La Sierra College - Meteor Yearbook (Arlington, CA)

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Southern California Junior College A BRIEF HISTORY By TH E PRESIDENT ISTORY is a vital, interesting subject when peopled with the ones involved S and visualized by those interested. Southern California Junior College germinated many years ago as San Fernando Academy, and was fostered by all of California south of the Tehatochepe. It developed as an academy into a vital factor in training efficient workers fired with a missionary spirit and having vision which saw clearly personal responsibility to the work of God. Time passed and it became necessary to secure a new location that a wider field of usefulness might be developed. A large tract of land was purchased from lWr. Hole on the La Sierra Rancho, and La Sierra Academy was started on its successful journey as a continuation of the San Fernando Academy. For five years the La Sierra Academy did good work and set a noble example of what Christian education should do for the youth, for the home and for the work of God. Early in 1927 by action of Southern and Southeastern California Conferences, and by the action of the Union Conference Committee and of the General Conference Committee, La Sierra Academy became Southern California Junior College. Une year of its existence is in the past, and the blessing of Heaven is resting upon the efforts put forth. The board and faculty and the constituency are determined to make this a Junior College that will uphold the principles of Christian education in every phase and train workers for the great harvest field. Southern California Junior College was established that a Christian education might be available to the youth of all of Southern California under conditions most favorable, in a location away from the contaminating influences of the large cities, with plenty of land to teach the A B C's of Christian education, agriculture, prepared to teach the youth practical as well as theoretical lessons and above all else to bring the young to the side of the Saviour, place their hands in the hand that was wounded for their transgressions and let them get a mighty inspiration from Him to dedicate their lives to the one and only ambition worthy of any Seventh-Day Adventist youth, a life of unselfish service for those who know not the Saviour. Southern California Junior College has begun its work, may it never cease or its standards be lowered, or its efforts relaxed, until the great Rlaster Teacher shall say, It is finished, and the people of God from every nation, kindred, tongue and people shall be ushered into the city of God to continue throughout eternity the work of Christian education. Page Tlzirfcciz

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lfhy Is Souflzern California Junior College? By LLEWELLYN A. Witcox OUTHERN CALIFORNIA has no paucity of educational institutions. vw, 5 Neither are its schools deficient, whether in the scholasticism of their wa . instructors the efficiency of their methods, or their material advantages in equipment. Of their architecture the state can be proud. ln their technical facilities they have everything. And all this offered with free transportation to that young American who will have it, without money and without price. NVhy, then, La Sierra, with its unpretentious buildings, its limited equipment, and its tuition charges? There is one reason and one only--God. ln these splendid schools with their learned faculties and their scientific opportunities, there is a lack, for which nothing material or intellectual, can ever compensate. It is God. The first great goal of life is the discovery of the purpose for which it is. Southern California Junior College exists to teach the meaning of existence. lts chemistry and history and rhetoric are incidental. Its system of education is built upon this-that the truth behind all truth, without which life is purposeless, and knowledge pointless, is God. lVe have lost something youth needs, we must find what it is and put it back, says a noted journal of today. lt is God. lt is a positive faith in, and the over- mastering conviction of, a personal accountability to a personal God. What youth needs, and education needs, is God. Otherwise a Loeb, or a Leopold, or a Hickman! And that's why Southern California Junior College. VVe cannot hope to compete with other schools in the teaching of things artistic and scholastic, scientific and materialistic. Nor do we strive to. But we can teach the only thing that can save civilization-the power and the grace of God. We do not minimize one iota the intellectual, but we look upon it as valuable only because it is the means to the end. To seek art for art's sake is to be ignorant of artls object and art's joy. An education that places emphasis upon things is false to the aim it pretends to exist for. Therefore Southern California Junior College is a teacher not so much of flli1lg5, as of men and manhood, of women and of womanlzood. To dethrone the dollar and enthrone the soul, to save one's life by giving it away to others: to carry out a new and golden rule of grammar reversing the others: First person, God, second person, youg and third person, lg to reckon life's problems by the divine computation: Reckon it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations, not when you get out, to be more interested in a lion heart than a sheepskin, and to estimate a character more than a career, to live that one may live again-that's why Southern California Junior College. Page Tzvelre

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They 1f 1'll Take Care of Tlzefzzselfuesn By PAULINI5 STURGES But- Bessie hesitated, deeply concerned. l'm afraid you don't understand just all that it means to be a Seventh-day Adventist, Judy. There's the question of standards, you know. Judith looked up quickly from the letter she was writing and bestowed a radiant smile on her worried roommate. That's one thing I don't have to worry about, she said simply, and bent over her letter again. Bessie, studying her closely, moved uneasily. But, Judy, she ventured again, with your folks and everything I think it's going to be more difficult than you think. Judith pushed back her letter, got to her feet, and stood for a moment regarding her roommate speculatively. VVhen she spoke it was slowly, thoughtfully. 'I believe l'll tell you, she said. Bessie leaned forward eagerly. She had scarcely been able to believe her eyes when she had seen Judy rise joyously to her feet in response to Elder Burton's call, made that day in the college chapel. Judy, standing there triumphantly, her head held high, her blue eyes dark with excitement and happiness. Bessie had caught her breath quicklyg she had never before seen anything quite like that-the way Judy looked. And she still looked that way. There beside the table her eyes were wide with wonder and glorified with happiness. l'm going to try and make you understandfl she went on, but you mustn't tell anyone else. You know how I've struggled all this week, wanting to accept Christ and believing all the points of your doctrine, but so-well, so hopelessly confused on these questions of standards. Of course l conform to them here in the dormitory, but as far as questions of right and wrong are con- cerned, l-H But Judy, Bessie broke in quickly, that's just it, l felt-U VVait a minute, Bess, give me a chance. That's a dear. Hear me out and then pronounce judgment. Only it won't make any difference what you say, not really. l'm so-unbelievably happy. Judy closed her eyes for a moment and repeated softly, And l, if l be lifted up, will draw all men unto me. She opened her eyes quickly, there was a great wonder in their depths. l had no idea that there were such beautiful things in the Bible, and all the time lilder Burton was talking on that text, l was being drawn mightily. Still, 1 was so worried about these other things-not that l minded giving them up, only l couldn't see that they were important at all. Then he said-I could scarcely believe my ears, but he did say it-'All you need to do is to give yourself wholly to Christ, you need not worry about standards-they will take care of themselvesf Well, I can't tell you how l felt when he said that. Honest, I never before experienced such a feeling of relief, and joy, and Peace as- I'r1g1' l o1lrlee11,