# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S241
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We therefore hired a fifth full-time teacher, calling Pastor M.
Gräbner as professor. The present teachers are: Director A. W.
Meyer, H. Stöppelwerth, Chas. Scaer, L. Steiner, and M. Gräbner.
In addition, the local pastor, Pastor J. W. Werling, renders
assistant services at the school. — Provision has also been made for
music and singing instruction.

In the District's judgment, the teachers' salaries at the school
were too low. Since September 1910 we have made their salary
equal to that of the professors at Concordia, Mo. Since the Synod
has no professors' residences at Winfield, we have allowed each of
the professors $200.00 a year for rent. The local pastor receives
$300.00 a year for his services to the school. We have allowed Prof.
L. Steiner $50.00 a year for teaching singing.

From personal observation and conviction we can report that a
Christian spirit prevails at the school, and that God's Word holds
sway there in both teaching and life. The teachers' conduct toward
the students, and the students' toward the teachers, is that of a
Christian family. One notices no servile fear among the students,
but rather childlike fear and love. The students' conduct among
themselves is brotherly. We do not, to be sure, wish to claim that
excesses and misbehavior, or even perhaps gross offenses, never
occur among them; but such things are not tolerated, but punished
as they deserve. — The state of health of both teachers and students
was, with small exceptions, good.

German as the Medium of Instruction.

Effect has been given to the resolution of the last Synod "that,
where possible, German instruction for those students at the
Winfield school who are preparing for theological study be
doubled." The medium of instruction in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew
is exclusively German. The medium of instruction in religion is
German and English, as at our other schools. Evening devotions are
held in German, morning devotions in English, since English-
speaking students are present. The house rules have been translated
into German. We also now issue report cards in German — with a
few exceptions. The Winfield congregation has joined the Kansas
District and established Sunday afternoon German services.

The board of control has dutifully attended the professors'
various class hours, especially also the religion instruction. As far
as practicable, the students of the Business Department are also
drawn into this latter instruction. The teachers' aim is to bring this
school, in all its accomplishments, up to the level of the other
schools, so that the students may enter the theological seminary at
St. Louis well equipped.