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Now look at this PROBLEM. I have to face it! But I
can't solve it WITHOUT YOUR HELP!
We have plans all drawn for converting old cow barns into
a new student dormitory, and the former electric light plant into
a new much larger dining hall, at our college in England. UNLESS
WE CAN NOW PROCEED IMMEDIATELY with this alteration and building
project--UNLESS IT IS COMPLETED BEFORE OCTOBER NEXT YEAR, we cannot
accept any more students at the college in England--IT MUST STOP
GROWING. If this work stops growing, it cannot be the WORK OF GOD
--and it will die.
Here on the Pasadena campus, some 15 to 25 students are
required to stand up in our outgrown Assembly Hall, squeezed in
behind the last row of chairs, because the room is too small for
any more chairs.
Do you realize how we have to feed our students? We have
never been able to have a Dining Hall. We have had to use the
first floor of Mayfair, one of our girls' student residences. Much
of that first floor is direly needed as bed-rooms for housing
girls, and the remainder is needed for study and lounging rooms.
But we have to use the entire ground floor for kitchen and dining
room space--and in addition, a sun-porch, the hall-ways--actually
putting tables in the hallways--in the basement, and even in the
boiler room--and even then we can't seat them all, and some have to
go outdoors to eat!
Did you ever notice that, while we have a BEAUTIFUL
college and campus, we have built no buildings, but use only former
HOMES? Now we need real COLLEGE BUILDINGS.
We have outgrown our class rooms--do not have enough this
year. In other ways we are outgrowing all our present facilities.
This college WILL STOP GROWING, unless we can proceed
with this necessary plan: By building our planned new dining hall,
it will serve several of these purposes, temporarily. In addition
to its intended function as our permanent dining hall, the four
special dining rooms designed for our Ambassador Clubs, Women's
Clubs, and Foreign Language Clubs, can also serve as class rooms
until more can be built. By removing the dining tables, and
arranging folding chairs, it can double up as our assembly
auditorium, until the planned permanent one can be built, two or
three years later. Also it will serve as a center for social
functions, whereas the students now have to rent halls in other
parts of the city for such functions.
There is one more urgent need I feel cannot be longer
neglected. I feel that I must have an office in which to do my
work. For the past several years I have used a small room on the
third floor of the Library as a place to do my work--but it is not
really an office. I do not even have a desk--there is not room
enough for one, so I do my work on a lady's dressing table. Now I
did have an office--but there was no privacy--everybody knew where
I was--I was constantly interrupted, and could not get my work