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Vol. 6, No. 18 Thursday. December 18. 1969
Jo A. Nelson, secretary in the community relations office, explains
some of the functions of University Hospital to Shri Dahyabhai V.
Patel, a member of India's upper house of parliament, and his wife. Mr.
Patel was on a ten- day tour of the United States west coast. He is a
former mayor of Bombay, India, the second largest city of that
country.
Staff Photo
Indian parliament member
tours La Sierra and hospital
Shri Dahyabhai - V. Patel, a
member of the upper house of
parliament in India, has charged
Indian's Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi as being a " fellow
traveler" of the communists.
Mr. Patel made the charge in a
speech to nearly 100 students and
faculty members at a seminar
insored by the College of Arts
" and Sciences department of
nistory and political science on
December 9.
Mr. Patel and his wife, who
were on a 10- day tour of the west
coast following an Asian
Parliamentarians' Union Meeting
I in Taiwan, spent part of the
afternoon touring the University
Hospital.
He is a onetime associate of
Mahatma Gandhi, Hindu
nationalist leader who was
assasinated in 1948, and son of
India's first deputy prime
( minister. He is leader of the
. Swantantra Party in the Rajya
Sabha, the 200- member upper
house of parliament.
In 1954, Mr. Patel was elected
| mayor of Bombay, India's second
; city. He served for two
| years.
He drew loud criticism from
| Communist China five years ago
Acting director
named to head
nursing service
Gertrude L. Haussler, associate
director of nursing service for
University Hospital, has been
named acting director of nursing
service.
The appointment was made to
fill the vacancy left when former
director of nursing service
Charlotte D. Ross accepted an
appointment to the position of
director of nursing at Feather
River Hospital, Paradise.
Miss Haussler assumes her new
duties on January 1.
when he led a delegation of
oppositition party members of
parliament on visits to Saigon,
South Vietnam, and Taipei,
Republic of China, Taiwan.
Though India does not recognize
the Republic of China, Mr. Patel
wants his country to establish
diplomatic relations.
In his speech at La Sierra, Mr.
Patel stated that India's
government is " burdened with
corruption." He also accused Mrs.
Gandhi of failing to solve India's
massive poverty problem.
" She nationalized our banks to
benefit the poor. But that was
three months ago," he said. " And
the poor have yet to see the color
of money."
SPH to conduct
mission orientation
training course
The School of Public Health
will conduct an intensive six- week
mission orientation session on the
Loma Linda campus, January 26
to March 6,1970.
The program will aid both
medical and nonmedical
personnel who plan to work or
live outside the United States.
Particular emphasis will be placed
on increasing the effectiveness of
mission appointees.
Assisting the School of Public
Health in the 15th annual
presentation will be the
department of sociology and
anthropology in the Graduate
School.
Some of the subjects to be.
covered in the orientation
program include tropical medicine
( for nonmedical personnel),
cultural anthropology, practical
linguistics, and seminar
discussions led by veteran
missionaries.
Other areas of study will
( Com. on pg. 8)
Theologian speculates on SDA
missions' future in next decade
Sidney E. Alien, PhD, dean of the Philippine Union College School of Theology, Caloocan City,
Philippines, told 150 people attending a Missions Forum meeting last morith that the greatest issue facing
the Seventh- day Adventist church in the decade of the 1970' s is " pressure on our organization of a
world- wide tendency."
Dr. Alien, speaking at the forum sponsored by the department sociology and anthropology, stated that
the issue " is almost never
mentioned in public. We are
apparently hoping that, like a
carbuncle on a coed's nose, it may
go away in time for the banquet if I I II
in going back to school
Dentists' wives join spouses
we simply ignore it."
He also said that " our people
are abysmally unaware of the
subject of race in the church . . .
Adventists of all races are guilty
of allowing their racial pride to
get in the way of Jesus Christ,"
warned Dr. Alien. " Often we say
that we are the Laodicaen
Church. There could be no more
dismal proof of it than our
reluctance to admit that the same
jealousies, hatreds, and suspicions
that we see in militants of all
hues, constitutes a beachhead for
the devil in our own minds."
