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Pacific Union College was founded as Healdsburg Academy in Healdsburg, California, in northern Sonoma County, in 1882. [5] [8] The creation of schools in the state was urged by Ellen G. White and other church leaders in an effort to accommodate the Adventist Church's growing membership on the West Coast and to train young Adventists for its work.
It was established in 1947, and provides college courses in biology as well as shorter courses for elementary and high school students and seniors. [2] It also provides boating facilities, which were significantly renovated beginning in 2007. [2] [3] In 2007, the net cost to the college of operating the station was $100,000. [4]
This is a list of notable alumni of Pacific Union College, a private liberal arts college in Napa Valley, California. The college has been described as a "training ground for an inordinately large number of outstanding physicians, dentists, nurses, teachers and theologians."
Sidney Brownsberger was the first president of Pacific Union College, then on its former campus in Healdsburg, California and known as Healdsburg Academy. [1] Prior to founding Healdsburg Academy, he was the president of Battle Creek Adventist College from 1875 to 1881, after finding his faith in the church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
The congregation first met in 1909 in a former dance hall shortly after the college moved from Healdsburg to Angwin. [2] It records having 42 charter members at that time. [ 2 ] In 1919, the congregation met in the chapel of the new college building, and by 1921 it counted 290 members.
Angwin is a census-designated place (CDP) [3] in Napa County, California, best known as the site of Pacific Union College. It is part of the northern San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 3,051 at the 2010 census. Its area code is 707. Its two ZIP codes are 94508 and 94576. It is in the Pacific time zone.
The Pacific Union College Academy basketball tournament is a tournament for Seventh-day Adventist high schools, held every January or February at Pacific Union College. [ 1 ] The tournament attracts teams from California , but also other states.
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