# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S73
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 73

passed away in February 1956. Professor Elmer Moeller was
appointed as registrar in his place, Dr. Walter Jennrich was elected
secretary of the faculty, in which capacity Dr. Koehneke had also
served, and various people assumed the teaching load of Dr. Koeh-
neke. Concordia College is happy that Concordia Seminary,
St. Louis, bestowed the honor of doctor of divinity on Professor
Koehneke in June 1955. Professor E. M. Plass returned to a full
teaching load after completing his monumental anthology of Luther
quotations, but in March 1956 submitted to a serious operation,
which caused his absence from the classroom for the remainder
of the year. All these changes within the faculty made it necessary
to postpone the accreditation visitation which had been planned
for the past school year.

IV. Plant Development

Splendid improvements were made during the triennium in
campus development at Milwaukee. The three-unit Pritzlaff Dor-
mitory was dedicated in May 1954. This dormitory not only pro-
vides comfortable housing for 160 students but also contains three
beautiful guest rooms, a spacious lounge, a very large and useful
student union, three rooms for residence counselors, and a large
recreation room. Rooms were also constructed above our kitchen
to provide housing for the kitchen help. On March 18, 1956,
a beautiful new Administration Building was dedicated to the
service of the Lord. This building contains offices for the entire
administrative staff as well as ten individual offices for faculty
members and a faculty meeting room and two classrooms. All this
construction was made possible through grants from the “Conquest
for Christ” offering. Our chapel was also completely remodeled.
New pews were purchased for the chapel by the ladies of Wisconsin
at a cost of $4,250. Another excellent addition to our campus was
the very modern swimming pool, dedicated in March 1955. The
entire cost of the construction of this pool was paid by local
donations and by the sale of an athletic field which had also been
donated by local friends. This athletic field was located several
blocks away from the campus and was not practical for student use.
Tennis-court fences were erected in 1955 by donations from the
men’s clubs of Wisconsin.

V. Campus Program

Various curricular changes were made during the last trien-
nium preparatory to the introduction of the Senior College into
the system of ministerial training. Greek has been dropped from
the high school curriculum. A course in typing and a course in
speech were introduced during the last year on the junior high
school class level. Our worship program has been greatly enhanced