MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS
June 20, 1986 Page 4 - Tape 1
RESPONSE:
By way of background, it should be noted that when I became President in 1952, one of the first recommendations that I made to the Board was that we erect a 13-story building on the lot that we had previously purchased across the street from the downtown location. My ideas was that we erect a 13-story building (which was the height limit in the City of Los Angeles in those days) because we needed the added room space for various facilities which we did not have in the original buildings. One day Dr. Ray Myers, the Chairman of the Biola Board of Trustees, Dr. Talbot, Chancellor of Biola, and I, met at the Jonathan Club. We were guests of Ray Myers because he was a member of the club. We thoroughly enjoyed going there to eat lunch, so as often as I could conscientiously do so, I suggested that we have lunch at the Jonathan Club. During lunch we talked about the building on the lot. I recall Ray saying, "Sam, what do you have in mind for
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