951,
‘hree of these men were installed: Mr. Paul Bunjes, M. Mus.,
‘formerly teacher and organist at Wausau, Wis., for the field of
Music; the Rev. John Choitz, M.A., formerly student pastor at
‘the University of Iowa, for the fields of English and Philosophy;
tnd Mr. Walter Vahl, M. A., formerly a teacher in grade school and
Fort Wayne Lutheran High School and on our staff as instructor
fet three years, for the fields of History and Political Science. The
Rev. Paul Mundinger, M. A., formerly pastor at Glencoe, IIL, was
“Satalled as Associate Professor of Religion in the opening service
‘September, 1952. Assistant Professor Martin Pieper, M. A., who
twenty-four years as teacher in our Lutheran elementary:
system has been teaching courses in Mathematics and
cation at our high school and college since 1946, has accepted