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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MAY 11, 1984
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By the way, I should mention that actual numbers of people watching any
television program are based on extrapolations drawn from a very small sam
ple. These audience numbers are, therefore, in our opinion open to ques
tion. Frankly, the number of telephone responses received in Pasadena on
an average weekend seems to indicate a much larger audience than Arbitron
reports.
--David Hulme, Director of Media Purchasing
AMBASSADOR COLLEGE UPDATE
(Pasadena Campus)
We are rapidly approaching the exciting end of the 1983-84 college year!
God has blessed the College with another year of continued growth, unity
and progress. We began the year with about 640 students--including married
students, a very few off-campus older students, and part-time students. We
now have about 630 students enrolled in the College.
Graduation exercises are scheduled for Wednesday, May 16th for Big Sandy
and for Friday, May 18th for Pasadena. Dr. Herman L. Hoeh will give the
commencement address at both campuses, since Mr. Armstrong will be away on
a trip at that time. We at Pasadena expect to graduate 173 seniors this
year, and 133 will graduate from Big Sandy's two-year program. I haven't
yet seen a tally of just how many graduating seniors will be employed in
various areas of God's worldwide Church, but over 70 of last year's seniors
were employed after graduation.
Again, for the coming summer, the College is sending students to China,
Israel (the Jerusalem Dig), Jordan, Thailand, France, Germany, Mexico,
Britain, and Canada. And quite a number of students will get to serve at
the S.E.P. at Orr, Big Sandy, Scotland, and in other areas of the world.
What a fantastic opportunity many of our students will have!
I wish all of you could have seen the performances given by the "Little
Ambassadors of Shanghai" in the Ambassador Auditorium on Friday, May 4th,
and again on Saturday night, May 5th. They were simply fantastic! A number
of us had several meetings with the 27 Little Ambassadors and the adults who
accompanied the troupe to the U.S. From here, the Little Ambassadors went
to San Francisco to give another performance, then on to Washington D.C.
where they are scheduled to perform in the Kennedy Center and at the White
House. (A feature story on the Little Ambassadors will appear in the May 21
WORLDWIDE NEWS • )
And I must not overlook mentioning that previous to that interesting event
at Ambassador Auditorium, the combined chorales of the Big Sandy and
Pasadena campuses did two magnificent performances of Handel's "Messiah,"
accompanied by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Members of the Pasadena
Church Choir also joined the two chorales to assist in the presentation. We
who were privileged to attend both of the performances (we had both a
Saturday night and a Sunday afternoon performance during the days of
Unleavened Bread) will not soon forget them.
On Tuesday, May 8th, the students and faculty of Ambassador College were
privileged
to
hear Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong speak at the last Forum of the
college year. Among points made in his address, he admonished the students
to remember, as they go out into different parts of the world, that we are
to
be examples--true lights
to
the world. He stressed the fact that though