MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS June 20, 1986 Page 10 - Tape 5
QUESTION:
WHAT WERE SOME OF THE LOW SPOTS DURING THE TIME YOU WERE PRESIDENT?
RESPONSE:
One of the low spots while I was President occurred when one of the members of the Board said that he had taken it upon himself to measure the square footage of each of the floors of each of the dormitories, square footage of The Church of The Open Door, and the basement rooms, and he had come to the conclusion that it all added up to about five acres. We were making out with five acres very satisfactorily, therefore, he thought all we would need on the new campus would be not more than twenty acres, and we could adequately carry on the school under those circumstances. He was a rather significant member of the Board, and when he threw that at us, my heart sank. But fortunately, Ray Myers and some of the other
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