# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S175
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 175

Table 2— The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod Junior Confirmands
and Student Enrollments Cumulative Totals for 1952—1953—1954

Ministerial and
Teacher-Training
Students at All

District Confirmands Synodical Schools
Atlantic 22 6,242 496
California and Nevada 1,953 373
Central ae 5,985 660
Central Illinois 2,022 172
Colorado _. ann 1,159 183
Eastern _ 2,443 166

English 5,346 235 >
Florida-Georgia _ 335 48
Towa Hast _ 1,800 144
Towa West 0 _ _ 2,951 218
Kansas _._. . 1,827 352
Michigan .... 7,847 593 +
Minnesota _. 8,482 926
Montana _ ..... ae _- 481 34
North Dakota... 1,507 123
North Wisconsin _o _ 4,498 379
Northern Illinois __ _. 6,747 717
Northern Nebraska ee 2,289 251
Northwest 2,369 292
Oklahoma __. 668 94
South Dakota 1,407 . 130
South Wisconsin _...__. pe 5,190 714 +
Southeastern 1,566 68
Southern panne 770 65
Southern California __- — 2,174 235
Southern Illinois . - 1,331 165
Southern Nebraska _-. 1,802 304
Texas 22 2,432 484
Western _.. - 4,779 815 +
Canada __.... 3,057 260

00) 0 ce - 91,369 9,696

institutions with professional students, in comparison with the
number of junior confirmands reported in the same three years
by the congregations of these same Districts. Table 2 tallies up for
each synodical District in North America both the number of stu-
dents reported to have their home congregation membership in
a certain District and the number of students enrolled at Synod’s
colleges and seminaries in the same three years who claim the
respective synodical District as their home District. While your
Board intends to continue and refine its analysis in this direction,
it is apparent that the leaders of Synod’s Districts could well
afford to report regularly to their District membership on the
relationship here described. In the larger Districts it might also
be useful to break down these figures by synodical circuits, if not
even by congregations. A random sampling indicates that adjoin-
. ing circuits within the same synodical District can have greatly
contrasting performance records both in terms of their demon-