143 joining the Biola faculty, and also becoming the Minister of the Jewish I€partm::nt of the Church of the Open Door. Although Dr. Sutherland was on a trip to Mexico at that time, he was in favor of Dr. Feinberg's joining the Biola faculty, which he did in the fall of 1948, as professor of Old Testament Exposition. At this time there were discussions concerning beginning a full grad- uate program. The Board was somewhat hesitant; suggestions were made to combine programs; but Dr. Feinberg saw a danger in attempting to mingle the five-year Th. B. degree and the six-year Th. M. degree program. There- fore, he proposed a standard graduate progr.am offering a three-year Bachelor of Divinity Degree and a four-year Master of Theology degree. Also, he assured all concerned that the School could offer sufficient Bible to meet the requirements of both the graduate and the undergraduate curricula. In 1952, with the approval of the Board, the Talbot Theological Seminary began, with Dr. Feinberg as the first Dean, a position which he held until his retirement in 1975, after which he continued teaching on a part-time basis for years. Upon the retirement of Dr. Feinberg in 1975, Dr. Glenn F. O'Neal, who had been appointed Acting Dean, became the second Dean of Talbot Theological Seminary, early in 1976. Glenn O'Neal, born in 1919, in Sunnymeade, Washington, spent his first eighteen years on the family farm, and attending the First Brethren Church, of which his parents were members. Glenn's first six years of school were in the two-room Maple Grove School. Although he became a Christian at the age of eight, he drifted somewhat until he began to take the things of Christ seriously near the end of high school. After graduation from Sunny- side High School, feeling called of God into some type of Christian service, DR. GLENN F. O'NEAL
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