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Ellen White, who with W. C. White had led out in founding the college in 1882, was deeply interested in its welfare. About the time the college opened she bought a home a few blocks distant and made Healdsburg her headquarters. Since returning from Australia, she often visited the school, spoke to the students and faculty, and watched with interest the welfare of the institution. With the successful starting of the Avondale school in Australia in a country location, both Ellen White and conference constituency thought in terms of moving the college away from a crowded town to a place where the students would have "more opportunity to engage in agriculture, carpentering, and other lines of manual work" (Letter 141, 1904). At the California Conference session held in February, 1908, a comprehensive resolution was passed calling for the disposal of the school properties in Healdsburg and establishing "an industrial college"" in the country that would provide work for students and "furnish at least the agricultural and dairy products necessary for the college home" (PUR, Feb. 27, 1908). The Educational Society, which carried legal control, took official action to this effect three weeks later on March 19.  {6BIO 176.3}

After Ellen mentioned by name the wife of one of the ministers who was not adhering to health reform in cooking and advised others not to look to her as an example, she entered into a further discussion of eggs and dairy products:  {2BIO 303.6}