# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S191
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Total Enrollments -.........-

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 191

In compliance with Synod’s directive, the Board for Higher
Education appointed an Advisory Committee on Tests and
Measurements to develop this phase of the program. In addition
to staff members of the Board, this committee consists of Dean L.
C. Wuerffel, Dr. Martin J. Maehr, Dean Allen H. Nauss, and
Prof. Elmer J. Moeller.

The prospect of national introduction of Universal Military
Training in some form led the Board to seek the advice of special
consultants for some preliminary studies of this problem. Its con-
sultants were Dr. George V. Schick, Dr. Martin H. Scharlemann,
Pastor H. B. Roepe, Pastor Kenneth Ahl, Dr. O. C. J. Hoffmann,
and Dean A. G. Huegli.

In the summer of 1955 the Board provided for a convocation
of all synodical instructional staff members, formerly the “Pro-
fessors’ Conference,” now the Conference of College and Seminary
Staffs. Dean Albert G. Huegli was the director on the River
Forest campus of a conference termed the best of all by some
of the earliest participants in this series of meetings.

In order to obtain professional help with the development of
the curriculum of Concordia Senior College and to provide for
integration of the entire curriculum of Synod’s colleges and semi-
naries after the necessary changes in the preceding and following
curricula have been made, the Board for Higher Education
appointed a Curriculum Commission which should work with the
instructional staffs of Synod’s schools in this major task. The
Commission is held by synodical resolution to report fully at the
convention next after the opening of Concordia Senior College.
The Board has been pleased with the competent approach of the
Commission and particularly with the wholehearted and sustained
interest and activity shown by all of Synod’s faculties. The mem-
bers of the Curriculum Commission who have served in this
triennium have included Dean A. C. Repp, chairman; Pres. Walter
A. Baepler; Dean L. G. Bickel; Dr. R. R. Caemmerer; Pres. Martin
J. Neeb; Pres. W. A. Poehler; together with Mr. Walter Gast of
the Board’s membership and the executive secretary, who serves
as commission secretary.

Study of Colloquy Standards and Procedures

The 1953 synodical convention recognized a growing problem
in the area of orderly admission to the ranks of those who serve the
church as pastors and teachers and the desirability of a refine-
ment of the synodical policy statements affecting colloquies. Your
Board for Higher Education participated in the instituted study of
colloquy standards and procedures and heartily concurs in the
separate report of the special study group and recommends favor-
able action by the convention.