Scope - Volume 07, Number 08

              Vol. 7, No. 8 Thursday, March 26, 1970
Catholic priest will speak on Expansion plans are announced
medicine, religion, and death fof Navajo Indian dental clinic
Keane. and students, are asked to nre- Henry W. Keane, pastor of
the Sacred Heart Church in
Redlands, is slated as speaker
for next week's meeting of the
Conference on Spiritual Prob
lems to be held Wednesday,
April 1, at 7 p. m. in the lobby
level amphitheater of Uni
versity Hospital.
Discussing the meaning of
death to a Catholic, Father
Keane's talk will be part of the
continuing topic that began
March 11, " The Medical and
Spiritual Management of Dy
ing."
Some of the objectives of the
conference, which meets every
Wednesday evening, are to ex
plore cooperation between
medical and ministerial person
nel in their relationship to hos
pital patients, to gain a better
understanding of people of dif
ferent religions, and to provide
dialogue between the areas of
religion and medicine, accord
ing to Paul C. Heubach, pro
fessor of applied theology,
chairman of the conference.
Those attending the confer
ence, which is limited to medi
cal personnel, faculty,' staff,
pre
sent case studies of problems
that often arise. And specialists
in the areas being discussed are
scheduled to speak.
Future subjects for discus
sion include abortion, steriliza
tion, faith healing, hypnosis,
marriage counseling, morals
and values, suicide, religion and
Continued on page 4
Speaker is chosen
for Spring Week
of Devotion series
Calvin B. Rock, pastor of the
Ephesus Church of Seventh- day
Adventists in New York City,
New York, will be the speaker
for the Loma Linda campus
Spring Week of Devotion, April
3 to 6.
Using " This I Believe" as his
theme, Mr. Rock will present
seven topics during the week
end series of meetings.
Next week's issue of Univer
sity SCOPE will carry a more
detailed account of the upcom
ing series of meeting.
Husband, wife duo- pianists
are next featured UALS artists
Husband and wife duo- pian
ists Patrick H. and Patsy Hicks,
are the next scheduled perfor
mers for the seventh University
Artist and Lecture Series, Sat
urday, April 4, at 8 p. m. in Bur
den Hall.
Four composers will be fea
tured on the program. The con
cert begins with Ludwig von
Beethoven's " Sonata in D- Ma-jor,
Opus 6," followed by " Son
ata in F- Minor, Opus 34," by
Johannes Brahms.
The last two compositions are
Robert Schumann's " Andan
te and Variations in B- Flat
Major, Opus 46," and " Scara-mouche,"
by Darius Milhaud.
Mr. Hicks, former minister of
music for the University Church
of Seventh- day Adventists in
Loma Linda, received his mas
ter's degree in music from Pea-body
Conservatory, Baltimore,
Maryland, in 1962. Mr. Hicks,
assistant professor of music, is
currently on a leave of absence
from his duties in the depart
ment of music.
Admission to the program is
a University Artist and Lec
ture Series season pass, a Loma
Linda campus student identifi
cation card, or $ 1 at the door.
The Monument Valley Community Oral Health Service, established and operated
by the School of Dentistry, will soon be expanding its facilities from five dental chairs
to 10, and will send more senior dental students to help maintain it.
Attached to the Monument Valley Seventh- day Adventist Mission Hospital, it is
located on the edge of the lar
gest Indian reservation in the
nation, the 24,000- square- mile
Navajo reservation ( population
is 40,000) where the corners of
Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and
New Mexico meet.
Despite its isolation, the den
tal clinic is treating about 500
patients a month, most of
whom are in dire need of dental
treatment. The clinic compli
ments the 21- bed hospital
which was founded in 1961.
Along with many types of
restorative treatment, in the
last year clinic dent ists ex
tracted 1,700 teeth. A poverty
diet of fried bread, mutton, and
coffee, supplemented near the
trading posts by packaged pas
tries, soft drinks and candy, is
the obvious reason.
Set up five years ago as a
demonstration program in com-irtunity
dentistry, with a grant
from the National Institute of
Health, the dental clinic also
provides an opportunity for the
School of Dentistry's senior
honor students, supervised by
two faculty members, to broad
en their experience in treating
entire families. It is equipped,
like the school clinics in Loma
Linda, with modern operator-ies,
contour chairs, high- speed
drills, x- ray units, darkroom,
and a laboratory sophisti
cated equipment which con
trasts oddly with the primitive
life of the reservation.
