# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S60
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

60 Seminaries and Colleges. — Individual Institutions

building of our Synod and our country. Since the year 1861 the
college has had its location in Fort Wayne. During the first century
of the institution’s existence approximately two thousand of -its
graduates entered the Christian ministry, carrying the Gospel to
all parts of the world, bringing divine blessings for time and for
eternity to uncounted souls. We thank God for all His visitations
of grace during Concordia’s first century and invoke His con-
tinued presence for the years to come.

The Alumni Association of our college, congregations of the
Central District, and interested friends have donated the money
for a much needed organ in the college chapel. The Fort Wayne
Walther League donated the new electric clock and gongs. The
Central District authorized an offering, which netted $2,600, for
our commissary. Other friends donated about $700 worth of
gymnasium equipment. The Martha Society spent $400 on improve-
ments and the redecoration of the mess-hall. The city of Fort
Wayne erected a memorial and a flagpole. We suggest that a
sincere vote of thanks be given to all donors and friends who gave
these gifts to the college and to Synod.

Board of Control

In the interest of administering the affairs of the institution |

according to the rules and regulations of Synod, the Board of

Control has held many special sessions in addition to the regular

monthly meetings, and it has revived the custom of having joint
meetings with the faculty at stated intervals.

Faculty

During the last triennium the school lost two of its highly
valued instructors. Prof.George V. Schick, Ph.D., accepted a
call to a position on the faculty of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,
Mo., in the summer of 1938. Prof. Paul A. Huchthausen accepted
the call to the position thus vacated and was installed in office
before the close of the same year.

On May 1, 1939, the Lord called Prof. Wm. H. Kruse home to
his heavenly rest through a Christian death. Prof. Kruse had been
an instructor of Latin and Greek at our school for 37 years. His
erudition and his Christian life and convictions made him a potent
influence for good far beyond the confines of Concordia. Prof. Wal-
ter E. Buszin, an instructor in the high-school department, was
installed in the vacant professorship at the beginning of the fall
semester of 1939.

The members of the faculty are applying themselves diligently
to their arduous tasks and are exercising an ever watchful care