He persuaded Lin Ho-nien to make Lan Sheng a residential relief organization, and the name was once again changed, this time to the Lan Sheng School. Lan Sheng dedicated itself to the development of the mind and bodies of its small charges. But as the school's reputation spread, the twenty beds soon became insufficient.
林院長鶴年想到：「既然目前育幼院的房舍嫌小，不如重新規畫，興建一所規模大、功能多、能充分滿足院童生長所需的好環境，讓院童在失去親情之後，仍能擁有快樂而豐實的童年。」