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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1969, Page 288

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cluded his service on the Board in September 1968. He
was replaced in December by Rev. Arnold Kromphardt,
Executive Director of Parish Services of the Eastern
District, Buffalo, N. Y. Present members of the board
are: Rev. Rudolph P. F. Ressmeyer, chairman, Mr.
Charles Nehring (1969), Rev. Robert C. Haupt (1969)
Mr. Bernard Guenther (1971), Teacher F. Carl Kretz-
mann (1971), Mr. Theodore Hoffmann (1971), Rev.
George Mueller (1969), and Rev. Arnold Kromphardt
(1971).

The board gratefully records the faithful service of
Mr. Fred A. Schurmann, a member of the board from
1953 until his retirement in 1967.

In order to provide a fairly broad and representative
channel for mutual communication between the college
and its service area, an advisory committee of some 40
laymen, women, pastors, and teachers meets annually.
The membership is drawn from the Atlantic, Eastern,
Southeastern, and regional English Districts of our
Synod and of the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran
Churches.

Faculty. The full-time teaching staff of the college
numbers 42, that of the preparatory school 10. The
development of a larger core of tenured persons has
continued, Since the New York convention, Dean Paul
Gabbert has received the status of professor, Edgar
Aufdem*erge, Richard Novak, Ronald Rockhill. and
Herman Wentzel that of associate professor, and the
Assistant Professors Elmer Dobberstein. Christian
Fahrenkrug, Albert Buelow, Donald Miesner, and Eric
Walle have received tenure in the present positions. The
full-time faculty now shows the following distribution:
three professors, nine associate professors, five assistant
professors with tenure, 12 assistant professors, and 23
instructors.

Financial assistance, study and sabbatical leaves
have given encouragement and opportunity to faculty
members to continue graduate studies toward advanced
degrees. Professor Ralph C. Schultz received the de-
gree of Doctor of Sacred Music from Union Theological
Seminary in the spring of 1967. Six members are now
in the final stages of their doctoral programs. A second
group, advanced considerably beyond the master’s
level, is waiting only for the opportunity of a study or
sabbatical leave to complete the full-time study require-
ments for a terminal degree.

The in-service training program of the faculty
included a series of lectures in the fall of 1967 by Dr.
Phillip Qualben, a Lutheran pastor and clinical psy-
chologist, and by Dr. Jonathan Messerli, member of
Concordia’s Advisory Board and chairman of the de-
partment of education at Hofstra University on Long
Island, on the American college, in the fall of 1968.

We cannot leave this section of the report without
a word of appreciation to the Synod for the concern it
expressed at the New York convention in regard to
faculty salaries and for the increases which have
followed.

8 HIGHER EDUCATION

Members of the faculty who left to continue serving
elsewhere in the church include: Teachers Konrad
Doepke and David Krubsack, now at Martin Luther
High School in Milwaukee, and Robert Vogel and Larry
Reinhardt, serving at congregations and schools in Bal-
timore, Md., and Racine, Wis. Mrs. Esther Hendricks
retired as dean of women in June 1968, a position in
which she had given significant service for 17 years.

Synodical and District service of faculty and staff
includes the following: Rev. Carl F. Weidmann, Com-
mission on Church Literature; Dean Clifford H. Peter-
son, Commission on Student Life of the Board for
Higher Education: President Albert E. Meyer, Com-
mission on Theology and Church Relations: in the At-
lantic District. Mr. Robert H. Just. business manager of
Concordia, Board of Directors; Mr. William C. Lieneck
Jy., chaplaincy committee and Task Force for Operation
Reconciliation (urban problems); Dr. Ralph C. Schultz,
school committee, and Rev. Clyde W. Kaminska, re-
cruitment committee.

The Academic Program

In carrying forward “the present pattern of offer-
ings” in the college, Concordia provides the following
programs:

I. Transfer programs for church service students
for the parish ministry, for teaching. for deaconess, and
for social work.

II. Transfer programs for general careers. In these
programs a liberal arts basis is given for upper-level
college work, preparing for many careers such as nurs-
ing, teaching, science, business, and medicine.

III. Vocational programs for business, medical, par-
ish secretarial students.

According to the program, the appropriate 2-year
college degree of Associate in Arts (A. A.) or Associate
in Applied Science (A. A.S.) is awarded.

In conducting the various programs, the college
has from the beginning established the policy that
priority in admission should be given to students pre-
paring for church service. This is still true. and to our
knowledge no qualified church-service student has
been excluded because of the presence of the general
program.

At 5-year intervals the State Education Department
places academic programs under searching review, prior
to reregistration. In the spring of 1968 Concordia’s
college programs were reviewed and their registration
reafhrmed. The ongoing curriculum study by the fac-
ulty has led to the introduction of an interdisciplinary
course in physics-chemistry for the teacher education
students, and a modification of the physical education
program, which placed stress on experience in a number
of sports and activities which have particular carry-over
value in later life. Since proficiency in reading is so
important to college success, a specialized course to
develop efficiency has been offered the last 2 years
with a considerable student registration.