# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S451
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‘Report of Board for Higher Education 451

_ The Small School and Its Constituency ;

the primary. basis. District boundaries were taken into con-
when this seemed necessary. Several illustrations will
e.procedure. Chicago. is about 80 miles from Milwaukee, '
miles from Fort Wayne. Greater Chicago, was, therefore, as-
“to Milwaukee in this study, although Fort Wayne also receives
ts: from this area. All of Northern Illinois was allocated to

er everal instances for reasons too obscure to receive full treat-
Ment in this report. The St. Louis-Southeast Missouri area of about
0 communicants is closer to St. Paul’s College, Concordia, Mo.,
to :any other college and consequently was listed as St. Paul’s
istituency. Yet three other colleges, Milwaukee, Fort Wayne, and
eld exert considerable drawing power on the area and regularly
roll humerous students from it.

One-third (9,293 communicants) of the Central Illinois District
aS een included under. St. Paul’s College, Concordia, Mo., constitu-
on-a mileage basis, but its students rarely attend Concordia,
flo: Nebraska was evenly divided between St. John’s College, Win-
d, Kans. and St. Paul’s College, Concordia, Mo., 21,542 com-
‘anicants to each college, but Winfield draws appreciably more
dents from the State. Southern Iowa (14,609 communicants) was
located to St. Paul’s College, Concordia, Mo. It received but one
udent from the State in 1942-43.

n terms of effective constituency, then, St. Paul’s College, Con-
ordia, Mo., has perhaps only 65,000, or one-half the communicant
embership indicated in the general constituency tables. Milwaukee,
infield, and Fort Wayne would have a correspondingly larger one.
In the case of the constituency of St. John’s College, Winfield,
Kans., it should be noted that the entire Concordia College, Austin,
Koy field is properly also that of St. John, since the former is a
out-year secondary school and transfers its graduates to the. latter.
‘for their college work.