Concordia College - White and Blue Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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PROF. PAUL F. KOEHNEKE About five years ago, when a sudden influx of students put the college in need of more instructors, the Electoral Board extended a call to Rev. Paul Koehneke to a professorship in German at his Alma Mater. He had graduated from the Seminary in 1910, and in his thirteen years in the ministry had served at Hand Hills, Alberta 0910-159, Dodge Center, Minn. 0915-189, and Rushford, Minn. 0918-239. Already in his stay here as student he had applied himself ardu- ously to the study of GermanY and a particular liking for the classics has enabled him to teach Latin in ad- dition. While a student, his home was in Chicago. where he was born Nov. 24, 1888. PROF. PAUL ZANOW In the person of Prof. Zanow our faculty has a representative of the Pacific Northwest. His fresh and vigorous methods of teaching savour of the breezy Blue Mountains near which he was reared. In 1912 he left his home in Walla Walla, Wash. entered the Portland Concordia, finished the four years' course there, traveled to Milwaukee to com- plete his preparatory work, and graduated here in 1917. For the next six years he attended the Sem- inary and did supply work alternately, his first posi- tion being that of assistant professor at our Gopher State Concordia. He served in the same capacity at Milwaukee at two different times before he was in- ducted into office as permanent Professor of Science and Mathematics. PROF. A. REHWALDT Prof. Rehwaldt has had a very checkered career. He began his pilgrimage through this world at Val- paraiso. Ind., where he was born on Sept. 7, 1896. From there he moved to Alcester, S. D., and then to Cologne, Minn. Finally he decided to enter Con- cordia College, St. Paul. That was in 1911. After completing the course in five years, he attended the Seminary, and during his stay there supplied at Mill- stadt, Ill. Then he was vicar for a year at Kaylor, S. D. After another year at the Seminary he taught public schools at Emblem and Lander, Wye. In the meantime he was graduated from the College of Liberal Arts at the U. of Wyoming. In 1925 a call brought him to Concordia as Professor of Science and Mathematics.

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PROF. G. W. MUELLER Prof. G. W. Mueller, now the oldest member on the faculty, was born at Philadelphia three years be- fore the Civil War. During that terrible struggle his home was in Richmond, Va., the very storm center. Soon after the hostilities, while his parents were re- siding at Baltimore, he left for the West to enroll at the Hoosier Concordia, where he studied six years. He continued his course at the St. Louis Seminary, whence he entered 087$ upon a four years' past- orate at Salters, Wis. Then he was called to this institution to head the department of English. His masterly teaching and gentlemanly bearing have won for him both the atiection of all his pupils and a far-Iiung recognition. PROF. OTTO F. HATTSTAEDT Pref. Otto F. Hattstaedt was called to Concordia immediately upon his graduation at St. Louis. During the first years he had charge of three subjects, Ger- man, Latin, and Geography, but since an enlarged faculty has enabled specialization, he now teaches only German. Such is his mastery of this tongue that students often take for granted that he hails from the fatherland,-until they learn that he was born 0869 in Monroe, Mich. In the past years he has also served as teacher of history and of music, and as secretary and librarian of the faculty. He was on the committee for examining the German books pub- lished by Synod, and has himself compiled a text-book of German literature and an excellent grammar. PROF. M. J. F. ALBRECHT Emigrating from Pomerania to Chicago in 1863, the needy parents of Prof. Albrecht found it impossible to do without his help. But, undaunted by lack of opportunities, he managed to grip sufiicient education for entering Concordia College, Ft. Wayne. His later studies at the Seminary were interrupted by a vicar- age of several months at New Orleans. Upon gradu- ation, in 1883, he conducted charges at Lebanon, Wis., at Janesville, Wis., and at Ft. Wayne, Ind. Before he had been in his last charge quite two years, he was called upon to assume the presidency of our college, the duties of which office he fulfilled ably and assiduously until his resignation, in 1922, in favor of a professorship in the classics.

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PROF. L. C. RINCKER Prof. Rinckerls Milwaukee days began when, in 1911, a lad of fifteen years, he entered our halls to prepare for a career as churchman. Six years later he went to the Seminary, and after his second year there he served as vicar at Fisherville, Ont. The experiences of the Vicarage in Canada were followed by the adventures of a mission trip to the Isle of Pines. Later on, after finishing his third year of seminary work, he decided to enter the first post- graduate class. The result was an S. T. M. He re- turned to Milwaukee as assistant professor in History and English. In the spring of 1927 he was promoted to a regular profesorship in these branches. PROF. E. HATTSTAEDT This young instructor is quite familiar with the Alma Mater. This is true not only because he has been teaching here for some time, and because he formerly attended this institution, but also because he was born t1899l within a stones throw of the college. He has lived at the home of his father, Prof. O. Hattstaedt, his entire life with the exception of the three years he attended the Seminary and the one year he supplied at Winchester, Texas. In 1927 he was promoted from the position of assistant professor to that of Professor of German and Latin. In the past years he has been doing graduate work at Col- umbia U., and last summer he went on a trip abroad, PROF. V. BARTLING Here is a brilliant young professor who was born in Waterford, not so many miles from Milwaukee, thirty-two years ago. He came to the Badger Con- cordia in 1910. From 1916-1919 he attended the Sem- inary and did supply work at Pittsburgh, Pa., and at Laurium, Mich. In 1919 he entered the ministry, serv- ing at Bismark and Fargo, N. D. In the fall of 1926 he was called to his Alma Mater to be the succes- sor of Dr. Huth as Professor of Hebrew and Latin. As there has been a lack of instructors, he has also been teaching Greek with commendable success, there- by proving his versatility as a scholar. E261