MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS June 20, 1986 Page 7 - Tape 1
QUESTION:
HOW WAS THE LA MIRADA CAMPUS SITE SELECfED?
RESPONSE:
We began looking around for an appropriate site for the new campus. I had in mind a 50- acre campus with an additional 25 acres for housing of faculty and friends of Biola; therefore, we needed a 75-acre campus. We looked all over southern California, in the San Fernando Valley, in the hills back of Glendale, Pasadena, Monrovia, and along the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains. We looked at the Pacific Palisades area and we looked down around the peninsula where Marineland is now located. We looked in eastern L.A. County. We wanted to keep the name "Bible Institute of Los Angeles" and expand it from the idea of being within the City of Los Angeles to being within the County of Los Angeles, but we wanted to keep it within the County of Los Angeles. About that time, representatives of Coldwell
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