Scope - Volume 07, Number 04

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Vol. 7, No. 4 Thursday, February 12, 1970
Laker basketball star to coach Dental students plan mobile clinic
for Morongo Indian Reservation academy teams at La Sierra
All- star center for the Na
tional Basketball Association
( NBA) Los Angeles Lakers
Wilt Chamberlain and former
University of Southern Califor
nia, Los Angeles, Ail- American
John Rudometkin will coach a
basketball game Sunday, Feb
ruary 22, from 2: 30 to 4 p. m.
in the La Sierra Academy gym
nasium.
Top basketball players from
academies in the southern and
southeastern conferences of
Seventh - day Adventists will
play a game, each side being
coached by one of the two stars.
The game will be part of the
Visitor's Day sponsored by the
College of Arts and Sciences
and the School of Education as
part of " Kaleidoscope 70."
Mr. Rudometkin was a two-time
AU- American in the mid-
1960' s. He played briefly with
the NBA New York Knicker
bockers but his career was cut
short by a serious muscular dis
order. While recuperating from
the disease he became a mem
ber of the Seventh- day Adven-tist
church through his wife.
They now live in Fresno.
Entering his llth NBA sea
son Mr, Chamberlain holds 52
NBA regular season, playoff,
and career records including
most points scored in one
game, 100, and most rebounds
in one game, 55. He is also the
greatest career scorer in the
history of basketball with
27,098 points for a 34.4 points-per-
game average.
He has led the NBA in scor
ing seven times, in rebounding
eight times, in field goal per
centage seven times, and in as
sists once. He has also been
the league's most valuable
player five times.
Also a two- time All- Ameri-can
in college, Mr. Chamber
lain played with the Harlem
Globetrotters before joining the
NBA as a member of the Phila
delphia ( later the San Fran
cisco) Warriors. He also led
the Philadelphia 76ers to a
world championship before
coming to the Lakers in 1968.
Frank W. Jobe, SM' 56, was
instrumental in arranging the
appearance of the 7' 2", 285
pound center at the Visitor's
Day basketball game. Dr. Jobe
is Mr. Chamberlain's private
physician and is treating him
for a knee injury which has
sidelined him for most of this
season. Dr. Jobe is also the
team physician of the Los An
geles Dodgers as well as the
Lakers.
Medical space
expert will speak
in Loma Linda
Nationally - known space
medicine expert Charles A.
Berry, MD, will be guest lec
turer at Loma Linda Univer
sity, Thursday, February 19, at
7: 30 p. m. in Gentry Gym
nasium, Loma Linda campus.
Dr Berry, ^ 1. enter of medi
cal research and operations at
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration Manned
Spacecraft Center, Houston,
Texas, will speak on the medi
cal results of the Apollo
manned space flights.
In his position, Dr. Berry is
responsible for planning, im
plementing, and continually
evaluating the medical effort
of the Manned Spacecraft
Center.
The lecture, sponsored by the
School Of Public Health and the
School of Medicine department
of preventive medicine, is free
and open to the public.
Loma Linda University School of Dentistry begins a new program in community
dentistry next Sunday according to Larry V. Smith, DDS, acting chairman of the de
partment of preventive and community dentistry.
The program, initiated by the school's Dental Students Association, will help pro
vide dental care for the more
than 400 Indians living on the
Morongo Indian Reservation lo
cated near Banning.
Patients coming to the clinic
will be seen in a completely
self - contained mobile dental
van. The mobile dental clinic
was recently obtained from the
Loma Linda Campus Hill
Church of Seventh- day Adven
tists who orginally used the
truck on trips to Baja Califor
nia and on Indian reservations
around California.
" Our students will be able
to perform the same type of
dental work in the newly refur
bished truck as we can in our
School of Dentistry clinic," Dr.
Smith says. " The dental van
has two fully- equipped opera-tories."
Dental programs not new
Programs in community den
tistry are not new at Loma
Linda V- uv . ity - icc^ rding * o
Dr. Smith, but the use of a
mobile clinic is. The School of
Dentistry currently operates a
dental health program in Mon
ument Valley, Utah, which
serves the 10,000 Navajo In
dians living in the area.