There is a Public Health Ser
vice clinic for schoolchildren,
in a town about 30 miles away,
which will treat adults in emer
gencies, but only in summer.
This puts a large and growing
burden on the Loma Linda
staff: two honor students, ro
tated every six weeks, who will
be increased to four in the near
future; a dental hygienist, three
Navajo dental assistants and
a Navajo laboratory technician,
who were all trained by the
Univesity and who will train
the necessary additional assis
tants at the clinic; and two
supervising faculty members,
Kenneth E. Wical, DDS, assis
tant professor of restorative
dentistry, and Charles A. Cut
ting, DDS, instructor in preven
tive and community dentistry.
Continued on page 4
SENIOR DENTAL STUDENT Gerald M. Cole examines the teeth
of a Navajo Indian child in the dental clinic at Monument Valley.
The clinic, set- up and operated by the School of Dentistry, is in
the process of expanding its facilities.
Publication receives Folk singing group
recognition from
paper manufacturer
Loma Linda University is the
recipient of a gratuitous adver
tising boost.
" Threshold," a squarish, gold,
general information publication
prepared last summer by the
academic publications office,
caught the eye of a paper com
pany representative. Thereupon,
he routed through channels a
request to print copies for cir
culation to printers and buyers
of printing.
Thus, the philosophy, organ
ization, and curriculums of the
University are being dissemi
nated to 15,000 business persons
who regularly receive samples
demonstrating uses of the vari
ous papers distributed by a
nationwide paper company
Among the products handled by
the Los Angeles based firm are
those of a Dayton, Ohio, paper
mill, and one of its papers was
selected by the editorial staff
for this publication.
" Threshold" is a soft- sell piece
intended to appeal to the
thoughtful student. Written and
. designed in two days, it is the
joint work of Ada L. Turner,
editor of academic publications;
to present sunrise
Easter service
The Wedgewood, a religious
folk group based in Loma Linda,
will present two original com
positions at the 1970 Mount
Rubidoux Easter sunrise serv
ice, Riverside, Sunday, March
29.
Comprising the four - man
team are Robert B. Summerour,
SM' 71; John L. Waller, SM' 71;
Jerry P. Hoyle, youth pastor at
the Vallejo Drive Seventh- day
Adventist Church in Glendale;
and Gary R. Evans, a student
at Glendale Academy, Glendale.
They have recorded five al
bums since their first concert in
England in 1966. The two orig
inal works to be presented at
the sunrise service are " The
Snow White Dove" and " Light
On The Mountain." Informal
singing will be led by the group
after the sunrise service.
Jerilyn D. Emori, projects edi
tor; and Kathleen Dern, edito
rial assistant. Oliver L. Jacques,
university relations officer, col
laborated with the editors.
Mrs. Turner has directed the
editorial service since 1953.
Snails breed for research
Microbiologist will report findings in Japan
PATRICK H. AND PATSY HICKS, assistant professor of music,
are scheduled as the next University Artist and Lecture Series per
formers. The husband and wife duo- pianists will feature works by
Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, and Milhaud during their con
cert Saturday, April 4, at 8 p. m. in Burden Hall.
Snail- breeding is the subject
of a research paper to be pre
sented next week in Japan by
Edward D. Wagner, PhD, pro
fessor of microbiology.
Dr. Wagner has been cross
breeding sub- species of snails
in an effort to control the fluke
Schistosoma japonicum that
incubates in the bloodstream
of certain tropical snails as
larvae. As they grow larger,
they leave tne~ snail carrier
and are sometimes contracted
by humans, burrowing through
the skin, causing the disease
Schistomiasis.
Though not a problem in the
United States the disease is a
serious, often fatal, malady in
tropical regions of Asia and
South America. And it has
been a problem for American
military forces and mission
stations in those areas.
Dr. Wagner hopes to control
the disease by stopping its de
velopment in the snail. With
out the snail as intermediate
host, the larvae could not
breed. He is using snails from
mainland China, Taiwan, Ja
pan, and the Philippines in his
experiments in an attempt to
strengthen their immunity
from the larvae which cause
Schistosomiasis.
Dr. Wagner's report on his
research will be given to the
three- week convention of the
Japanese Society of Para-sitology
in Osaka, Japan.