# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S39
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

I. SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

A. REPORTS OF BOARDS OF CONTROL

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.
(Report 101)

The Board of Control of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.,
herewith submits its report for the triennium 1953—1956 to The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod.

As we give this account of our stewardship, we acknowledge
in humble gratitude the great and wholly unmerited blessings
which our Lord Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church, has showered
upon the Seminary and upon the efforts we have put forth in His
name to direct its affairs.

We are particularly grateful for a strong and harmonious
faculty which, to a man, is faithful to its pledge on the Holy
Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions. We also thank God for
the large number of students who give every promise of becoming
able and faithful ministers.

The Board

The personnel of the Board of Control elected at the Houston
Convention continued unchanged, with one exception. Mr. Theo.
Heinicke found it necessary to submit his resignation because of
illness. In his place Mr. Charles Lottmann of St.Louis was
appointed to serve for the remainder of the term. During the
triennium the Board held 30 regular meetings, two special meetings
on matters relating to the physical plant, and 11 separate meetings
for professorial elections.

General Administration

The presidency of the Seminary, left vacant in 1952 by the
death of Dr. L. J. Sieck, was filled by the election of Rev. Alfred O.
Fuerbringer, president of Concordia Teachers College, Seward,
Nebr. He took over his new duties in the fall of 1953.

During the triennium it was possible to work out a new
pattern for the committee structure of the Board of Control as
well as for the faculty, the faculty senate, and the faculty com-
mittees, and to achieve fuller co-ordination of the work of the
administrative officers and of the various service staffs. In the
administration of student affairs a significant change was made
in the fuller delegation of some of the dean of students’ duties,
particularly to the assistant dean of students and the director of