Scope - Volume 07, Number 18

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Vol. 7, No. 18 Thursday, July 23, 1970
Affiliation developed between
University and Athens hospital
A continuing affllitative ar
rangement in cardiac surgery
has been developed between
Loma Linda University School
of Medicine and the Evangelis-mos
Hospital in Athens, Greece,
according to David B. Hinshaw,
MD, dean of the School of Medi
cine.
The new program, headed by
Ellsworth E. Wareham, MD,
professor of surgery, and C.
Joan Coggin, MD, assistant
professor of medicine, is de
signed to combine the efforts
of School of Medicine members
with the Athens hospital staff
to further humanitarian and
educational purposes.
Drs. Wareham and Coggin
are currently in Greece along
with two School of Medicine
staff members and one School
of Medicine student setting up
the program.
" School of Medicine faculty
members will be rotated to the
Athens hospital at various times
throughout the year," Dr.
Hinshaw says, " spending ap-
LL students named
to committees
University students will be
voting members on nine admin
istrative committees during the
1970- 71 school year, according
to Robert E. Cleveland, PhD,
vice president for academic af
fairs.
Committees with appointed
student representatives will in
clude the academic affairs; Uni
versity extension; summer ses
sion; curriculum study and its
subcommittee, the study com
mittee staff number one; li
brary; commencement coordi
nating; lecture series; commit
tee on nominations for recogni
tion; and the La Sierra pro
vost's advisory council.
A council is currently devel
oping plans and policies govern
ing the manner in which stu
dents will be appointed or se
lected for these committees,
says Dr. Cleveland.
proximately one month each in
Greece." Students and staff of
the School of Medicine will be
rotated every three to six
months.
The affiliation was made
through the joint efforts of the
School of Medicine, the Loma
Linda University Heart Surgery
Team, and Peter M. Kalellis,
pastor of the Westfleld, New
Jersey, Greek Orthodox Church.
Previously, the Loma Linda
University Heart Surgery Team
spent a total of 14 weeks at
the Evangelismos Hospital on
two different occasions perform
ing 61 open- heart surgeries.
The most recent trip of the
heart team to Greece wds last
November and December.
Funeral services
held for longtime
art professor
Former chairman of the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences de
partment of art Chloe A. Sofsky
died late last month at Corona
Community Hospital. She was
63.
Mrs. Sofsky joined the college
faculty 25 years ago. A gradu
ate of Union College, Lincoln,
Nebraska, she later taught art
at Union College and Fisk Uni
versity, Nashville, Tennessee.
Well known in Riverside art
circles, Mrs. Sofsky was a mem
ber of the Riverside Art As
sociation and the Riverside
Ceramic Guild. She was recog
nized as a specialist in stained
glass art, having completed
stained glass windows for sev
eral Adventist churches in the
Southern California area.
Herschel R. Hughes, associate
professor of art and acting
chairman of the department,
has announced the establish
ment of the Chloe Sofsky Me
morial Scholarship Fund to aid
worthy art students. Donations
should be directed to the La
Sierra campus business admin
istrator.
School of Dentistry team
leaves for Central America
A volunteer dental- medical team from Loma Linda University will spend part of
their summer in the cities and villages of Guatemala and Nicaragua.
The 21- member team leaves Sunday ( July 26) on the 2,300- mile flight from Los
Angeles to Guatemala City where the team will split into two clinical groups for the
three week trek across the
Latin American country. This
is the fourth consecutive year
a team has gone to Guatemala.
FIFTEEN LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY students wHl accompany
the School of - Dentistry volunteer dental- medical team to Guate
mala next week. Melvin R. Lund, DMD, professor of restorative
dentistry, tightens down supplies on a truck provided by the
Guatemala Seventh- day Adventist church during last year's trip
to Central- America.
Led by Donald L. Peters,
DDS, director of clinics, the ag
gregation is composed of three
dentists, two physicians, ten
dental students, two dental hy-gienists,
two dietitians, a nurse,
and a medical student.
Upon arriving in Guatemala
City, Dr. Peters will assist the
two groups, one led by Larry
V. Smith, DDS, acting chair
man of the department of pre
ventive and community den
tistry, the other by Melvin R.
Lund, DMD, professor of re
storative surgery, in prepara
tion of an itinerary.
Dr. Peters, accompanied by
two dental students, will con-continue
on to Nicaragua, three
countries south of Guatemala,
where they will work for two
and a half weeks at Hospital
Adventista de Nicaragua in the
town of La Trinidad. There,
they will assist Doris G. McCoy,
DDS, a retired Concord dentist
who went to Nicaragua last
month to set up a dental care
program. They will rejoin the
large group for the return trip.
Though the Guatamala intin-erary
is planned in cooperation
with the Guatamala Mission,
the Loma Linda team is self-supporting
in all respects. Food
and supplies are purchased from
local markets.
Guatemala, a nation of four
and a half million people, is
about the size of the state of
Ohio. The ancient Mayan In
dian civilization flourished in
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UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL patients participate in a new diversional therapy program which started
July 6. Arts and crafts are offered as a pastime in room 8220, located on the eighth floor of University
Hospital, from 8 a. m. to 4: 30 p. m. Monday through Friday, according to Myrtice R. Daugherty, head
of the project. The program will soon move to a larger room to accommodate all patients interested
in the therapy.
Controversial film produced
by LLU public relations staff
A new recruitment film de
picting life at Loma Linda Uni
versity has been produced by
the University relations office.
The 40- minute color film, pro
duced and directed by Gary
Haynes, is designed to com
municate the spirit, purpose,
and life of Loma Linda Univer
sity students and faculty to
Seventh- day Adventist young
people, according to Oliver L.
Jacques, director of University
relations.
Produced at a cost of less
than $ 13,000, the film will be
ready for public showing early
in the fall. The same film made
by a commercial firm would
cost " at least $ 100,000," Mr.
Jacques says.
" The film has received both
enthusiastically favorable and
strongly negative comments
from those who have viewed
it," Mr. Jacques says. The new
motion picture was filmed with
out any preset script, and no
" overt pitch" about Loma Linda
University is inade in the film.
Currently in the process of
final editing, the film is " not
intended to be a sermon, but a
viewing experience," according
to Mr. Jacques.
Swim memberships
open to employees
Swimming club memberships
can be purchased in the physi
cal education office on the low
er level of Gentry Gymnasium
from 8 a. m. to 12 noon Monday
through Friday. Student mem
berships are free.
Membership for University
personnel, including students'
families, are family, $ 10; two
members, $ 7.50; and individual,
$ 5. Membership fees for com
munity residents are family,
$ 35; two members, $ 25; and in
dividual $ 17.50.
Swimming lessons begin ev
ery two weeks throughout the
summer. Further information
may be obtained by telephoning
796- 7311, extension 3275.