Scope - Volume 01, Number 04

              LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY
LOMA LINDA, CALIFORNIA
Read Inside * Special Consolidation
Report, pages 4 and 5
* Academy Country Fair, page 3
University
Vol. 1 No. 4, Octobers, 1963
THE LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Architects Expect Working Drawings
on Medical Center to Begin in 1964
BICYCLES AND BRIEFCASES GRACED THE WALLS at Loma Linda University Church during the
Monday chapel services. The students meet at 8: 15 a. m. every Monday for an hour of meditation and
inspirational direction.
A four- day meeting at the Loma
Linda campus with Ellerby
Company, consulting architects
from St. Paul, Minnesota,
revealed this week that working
drawings can be begun at the end
of the year for the Loma Linda
University Medical Center.
The architects, according to
Clarence A. Miller, hospital
administrator, " will convert
stated requirements into specific
plans. These will be presented
again to department heads at a
meeting later in the year," said
Mr. Miller.
University department chair
men studied details of the
spruced- up plans with the
architects for five days. Repre
sentatives from the Ellerby
Company as well as from
Architects Heitschmidt and
Thomas participated in the plan
ning sessions.
Department chairmen and their
staffs had an opportunity to con
sult with the architects about
areas related to their depart
ments. Eighteen department
heads were involved in the con
ference that began September
23.
Assisting Mr. Miller in the
meetings and representing Loma
Linda University were Doctors
David Hinsnaw and John
Peterson, respectively dean and
assistant dean of the School of
Medicine.
Ellerby Company's Messrs.
Larson and Gehlsen collaborated
with Earl Heitschmidt, Whiting
Thomas and Richard McNew of
the Heitschmidt and Thomas
firm.
" Everyone in the meeting," said
Mr. Miller, " felt that these
sessions will result in better
plans and facilities for the
medical center." Estimated cost
for the center is $ 15,000,000.
The plans provide for a teaching
hospital of highly modern
design.
First ' 63 Dental Clinic
Notes Record Operation
The School of Dentistry's first
dental welfare clinic this school
year broke all records, according
to Dean Charles T. Smith. He
said the clinic had only one more
student present as the school
year began, " yet the energy
and enthusiasm of the group made
it possible to do twice as much
dental work as the previous
year."
Dr. Smith said it is " a real
opportunity to serve the area"
through the welfare clinic. There
were 108 students of the school
at the clinic this year. They
were assisted by eight alumni and
four faculty members as well
as three members of the auxiliary
group.
Student and alumni participation
are promoted by George Foust,
senior dental student, and Louis
M. Bishop, SD ' 58.
The welfare clinic has been
operated since 1959.
Visitors Study
Dental School
A public health service team
spent three days at the School of
Dentistry last week to study the
school and assist the dental staff
with its research planning. Special
visitors were Dr. Charles J. Gil-looly,
regional dental consultant
for the US Public Health Service-and
Gilbert L. Tunison, dental pub
lic health advisor.
The public health officers were
interested in research which the
school is conducting and were plea
santly surprised by the amount
and scope of research that the
school has done, according to Dean
Charles Smith.
Dr. Gillooly and Mr. Tunison
said they plan to visit the school a-gain.
They will then review project
research now being pursued by the
School of Dentistry staff.
OBSERVING THE LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY dental clinic at work is Nantje Twijnstra, DDS, from the
Netherlands. Dr. Twijnstra ( facing the camera) said this week that she is at the School of Dentistry
for three months to observe clinical techniques and that she plans on returning to the Far East where
she has been a missionary dentist for the Seventh- day Adventist church. Examining the patients at
the dental clinic is Edwin M. Collins, associate professor of oral medicine and chairman of that
department.