Scope - Volume 07, Number 06

              Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, Calif. 92354
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NATIONAL ISSUE
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Vol. 7, No. 6 Friday, March 6, 1970
Two- campus ' Peace Corps 7 launched
Mark Haffidd
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Selections result of personality, character
Students selected to represent the La Sierra campus in
the 1970- 1971 overseas mission program passed through
a rigid screening that included psychological testing as
well as evaluation by their peers, according to Tracy R.
Teele, La Sierra campus dean
of students.
Ability and willingness of the
would- be missionaries to pay
their own way were not the im
portant considerations made hi iiVfiAr WAflfl
the selection process. A student UllJCj WUI 111
mission board consisting of stu
dents and faculty members ex
amined candidates' character,
over- all abilities, willingness to
pledge a return to Loma Linda
University when they resume
college work, and standing
among their fellow students.
Crucial, according to Mr.
Teele, was the peer judgment
the evaluation made by fellow
students about whether appli
cants were considered repre
sentative of the University's
mission program.
A returned student mission
ary, Richard E. Duerksen, AS-
' 69, is executive director of the
overseas student missionary
program on the La SL^ u. tarn-pus.
Now a graduate student
under appointment as a minis
terial intern in the Arizona
Conference of Seventh- day Ad-ventists,
Mr. Duerksen spent
one year hi Mayaguez, Puerto
Rico, as assistant chaplain for
the Bella Vista Hospital.
The selection process in
cluded interviews by staff
members of the board. The
psychological test passed by
the 25 successful candidates as
part of the screening is the
Minnesota personality profile
test.
Mr. Duerksen expressed sat-
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Senator Mark O. Hatfleld
called on Loma Linda Univer
sity physicians to give " more
direct and personal aid to the
people of developing countries."
Speaking to participants of
the- School of Medicine Alumni
Postgraduate Convention, the
senior senator from Oregon said
that the development of human
potential " requires person to
person contact."
" You cannot educate people
by sending them books," he de
clared. " You cannot eliminate
disease by sending only medical
suppi. c- j. . Even < a people luiist
first be taught how to read by
someone who can teach, so must
they be taught simple hygiene
before they can make good use
of medical supplies.
" Our Lord Jesus Christ's mis
sion was to a wounded world.
Surely you physicians are His
hands in bringing health to suf
fering mankind."
The senator lauded the School
of Medicine for " enlarging its
freshman class to 130 next fall.
We need," he said, " 52,000 more
physicians, yet our medical
schools are turning out only
800 doctors a year."
Senator Hatfield stressed the
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University Extension programs approved
The University extension pro
gram has been approved by the
National University Extension
Association, according to
Robert E. Cleveland, PhD, vice
president for academic affairs.
Directed by Vernon H.
Koenig, EdD, the program en
ables the University to share
educational benefits and re
sources with people who are un
able to attend regular classes.
Classes, which have enrolled
nearly 2,000 students this aca-demic
year, cover a wide range
of professional, social, and cul
tural subjects. They are held
on University campuses and in
various California cities. Some
classes have been organized in
other states.
" There are two basic con
cerns that we keep trying to
communicate to our publics,"
says Dr. Koenig. " One is that
extension education is no
longer ' Mickey Mouse' educa
tion; the other, that it is in
deed the arm by which the uni
versities are seeking to reach
out and help society."
Loma Linda University will make a major contribution this year to the Seventh-day
Adventist church's reputation as a missionary- minded church.
The University will send from its two campuses more than 50 student mission
aries into overseas countries for service during 1970 and 1971. These students, half of
whom are voluntarily postpon
ing graduation one full year in
order to do the mission work,
are hi addition to literally doz
ens of others who will per
form similar service in a Volun
teers in Service to America- like
church youth corps in the United
States.
University president David J.
Bieber said, " We consider the
student missionaries to be the
cutting edge of a new genera
tion of Adevntist youth deter
mined to help carry Christ's
_ gospel to the world. The Uni-f
versity seeks to prepare its
students for significant service
to humanity through health,
education, and ministerial pro
grams."
So popular has the overseas
missionary program become
among students that intensive
training, in some respects re
sembling that conducted by the
Peace Corps to prepare volun
teer workers for foreign serv
ice, has been introduced.
