# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S44
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

* thi “year supply work as vicars. The eeutye and Board of Control
- granted this request, Forty students. volunteered to teach.and were
‘ Perniitted to be absent from ‘the Seminary for: ‘one year; and the
"pastors to-whom these students were assigned as ‘teachers were
urged to. make it possible for the students to participate in pastoral
activities as time and opportunity would permit:

; ‘The National Headquarters of.the Selective : Service System in
; Washington, D.C., “issued ‘a directive in January, 1944, ‘amending \
Lo} ‘former’ regulations governing the deferment of men in. pre-
theological schools, This directive, which | was to become effective
ny March: 1, 1944, states: ‘
, ~ Students preparirig: for the ‘ministry should not expect to

"| time, to: devote no more time and effort’ to their training than they,
re ~~ would: in peace time. “Theological and divinity schools should
wy at es aécéléerate their courses and place’ their training on the same.
“ “twelve-month year-around basis as ‘js necessary in other fields of
“education during this critical period’ in our national history.”
. ... Pursuant to this directive of the Selective'Service Commission, -
the, faculty and the Board of Control together with the Board for
’-" Higher Education decided to join. hands with. our junior colleges
_ in earrying out a program of acceleration. As far-as possible,
_student vicarages. will be so ordered as to constitute.two trimesters.
The Course Committee of the faculty will devise a plan by which
Bey ‘the’ instructors will be given periodical. relief: The Easter vacation. .
an (except for Good Friday) will be dropped. The following ‘calendar .
: was adopted for this accelerated program for one year:
. First semester: June 7 to August 25 (twelve weeks).
“Second semester: September 20, 1944, to January 19, 1045 .
“(fifteen weeks).
Third semester: January 22, 1945, to May 12, 1945 (fifteen
*“; weeks)... |
roe. ‘vacancy was created on the Board. when, Dr. L. J. Sieck
ae -became president of the institution. The. undersigned was ap-
Me pointed by the Board to. fill the vacancy. |
The Board met monthly for its regular meetings | ‘and had many
a special meetings throughout the: triennium to. transact the. ever-
: increasing amount’ of business coming | before: ‘the Board. ,
. © ‘The Concordia Historical: Institute has now secured the s serv- -
-  iees ‘of a permanent full-time curator’ in the person of. Dr. Karl
‘. Kretzmann. This service! ‘has been made possible by the resolution
of Synod in 1941 to grant the: Institute. $2,400 a year for this purpose. -
‘The erection of ‘the. Historical. Institute Building ‘has had to be. .
- » Postponed for the ‘duration of the war,

a enjoy an exemption from training and service and, at the same...