Mackinac College (1972–73) was a nondenominational Bible college briefly owned and operated by the Cathedral of Tomorrow at the Rex Humbard Development Center on Mission Point, Mackinac Island, Michigan. This coeducational undergraduate college was founded by Reverend Alpha Rex Emmanuel Humbard ("Brother Rex"), who was chairman of the board. The President of the college was Rev. Roger Kvam, previously an assistant professor of political science at the University of Akron. Facilities Brother Rex purchased his Development Center property from Mackinac College (1966-1970). This earlier college had been a non-sectarian, co-educational four-year liberal arts college that closed due to financial problems after the graduation of its Charter Class in 1970. Buildings at the Mission Point (Mackinac Island) campus included residence halls, laboratories, classrooms, a conference center, a library, theater, studio, kitchens, and dining halls, and the historic Mission House. The Development Center also included the 190-acre Stonecliffe estate. Stonecliffe had a 1904 mansion, entertainment hall and stage, bowling alley, and downhill ski slope. As owner of Mission Point and Stonecliffe, Rev. Humbard was the largest private landowner on Mackinac Island. Board of trustees List of Trustees Board Students and academics In fall 1972, Humbard opened his Mackinac College to 140 students who were hoping to study in a Christian environment and maybe go skiing. Courses were offered in humanities, physical sciences, and social sciences, divided into eighteen departments. Students selected as a mascot the American Eagle. The reason was because their sentiment was that the eagle related to the college's unusual historic American setting at what was at one time a vital defense island outpost where Mackinac Island was once called the Gibraltar of the Lakes. They chose to call their teams the Patriots, because their mascot and college colors of red and blue dictated this symbolic theme. Finances and development The Cathedral of Tomorrow's acquisition of properties on Mackinac Island in April 1971 was part of an expanded growth push by Rex Humbard. Humbard's twin goals had been to open a revitalized Mackinac College and to develop Stonecliffe as a Christian retreat and winter ski resort. The Mission Point campus and Stonecliffe were valued at $17,000,000, offered for sale at $3,000,000, and purchased by Humbard for $2.2 million. During its operation, the college loaned $450,000 to the resort to build a golf course; this money was never repaid. The college also paid $1.6 million to the Cathedral of Tomorrow TV