The t-. sc Sierra campus con
tingent of 25 student mission
aries that will leave in June
for six stations hi the Far East
will be the largest group of full
one- year student missionaries
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TWENTY- FIVE LA SIERRA campus students have been ap
pointed 1970- 71 student missionaries representing the University
in foreign countries. Candidates for mission service undergo com-prehcnsi"-
jersonalit id character evaluations._____ __
Alumni and students join
in tribute to Dr. Prince
Over 400 people witnessed
the naming of the School of
Dentistry building in memory
of M. Webster Prince, DDS,
founder and first dean of the
school, in Monday ceremonies
highlighting the 10th annual
The CBS television docu
mentary on the " Mystery of
Pain," originally scheduled
for March 10, has been post
poned until Tuesday evening,
April 7.
The documentary empha
sizes the dental " pain kill
ing" technique developed by
Dr. Nells B. Jorgensen, emer
itus professor of oral surgery.
The " Jorgensen Technique"
as it is now known, does not
put the patient to sleep, but
into a tolerant and pleasant
twilight state Where time
passes pleasantly and two to
three hours of operating
seems to be but a few
minutes.
The CBS documentary also
includes scenes showing
School of Dentistry students
and faculty members.
MRS. M. WEBSTER PRINCE, widow of the late founding dean of the School of Dentistry, receives
a replica of the plaque naming the School of Dentistry building after her husband from Thomas J.
Zwemer, DDS, president of the National Association of Seventh- day Adventist Dentists. Lloyd Baum,
DDS, chairman of the department of restorative dentistry, observes the presentation after escorting
Mrs. Prince to the platform.
School of Dentistry Alumni.
Student Convention.
Saluting Dr. Prince, who
died September 18, 1969, at the
age of 83, Godfrey T. Anderson,
PhD, professor of history, re
called the day Dr. Prince ap
pealed to the Loma Linda Uni
versity president's committee
to begin a dental school.
He quoted Dr. Prince as say
ing, " I did not come out here
( from Detroit) to preside over
a third or second- rate dental
school. We are going first
class."
Topping the ceremony, Mrs.
Anne M. Prince, Dr. Prince'
widow, accepted the plaque
naming the building from
Thomas J. Zwemer, DDS, presi
dent of the National Associa
tion of Seventh- day Adventist
Dentists.
Mrs. Prince said her hus
band's dream was formally
reached on September 18, 1955,
at the completion of the School
of Dentistry building.
The objectives of the newly-completed
dental school, she
said, were summed up by Dr.
Prince in these words: " The
task to which we commit our-
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Summer session
seminars set
( or 1970 term
Six special seminars sched
uled for the summer session at
Loma Linda University have
been announced by Vernon H.
Koenig, EdD, director of exten
sion.
School finance, July 26 to
August 3 This seminar is de-
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Nursing alumni
will look at
youth problems
Georgiana Selstad, maternal
and youth coordinator of the
Ventura County Health Depart
ment, will keynote the annual
Loma Linda University School
of Nursing Alumni Institute on
Sunday, April 26, in the A
Level Amphitheater of Univer
sity Hospital.
Premarital sex, adolescent
pregnancy, and adolescent un
wed mothers are subjects of
special interest to the keynote
speaker who will deliver the
" Mary Monteith Lecture."
Helen Morton, MD, director
of medical care at California
State College, Fullerton, will be
a featured speaker discussing
the problems of adolescence she
encounters in her student health
center practice.
Presenting the local govern
ment approach will be John
Mersereau of the Riverside
Youth Counseling Program.
An all- student panel, moder
ated by Jack W. Provonsha,
MD, PhD, professor of philos
ophy of religion and Christian
ethics, with representation of
students from Loma Linda Uni
versity, the University of Cali
fornia at Riverside, and the
University of Redlands, will dis
cuss problems resulting from
the new morality, sex, co- ed
dormitories, drug culture, and
related generation gap and au
thority problems.
Registration will begin at
8: 30 a. m. and the program at
9: 00 a. m. Exhibits and films
pertinent to the " Adolescent
Dilemmas 1970" theme will
open at 1: 30 p. m.