Scope - Volume 05, Number 08

              UnivJEsity
Vol. 5, No. 8 Wednesday, June 5,1968
Students receive recognition
for scholarship, excellence
Over 100 honor awards were
presented to students of Loma
Linda University recently in
commendation of superior scho
larship in research or in recog
nition of general excellence.
Following is a list of this
year's awards arranged by
schools:
School of Health Related
Professions
California Association of
Medical Record Librarians
Award: Karen H. Creason.
F. Clair Morgan Company,
Incorporated, Award: Mary R.
Toews.
Mallinckrodt Award: Ronald
R. Sorensen.
Physical Therapy Alumni As
sociation Achievement Award:
John W. Carlos, Jr.
Physical Therapy Alumni As
sociation Scholarship Award:
Mary J. Klimosh.
Southern California Associa
tion of Medical Record Librar
ians Award: Janet C. Roy.
The Faculty Award: Judi B.
Evans.
The President's Award: Jan
et C. Roy.
School of Nursing
Allstate Foundation Award:
Margarp; :.. Aaen, Martha J.
Duffle.
Alumni Association Award:
Lydia Y. Ho, Hannah Liem,
Gail T. Rice.
Teagle Foundation Award:
Mary J. Beardsley.
Woman's Auxiliary to the Los
Angeles County Medical Asso
ciation: Marilyn J. Carey, S.
Jane Earnest, Dorothy J.
Haughey, Karen E. Stockton,
Janene L. Thomas.
Woman's Auxiliary to the Los
Angeles County Medical Asso
ciation, Glendale District: Lin
da A. Benson.
Woman's Auxiliary to the San
Bernardino County Medical As
sociation: La Renne D. Barrett.
The President's Award: Jan
et R. Meier.
College of
Arts and Sciences
Alumni Association Scholar
ship: Jeanne F. Davidson, Ju
dith Y. Miller, Tim R. Pang-born,
Cheryl G. Rowe, Rocke
feller L. Twyman.
K. F. Ambs Leadership
Award: Richard H. Cales.
Bank of America Award:
Jack S. Emery.
California Congress of Par
ents and Teachers Scholarship:
Rita M. Kershner, Renee J.
Kittell, Elizabeth L. LaDam.
California State Scholarship:
Anthony A. Aaby, Julia I. Ait-ken,
William L. Beeson, Kay
M. Behrends, Cynthia A. Ben-
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552 receive degrees;
Judd challenges students
Five hundred fifty- two Loma Linda University students received degrees at the an
nual spring commencement ceremonies held in the stadium at the University of Cali
fornia at Riverside last Sunday.
Walter H. Judd, MD, former congressman from Minnesota and now editor of the
Washington Report radio pro- :
gram challenged the graduates ^ n estimated 7,000 persons the audience when he said " if
to " be motivated by strength sat jn an( j around the univer- we've got 20 percent unemploy-and
depth of your faith. The sity's stadium area, as Dr. Judd ed in the country, let's look at
need for strength and depth in delivered a fiery address, at- the 80 percent who are em
your generation is even greater
than for mine.
" For we are being challenged
on two fronts. One, a cold, cal
culated attack from the outside,
directed largely from Moscow,
and the other an even colder
indifference and rejection of our
basic ideals from within."
tacking the Communist threat
of world domination.
" People say that communism
has changed its goals, but don't
you believe it. Just show me
one communist leader who has
rejected the goal of world com
munism."
Dr. Judd drew applause from
Staff photo
OVER 550 LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY students received diplomas at the annual spring com
mencement ceremony last Sunday. An estimated 7,000 guests attended the graduation services held
in the Stadium at University of California at Riverside.
ployed, see why they are em
ployed, and see what we can do
to make sure they stay em
ployed, so that the 80 percent
can help the 20 percent.
" As I say to my liberal
friends, I'm a conservative be
cause I want to be in a position
to be liberal."
In his address, Dr. Judd ad
vocated that educators pay
more attention to what he
termed " the heart" of man.
" I think that we must pay
more attention to the desires
of youth, for power comes not
from ideas, but from the gen
erating of emotional enthusiasm
to carry out those ideas.
" It may have been regarded
as sophomoric for some time
now to believe in a cause with
one's whole mind, and one's
whole heart. Perhaps the civil
disobedience we've seen among
our youth lately is a sign of re
jection of that idea. But let's
channel that enthusiasm into
worthwhile objectives.
The Sunday commencement
exercise was the University's
first to be held on the UCR
campus. Previous commence
ment exercises have been held
at the Redlands Bowl, Red-lands.
