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RADIO CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
July 25, 1967
Dear Brethren in Christ:
We have just had a conference in my office which impels me
to write you -- and our entire membership in the United States and
Canada.
Present were Mr. Albert Portune, business manager over
God's Work, Mr. Jon Hill, director of the Ambassador College Press,
Mr. Kenneth Hertmann, Registrar of Ambassador College, Mr. Dibar
Apartian, director of the French Work and a professor on the
college faculty, and Mr. Jack Elliott, Dean of Students and
director of buildings and Grounds of the Pasadena campus. My son
Garner Ted was away, Dr. Hoeh is in Europe, and Mr. Roderick
Meredith is at the Summer Camp in northern Minnesota.
It was a most URGENT meeting. The rapid expansion of every
phase of God's Work has resulted in a most acute shortage of office
space in which to operate here at Headquarters.
Mr. Herrmann has advised us that his department simply
cannot function to register in new students who will be arriving in
about five weeks for the 1967-68 college year, in his present
cramped and completely outgrown quarters.
Mr. Portune says his department has so seriously outgrown
their small office space they have to climb and crawl all over one
another: they have been forced to put desks and staff members in
hallways; and already a number of his staff has had to be housed in
other space six blocks away, and entirely off the campus.
Dr. Hoeh, who not only is Dean of instruction of the
college, and director over all the professors and instructors, but
Managing Editor (which means the actual administrative editor) of
The PLAIN TRUTH, beside being director over the German Work, has
only one little office. He has crowded desks for two assistants
into his office. It is not a fit place for him to receive
visitors, or students who come for counseling.
A new Professor, in the departments of English and
Education, Dr. Vern L. Farrow, who has been a member of the faculty
of the University of Oregon, has just arrived on campus. We must
provide him with an office. And we have had no idea where to find
one for him.
And while I was writing the above, I was interrupted by a
telephone call from Mr. James Simpson, who drives my car (I stopped
driving after my right eye went out on me a few years ago). He was
leaving to meet Mr. Yehudi Menuhin, the world-famous violinist, and
to bring him out to the campus. Mr. Menuhin is giving a concert at