MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS
June 20, 1986 Page 4 - Tape 2
necessarily go downhill spiritually if we upgraded the academics. After a great deal of persuasion, Dr. Ray Myers, Chairman of the Board of Trustees was willing to go along with the idea. Dr. Talbot, Chancellor, was also willing. Dave Isaac was willing to go along, but there were some members of the Board who were adamantly opposed to even consider trying to enlarge our curriculum sufficiently to qualify for membership in the WCA. The whole program took a great deal of persuading and occupied several years' standing. The same problems arose when we met with the faculty, and also when we met with certain members of the alumni. Some of the alumni had gone on to get higher academic degrees, but not many had obtained those satisfactory degrees. In those years they did not see the need of going any further in their training. They felt that the Biola training was sufficiently satisfactory, so why bother about upgrading the academics? These developments took long hours and innumerable meetings to hammer out a
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