Memoirs by Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland (1987)

MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS June 20, 1986 Page 22 - Tape 1

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program. We met for three days and the more we talked the more interest was generated. An organization, m fact, was set up. They voted me in as President, and Terrel Crum as Secretary. We were authorized to go down to Washington, D.C. to talk to Dr. John Dale Russell, who was with the government in connection with the Office of Higher Education. It turned out that he was a born-again Christian and was interested in upgrading the whole Bible School movement. He knew Moody Bible Institute quite well. He also knew of Biola and one or two other schools. We had a very profitable meeting with him and the organization was under way. Instead of going down to Winona Lake again, because of the time it took to get to Chicago and then to shuttle down to Winona Lake, we decided with the consent of Moody Bible Institute_,to meet in Chicago at Moody. For several years thereafter, we met at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.

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