# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S938
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96 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Mr. James Kemp, Mr. Charles Nehring, Prof. Louis Rabe .
the Rev. Louis S. Wagner. Your Board held monthly ‘mee and
and numerous special meetings as circumstances required, ang
again wish to express our appreciation to the members of we
Board for Higher Education and the Board of Directors of s
for their sympathetic and understanding interest in our mutwet

tasks and problems. THE Boarp oF Contao
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Louis S. Wac
ACTION Nuss Secretary
As to the requests in this report, see the “Tabulation of Re.
quests from Colleges and Seminaries” at the end of this Section
as approved and recommended by Committee 1 and unanimous};
adopted by the Convention. (Cf. Minutes of June 25, Session 15)

St. John’s College, Winfield, Kans.

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL
(Memorial 110)
The Board of Control of St. John’s College, Winfield,
herewith submits its report for the years 1950—1953. The enroll.
ment statistics for these three years are as follows:

Junior College Academy Totals Grand
Men Women Total Boys Girls = Total Men Women Total

1950—51 __. 179 179 358 91 53-144 270 =. 232, 502
1951—52 __.. 174 161 335 104 48 152 278 209 = 487
1952-53 _.. 161 163 324 120 58 178 281 221 = 5502
Ministerial enrollments: 1950—51, 160; 1951—52, 190; 1952 to
53, 183.
Teacher-training enrollments (women): 1950—51, 152; 1951 to
52, 162; 1952—53, 150.
. Pre-teacher-training enrollment (men): 1950—-51, 25; 1951 to
52, 35; 1952—53, 35.

Graduates entering Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.: 1951,
43; 1952, 46; 1953, 48.

Women entering church service as teachers or parish workers:
1951, 50; 1952, 61; 1953, 55.

The health of our students has been uniformly good, for which
we are duly grateful to our heavenly Father. :

The fiftieth anniversary of Prof. J. W. Werling’s ordination to

. the holy. ministry was celebrated on November 2, 1952. Professor
Werling has served St. John’s College since 1918 as professor of
German. He has been on modified service since 1949.

In August, 1951, Prof. Fred Kramer, who had joined the teach-
ing staff of St. John’s College in 1947, accepted a call as professor
of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary, Springfield, IL

In January, 1953, Prof. Lorenz Wunderlich, who had been

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 97

am ember of the faculty of St. John’s College since 1938, accepted
a call as professor of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary,
St Louis, Mo. . ,
The new women’s dormitory, which was under construction in
1950 at the time of the synodical convention, was completed in
August, 1950, and dedicated just before the opening of school. The
Honorable Frank Carlson, Governor of Kansas, was one of the
eakers on this occasion. The new dormitory was financed with
a of $46,000 from the citizens of Winfield and with the gifts
of the members of our Kansas District, and with gifts from the
alumni and alumnae and friends living in other States. The total
cost was $235,000. It is furnishing living facilities for 120 women.
This is the third year which it has been in use. Most of the women
living in the dormitory are preparing for service in the Church
as teachers in Lutheran elementary schools. The addition to this
building, granted by the 1950 convention and financed from “Con-
quest for Christ” funds ($132,000) is now under construction, with
completion set for some time in July. This building will provide
additional living facilities for eighty women.

’ The teaching staff of St. John’s, both synodical and non-
synodical (i.e., not financed by Synod, as in business and music
courses), has been steadily enlarged to meet the needs of a growing
student body. The present allotment of teachers on permanent
tenure (synodical) is a president, two professors, and eight asso-
ciate professors. *

The Board would respectfully request a reconsideration of
this allotment. It believes that a school with an enrollment of
approximately 375 students preparing for church service as pastors
or teachers should have a larger number of the teaching staff on
permanent tenure, and it would therefore request that two more
associate professorships be created to take the place of two
assistant professorships, these associate professorhips to be filled
within the next triennium.

The 1950 convention designated St. John’s College to serve as
a teacher-training institution, with a terminal program in teacher
training (Proceedings of the 41st Convention, Milwaukee, 1950,
pages 208, 209). St. John’s College has since that time extended
its efforts to interest young women in preparing for teaching in
Lutheran elementary schools and has approximately doubled: the
number of women graduates available for teaching over the
numbers of 1947—1950. Vigorous recruiting is still being carried on,
with the aim of supplying 100 or more young women annually
during the present emergency. In order to carry out this program
to the fullest extent, more housing will be necessary. It is proposed