As early as December, 1943, Dr. Emerson asked the board of trustees to prayerfully consider a new location for Westmont. His vision for the finest possible Christian college demanded a plant much larger than the six acres of the Los Angeles campus. He noted that colleges generally required a minimum of 60 acres, but considered 100 acres a “more desirable size.” Today Westmont’s campus is 133 acres. As early as December, 1943, Dr. Emerson asked the board of trustees to prayerfully consider a new location for Westmont. His visi...