# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S53
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Ibrecht, were e granted: honorable rétirenient -
| year in. June, 1943. All ‘three’ ‘continued -
; time s service. to, our’ college.as the Lord: gave them strength
energy. Through: a’ ‘suécession of. paralytic strokes, which -
red. him ‘more: and’ more feeble, . the Lord ' ‘gradually ‘ealled
Professor Engelbrecht . away: ‘from his activities for the schdol and
e Stnally took him into: eternal rest’ on Febjuaty 28, ies. .

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when our assistant professor. “and. acting ‘librarian, ‘Prof, ‘Edwin 7
ibracht, M. A.,: was ‘permanently . éalled. Under his leadership
oth the book holdings and the administration of the library have
" been. greatly improved. ;
In the spring of 1943 the Board of Control took’ measures’ to host
i. bring our regular Concordia faculty back to its full strength, Prof.
‘Carl Scaer; M. A., of Luther Institute in Chicago, Prof. Herman an
; Keinath, Ph. D; “of ‘Concordia Teachers College, Seward, and Prof.
“G: Herbert: Reifschneider, M.A., Principal of St. John’s Lutheran
School, Cleveland, Ohio, were ‘called to ‘teach English, Religion, |
. and Social Sciences, and. Biology’ and Mathematics rempoctively,
‘These men took up their new duties in the fall of 1943."
At this writing two regular professorships remain vacant, ‘As, °
‘stated above, Professor Gaertner. has. been grantéd. honorable re- ‘s ec
tirement. Dr. Walter Roehrs; ‘dean of college students and pro--
' fessor of Bible and German, has accepted the call to: Concordia :
“Theological Seminary, St. Louis... It. is’ hoped: that, these vacancies _
will be filled by the time Synod. convenes... oo

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Staff Members i in the’ ‘armed Forces .

In June, 1942, we lost the: sservices. of' a. rfumber. of valued.
: workers, Our nurse and supervisor of women, Lt.. Adale Stauske; °°:
R.N,, went to the South: Pacific with a local hospital: unit. She
is now recuperating: from a serious: illness, which, after a year, of.
hardship and’ privation,. forced her to. return home. Our: college’. oa

’ physician, Major Robert' Sharer, M. D., is still in the South Patifie. :°
~ after two years of service. Assistant Professor. ‘Herbert C. Albrecht,

..M.A,, ‘instructor. in’ Religion : cand Languages, entered the service.
‘as a Navy chaplain. He was accompanied by his bride, the former : -
’. Miss Irma Beck, M. A., until ‘then a critic. teacher. in our ‘training: ae
school; ° ‘Assistant. - Professor - ‘Emory. ‘Bauer; M.°A,, instructor. ‘in
<4. Physical: Education . and Biology, was granted leave of abdende in.
May, 1 1943, and entered 1 the Navy: as an ensign., wos: