121 candidates, including Dr. Elbert Mccreery of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, whom Dr. Charles Fuller, Chairman of the Board, was authorized to contact during a trip to--thec-=-ea-st_:___ From Dr. Fuller's report, the Board was agreed that . Dr. Mccreery was their choice, but the stringent financial conditions at Biola and the Bank's strenuous objection to any increase in the rronthly oper- ating expense of the School forced the Board to delay the appointment of a regular Dean, hoping to use someone on an interim basis. Later the Board reversed its decision and contacted Dr. Mccreery, explaining to him the condition that his salary would not exceed three hundred dollars per month, and that he might be required, if the bank insisted, to refund the differ- ence between this amount and the two hundred forty dollars that had been paid to the interim Dean. Dr. Mccreery agreed to these conditions and in August, 1933 became the third Dean in the history of Biola. Dr. Mccreery was well qualified for the position of Dean. He was a graduate of Monmouth College, in Illinois, and Zenia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri; and later received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Monmouth College. Also, while serving serveral years as a missionary in the Sudan, in Africa, he had helped to translate the Scriptures into the Sudanese language. Later, he was pastor in Fort Morgan, Colorado. Even though his four-year period as Dean, from August, 1933, to August 1937, was during that difficult financial era, being a good Dean, he weathered the storm. After resigning from Biola as Dean, he served for some time in the administration and on the faculty of Westmont College. Dr. Kenneth M. Monroe, the fifth Dean of Biola, was born July 7, 1900, in Michigan, from which his family moved when he was ten to Huntington Park, -california, where Kenneth completed both grade and high school. During this time, he and his family became members of the Grace Brethren Church, which had a close association with Biola and the Church of the Open Door. They DR. KENNETH M. MONROE
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