# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S205
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

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with primary responsibility for the preparation of the budgets of
the senior college, acting in conference with the President and the
local Board of Control, and transmitting these budgets to the Boarg-
of Directors for submission to the Fiscal Conference. It is further

recommended that during this period and in view of the diff. *

culties of forecasting expenditures and incomes of the senior co}.
lege, the Board for Higher Education be permitted, if necessary,
to incorporate in the senior college budgets relatively large re.
quests for unassigned appropriations, separate from and above the
usual contingency provisions. It is to be understood, however, that

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no commitments may be made against such unassigned appro- £

priations except by the expressed approval of both the Board for
Higher Education and the Board of Directors.

Location
During its protracted studies of the problems related to the
establishment of a senior college, the Board gave detailed and
repeated attention to the question of location. It is apparent that

at any proposed location four aspects of the problem deserve critical ~

study: 1. educational, 2. synodical, 3. geographical, 4. financial.
In addition to making its own explorations, the Board also .
submitted tentative recommendations for appraisal and discussion *

to its Advisory Council and to the Special Committee which Presi- os
dent Behnken appointed at the request of the Fiscal Conference, =.

Major attention has been focused upon four possible locations:
Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, and St.Paul. The geographical rela-
tionship which these locations have to the total area of the United:

States and to the location of Synod’s present colleges and sem- 4

inaries is illustrated in Exhibit 12 (pages 206—207).

But a more important consideration is the relationship which 3
any proposed senior college location has to the major concentration
of the Missouri Synod’s population. A map which exhibits this

vital relationship has been prepared at the Board’s request by Dr. :

H. H. Gross of our River Forest Concordia. This map (See Ex
hibit 10, page 209) indicates that the exact center of Missouri Synod.
Lutheran population is midway between Aurora and Joliet, Ill. (about
40 miles southwest of Chicago). The Missouri Synod Lutheran
concentration for the entire country and, of course, for the areas #
surrounding the four proposed locations mentioned is indicated in;

the exhibit. This factor certainly deserves the very careful atten

tion of all who are interested in the problem of location. ;
The choice is further complicated by the fact that a continua
tion of the present rate of growth of our Synod would make it nec-

If that eventuality materializes, then the location choice for
first school should be conditioned by that fact.

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