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secretaries who are typing the personal letters these ministers
dictate. Jammed into another room on second floor of the Press
Building is the Correspondence Course Department.
This gives you just a slight idea of our problem of GROWING
PAINS. Yes, we have PROBLEMS!
Now look at the situation of the colleges. Enrollment is
increasing at the same rate. We have no dining hall in which to
feed more than 400 students on the Pasadena campus. They are,
under very unsatisfactory conditions, jamming into the first floor
of Mayfair, one of our girls' student residences. We do not have
space to feed them at one sitting, so we have to stagger classes
through the noon hour so students eat in successive shifts from 12
until 2. Our very first priority need is a new dining hall!
We have completely outgrown our Assembly Hall, and have had
to give up using it for Assemblies. So far, this school year, we
have been forced to hold assemblies out doors, and as winter comes
on and chill weather outdoors, students are exposed to colds, flu,
and pneumonia. WE NEED A NEW LARGER ASSEMBLY HALL. We are
temporarily solving that problem by renting a second ware-house,
outside our campus, --as soon as present tenants vacate. But we
seriously need a new assembly hall!
We need new class-room buildings. We need a new and much
larger Administration Building. We need, and MUST build, within a
year and a half, a new wing on the Press Building that will triple
the present floor area.
Because we have already accepted more students at the
Pasadena campus than we originally planned--and have just about
reached the very ceiling we feel it is wise to have on any one
campus--we are planning to open a third Ambassador College next
September, in Texas. We already have a plot of ground there, near
Big Sandy, 100 miles east of Dallas. By building immediately one
small class-room building of five rooms, and temporarily using some
existing facilities already there, we can start the new college
without further expenditure--and this one small building will not
be a costly one. We already have the adequate teaching staff that
can be transferred to this new college.
This past summer and fall we were unable to accept but one
out of four students who applied for admission. Three out of every
four had to be told we had no room. We can't stop the GROWTH of
the great WORK OF GOD! We feel we ought not take over 550 students
on the Pasadena campus, and already we have almost that many.
Therefore the new, and third, college has become a necessity. Yet
we can accept only about 65 students at the new Texas campus this
first year. It has to start relatively small and GROW.
Co-Workers, I could go on and on. But here is OUR BIGGEST,
MOST SERIOUS PROBLEM! The expanding operational expense of this
great WORK OF GOD increases 30% a year. Our income increases at
almost exactly that rate. This last fiscal year our required
operational expenditures from the administration of the Work ran
just a few hundred dollars more than income. The year before it