Ambassador College - Envoy Yearbook (Big Sandy, TX)

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name Jesus Christ. All Hebrew names had MEANING. Well, then, here is the meaning. As most colleges today claim to train students for their part in the world — to become a part OF the world, AMBASSADOR COLLEGE has a diametrically opposite purpose. It is to teach students to come OUT of this world and be separate — to live by every Word of God, instead of the ways and customs of the world — and yet, while not being OF this world, but rather as strangers and foreigners in it we shall train them to be in it purely as AMBASSADORS for CHRIST. We hope, therefore, to train every student to be an AMBASSADOR for Christ and. His coming KINGDOM, which we represent. The name AMBASSADOR, therefore, is in fact the name of every student in the college. Of course the world in general will not see or comprehend the real meaning of the name. But to those of the world, the name carries distinction, ‘beauty and dignity. And there is no college by that name in Southern California. ’'d appreciate it if you’d write “Without exaggeration I can say flatly no college campus in America will be more beautiful.” and tell me what YOU think of the name, “AMBASSADOR COLLEGE.” Already we have received many applications from prospective students, and too, I believe, from prospective faculty members. It is now tentatively planned for Mr. Dillon and I to spend the month of June on the grounds, in Pasadena, making more intensive preliminary plans, ordering and installing the new college equipment. All equipment, in keeping with our policy, will be the most modern and efficient obtainable. Then the month of July and first half of August it is planned for Mr. Dillon to be at Columbia University in New York, taking the summer session in advanced educational research, making final plans, for curriculum, schedules, etc., under the technical guidance of the Columbia experts. While AMBASSADOR COLLEGE will be utterly different in purpose, in objectives, in its basic concept, etc., yet it will employ the most advanced of established methods of administration, adapting these procedures of educational experience of our basic purposes. And the standards are to be the HIGHEST in every respect. From August 20 until September 20th, Mr. Dillon and I will again be on the grounds in Pasadena, making final preparations for the college to open around September 20th. It is planned now in due time to acquire two adjoining estates, and a beautiful vacant building site across the street. This will give us a total of around six acres of most beautiful grounds. Without exaggeration I can say flatly no college campus in America will be more beautiful, and very few if any as lovely as this that God has provided for His college. If and when we are able to acquire the two adjoining estates, we will have two additional very large reinforced concrete houses, one of 22 rooms, and one of 14, with space to build later two or three class buildings, a gymnasium, and, across the street, a beautiful chapel and church building. I am assured circumstances are such that we shall be able to acquire this additional property. At every step we see God’s hands in this remarkable undertaking. In Jesus’ name and service,

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‘ 2 ‘ (PALL TLL TE SE EN ME TE TIE SRM nER eT Wher There 1s Vision RESTS ANE SASL SIA SEDANS ESS PRT EET BSAC SPRUE TBE SOE I A RMT PY FS PE ESPEN TI SPOTS TT A little more than 40 years ago, Herbert W. Armstrong envisioned a college unlike any other on the educational frontier. In the following letter, written in 1946, he unveils the dream that was to become Ambassador College. Dear Friend and Co-Worker: have great news for you in regard to the new college. Plans are progressing rapidly. We are now planning on a larger, more thorough basis than I had in mind at first. A thing worth doing is worth doing right. And this is so worth doing, it must be done on the highest, most thorough possible standard. Consequently, it is becoming a bigger undertaking than I really had in mind at first. It is truly a gigantic undertaking — even tho we plan to start it small, with perhaps around 40 students. We are planning for bigger things, and the foundation must be firm, and pure, and | right. It is not yet finally named. But it appears more and more apparent that the name which first came to me, almost as. if God had put it in my mind, is the name that will be adopted. That name is AMBASSADOR COLLEGE. Everyone seems to like it. When I first mentioned the name to Mr. Walter E. Dillon, who. in all probability will be its first president, he said he liked the name — - it had dignity, it was of pleasing sound, etc., but he felt we should select a name that carried a definite meaning. I agreed, and when I explained the meaning, he thought the name very satisfactory. The MEANING of names is important. It is important to God. Few realize the MEANING of the names of God, and the meaning and power in the RRA Cag ESO et ee aR Si Rotens eet te aR hy Na hale eth eae Nos ata eS Te aa in De ke a aed A ee ee RS pe Phe Foss aaa oa s: ‘ y pert iw dd og oe Se eee ie cae Taian Baer ie 0 SER OE ES SoA MRE cee

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