Sunday's ceremony was the
third in the traditional triad of
commencement exercises. The
vesper service was held Friday
evening on the University's
Riverside campus, with Harold
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Kidney transplant patient builds new life
Paul Anderson leaned over to
turn down the stereo set he
just finished building from a
kit.
" No, I'm not working right
now," he said, straightening up.
" But the gas company has told
me I'm in line for an office
opening very soon. I sure hope
they hurry I'm awfully tired
of staying at home."
Not that the home at 4003
Lindsey Place, Pico Rivera, is
a bad place, understand. It's
comfortable, and roomy enough
for the two adult Andersons
and the four of their five child
ren still living with their par
ents.
There's a new game table in
the den, built by the 37- year-old
father during his absence
from the job. The back lawn is
strikingly green after he reseed-ed
it several weeks ago, and the
front yard also reflects the dig
ging, planting, mowing, and
trimming that have kept the
former gas company crew fore
man busy at home.
Nothing about the appearance
of the suntanned, trimly built
Anderson suggests that he is
alive thanks only to a medical
miracle, but he talks freely of
his experience.
First transplant
" It was a year ago this week
that I became the first person
to have a kidney transplant at
Loma Linda University Hos
pital," he recalls. " That was
when they still had the old
hospital at Loma Linda, instead
of the big new one that opened
last summer.
" I had been in the hospital
for just over three months, un
dergoing continual hemodialy-sis
( a blood purification proce
dure performed by the so- called
kidney machine). That was all
that kept me alive while my
doctors, all research men on the
School of Medicine faculty at
Loma Linda, tried to find a suit
able donor kidney to transplant.
" The long wait was terribly
tiresome for me, and the bills
were mounting up every day."
Finally, Anderson himself
read in the newspaper of a fire
victim who was not expected to
survive burn injuries at a hos
pital in Riverside, about 15
miles southwest of Loma Linda.
Could his doctors learn if that
patient's kidney would be avail
able if and when he died, An
derson asked a nurse.
They did, but were told the
fire victim's kidneys were dam
aged and could not be used.
Later the same day, however, a
surgeon at Riverside General
Hospital - University Medical
Center called back.
" I think we have a kidney
you can use," he reported. This
time the Riverside patient was
the victim of a traffic accident,
injured beyond hope of survival
but with his kidneys apparently
undamaged. Blood types and
similar tests indicated a suit
able match with Anderson.
Family agrees
The family of the dying man,
Virgil R. Hurst, 49, of Riverside,
agreed to the procedure, and
the Riverside hospital surgeons
who are also members of the
Loma Linda University medical
faculty, removed one of his kid
neys about an hour and a half
after his death the following
Sunday afternoon.
Surgeons at Loma Linda
were simultaneously preparing
Paul Anderson to receive the
organ, which was rushed be
tween hospitals by the Califor
nia Highway Patrol at 100- mile-an-
hour speeds. An hour and
ten minutes elapsed between re
moval of the organ in Riverside
and completion of the trans
plant procedure at Loma Linda.
" I had to stay in the hospital
for a rronth after the opeiation,
while the most crucial rejection
period passed and a second op
eration related to the trans
plant was performed. Once I got
home, everything was pretty
normal. I do about anything I
want, and there are no special
diets or anything," Anderson
says.
The doctors did say, however,
that he should not resume the
heavy physical work of his ear
lier job with the gas company.
He takes a combination of
drugs in pill form every day
and visits his doctor for rou
tine laboratory tests twice a
month.
" Most people that ask me
about the kidney transplant
have inaccurate ideas," he ob
serves. " Some think I have an
artificial kidney, made out of
some kind of plastic. Many also
believe a person is set up for
the rest of his life once he gets
a transplanted kidney, which
isn't so either."
Anderson has been told the
survival expectancy for a suc
cessful transplant is usually
three or four years, perhaps
longer. At that time, it may be
necessary to repeat the whole
procedure unless research has
turned up other ways of doing
the kidney's work.
The bill for months of costly
treatment, the two operations
he underwent for the trans
plant, and a third surgery also
performed while he was in the
hospital reached about $ 19,000,
Anderson says. " But I've never
seen it my hospital insurance
and Medi- Cal took care of most
of the expenses," he explains.
An opinion about the proce
dure a year later? Anderson
doesn't hesitate.
" I'd be dead except for the
transplant, and instead I'm
alive. Any time medical science
can save someone's life it's a
good thing."