Concordia University Chicago - Pillars Yearbook (River Forest, IL)

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N'-1 'N H xx. ,. Q Q. Q. Uv ' wi We 'ui Mx 'rr 'lil 1?- N! P 7? n- . -n ' 1-:L rw 'Ji' P- ac .rn dl- it Y!! is- it '1 73 nr r--4 A-3 is ri 'F -51. 1 1 The Echo ll Director Theodore Brohm. I In During its first three years at college, Class ' l 6 enjoyed the privilege of having you as their director. We, every member of the graduating class, will ever remember your fatherly kindness, and earnest endeavor to make our Alma Mater a second home to us. We will ever remember how considerate and kind you were to those young boys who, having left home, parents, brothers, sisters, and friends to come to Addison where, they seemed as strangers in a strange land. You took the place of our fathers. Later when we were deeply in the throes of that malady, homesickness, you consoled us. In every trouble you were our counsellor, our advisor, friend, and 'comforter. Thru all the days we spent in dear old Addison, you watched over us, guiding our footsteps. You taught us to love our Alma Mater, our work, our professors,---our director. We cannot thank you in words for all your manifold kindnesses, your many sacrifices, but we will all, in gratitude and love, retain your picture and the thought of your fatherly kindness and gener- osity in thankful memory. Class 'l6 wishes to thank you here from the fullness of their hearts for all you did for them during their three years at Addison. Professor J. L. Backhaus. To the great regret of the Board of Supervisors, the members of the faculty, and the student-body at our Teachers' College at River Forest, Professor L. Backhaus, for thirty-one years instructor and professor at this institution, resigned his position at the close of the last school-year. F or a number of years his health had been failing, and this, to- gether with his age fprofessor Backhaus is seventy-three years oldj, led him to give up the work to which he had been dearly attached. His position as principal of the training-school brought him into more than ordinarily intimate contact with the members of the senior classes, and undoubtedly' many teachers at present working in our Lutheran schools recall with pleasure the time when they spent their four weeks in the training-school under his able direction. He was not only actively engaged in his duties in the class- room: For twenty-nine years he was treasurer of the college, and his uniform courtesy and the accom- modating spirit with which he fulfilled the many and onerous duties devolving upon him in this capacity endeared him to students and teachers alike. Professor Backhaus was a pioneer in the Lutheran schools of our Synod. For fifty-one years he has been active as teacher and professor. After his graduation from our institution in IS64, Dr. Sihler encouraged the young man to accept a call to a congregation in the backwoods of Wisconsin, where he altemately taught three days a week in the two schools connected with the parish. Here, in his first position, he received the munificent salary of S75 a year, not a month, but a year. He once cheerfully remarked that a trip to Fort Wayne to visit his jiancee cost him almost the equivalent of a year's salary. However, as at that time the daily fare was not nearly so varied and elaborate as at the

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I0 The ECHO, . - - ll fr h G r -English Lutheran instructor in one of the local institutions. ln 1903 he accepted a ca om t C e man d Ch h K .H Tenn Here he remained for five years, when he was electe as successor to at noxvi e, . - ' . - - - - UIC ts h . Prof. Fr. Lindemann. He has charge of German classes and Drawing- He also mstmc In re glon P of G W G Eifrig also comes from Germany, his birthplace being Dobeln, KiI1gd0II1 I' Q e o 0 - ' . d d h G bli h ls until1883, of sammy. He was bom September 23.1, 1871. I-1. atten 5 dff etnin Tool? doifter his Conan - ' Cl All l-1 , Pa. Here he atten e t e paris sc i xvhggnhsifparfgifi irgiligjrjaite lgiom gjpizber, 1886, until June, 1892, he studied at Concordia College, liigrt Waynlci and continued his studies in St. Louis until graduation in 1895. He accepted a call to McKees ,Rocks Pa., where he remained until 1899, when he accepted a call to Cumberland,. Md. After working in Cumberland as pastor, teacher in the parochial school, and director of two small mission congregations for four years, he received a call from the Lutheran congregation at Gttawa, Canada and he served this congregation for six years, from 1903 to 1909. For a number of years he was ,president of the Canada District of the Missouri Synod.. The board of.E.lection called him to Addison in 1909. He succeeded Prof. Koenig. His principal work is history, Geography and Natural History. ' 1 Prof. Martin Lochllel' was born in Springfield, Ill., in 1883. He received his ele- mentary education in the Bethlehem Lutheran school of Milwaukee, Wise., and after his confirmation in 1896 entered the Concordia College at Milwaukee. Whilst studying at Milwaukee, he took up the study of music, his first teacher being Chr. Diez. Later he entered the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and was instructed by A. John and E. Schmaal. His work upon the organ was directed by W. Middelschulte of Chicago. ln 1902 he entered the St. Louis Seminary, and upon his gradu- ation in 1905 was called to a professorship at the Immanuel College at' Greensboro, N. C. His principal work there was English and Musicg he also had charge of several negro mission stations, After remaining in Greensboro for seven years, he accepted a call to Addison as successor to Prof. Homann, and was installed Nov. 2 1 st, 1912. His work at the present time is principally English, Organ and Piano. Prof. E. II. Ellgelbrecht is a native of Farmefs Retreat, Ind., Where he was bom Dec. 23d, 1870. He attended the Lutheran schools at Farmer's Retreat and Columbus, Indiana. After studying four years at Addison, he accepted a call to Kendallville, lnd., and took charge of the ungraded Lutheran school there of 103 children. Here he remained ten years, and during the next fourteen ears t ht ' N Y k ' ' ' ' y aug in ew or , ten years in Rev. Schoenfeldt s school and four years in St. Mat- thew s school. ln 1915 he was called to our River Forest College. Here he is principal of the traimng school, and is also instructor in mathematics. Prof. 0. Busch was born on the 25th of January, 1871, at Stettin, Germany. His father was a teacher. At the age of four he came to the United States with his parents and settled in Chicago, where he became a pupil of the St.-lVlatthew's School. He fi d 8 h' was on t , :':.i..Eti.ig..'t.i2.riE'g::1:i2. Q' 8851 iff: the f0'10Wtg the herfiendid 1353511 f n sion lg sc ool. He then took up stud' tAdd' f f ' years. He acted as supply in the school at Portage, Wis., for three months and ijj1sagradualFeid1inOi889l Ottawa, Canada, was his first place and it was i d d to teach at a mixed school f 120 hild i' n ee i not an easy one, for he Wag compelled O h b ' diligently and faithfully under these t Cimrcii' FCE three years he Worked - - . ' ca t t St h 'r S h 1 f iiiiQigiL.iiii.ffahQ iliidinceiiiieii Workiig for Iieaily 2 years' During allorhise tim? iif.i..y.i- Choi. - a ra u t ' . ' studied Piano and Cello. ln 1914 fie recaeifecii theetitlenbi-fnlgiin lgcfilciiiivfiigrilliii Ciglcaiioblyhelie he ' - 'ersi y o . ICHQO. At present Prof O F Rusch inst ' ' . . . ructs t - . . , afternoon. In ma hemaucs' and SUPCTVISCS the training school in the

