# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S288 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 2 wn cluded his service on the Board in September 1968. He was replaced in December by Rev. Arnold Kromphardt, Executive Director of Parish Services of the Eastern District, Buffalo, N. Y. Present members of the board are: Rev. Rudolph P. F. Ressmeyer, chairman, Mr. Charles Nehring (1969), Rev. Robert C. Haupt (1969) Mr. Bernard Guenther (1971), Teacher F. Carl Kretz- mann (1971), Mr. Theodore Hoffmann (1971), Rev. George Mueller (1969), and Rev. Arnold Kromphardt (1971). The board gratefully records the faithful service of Mr. Fred A. Schurmann, a member of the board from 1953 until his retirement in 1967. In order to provide a fairly broad and representative channel for mutual communication between the college and its service area, an advisory committee of some 40 laymen, women, pastors, and teachers meets annually. The membership is drawn from the Atlantic, Eastern, Southeastern, and regional English Districts of our Synod and of the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. Faculty. The full-time teaching staff of the college numbers 42, that of the preparatory school 10. The development of a larger core of tenured persons has continued, Since the New York convention, Dean Paul Gabbert has received the status of professor, Edgar Aufdem*erge, Richard Novak, Ronald Rockhill. and Herman Wentzel that of associate professor, and the Assistant Professors Elmer Dobberstein. Christian Fahrenkrug, Albert Buelow, Donald Miesner, and Eric Walle have received tenure in the present positions. The full-time faculty now shows the following distribution: three professors, nine associate professors, five assistant professors with tenure, 12 assistant professors, and 23 instructors. Financial assistance, study and sabbatical leaves have given encouragement and opportunity to faculty members to continue graduate studies toward advanced degrees. Professor Ralph C. Schultz received the de- gree of Doctor of Sacred Music from Union Theological Seminary in the spring of 1967. Six members are now in the final stages of their doctoral programs. A second group, advanced considerably beyond the master’s level, is waiting only for the opportunity of a study or sabbatical leave to complete the full-time study require- ments for a terminal degree. The in-service training program of the faculty included a series of lectures in the fall of 1967 by Dr. Phillip Qualben, a Lutheran pastor and clinical psy- chologist, and by Dr. Jonathan Messerli, member of Concordia’s Advisory Board and chairman of the de- partment of education at Hofstra University on Long Island, on the American college, in the fall of 1968. We cannot leave this section of the report without a word of appreciation to the Synod for the concern it expressed at the New York convention in regard to faculty salaries and for the increases which have followed. 8 HIGHER EDUCATION Members of the faculty who left to continue serving elsewhere in the church include: Teachers Konrad Doepke and David Krubsack, now at Martin Luther High School in Milwaukee, and Robert Vogel and Larry Reinhardt, serving at congregations and schools in Bal- timore, Md., and Racine, Wis. Mrs. Esther Hendricks retired as dean of women in June 1968, a position in which she had given significant service for 17 years. Synodical and District service of faculty and staff includes the following: Rev. Carl F. Weidmann, Com- mission on Church Literature; Dean Clifford H. Peter- son, Commission on Student Life of the Board for Higher Education: President Albert E. Meyer, Com- mission on Theology and Church Relations: in the At- lantic District. Mr. Robert H. Just. business manager of Concordia, Board of Directors; Mr. William C. Lieneck Jy., chaplaincy committee and Task Force for Operation Reconciliation (urban problems); Dr. Ralph C. Schultz, school committee, and Rev. Clyde W. Kaminska, re- cruitment committee. The Academic Program In carrying forward “the present pattern of offer- ings” in the college, Concordia provides the following programs: I. Transfer programs for church service students for the parish ministry, for teaching. for deaconess, and for social work. II. Transfer programs for general careers. In these programs a liberal arts basis is given for upper-level college work, preparing for many careers such as nurs- ing, teaching, science, business, and medicine. III. Vocational programs for business, medical, par- ish secretarial students. According to the program, the appropriate 2-year college degree of Associate in Arts (A. A.) or Associate in Applied Science (A. A.S.) is awarded. In conducting the various programs, the college has from the beginning established the policy that priority in admission should be given to students pre- paring for church service. This is still true. and to our knowledge no qualified church-service student has been excluded because of the presence of the general program. At 5-year intervals the State Education Department places academic programs under searching review, prior to reregistration. In the spring of 1968 Concordia’s college programs were reviewed and their registration reafhrmed. The ongoing curriculum study by the fac- ulty has led to the introduction of an interdisciplinary course in physics-chemistry for the teacher education students, and a modification of the physical education program, which placed stress on experience in a number of sports and activities which have particular carry-over value in later life. Since proficiency in reading is so important to college success, a specialized course to develop efficiency has been offered the last 2 years with a considerable student registration.