# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S58
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

58 ‘Action ‘Regarding Individual’ Institutions

President W.C. Kohn, D.D. For twenty-four ‘of the fifty years
Dr. Kohn has been president of our institution. .

Although the third college year was introduced during this
triennium, there has been no increase in the regularly called teach-
ing staff; on the contrary, our faculty still numbers one member
less than it did three years ago. ‘The vacancy caused by the death
of Prof. G.C. A. Kaeppel was filled by the calling of Dr. Otto J.
Beyers in July, 1936; but in July, 1937, Dr. Beyers resigned. With
the opening of the new school-year in September, 1938, the vacancy
will be filled by Prof. W. F. Kruse, who has accepted our call.

During the past three years we were repeatedly obliged to
engage temporary assistance on account of the illness of several of
the professors and because of divided classes. All our professors
are active again; however, two of our men are over seventy years
of age, and four others are over sixty-five. Several of these men
must no longer be permitted to carry a full load. The result will
be that we must continue to engage qualified assistants.

Before concluding our report on our faculty, we wish to call
attention again to the fact that four of the men in the faculty of
River Forest are needed exclusively for music and one for the
training-school. If one subtracts this number from the total and
considers that River Forest is conducting four years of high school
and three years of college, a summer-school, and various extension
courses and that several of our men are called upon to do special
work for Synod, one can understand that assistants must be en-
gaged also in the future if the work is to be done and the men are
not eventually to break down under the load of work resting on
their shoulders.

Students

’ 'Phe enrolment at our school has been the following: 1935—36,
287; 1936—37, 291; 1937—38, 285. Though at the present time still
more than 50 of our graduates have only a temporary call, yet they
are all'teaching:at an organized school, which under normal con-
ditions would have a called teacher; and each year for the past
several years, dozens of congregations that are in need of a teacher
could riot be supplied, because of a lack of candidates. Systematic,
earnest efforts need be made to send us more students.

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Work -of the Institution

In addition to the main work during-the school-year ‘the’ in+
stitution conducts during thé summer vacation a sumimer-school
for teachers, a Sunday-school Teachers’ Training-instittité, a Choir-
masters’ Institute, and a number of seminars. Attendahte: summer
of 1935, 147; summer of 1936, 264; summer of 1937, 211:
* + During the past two school-years a Saturdiiy-school was ‘con-