Biola University

Samuel H. Sutherland, the former president of Biola University who moved its campus from Downtown Los Angeles to La Mirada in the 1950s and was fondly remembered as "Mr. Biola," has died. He was 93. Sutherland died Jan. 21 in his retirement home in Wheaton, Ill., university officials announced this week. A memorial service is scheduled for Monday at 9:30 a.m. at Chase Gymnasium on the Biola campus in La Mirada.

Biola University, an evangelical Christian school in La Mirada, will use a $750,000 grant from Orange County philanthropists Howard F. Ahmanson Jr. and Roberta Green Ahmanson to launch a new program to support artists whose Christian faith informs their vision, and to "promote rich thinking about faith and art. " The Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts will be established during the academic year that begins next fall. Annual programs will include an artist-in-residence, an international symposium of artists and academics, and a regional conference for artists in various disciplines to discuss their work and its ability to influence today's culture.

One of the state's longest-serving college presidents will retire after 25 years at Biola University, college officials announced Thursday. Clyde Cook, who celebrated his 71st birthday Thursday, plans to retire next June, one year shy of the college's 100th anniversary. "I wanted to go out a year before everybody expected me to," said Cook, who also attended and taught at the Protestant university in La Mirada.

Biola University, an evangelical Christian school in La Mirada, has received a $3-million grant to run a think tank on contemporary Christian perspectives on such topics as neuroscience, psychology and politics. The grant comes from the Pennsylvania-based John Templeton Foundation, which was founded by its namesake, the late Wall Street mutual funds pioneer, to help explore spirituality and links to other areas of scholarship. The award, the largest academic grant in Biola's history, will help its new Center for Christian Thought bring together eight scholars each semester — four from its faculty and four from elsewhere — over three years to research and debate "important questions facing our culture," said center Director Gregg Ten Elshof.

Clyde Cook, who was president of Biola University for 25 years and oversaw tremendous growth at the Christian college before he retired last year, has died. He was 72. Cook died of a heart attack April 11 at his home in Fullerton, the university announced. During his tenure, enrollment at the university in La Mirada nearly doubled, to about 5,750 students. The campus grew by 20 acres, and the school's endowment went from almost zero to $43.5 million.

A prominent poster near the entrance of Biola University's new exhibition on the future of Christianity advertises 10 reasons to dislike your church. Among them: "It's comfortable in its misery and is looking for company." "It's all about the money." "It's concerned with look and not action."

The campus banquet room is reserved, the gelato ices are on tap and the students are hoping for red, white and blue balloons over the archway. But for the first time in years, the Republican club at Biola University, a conservative evangelical Christian college, doesn't know whether its election party will be a celebration or a wake. "It would be really great if McCain pulls it out, but if not, our party is going to be over by 8:15 p.m.

The rumors started flying at Biola University in La Mirada last month when more than 30 student leaders were summoned to an unusual meeting with the dean of student affairs. The students waited anxiously as the dean reported there would be some money set aside for long-sought improvements to the student union building and that tuition was increasing next year.

Biola University, a conservative Christian college that teaches biblical literalism, has ended a nine-month investigation into the religious beliefs of four Eastern Orthodox staff members and will recommend that their jobs be spared.

Howard Lyon, who has been coaching basketball at Biola University for 17 years, announced his resignation, effective at the end of the current semester. Dave Holmquist, who has been the Eagles' co-head coach since 1978, will serve as coach next season.

Bernard St. Clair Lee Baritone singer in Hues Corporation Bernard St. Clair Lee, 66, a baritone singer and original member of the Hues Corporation, which had an early disco hit in 1974 with "Rock the Boat," died Tuesday at his home in Lake Elsinore, said Ava Dupree, a family spokeswoman. He died of natural causes. The Hues Corporation, a soul trio whose name was a pun on Los Angeles aviation giant Hughes Corp., was formed in 1969 by Lee, soprano Hubert Ann Kelly and tenor Fleming Williams.

The campus banquet room is reserved, the gelato ices are on tap and the students are hoping for red, white and blue balloons over the archway. But for the first time in years, the Republican club at Biola University, a conservative evangelical Christian college, doesn't know whether its election party will be a celebration or a wake. "It would be really great if McCain pulls it out, but if not, our party is going to be over by 8:15 p.m.

Clyde Cook, who was president of Biola University for 25 years and oversaw tremendous growth at the Christian college before he retired last year, has died. He was 72. Cook died of a heart attack April 11 at his home in Fullerton, the university announced. During his tenure, enrollment at the university in La Mirada nearly doubled, to about 5,750 students. The campus grew by 20 acres, and the school's endowment went from almost zero to $43.5 million.

When Lyman Stewart dropped out of school at age 11 to become a tanner's apprentice, few who knew him then would have predicted the enduring mark he would make on Los Angeles' business, religious and civic life.

When Ken Bascom arrived at Biola College in 1967 to work on his master's degree in history, his fellow students, almost all white, stuck to a strict dress code and had a 10 p.m. curfew on weeknights. Last weekend, a multicultural throng of students, several with dyed hair, piercings or tattoos, celebrated the centennial of the private evangelical school -- a university since 1981 -- at a rock concert that extended into the early morning.

Biola University in La Mirada has sued Bank of America Corp. and BNP Paribas, saying the banks conspired to overcharge the Christian school for $84.2 million of derivatives. In its suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Biola said the banks misled it into believing that it paid a fair price for four derivatives it bought in 2002 and 2004. The contracts were tied to tax-exempt bonds the college sold. Bank of America, the second-biggest U.S.

Biola University has received a $5,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to strengthen its governing board over the next year. Biola plans to use its grant to enhance its trustees' understanding of their role, particularly their leadership in fund raising. A three-day workshop for trustees was held recently to emphasize the board's involvement in fund raising, and another trustee workshop in September will focus on the university's capital fund campaign.

One of the state's longest-serving college presidents will retire after 25 years at Biola University, college officials announced Thursday. Clyde Cook, who celebrated his 71st birthday Thursday, plans to retire next June, one year shy of the college's 100th anniversary. "I wanted to go out a year before everybody expected me to," said Cook, who also attended and taught at the Protestant university in La Mirada.

Something about those late nights, driving back from road games in distant gymnasiums, his team squeezed into a van, makes Dave Holmquist smile. An honest-to-goodness smile. Followed by what could almost pass for a chuckle. His reaction is noteworthy because a) he is not the type of coach who shows much emotion and b) traveling by van is supposed to be the lousy part of small-time college basketball. Holmquist talks about the camaraderie of those moments.