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The WORLD TOMORROW
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
Written from
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
Ambassador College,
St. Albans, Herts.,
England.
23rd September, 1965
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
GREETINGS! Mrs. Armstrong and I have returned to England for
the opening of the 1965-66 college year. The largest incoming
class so far in our short history has registered, beginning the
sixth year of Ambassador College in England.
It seems only yesterday since the first Ambassador College
swung open its doors in Pasadena, California, 8th October, 1947.
Yet we have received new students this year at all three colleges
who then were not yet born. And a student who came to Ambassador
College in its second year -- 1948-49 -- Mr. Raymond F. NcNair, is
today Deputy Chancellor of our college here in Britain.
I think that you, as a Co-Worker with the living Jesus Christ
in the Work of God, may be interested in knowing something of these
colleges that have been training the executives and administrators
of the fast-growing world-wide organization that our glorified Lord
is using in preparing for His coming to earth as KING of kings.
So far as I know, we started, in 1947, as the smallest college
in our time. There were only four pioneer students, and eight
professors and lecturers. Yet, today, starting the 19th year,
there are the three colleges, with nearly a thousand students and
around 100 faculty members.
Still, none of these colleges is yet fully built. All are
still under the planned enrollment. All arc still building their
physical plants, and still operating in outgrown buildings. But we
are proceeding on a Master Plan that envisions completion of
grounds and buildings, as well as maximum enrollments, in
approximately three more years.
Most universities today are more or less subsidized -- and
therefore financed -- by government, even though they were,
originally, founded by churches. Even the older privately owned
colleges have vast endowments, and also many thousands of graduates
who have become successful and wealthy, able to make large annual
contributions. But we had no endowment. We had no graduates, and