Simpson Bible College - Gateway Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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A. B. SIMPSON HISTORY OF THE Forty years ago a new gateway - a gateway to world service - opened for the first time when Simpson Bible Institute was founded in 1921. The school was named after A. B. Simpson, the founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, who started the movement seventy-five years ago. After being converted in his teens, Simpson was impressed more and more with the need of souls without Christ. He was moved to share this vision with others who would go to the mission fields. In order to train these men and women for world service, he started the Bible school program. Under the direction of Bev. W. W. Newberry, the founder and first president of the school, Simpson Bible Institute opened its doors for classes in 1921. Earlier that year the annual Council had approved the establishment of an Alliance Bible school in the Pacific Northwest District. Located at 101 W. 58th Street in Seattle, Washing- ton, in a fourteen-room house in the Phinney Ridge District overlooking Ballard, the school enrolled twenty students the first semester. The kitchen and dining hall were in the basement of the large home, the library and classes on the ground floor, offices on the second floor, and the students' rooms on the third floor. Later this home became the administration building. The library was on the first floor ofthe house. ' A The fourteen-room house which became the Administration Building. Additional land next to the school was purchased within the next two years. A two-story structure on the property became the music building. Because of a continually increasing student body, 1923 saw the construction of a new three-story frame dormitory. Students were housed in tents pitched on the property until the dormitory was finished. WV. C. Stevens was President during this time. During these early years, the school offered a two- year course with the classes taught by pastors. The foreign mission majors were required to take an addi- tional year of training at Nyack. 1