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THE ..MISSIIG DIMEISIOI"
11 EDUCATIOI...40 YEARS LATER
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EW REALIZE
the magnitude to
which this worldwide Work
of God has grown. It is a ma–
jor-scale educational program
worldwide.
Actually, the Work started first -
in 1934 with one man and a he1per,
his wife.
The college, with an undergraduate
currículum and students in residence
on campus, was founded in 1947 with
four students and a faculty of eigbt.
Today there are three campuses and
about 1,300 students.
But, much larger in size and
power of impact, is the extension
program of the college. This is, in
itself, a huge industry worldwide.
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is an in-the-home educational ser–
vice for all peoples.
On the following pages we take
you on a tour around the world, to
view pictorially, the facilities and
operations of tbis now major world–
wide enterprise. Today the sun
never sets on our offices, plants, and
operations around the world. Our
employed statf now reaches into the
thousands, its expenditures into the
multiple millions and still growing
at a phenomenal pace.
It
is
the intriguing story ofmaking the
missing dimension
in education avail–
able to millions of people.
It
is the
success story of something never
done before - of a huge educational
enterprise worldwide - seemingly in-
credible, yet an accomplished and
living fact. And 1 didn' t build or
accomplish it - no man could!
Here, in brief condensation, is the
story from its beginning.
I had experienced an uncommon
early training in business, in the
specific field of journalism and ad–
vertising. This led to catching the
vision of the missing dimension in
today's education. I had toured the
United States as "idea man" for
America's largest trade journa1 to
search out ideas successfully used in
business and in community devel–
opment and social welfare. I had
pioneered in surveys, by personal
interview and by questionnaire, ob–
taining, tabulating, analyzing, and
classifying information on business
and social conditions.
Through this intensive research
covering many succeeding years in
my own advertising business,
1
was
being tremendously impressed with
the unhappy fact that even in the
affluent United States there was a
tragic dearth of peace, happiness,
and abundant well-being.
I was aware also, of course, of the
sickening conditions of poverty, ig–
norance, filtb and squalor, starva–
tion, disease and death in the lives
of more than half of all the earth's
population - in such countries as
India, Egypt, and in so many areas
in Asia, Africa, South America