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I2 The ECl10, i ' h d ex ensive clothing in the backwoods the ' d for nc an P , ' present day, and as there was but little demlall . ment, and entirely contented with the meager salary young teacher was well satisfied in his roug envlron hi h h ti 'ded. . w c t Ie conlgrega on ifgvlo Bloomington Ill The Bloomington school at that time was an ungraded ater ewas ca e i v ' A - hi. h lh d flfteen years in the school of the congregation at Vene .y, -, an 1 0' , , d . I 884 h , l th l'ltlCS, an IH e school in Chicago. His worlc here attracted the attention of the synodica au o A was called to Addison. For thirty-one years he labored here diligently and faithfully, I1eVef eemplainingf always Cheer' ful, willing and courteous. He has richly deserved the rest he is now enjoymg, and all who know lum will undoubtedly unite in wishing him a ripe and peaceful old age. - Professor Friedrich Rechlin. Professor Friedrich Rechlin, who for twenty-two years was the head of the department of mathematics at our Teachers' College at Ri- ver Forest, and who, together with Professor Baclchaus, was actively en- gaged in conducting the training-school since its establishment, was taken from our midst by the dear Lord 'on December 9, l9l 5. Professor Rechlin was born sixty-four years ago on the Island of Ruegen, in the Baltic Sea, and received his early education in the schools of Ruegen and in the gymnasium, which was located on the island at that time. When he was sixteen years old, his parents emigrated to America, and he then continued his studies at Addison. He was grad- uated in l869, and served the Synod as teacher and professor for forty- six years. I-lis first position was at Davenport, lowa. At that time nei- ther the pastor nor the congregation at Davenport belonged to our Synod, but it was hoped that the young teacher would be successful in securing the cooperation of both pastor and congregation, and finally induce them to affiliate with Missouri. However, conditions at Davenport were very difficult, and for various reasons, after working there for about a year, the young teacher felt constrained to accept a call to Alban N. Y. Here he re . . Y' ' mained for six years. l-le was then called to take charge of the upper grades of Rev. Niemann's school at Cleveland O. After seventeen years of faithful and often more than strenuous work in this school he was called by Synod's Election Board to our Seminary at Addison, Where he labored faithfully and Con- sclentiously for more than twenty years. i ln addition to his regular work as instructor he had charge of the physical Culture work at the Seminary, and was until his death a member of the staff of editors of the Scliulblatt. For manv years hi will reiularlgli iejltil by the General Synod as a member of the Board of Revision of the secular Se 00' 00 5 PU S C Y OU! Synod, and he held this position until his death l ' K 'h hi k - . . n connection wit pgbilgjedaijlugjrwgor if thi-Iphiislcal Ciulture Department he Prepared a valuable manual. which was o . ' - - . ' U b b h Zn e aso too an ficuve part In eelleelmg and arranging the immaterial for the e Ungs UCC ef C ang!-lC1gC Lessons? used in our Lutheran schools He was cl f h ld school: exact, thorough, eflicient, and conscientiou t h 1 . a pe fgog O t 9 O u s ot e ast degree. l h s y valuable worker. l-hs memory is cherished by his coworkers a H lm the binod has lost A nel by 8 great host of former pupils.