Scope - Volume 01, Number 18

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L. OMA LINDA. CALIFORNIA
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** SCOPE visits alumni at El Rosario, Mexico
^ Georgia town wants SDA church, physician
^ School of Medicine accepts 84 for freshman class
University
Vol. 1 No. 18J Friday, January 1( j), 1964 **
THE LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY W E E K L Y N E W S P A P E R
Ground Will Be Broken Sunday
June 7 for New Medical Center
Dr. W. M. Landeen Named
Acting LSC President
William M. Landeen, PhD, has been named by the La
Sierra College trustees to be acting president of the liberal
arts college near Riverside. The appointment, effective
through June, follows the death of La Sierra President
Fabian A. Meier on December 30.
Dr. Landeen is a former
president of the college, having
served in that capacity from
June 1960 to June 1962. He is
presently teaching in the La
Sierra history department and
serves as chairman of the de
partment of history in Loma
Linda University Graduate
School.
He is expected to continue
his teaching responsibilities
during his term as interim
president.
Trustees to Meet
The La Sierra College trus
tees are scheduled to meet Jan
uary 23 to select the man who
mil take over the presidency
from Dr. Landeen at the end
of the current school year. No
word about who that person
may be could yet be obtained.
Chairman of the La Sierra
trustees is Reinhold R. Bietz,
president of the Pacific Union
Conference of Seventh- day Ad-ventists
and also vice chairman
of the Loma Linda University
Trustees.
Veteran Educator
Acting President Landeen is
a veteran of over 30 years in
teaching and education admin
istration. Starting his career
in the history department of
Walla Walla College, College
Place, Washington, in 1933, he
joined the department at Wash
ington State University in 1939.
He was professor of history
there until 1957 except for a
3%- year period in which he
held an administrative post in
the postwar Allied military
government in Germany.
The 73- year- old college pres
ident is a native of Sweden
who was graduated with the
Bachelor of Arts degree from
Walla Walla College and un
dertook graduate study at the
University of Pennsylvania,
University of Washington, and
University of Michigan. He re
ceived the Doctor of Philosophy
degree from the latter school
in 1933.
Hartford Foundation Awards
$ 353,040 to SM Research
The John A. Hartford Foun
dation of New York has
awarded $ 353,040 to Loma
Linda University School of
Medicine for a three- year con
tinuation of its investigation of
potential immunity factors in
multiple sclerosis and related
diseases.
The grant will support re
search under the direction of
Berry Campbell, PhD, research
professor of neurosurgery, and
Philip J. Vogel, MD, professor
of neurosurgery, at the medical
school's Los Angeles campus.
The current study will con
tinue research begun at the
University three years ago
Professor to Speak
At Physicians' Meet
The fifth in a series of nine
lectures conducted by the
School of Medicine Division of
Continuing Education and the
Riverside- San Bernardino chap
ter of the American Academy
of General Practice will be pre
sented by Malcolm R. Hill, MD,
emeritus professor of surgery,
January 16 at 8 p. m.
Entitled " Anorectal and Sig-moidoscopic
Examination," the
lecture will be at the Azure
Hills Country Club, Grand Ter
race,
Alumnus to Join
Wabag Mission
Dr. and Mrs. Robert D.
Wood will be leaving Loma
Linda University in the near
future to join the Australasian
Division of Seventh- day Ad-ventists
as missionaries in Wa
bag, New Guinea.
Dr. Wood, a 1962 graduate of
the University School of Medi
cine, has been taking post
graduate work in tropical pub
lic health in preparation for
the mission service.
Mrs. Wood, the former Phyl-lis
Ann Barker, was graduated
from the School of Nursing in
1962.
The mission program in New
Guinea, according to Mrs.
Wood, is similar to the one in
Tanganyika, East Africa,
where a model village is in
operation to demonstrate prin
ciples of healthful living, sani
tation, nutrition, agriculture,
home building and community
leadership. An article on the
Tanganyikan mission was fea
tured in the December 20 issue
of SCOPE.
The couple has two children,
Jeanette, 22 months, and Jona
than, 6 weeks.
EL ROSARIO HOSPITAL in Baja ( Lower) California,
Mexico, was established on the initiative of Dale E. Hoyt,
SM' 57. The Loma Linda alumnus is the founder of the
Flying Samaritans which now operates two hospitals in
Mexico. Dr. Hoyt is seen outside the hospital interviewing
patients. See story on page 4. Staff photo.
84 Freshmen Accepted
To School of Medicine
Eighty- four students have
been accepted to study medi
cine at Loma Linda University
beginning in September. The
new class, if it maintains its
full complement up to registra
tion time, will have two more
members than the present
freshman class in the School of
Medicine.
Director of Admissions Wal
ter B. Clark sent acceptance
letters to the last - of the suc
cessful candidates Sunday.
Applications of potential stu
dents have been under con
sideration by the School of
Medicine admissions commit
tee since December 15, he
says.
A total of 474 applications
were considered this year be
fore selection of the 84, ac
cording to Mr. Clark. Applica
tions for the present freshman
class in medicine, by contrast,
came from 400 hopeful stu
dents.
Adventist Colleges
Most of the accepted stu
dents are currently studying at
Seventh- day Adventist liberal
arts colleges in the United
States, although some college
graduates of past years and ad
herents of other faiths are
among the 84.
The single college contribut
ing the largest number of suc
cessful applicants IB La Sierra
College, near Riverside, Cali
fornia. Sixteen currently en
rolled La Sierra students and
one La Sierra graduate are
among next year's Loma Linda
freshmen.
Contributing five or more
students each are Andrews
University, Berrien Springs,
Michigan; Atlantic Union Col
lege, South Lancaster, Massa
chusetts; Columbia Union Col-
Continued on page 6
Commencement Sunday, June
7, Loma Linda University will
break ground for the $ 15- mil-lion
medical center now in the
planning stages. This is three
months earlier than had been
previously scheduled.
Disclosure of the stepped- up
construction timetable follows
announcement last week that
the University has divested it
self of the Los Angeles hospital
which it had owned and oper
ated since 1918. The $ 7.5- mil-lion
White Memorial Hospital
and Clinic in East Los Angeles
is now owned by the Southern
California Conference of Sev
enth- day Adventists.
An agreement between the
University and the Los Angeles
hospital's new owners permits
educational programs to con
tinue there at least until the
new hospital and medical center
at Loma Linda can be com
pleted, President Godfrey T.
Anderson stated this week.
Meanwhile the University is free
to concentrate all its resources
in development of the Loma
Linda facility.
Architects are rushing com
pletion of plans for the medical
facility, according to Robert L.
Cone, planning committe chair
man. First in the order of
construction for the complex
will be a clinical sciences build
ing. Patient- care facilities will
follow within a few months,
says Mr. Cone, who is vice
president for financial affairs
at the University.
2500 Employees
Clarence A. Miller, hospital
and campus business adminis
trator, disclosed this week that
the 319- bed medical center will
employ 2500, which is twice the
present hosiptal staff. If the
University decides to add a
tenth floor to the complex, says
Mr. Miller, the number of beds
will be increased.
Most striking outward fea
ture of the medical center will
be three large circular towers
in which patient rooms are to
be arranged around a central
nursing station on each floor.
The projected Loma Linda
development reportedly will be
the only complete university-related
medical center between
Houston, Texas, and Los An
geles.
Architects for the project are
Heitschmidt and Thompson of
Los Angeles. Ellerbe and Com
pany of St. Paul, Minnesota,
are consuting architects.