Talk:Pillar College/Archive 1

Commune
I don't think Zaraphath is a commune. I am not sure what the status was in the past, but it doesn't have the status of a commune today. For a commune people have to pool their resources and salaries. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 23:40, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Original research
The following lists the various educational organizations as being identical but the NJ registry of schools does not recognize them as successor organizations with simple name changes. Someone may start many serial businesses but they are not identical, nor should they be in the same article. The material is appropriate in the article on the church, but you cant identify them as the same with just a name change, if NJ doesn't recognize them as the same: The Pillar of Fire Church, founded by Bishop Alma White, opened the Zarephath Bible Training School, in Zarephath, NJ in 1908. It was designed as a training institute for missionaries, educators, and preachers.

It was followed in 1917 by Alma White College, which according to The Harvard Crimson, received funding from the KKK, allowing it to become "the second institution in the north avowedly run by the Ku Klux Klan to further its aims and principles." In 1927 the college conferred the first Doctor of Divinity degrees to Rev. A. M. Young, King Kleagle or chief recruiter for the New Jersey Ku Klux Klan, and to Arthur Kent White, Alma's son. Alma White College closed in 1978. Also operating on the campus was Zarephath Bible Seminary and Zarephath Bible Institute.

Alma White College served as the predecessor to Somerset Christian College, the name the organization took on March 23, 2001.