The school opened as a grammar school, academy, and junior college in 1909 under the leadership of Reverend W. E. Fisher, superintendent of the Abilene and Hamlin districts of the Church of the Nazarene to serve the Hamlin, San Antonio, and New Mexico Districts, with J.E.L.
[4] President B.F. Neeley later agreed to a consolidation with Bethany-Peniel College at Bethany, Oklahoma in 1929.
[5] The college was located southwest of downtown Hamlin and consisted of a grey stone administration building and two wooden dormitories on a 23-acre (93,000 m2) campus.
Library and laboratory facilities were inadequate for standard work, however.
After the college merged with the school at Bethany, the former administration building was used as a church by the local Nazarene congregation.