MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS
June 20, 1986 Page 3 - Tape 2
encouragement concerning the value of accreditation by a secular organization. Those of us seeking accreditation with the Western College Association looked with a degree of alarm at the knowledge that every school in southern California which had been originally started by a denomination, such as Pomona (Congregational), Redlands (Baptist), Whittier (Brethren), Occidental (Presbyterian), Chapman (the Christian Church), USC (the Methodist Church), every one of those schools had long since departed from their faith and could only be called Christian with the broadest meaning of the term. In fact, across the country there was only one school that remained true to the faith for two or three generations after it was started, which was Wheaton College. So my problem was to assure the members of the Board that it was not necessary to turn modernistic or liberal, while at the same time we were upgrading our academics. I had absolutely no precedent to follow to assure the men that Biola would not
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