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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, February 20, 1981
BIG SANDY CAMPUS OPENS AGAIN
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
En route from Big Sandy, Feb. 19:
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I have spent the entire afternoon on the Big Sandy campus. It was a
revelation!
I had forgotten how beautiful it is! And many of the inside
facilities are actually superior to those on the Pasadena campus. I
found everything beautifully maintained, both on grounds, and in build
ings. It is a superior facility!
After conferences with Mr. Raymond McNair, Deputy Chancellor at the
Pasadena campus, Mr. Leon Walker, to be Deputy Chancellor at the Big
Sandy campus, Dr. Don Ward, to be Dean of Faculty at Big Sandy, Mr. Ron
Kelly, to be Dean of Students, Mr. Ellis LaRavia, Director of Grounds at
both campuses, and Mr. Leroy Neff my executive assistant, considerable
progress was made in selection of the faculty of the reopened Ambassador
Junior College--to be a two-year college, opening this fall.
I cannot announce the new faculty until members have been contacted
and their appointment confirmed. But I can tell you that all considered
faculty members are loyal members of the Worldwide Church of God. Also
that the proposed faculty, subject to their acceptance, will be selected
from ten PhD's and eight holding M.A. degrees--none lower.
We were enthusiastically elated over the prospect of such a fine and
highly qualified faculty--and all dedicated members of God's Church!
I had not seen the new Science Lecture Building, with its labs and a
lecture auditorium seating 200, and available for classes other than those
in Science. It is a fine facility in every respect, up to Ambassador
standards.
I was surprised to see, on inspection, that dormitory buildings are
in excellent condition. The Library Building--in fact all facilities-
are in excellent condition, and have been well maintained. It was a joy
to have luncheon served in the same seat I had previously used for years
--and the room seemingly as new as when first occupied. The auditorium
is a beautiful facility as it was remodeled some little time before the
closure of the college. It will seat more than 2,500--twice the seating
capacity of the superb Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena--and a beautiful
room.
We all felt like shouting for joy. The campus, with very little work
to be done on it, it ALL READY for reopening to new students this fall.
One hundred new freshmen will be admitted. Seventy-five sophomores will
be transferred from Pasadena.