Dr. Alien predicted that the
70' s will bring " a greater
sensitivity in social, economical,
political, cultural, and intellectual
factors in our promulgation of the
message with which we have been
entrusted.
" There will be a bigger role in
the decision- making process for
several presently disadvantaged
groups, namely: women,
non- clergymen, students,
teachers, non- Americans, and
non- whites."
Missions Forum attempts to
schedule a monthly meeting to
discuss ideas and proposals to
improve mission service in the
Seventh- day Adventist church.
According to James H. Stirling,
PhD, associate professor of
sociology, one of the leaders of
the forum, the organization is
negotiating with Stanley G.
Sturges, SM' 55, a former
missionary to Nepal, to speak at
the January meeting.
Technologist dies
in auto accident
Donald W. Schall, assistant
chief medical technoligist at
University Hospital, was killed in
an autombile accident, November
16, in Redlands. Mr. Schall, 42,
father of two children, was an
employee of Loma Linda
University for 16 years.
Faculty members in the School
of Health Related Professions
departments of medical
technology have established a
revolving loan fund for students
in medical technology in memory
of Mr. Schall.
Contributions may be sent to
Ivor C. Woodward, PhD, dean,
School of Health Related
Professions. Checks should be
made payable to Loma Linda
University. Further information
may be obtained by calling
William P. Thompson, MD,
chairman, department of medical
technology, 714- 796- 7311,
extension 3201.
by Louise Henriksen
science writer
Wives are going back to school
with their husbands in the
Continuing Education program
offered by Loma Linda University
School of Dentistry.
Eighteen wives are at the school
today for a two- day course on
" Work Simplification in Dental
Practice,'' which begins this
morning. With their husbands, 27
other dentists, and 30 dental
assistants and technicians, they
are learning about new team
techniques for taking care of
patients more efficiently.
A recent course on " Nutrition
for Dental Patients," had 19 wives
attending in a class of 70. Perhaps
a hundred more will be on the
campus in the next few months to
study " Motivating Patients for
Effective Oral Hygiene" ( offered
in January), or " What Do You
Tell Your Patient?" ( February),
or " The Dental Hygienist A
Valuable Partner in Preventive
Periodontics" ( March), or
" Twenty- five Years in Restorative
Dentistry" ( April).
Some dentists' wives work in
their husbands' offices, some used
to be dental assistants or
hygienists and still retain a
professional interest which
partly explains their readiness to
return to the classroom. Another
reason is that, at Loma Linda
University, wives accompanied by
their dentist- husbands ( who pay a
tuition fee) are admitted to these
classes free.
Moreover, going back to school
on this palm- fringed southern
California campus, with its
horizons of snow- capped
mountains, is something like a
vacation. A large number of
continuing education students fly
in here from the wintry East.
In the past year, this school's
continuing education program has
provided 42 courses to help
practicing dentists catch up with
new research findings and
techniques developed in dentistry
since they left school. Enrollment
for the 42 courses has totaled
1,036, most of whom were
dentists of long experience. The
courses they completed in one to
seven day or night sessions were
taught by demonstrations,
lectures, and laboratory
participation, and usually in small
classes. The subjects have ranged
from how to use powdered gold
in fillings ( a new material
developed in research. at Loma
Linda), and the esthetics in
prosthodontics ( replacing missing
teeth with dentures), to new
methods of intravenous sedation,
used in soothing apprehensive
patients.
Although the program is
designed primarily to serve the
alumni of the School of
Dentistry, and secondarily to
serve the California dental
( Cont. on pg. 2)
Richard L. Parker, SD ' 68, examines the teeth of a Guamanian woman
at the dental clinic operated by Dr. Parker and Franklin C. Ordelheide,
SD ' 68. The clinic, on the island of Guam, was one of several visited by
Keld J. Reynolds, PhD, emeritus vice president for academic affairs,
and his wife, while on a five- week tour of dental clinics in the Orient.
The trip included stops in Manila, Philippines; Hong Kong; Taipei,
Republic of China; Tokyo, Japan; and Okinawa. The tour was arranged
by Charles T. Smith, DOS, dean of the School of Dentistry, and Edwin
M. Collins, DDS, assistant dean for research and financial affairs.