MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS
June 20, 1986 Page 5 - Tape 2
program that they felt would safeguard the spiritual life of the school and which at the same time would bring us into the post-World War II academic era. It was my conviction that if we were aware of this danger, that half of the battle would be won, and we would be constantly on the alert to keep the school from falling into the same line of others. That was one of the greatest difficulties to be overcome. When we were finally able to persuade the majority of the faculty, and an appreciable number of the alumni, that everything was satisfactory along this line, we had to deal with the Western College Association officials and persuade them that we were a worthy school to become a member of their organization. Incidently, after World War II, Dr. Talbot took a tour of the mission fields of Africa, Asia and South America. Wherever he went, he asked the Biola alumni missionaries if they felt it would be worthwhile to offer degree work at Biola and for us to try to get
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