Scope - Volume 05, Number 11

              Medical- dental team returns
from Central America
Photo by Donald L. Bauer
KENNETH W. STILTS, SD' 70, ( right), applies an anesthetic toanlndian patient at a local clinic in
central Guatemala. Elmer E. Kelln, DDS, ( left), associate professor of oral medicine was the leader
of one of the three groups. Over 4,000 dental proc edures were performed during the three- week trip.
A 36- member medical- dental
team from Loma Linda Univer
sity spent three weeks last
month providing health services
to Indian residents in Guate
mala.
The trip, conducted annually
since 1957, was led this year by
Donald L. Peters, DDS, instruc
tor in oral medicine. The annual
clinical trip has a two- fold pur
pose, according to officials. It
provides a valuable humanitar
ian service to residents of re
mote villages while affording
students first- hand exposure to
the challenge of international
health service as emphasized in
the University's educational
program.
A typical clinical day includ
ed seeing several hundred den
tal and medical patients. Stu
dents and teachers worked from
early morning until dusk per
forming dental procedures and
treating medical patients. The
evening's activities included de
livering public health lectures
to the local residents. The lec
turers stressed health as part
of good religious practice, oral
hygiene, and ways of solving
health problems and improving
the general health of the popu
lation.
Upon ariving in Guatemala
City, the dental- medical team
divided into three groups work
ing in the coastararea, central
highlands, and in the interior
regions of Guatemala.
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Linda. Calif. 93354
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Vol. 5, No. 11 Wednesday, September 11, 1968
Pioneer day honors veteran Enrollment r6COrd S0t;
Seventh- day Adventist workers
^ The Pacific Union Conference
of Seventh- day Adventists wiJJ
sponsor a pioneer day on Sep
tember 22 as a centennial obser
vation of the founding of the
Adventist message in the far
west. The main service will be
held at 3 p. m. in the Campus
Hill Church, Loma Linda.
This event will honor the vet
eran SDA workers in all of
southern California and Ari
zona.
Speakers for the observance
will include Robert H. Pierson,
president of the General Con
ference of Seventh- day Adven
tists; Reinhold R. Bietz, vice
president of the General Con
ference and chairman of the
University Trustees of Loma
Linda University; and William
J. Blacker, president of the Paci
fic Union Conference.
Following the program a ded
icatory service will be held dur
ing which a historical marker
will be placed on the site of
the original sanitarium and hos
pital building. The area, adja
cent to Lindsay Hall, has been
landscaped in preparation for
this service.
In Linda Hall an exhibit of
historical photographs will be
on display throughout the day.
All church members retired
workers especially are cordial
ly invited to attend this pioneer
day celebration. A similar
meeting will take place the fol
lowing week in Angwin directed
by the Northern California
Conference.
Husband- wife team
finish fire duty
in north woods
A husband- wife team man
ned " his" and " hers" fire look
out towers this summer in the
Walla Walla District of Uma-tilla
National Forest.
T. Douglas Flaiz, SM' 72, and
his wife, Jeanna H., both 1968
graduates of Walla Walla Col
lege, College Place, Washington,
worked as fire lookouts at the
Hoodoo and Lookout Mountain
towers in northeastern Oregon
between Tollgate and Troy.
Mrs. Flaiz's tower, similar to
most lookout towers, was a 16-
foot- square glass- enclosed cabin
85 feet above the ground. But
the similarity ended there. The
station, also home for the Flai-zes
when their duty day ended,
was decorated with hanging
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Two student missionaries begin
teaching in Hong Kong school
Two College of Arts and Sci
ences graduates left last month
as student missionaries for a
year of teaching at the Seven-th-
day Adventist Hong Kong
Sam Yuk Secondary School.
Deborah Butler and Joan M.
Hoatson, both 1968 graduates,
are the first women as well as
the first graduate students to
be sent. They were selected by
faculty and student committees;
final approval came from a vote
by the entire student body
which provides travel expenses
for the team.
