MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS June 20, 1986 Page 10 - Tape 1
85 acres and were able to have a 75-acre campus instead of the 50 acres that we originally planned, which is the 75 acres we now occupy (actually it is 74 and 9/lO's acres or thereabouts). It does not include the McNally property, which at this point of time, April 30, 1986, we hope to be able to buy within the next three or four years. It is of interest that the lot we purchased in 1942, across the street from Biola's downtown location, brought quite a financial boost to the school. When I became Dean in 1942, it was the only vacant piece of land around the school area. I felt as the school developed we would need that property; therefore, I made the recommendation at a Board meeting that we purchase the property. I was immediately shot down with the statement, "Sam, we got you in as Dean of an educational institution, not as a promoter of real estate." I learned my lesson real fast and kept quiet. However, Ray Myers, who was Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the
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