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The colleges must GROW, or the WORK cannot grow! They
are training the people who conduct the Work. The colleges cannot
grow unless we have buildings and equipment in which to train them
and house them.
Because of this situation--because of lack of adequate
facilities I have been forced, FOR THE FIRST TIME, to give order
that FEWER students must be accepted at Pasadena this fall than
last year. The college simply CANNOT grow any further now, UNTIL
we can begin to got our new buildings project under way. The
architects flew over here to England a week ago to present to me
the new Master Plan for the expanded campus at Pasadena. This plan
includes the new dining hall, a large new wing of classrooms added
on to Ambassador Hall, a new three-story Administration Building,
an enlargement of the Press Building to three times its present
seriously-outgrown size, a new auditorium (we have NONE large
enough to be used now for college assemblies), and a new gymnasium
(we have never had one yet, but it is badly needed), as well as one
new men's dormitory.
We seriously need EVERY ONE of these buildings, NOW--yet
the best we can hope for is to start just ONE of them within six
months or so, and then string out the remainder of the project over
a five to seven year span. This also necessitates the purchase of
a certain amount of additional property--although we now have
perhaps close to 75% of the ground space we shall require.
These architects presented to me the preliminary plans
for this entire new college campus, in addition to a SERIOUSLY
needed building for the college here to serve as a combination
gymnasium, assembly hall, and recreation center.
These buildings are not luxuries or wants--they are
absolute NEEDS, without which the colleges simply cannot grow any
larger.
Co-Workers, WE MUST ENLARGE THE MONTHLY SPECIAL
ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THIS SPECIAL PROPERTY-BUILDING FUND.
I feel that many of you, who did not send in any statement of
intention when I requested it several months ago, could do so now.
I am not asking for binding pledges--just a statement of the
amount, SPECIAL, and over and above your regular tithes and
offerings, you will try to send in each month for the next year for
this building fund. If, for any reason, your circumstances change
so you cannot keep it up, you will not be bound at all--it is
according to ABILITY--but I do need to know approximately what we
may budget for this purpose, to make future planning possible.
The past two months the receipts for this special
PROPERTY-BUILDING FUND have slacked off. Co-Workers, PLEASE try to
keep them up, and INCREASE them--and I need now to appeal to more
of you to join us in these SPECIAL offerings for this SPECIAL fund.
WE MUST NOT LET THE COLLEGE STAND STILL.
Already some 600 have applied for entrance at Pasadena
alone, for this fall--and we can accept only 70! It's going to be
mighty hard to turn down about 530--and I know that probably 200