# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S46
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46 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Is the Life” is part of the duties of our professors. For 42 years
one or more of the faculty members has carried editorial responsi-
bilities for the Lutheran Witness, for 106 years for Der Lutheraner.
An event of particular joy to us was the completion of the 100th
volume of the theological journal edited by the Seminary staff:
Lehre und Wehre, 1856—1930; the Concordia Theological Monthly
since 1930. Efforts put forth to enhance the circulation of this
journal have been richly blessed. The paid subscription list totals
4,430. The magazine goes to almost 1,000 college, university, and
seminary libraries in the United States and to subscribers in
30 foreign countries.

One of the important services rendered by our faculty is its
participation in the work of synodical boards and committees.
It holds no less than 21 memberships on the groups listed in The
Lutheran Annual. During the course of the triennium our faculty
furnished 6 representatives for endeavors of Synod in foreign
countries and 20 essayists for District and synodical conventions,
besides preachers, speakers, and essayists for numerous other
occasions.

Requests

1. Faculty Positions. Of the ten professorships acted upon
by the Houston Convention we have to date filled four. A careful
study of the situation moved us in several instances, with the con-
sent of the Board for Higher Education, to use the assistant-
professor rank, heretofore not employed by the seminaries,
although used at our teachers colleges and junior colleges since
1947. We ask that the convention approve formally this rank also
for the seminaries and that the matter of the six unfilled profes-
sorships be referred to the Board for Higher Education with power
to act when we deem the time ripe for a request for a specific
professorship.

2. Parish Education Center. We have been approached by
the pastors and members of two churches located near the Sem-
inary campus, Bethel and Luther Memorial, with the request that
a strip of ground be leased to the churches for the establishment
of a Christian day school and parish-education center. We have
carefully examined the matter and request that the Board of
Directors and the Board for Higher Education of Synod be
authorized to supervise the granting of a lease on approximately
three acres in the southwest corner of the Seminary campus and
the drawing up of an agreement between the churches and our
Board of Control for the use of the property. On the basis of our
experience with the Concordia Historical Institute and. Radio
Station KFUO, neither of which are under the jurisdiction of our
Board, we believe that this can be done quite satisfactorily.

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