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Registration sets record;
classes commence today
A new attendance high was set this year as nearly 3,100 students enrolled in Loma Linda
University, according to Donald E. Lee, PhD, registrar.
Registration ended yesterday. Students began attending classes for all eight schools
NEW STUDENTS TO the University's Loma Linda campus await the
opening . of the registration line in Griggs Hall. These students are part
nfthe 1,800 who enrolled yesterday on both campuses.
Student nurses return
from Thailand service
Two Loma Linda University
nursing students have returned
from Thailand after spending the
luromer as student missionaries.
Cheryl D. Garner and Ardeth
J. Truitt, both members of the
School of Nursing Class of ' 70,
rolunteered to fulfill their elective
requirements by serving at Bhuket
Mission Hospital on an island off
ihe southern coast of Thailand.
The two girls worked as mem
bers of the hospital's nursing
( taff, assisting with infant deliver
ies, in surgery, or wherever they
were assigned by the supervisor.
In the evenings they conducted an
English language school for resi
dents of the town of Bhuket.
Learning the Thai language was
one of the most difficult chal
lenges for Miss Gardner. Miss Tru-itt,
who spent a number of years
in Thailand where her father
isrved on the staff of Bangkok
Sanitarium and Hospital, acted as
chief translator until Miss Gardner
became more familiar with the
language.
Both girls found mission service
very rewarding. " I learned to
know the people not just as the
needy millions overseas," says
Miss Gardner, " but as individuals
just like me. i saw mission service
as it really is, and I liked it."
Thailand, located in the heart
of troubled southeast Asia, does
not possess some of the luxuries
many Americans take for granted.
But the two nursing students dis
covered they did not need some
of the extra things they had come
to expect while living in the
United States.
" All summer long," says Miss
Gardner, " I kept thinking how
thankless I had been for 21 years
and how much I complained
about insignificant things. I really
learned to appreciate all the
things that I had taken for
granted, like hot, running water
and electricity that does not go
off at odd hours of the day."
Would they _ go back? " I would
like to return," states Miss Gard
ner. " But if I am not granted the
opportunity, I will serve to the
' best of my ability wherever I find
myself."
today.
Approximately 1,800 students
enrolled in the College of Arts
and Sciences and the School of
Education on the La Sierra
campus. Over 1,200 registered in
the various schools on the Loma
Linda campus.
Three hundred eighty- nine
students enrolled in the School of
Medicine, 238 in the School of
Dentistry, and 182 in the School
of Nursing.
Nearly 150 students have
registered in the School of Health
Related Professions, 152 in the
Graduate School, and 73 in the
School of Public Health.
Loma Linda University offers
11 degrees in the various
professional and liberal arts
schools, including the associate in
science, associate in arts, bachelor
of science, bachelor of arts,
doctor of dental surgery, doctor
of medicine, master of public
health, master of science in public
health, master of science, master
of arts, and doctor of philosophy.
Psychologist says behavior
affects emotional feelings
Although much emphasis has
been given by professional people
to the affect of emotions on
behavior, little if any study has
been given to the more important
effect of behavior on emotions,
according to a Los Angeles clini
cal psychologist.
Speaking to an assembly of
Seventh- day Adventist high
school teachers and principals at
Loma Linda University, Riverside,
Richard C. Nies, PhD, declared
that a new rationale for mental
theory and practice is needed.
" Mental illness is, in a medical
sense, often a myth," said the
doctor. " The rationale used by
most psychiatrists today that
unacceptable behavior is the re
sult of emotional trauma de
stroys in the patient the basic
elements necessary for him to
cope with his problems. To call a
person mentally ' sick' and treat
him as a ' patient' keeps him from
accepting responsibility for help
ing himself. He should realize that
he must help himself if he is to
live effectively."
Dr. Nies sighted experimental
data in the support of his central
thesis that while emotions influ
ence behavior, behavior has a pro
found affect on one's emotional
well being. " An increasing
amount of research in the last
decade," he said, " indicates that
Freud got the cart before the
horse." Dr. Nies bases his views on
doctoral and postdoctoral studies
and on his practice in state and
private mental health institu
tions.
Betatron work Medical team returns home
continues after a fter three months in Biafra
operator strike
ARDETH J. TRUITT, SN' 70, ( left), watches classmate, Cheryl
D. Gardner, SN' 70, feed infant in Bhuket Mission Hospital, Thailand.
Both girls spent last summer in that southeast Asian country as
student missionaries.
A strike by heavy equipment
operators in southern California
which temporarily halted work on
the betatron facility at University
Hospital has been settled.
According to John W.
Dowswell, MD, director of radia
tion therapy, work on the new
facility, under construction 33
feet below the main entrance of
the hospital, has now resumed.
The betatron is a high- energy,
high- intensity machine used for
maximum penetration to reach
deep tumors with minimum dam
age to adjoining tissue. It employs
both an X- ray beam and a elec
tron beam. Either beam is capable
of rapidly delivering radiation to a
precise tumor at any depth with
minimal skin reaction or radiation
sickness.
Built- iin safety features protect
the patnent and technician, says
Dr. Dowswell. The betatron,
weighing eight tons and capable of
producing 25 million volts of elec
tricity, will be operated under the
direct supervision of a radiation
therapist.
Dr. Dowswell reports that the
betatron will not replace the co
balt machine. It is capable, how
ever, of producing 20 times the
energy of the cobalt beam. It can
also utilize the electron beam for
selective combinations of radia
tion therapy.
Women's club
holds meeting
New University faculty
members will be welcomed at the
first fall meeting of the Faculty
Women's Club on Sunday,
September 21, at 6: 30 p. m. in the
home of Dr. and Mrs. John
Leonora, 11525 Richardson
Street, Loma Linda.
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A five- man medical team from
Loma Linda University has re
turned after spending three
months in war- ravaged Biafra.
The medical group was headed
by P. William Dysinger, MD,
MPH, assistant dean for academic
affairs for the School of Public
Health. Accompanying him were
Albert S. Whiting, MD, MPH, as
sistant professor of tropical
health; Carl V. Lansing, SM' 44, of
San Bernardino; and two Universi
ty Hospital nurses, Gail S.
Wichser, SN' 67, and Sharon L.
Beck, SN' 68.
The medical party left London
on February 24, flying over the
Sahara desert and arriving in Co-tonou,
Republic Du Dahomey,
the jumping off point for land
locked Biafra.
Here the group was divided for
the journey by Red Cross planes
into the war zone. The flight,
normally taking 30 minutes,
stretched into one and a half
hours as the pilot gained altitude
and awaited a bombing lull.
All Red Cross flights to the
hidden airstrip are made at night
without lights. The nearest Nigeri
an jets have come to the airstrip is
five miles. Every morning, tribes
men cover the former four mile
highway with fresh brush to pre
vent discovery.
Dr. Dysinger's team based out
of the Northern Ngwa County
Hospital, established by the
Seventh- day Adventist Church in
1959. The small hospital, though
peppered on all sides by bombs,
has thus far escaped damage.
As many as 1,000 Biafrans
came daily to the jungle hospital,
Continued on page 4
THESE BIAFRAN children are among the thousands who face
starvation daily. Here, a woman distributes food provided by the Red
Cross and the World Council of Churches.