In addition to the Monument
Valley clinic, students and
faculty from the School of Den
tistry spend three months each
summer providing dental care
among the Indians of Guate
mala.
The School of Dentistry has
tentative plans to purchase a
trailer which will be equipped
with three additional opera-tories.
The new unit, scheduled
for use this summer, will also
be fully self- contained.
" This will give us the option
of working in different loca-t
i o n s simultaneously," Dr.
Smith says.
From four to eight students
of dentistry, two dental hygien-ists,
a School of Dentistry
faculty member, and a health
educator will accompany the
clinic on the monthly trips.
MONTE A. SWANBERG, SD' 71, ( right), assisted by David C.
Brodeur, SD' 71, practices on dental assistant Jean A. Swanberg
in the mobile dental van operated by the School of Dentistry.
The van will begin a community dentistry program Sunday on
the Morongo Indian Reservation near Banning.
Adventist forums to host
conference on environment
WILT CHAMBERLAIN, V V, 285 pound center for the Los An
geles Lakers, takes a rebound away from San Francisco Warrior
center Nate Thurmond in late season action last year. Mr. Cham
berlain, recuperating from a serious knee injury sustained early
this season, will coach a team of academy all- stars at the La Si
erra Academy gymnasium Sunday, February 22. Opposing him as
coach of another team of academy all- stars will be former Uni.
versity of Southern California AU- American John Rudometkin.
SM alumna will
lead third discussion
on race relations
The third meeting in an
eight - week series of discus
sions on race relations among
Seventh- day Adventists is set
for tonight at 7: 30 in Fellow
ship Hall, according to Marilyn
D. Oakes, SM' 72, co- chairman
of the series.
Leading the discussion will
be Myrtle U. Caton Larson,
SM' 61. Dr. Larson received
her master's degree in public
health from Harvard Univer
sity, Cambridge, and studied in
Africa for two years on a fel
lowship. She now works in pub
lic health in Los Angeles.
The subject of discussion will
be, " What Is It Like for a
Black Man After Leaving Loma
Linda." The series is open to
all members of the community
and employees and students of
the University.
The Christian and his envi
ronment will be the subject of
a one- day conference sponsor
ed by the Southwest Region of
the Association of Adventist
Forums at the University of
Redlands in the Casa Loma
Room, Saturday, February 21.
The first session, beginning
i at U a. m., will
feature A. Gra-
| h a m Maxwell,
PhD, professor
of New Testa
ment, with an
t informal pre
sentation on
" The Context
for Concern."
Dr. Hodman ' Eryil Clark as-sistant
profes
sor of biology at Pacific Union
College, Angwin, and a doctor
al candidate at Oregon State
University in radiation biology,
will conclude the morning ses
sion with a lecture entitled " On
Conservation and Christians."
Lunch will be served at 12: 30
p. m. with the afternoon pro
gram beginning at 2 on " Pollu
tion and Solutions" by John R.
Rodman, PhD, dean of faculty
and associate professor of poli
tical studies, Pitzer College,
Claremont, and chairman of
GASP ( Group Against Air Pol
lution). Bob Pratt, secretary of
the San Bernardino- Riverside
Chapter of Sierra Club, and
Howard T. Anderson, president
of the Tri- County Conservation
League and chief geologist of
the State Water Resources
Board, will follow with brief
presentations.
The afternoon session will
conclude with a panel from 3: 30
to 4 p. m. on " Ecological In
volvement and You," moder
ated by George G. Burton, MD,
assistant professor of medicine
and a director and chairman of
health effect committee of CAN
( Clean Air Now).
Other specialists on the panel
will be Dr. Rodman, Mr. An
derson, Mr. Pratt, and Berney
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OT students plan
' open house'
An " open house" of the
School of Health Related Pro
fessions department of occupa
tional therapy is scheduled for
Sunday, February 15, from 3
to 5 p. m. in the east wing of
Nichol Hall, Loma Linda cam
pus.
Pre- occupational therapy stu
dents, high school students, and
members of the community are
invited. The " open house" is
sponsored by members of the
junior class.
A tour through the occupa
tional therapy clinic at Univer
sity Hospital, special demon
strations, exhibits, and a color
film are planned.
Counselors will also be avail
able to give guidance to those
interested in an occupational
therapy career.