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Hall--beside repainting inside and out of the large main building,
Memorial Hall. In addition, we have had to purchase new light
fixtures, rugs and carpeting, complete floor covering for the
girls' dormitory wing, and also for the men's dormitory building--
which also must be completely repainted. All these rooms have to
be furnished. We have to set up a radio recording studio at the
college in England, so that when I, or Garner Ted Armstrong, or
Mr.Ra are over there we can keep the radio programs on the air.
We have to install class room furniture, and many other things. We
are spreading most of these payments out over one or two years--but
this adds to the MONTHLY needs for our property and building fund.
We have to make monthly payments on the new properties in England.
In addition, five or six additional properties have gone on
the market adjoining, or inside, the Ambassador College campus in
Pasadena--all a part of the PLANNED campus, which is as yet FAR
from being built complete. Factories were about to grab up these
properties, tear down the houses, and build factories on the
ground--jutting into our campus. This would RUIN the future
campus. In such an emergency, we have HAD to purchase such
properties immediately to save the college. We are not purchasing
any additional properties which we can avoid--but these have been
unavoidable. Each has taken a down payment, and added to the
monthly payments we must make on properties and buildings.
The college has gone for two years without an assembly hall
large enough to accommodate our growing student body, until the
last
few months, when we remodeled an old building on our campus.
Already this new remodeled assembly hall is filled to capacity--and
beginning next fall's semester it is doubtful whether we can jam
all the students into it. We shall need a new assembly hall
desperately in another year.
The college is in dire need of a new dining hall. Students
are being crammed into all the rooms on first-floor Mayfair at
present. Cooking for 250 must be done in a cramped kitchen
originally built for just one family of 3 or 4 members! But we
have lacked the funds to build the needed new dining hall.
Our elementary and high schools in Pasadena have completely
outgrown their facilities, and unless we can build new school
buildings in the next year, the city authorities may close up the
school. But it does not appear now that we can build these in the
foreseeable future.
That gives you a glimpse into our building NEEDS!
Yet you brethren have not kept up even the $18,000 per month
payments we have had to make to the Behlen Mfg. Co. to pay for the
Tabernacle alone, here at Big Sandy. You have let your special
offerings for the building and property fund drop down to $10,000
or less per month!
Brethren, I believe you have just not realized the seriousness
of this need. DO YOU THINK I ENJOY HAVING TO BEG YOU TO DO YOUR
PART BY SENDING IN SPECIAL OFFERINGS? Yet I am held responsible