# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1916_S82
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82 Proceedings of the twenty-sixth convention

2 have become unable to work through illness: Missionary J. H. Doswell has been in Denver since December 1913 and is supported with $40 a month from the mission treasury; and Missionary C. P. Thompson of Greenville, N. C., who because of illness already took six months' leave last year, must lay down the mission work for an indefinite time. He has worked faithfully and diligently. We must support him at least for the present. Missionary Henry D. Kent, after a short period of work, entered into eternal rest by a blessed death on November 12, 1915. Besides these, the following have left the mission in these two years: 1. Teacher Napoleon Seeberry, formerly at the Bethlehem School in New Orleans. He traveled to Denver in August 1914 for the sake of his health, is at present back in New Orleans, but has not yet been employed again. 2. Teacher W. Schrieber, likewise of the Bethlehem School, accepted a call to Nebraska in November 1914. 3. Missionary A. O. Friedrich, formerly at Mount Zion, New Orleans, followed in January 1916 a call to a white congregation in New Orleans. Newly entered in this biennium are: 1. Ministerial candidate Otto Richert from Concordia Seminary at St. Louis; 2. Ministerial candidate G. A. Schmidt from Concordia Seminary at St. Louis; 3. Ministerial candidate H. Dähnke from Concordia Seminary at Springfield; 4. Ministerial candidate Wilfred J. Tervalon, a graduate of our Immanuel College at Greensboro; 5. Ministerial candidate Karl Stoll, likewise a graduate of Immanuel College; 6. Ministerial candidate Frank D. Alston, who from 1909 to 1914 served as a teacher in Charlotte and then studied theology for a year at Immanuel College; 7. the former teacher Aaron Wiley, Jr., who after a successfully passed examination in theology was called as assistant pastor to Missionary Ed. H. Schmidt; 8. Missionary William Harrison Lane, a former Presbyterian preacher, who was instructed by Rev. L. J. Schwartz in Kansas City, examined by him and Prof. A. Bäpler, and for a time employed as assistant pastor in St. Louis; 9. Prof. H. Voltz, formerly pastor in Cadillac, Mich., who in September 1915 was provisionally appointed fourth professor at Immanuel College and in June 1916 was called permanently. To these the following will now be added: 1. Ministerial candidate P. Beinke from Concordia Seminary at St. Louis, called for the station at Little Rock; 2. Ministerial candidate Sidney Tervalon from Immanuel College; 3. Teaching candidate Douglas Dinkins, likewise from Immanuel College.

It may be of interest to name our veterans at this point. They are: 1. Mission Director N. J. Bakke, who has been in the service of our mission since November 1880; 2. Teacher Eugen R. Vix of the Mount Zion Station in New Orleans, who was appointed there in December 1881 and now for nearly 35 years for one and