CALLED TO ST. LOUIS
PROF. C. E. KELLERMANN GOES TO BETHLEHEM SCHOOL.
Has Been Head of St. Paul’s School for Past Fourteen Years.

Prof C. E. Kellermann [1], who has been in charge of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran parochial school for the past fourteen years, has accepted a call from the Bethlehem Lutheran Congregation of St. Louis and will take charge of its parochial school next week.

The call of Prof. Kellermann was voted upon last Sunday afternoon at a special meeting’of the voting, members of St. Paul’s congregation. The vote for acceptance was by a very small margin and many who voted for it were reluctant to see Prof. Kellermann go, but allowed their better judgment to prevail through consideration of the fact that he is badly needed in the hew field.

The Bethlehem congregation is one of the largest in St. Louis, having in the neighborhood of 1400 communicant members and the Sunday school has an enrollment of 400. The church is located at Salisbury and Florissant streets and the school is several blocks distant. The school formerly had a corps of six teachers, but at present has two and the enrollment has dwindled down to about 100. Because of the latter and by reason of his ability and reputation, Prof. Kellermann has been chosen as the man who can build up and put new life into the institution.

Prof. Kellermann is serving his last day to-day at the head of St. Paul’s school and will move his family to St.Louis next Wednesday. He will probably be succeeded here by Prof. Ernest Schreiner who has had charge of the intermediate grades for the past several years, and a successor to the latter will be chosen.

Patrons of the school and many both in and out of the church regret to see Prof. Kellermann and his family leave Troy, but under the circumstances they believe he is going into a larger and more prominent field and the results will be a gain to himself and the work.

Source: The Troy Weekly Call, Friday, 30 October 1914

[1] Husband to Ida Eberlein