# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S4
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PRESIDENT’S TRIENNIAL REPORT

PRESIDENT’S TRIENNIAL REPORT

Your President begs leave to present his triennial report to
the convention.

Humbly and gratefully we acknowledge that God has gra-
ciously and abundantly blessed our Synod during the past three
years. His mercies never failed us.

The synodical Handbook prescribes that the President and the
Vice-Presidents appoint various boards and committees. These
appointments were published in the Lutheran Witness and Der
Lutheraner.

On both elected and appointed boards and committees a num-
ber of vacancies occurred during the triennium.

When Dr. W. H. Schlueter resigned as Treasurer of Synod, the
Board of Directors appointed Dr. Martin E. Strieter to this office.
As Treasurer, Dr. Strieter automatically became a member of
Synod’s Board of Trustees and a member ex officio of the Board
of Directors of Concordia Publishing House.

Mr. Ernest Rogers replaced Mr. John Roschke on the Board
of Parish Education.

Dr. Louis Lochner and Mr. Eugene Friedrich found it im-
possible to accept membership on the Board for Missions in Foreign
Countries. Messrs. Louis Dau and Paul Kummer accepted appoint-
ments to fill these vacancies. Mr. Norman Graebner felt con-
strained to resign. Mr. Frank Mehrings succeeded him. Rev.
Walter Raedeke withdrew his membership from the Board be-
cause of his election to the Presidency of the Southern Illinois
District. The Rev. T. A. Weinhold was appointed to fill this
vacancy.

When Mr. Fred Lietz became Executive Secretary of the
Church Extension Board, Mr. Henry C. Rupp was appointed to
succeed him.

When the Rev. William Buege became Vice-President of the
Minnesota District, the Rev. Elmer Koberg succeeded him on the
Board for Missions to the Deaf. Because of ill health Mr. G. F.
Kruse resigned in November 1958, and Mr. C. G. Jacobsen was
appointed to fill the vacancy.

The death of Dr. Walter A. Baepler caused a vacancy on the
Committee on Doctrinal Unity. Prof. Elmer Moeller then accepted
membership on this committee.

Dr. Philip Sauer was added to the Committee on Hymnology
and Liturgics.

Prof. Erwin Schnedler declined election to the membership on
the Board of Appeals. The Rev. F. Worthman replaced him.

When Mr. John Pritzlaff felt constrained to resign from Synod’s