Scope - Volume 02, Number 03

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Vol. 2, No. 3 Friday, August 28, 1964
THE LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Trustees Create New ( J. S. Agency Awards
Public Health Unit y '
Grant for LLU Center East Africa, New Guinea
Programs Will Continue
The University Trustees this week voted to establish a new
academic unit effective September 1.
The Division of Public Health and Nutrition, created by the
Trustees Tuesday, will ultimately bring together in one teaching
area programs now administered separately by the Division of
Public Health and Tropical Medicine, the School of Medicine
and the School of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Named to head the new division effective September 1 is Mer-vyn
G. Hardinge, MD, professor and chairman of the School of
Medicine department of pharmacology and holder of professorial
rank in each of the other public health- related teaching programs.
Dr. Hardinge, a 50- year- old
native of India, brings to his
new administrative post the
experience of 21 years on the
School of Medicine faculty. In
addition to his bachelor's de
gree from Pacific Union Col
lege, Angwin, California, he
holds two master's and three
doctoral degrees.
He earned the Doctor of
Medicine degree from Loma
Linda University in 1942 and
Master of Public Health and
Doctor of Public Health degrees
from Harvard University in
1949 and 1952. His Master oc
Arts and Doctor of Philosophy
degrees, with a major in phar
macology, were conferred by
Stanford University in 1953 and
1956.
Dr. Hardinge lives in Loma
Linda with his wife and their
two children.
Trustee action creating the
reorganized academic division
calls for continued implementa
tion of teaching and research
programs presently underway
in the affected curriculums.
Health education programs un
derway in Tanganyika, East
Africa, and New Guinea under
sponsorship of the present Di
vision of Public Health and
Tropical Medicine will be given
added support under the new
organization, according to the
University's plan.
Lester H. Lonergan, MD, and
Paul W. Dysinger, MD, both of
whom were active in establish
ing the pilot project and assist
ance project in East Africa,
will leave the University next
week to visit the projects in
Tanganyika and New Guinea.
The reorganization will not
interrupt scheduled classes or
other programs of the academic
units involved in the move,
stated President Godfrey T.
Anderson.
Builders Complete Clinical
Office Structure at Hospital
Dr. Hardinge
Physicians in internal medi
cine and pediatrics now are
using the recently completed
clinical office building to the
west of the University Hospi
tal here.
Architects Heitschmidt and
Thompson of Los Angeles de
signed the 60 x 32 foot, two-story
structure in three sec
tions. This design, according
to hospital officials, will enable
the administration to move the
building if need should arise.
Use of the 14 examining
rooms in the stucco and frame
hospital addition is based on a
plan pioneered by the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minnesoto.
Each room is used in rotation
rather than assigned to the in
dividual physician as his per
sonal office. Colored, plastic
flags outside each room serve
to inform him by which physi
cian the room is occupied and
in what stage of the examina
tion he is.
Sloped ramps leading from
the hospital to both the first
and second floor entrances of
the building easily accommo
date wheel chair patients and
other handicapped.
Total cost of construction
and equipment is $ 70,000, ac
cording to Gary J. Rood, ad
ministrative assistant at the
hospital.
Physicians using the building
are: Varner J. Johns, Jr., Ray
mond B. Crawford, C. Joan
Coggin, John E. Peterson, Mil
ton G. Crane, John J. Harris,
Roy V. Jutzy, Alien L.
Schwandt, Jerald C. Nelson,
Guy M. Hunt, Clarence W. Ol-sen,
D. Jeanne Andrews, Gene-vieve
L. Joy, Robert F. Chin-nock
and Molleurus Couperus,
all members of the University
faculty.
Canadian Telecast
Features Program
Of Walden, Sundin
A faculty member and a rep
resentative of the University
development staff were feat
ured daily at Lacombe, Alberta,
Canada, on the " Camp Meeting
of the Air" television program
from July 12 through 17.
Speaking was Richard T.
Walden, MD, associate profes
sor of preventive medicine. He
showed from day to day " how
the Seventh- day Adventist
Christians receive a 25 per
cent health bonus when they
follow the principles of the
Bible and the Spirit of Proph-
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THE HOLt, i'OR A 30- foot pile is drilled in a couple minutes with this contraption. Inspecting
the drilling job of 2115 holes for the foundation of the site of the University Medical Center are
John Zwemer, project inspector, and Evan E. Bo hen, architects' representative. Staff photo.
The University has been
awarded 1.3 million dollars for
the construction of clinical re
search facilities in the new
complex of the medical center
here.
In announcing the award, Dr.
Godfrey T. Anderson, president,
described the grant as one in
volving $ 1,331,000 from the .- Fed
eral Government agency. This
will be matched equally by the
University in construction of
the health- related research fa
cilities.
A wire from Dr. Frederick L.
Stone, acting chief of the
USPHS division in Washington,
D. C., notified Dr. David B. Hin-shaw,
dean of the School of
Medicine. The grant is one of
48, according to the United
States surgeon general.
Of the sum, $ 1,250,000 will
be used for construction of re
search facilities and provision
of fixed equipment. The re- ,
maining $ 81,000 will be used
for the purchase of movable
equipment for the laboratories,
stated Dr. Hinshaw.
The dean added that the re
search laboratories specified in
the USPHS award will serve in
vestigative programs in cardio
vascular diseases, tissue trans
plantation, infectious diseases
and virology, gastrointestinal
surgery, and tumor research.
The laboratories are part of
a research wing in the $ 17.5
million new medical center
here. Construction of the com
plex began last month and is
scheduled for completion in
1967.
Builders Remove
Mountains of Dirt
Construction crews are dig
ging a 85,494 square foot can
yon for the foundation of the
Medical Center at Loma Linda
and are drilling holes for the
2115 piles that will support the
structure. Some 105,000 cubic
yards of dirt will be removed
from the building site north of
Barton Road.
Excavation will soon begin
at the site of the 10,000 square
foot heating and cooling plant
east and southeast of the
School of Dentistry building,
according to Larry C. Havstad,
building contractor. He said
the contractors will have the
plans for that building in early
September.
Trucks run on regular sche
dule to empty their loads of
dirt at dumps on University
properties at Anderson Street
and Redlands Boulevard; Cen
tral Avenue and Barton Road,
thus providing footing for any
possible construction in the
future.
John Zwemer, project inspec
tor for the University, said the
pilings will go 21- 46 feet below
the basement floor. They form
clusters on top of which con
crete pads will be constructed.
These pads, some of which have
as many as 35 supporting piles,
will provide bearings for the
nine- story structure.