164 school salaries were based on a thirty-hour week, therefore, a Biola teacher with the normal college teaching load of fifteen hours per week was to receiv ·-..:::-"""" ~ --- -----· half pay. With this philosophy it is di ff icul E"-""'t o understand how Biol a was able to recruit ~ faculty at all~ To deal with the above problem Dr. Sutherland recommended that faculty salaries be brought more in line with the college level pay scale, that bet- ter academically trained faculty be recruited over the next few years, that additional secretarial assistance be provided for the faculty to release more time for preparation, teaching, and giving and grading examinations . Another major step in the development of Biola ' s academic program was the beginning of the School of Missionary Medicine, in 1945, to meet the rising demand for adequately trained graduates being requested by the major missionary agencies. In many remote areas where missionaries served in those days there was no medical service whatever . Consequently, missionaries were looked to by the native residents to provide whatever service they were capable of rendering; including delivering babies, treating infections, pul- ling teeth, and dispensing whatever drugs were available to them. Most mis- sionaries of that era had little or no professional training in health ser- vice . Coupled with this situation was the strides in general medical know- ledge which came out of World War II, in turn which created a demand for a brief but highly concentrated medical course that would prepare missionaries better to meet the needs. 'Ihis concept for basic medical training was not entirely new at Biola . In fact, in 1926, a Christ i an Service Medical Course was added to the curriculum when the limited "First Aid" course was expanded into a one-year post-graduat. program, with a minimum of ten hours a week in "didactic medical subjects" and two hours per week in clinical training, with the medical subjects tau- ght by physicans . By 1932, a total of thirteen topics were incl?ded in this - course, but the Great Depression forced the elimination of this program.
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