The majority of students at
the Sam Yuk School ( equiva
lent of grades six through 12)
are non- Adventist, with many
of these being also non- Chris
tian. Only about 20 percent of
the total enrollment of over 600
students are Seventh- day Ad
ventists.
Miss Butler and Miss Hoatson
will teach English and religion
in addition to entering into ex
tra- curricular activities with
the students.
Upon completion of their year
of teaching, both Miss Butler
and Miss Hoatson plan to take
graduate studies at Loma Linda
University in preparation for
further work as teachers in
mission fields.
Student missionaries from the
previous year are Thomas L.
Dybdahl and Richard L. Don-aldson,
both senior religion ma
jors in the College of Arts and
Sciences.
classes begin tomorrow
Over 3,050 students are expected to en roll in the various Loma Linda University
schools and curriculums on both campuses t his year, according to Donald E. Lee, PhD,
University registrar.
Registration for the University ends today. Instruction for all eight schools begins
tomorrow.
Over 500 different classes are
offered this year to students in
the University's schools. The
College of Arts and Sciences,
largest of the eight schools, ex
pects to enroll 1,500 students
for the 1968- 69 academic year.
An additional 300 students will
enroll in the School of Educa
tion, the University's newest
school.
Over 360 students are expect
ed to enroll in the School of
Medicine, 230 in the School of
Dentistry, and 200 in the School
of Nursing.
Approximately 165 students
will enroll in the various de
partments of the School of
Health Related Professions, 65
in the department of dental hy
giene, 35 in the School of Pub
lic Health, and 125 in the Grad
uate School. Three students are
Staff photo
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY students filled Burden Hall last Mon
day for orientation sessions. A get- acquainted social for Loma
Linda students will be held next Saturday evening in Gentry Gym
nasium.
scheduled to enroll in the new
dental assisting program.
Loma Linda University con
fers 11 degrees including the
associate in arts, associate in
science, bachelor of science,
bachelor of arts, master of pub
lic health, master of science in
public health, master of science,
master of arts, doctor of dental
surgery, doctor of medicine, and
doctor of philosophy.
Dental students plan
folk music program
The Dental Students Associa
tion will present a program of
American folk music featuring
Clarence Treat at 7: 30 p. m. in
Burden Hall tomorrow night.
Mr. Treat, a former lead
singer with the New Christy
Minstrels, has appeared in num
erous concerts around the coun
try including guest soloist ap
pearances on two Ed Sullivan
television shows.
The DSA invites the public
to attend.
New German measles serum
undergoes testing in area
The second phase of a three-part
study in the testing of the
rubella vaccine, a new German
measles serum, is scheduled to
begin in the San Bernardino-
Redlands- Riverside area this
month, according to J. Joseph
Quilligan, Jr., MD, research
professor of pediatrics and a
research investigator for Na
tional Institutes of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases.
German measles is a mild
disease, dangerous only to the
unborn child of a pregnant
woman. It may cause the child
to be born with defects includ
ing deafness, heart defects,
blindness, and even mental re
tardation.
" For this reason, we would
like to see all children vaccinat
ed against the disease so that
neither boys nor girls will be
able to pass it on to pregnant
women, and so that girls will
be immune to it before they
reach childbearing age," says
Dr. Quilligan.
The purpose of the study is
to determine the effectiveness
and safety of the vaccine . in a
family environment, . Dr. Quil
ligan says. The three- part study
hopes to demonstrate that the
vaccine will immunize the reci
pient against German measles
causing minimal or no reaction.
Epidemics of German measles
usually occur every six years.
The next major epidemic is ex
pected about 1970, so research
ers are exerting every effort to
have a vaccine available before
then, Dr. Quilligan explains.
Use of the new vaccine in the
program is in accordance with
a study plan that has been re
viewed by the Division of Bio
logic Standards of the National
Institutes of Health.
The investigational vaccine
used in the program was devel-
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