# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S928
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 85

Staff
At present ten regularly called professors and one professor
eritus on modified service are serving the institution, together
- oth three instructors, two assistants, and four part-time assistants.
™ The institution suffered the loss of Martin Graebner, D. D., who
died November 13, 1950. On July 1, 1951, Prof. Arthur M. Ahl-
schwede was elevated to the associate professorship, after:a term
of two years as instructor. On September 1, 1951, Prof. Fred
Wahlers, having attained the age of seventy, entered a modified
service status. There are three vacant professorships at this insti-
tution at this time.

The following instructors served during the past triennium:
The Rev. Messrs. Jan Pavel, Robert Koehler, H. J. Luedke, Mr.

Id W. Otte.

Haro Curriculum

The curriculum for ministerial students set by Synod was
taught in both the high school and the college divisions. Some
changes in the language requirements have been made in the high
school department. Formerly four years of Latin, three of German,
and two of Greek were required in the high school. Since the fall
of 1952 this has been changed by reducing the Latin requirement
from four to three years, and the Greek requirement from two to
one year. The requirement of four years of English in the high
school has been retained. In addition to the synodically required
ministerial curriculum the Minnesota District supports a com-
mercial department for the purpose of teaching ministerial stu-
dents the elements of typing, business, and bookkeeping.

Since the fall of 1950, a two-year-plus-summer-school teacher-
training program for college women was introduced in accordance
with synodical resolution.

The Officers’ Reserve Corps Unit, introduced during the past
: triennium, has been discontinued because of the jeopardy in which
it placed the deferment status of ministerial students.

Accreditation

The high school continues to enjoy the full membership in the
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools since
1948. The faculty is undertaking a study of the college department
with a view to seeking accreditation of the junior college in the
North Central Association during the ensuing triennium.' The col-
lege department at present enjoys the accreditation by the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, which acts as accrediting agency for the State
of Minnesota for colleges. , ;

Plant

{n November, 1951, the new Buenger Memorial Library was

dedicated to the glory of God and the service of ministerial and