Scope - Volume 01, Number 08

              LOMA LIM:
LOMA LINDA, CALIFORNIA
University
Vol. 1 No. 8 Friday, November 1, 1963
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THE LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
UGffT m Schools to Adopt
4- Term Calendar?
UNITED FUND TEAM COORDINATOR KATHLEEN EKKENS " Lights
the torch" as the Loraa Linda campus approaches the halfway mark.
Honorary Sponsoring Group
Includes U President, Dean
The Cedars- Sinai hospitals in
Los Angeles have named repre
sentatives of Loma Linda Univer
sity to serve on an honorary
sponsoring committee for the
new Halper Clinic and Research
building in Los Angeles.
Named were Godfrey T.
Anderson, president of the
University, and David B.
Hinshaw, dean of the University
School of Medicine.
The committee comprises dis
tinguished medical educators,
university presidents and
governmental health and re
search directors, according to
the Cedars- Sinai hospital offi
cials.
The University president and
the dean of the School of Medi
cine will, as members of the
committee, join a Cedars- Sinai
board and medical staff com
mittee at the dedication of the
new building November \ 1 at
the Sinai division.
Dr. Albert Sabin, discoverer
of the oral vaccine for preven
tion of polio, will be the guest
of honor and speaker.
Tours of the Halper building's
outpatient clinic facilities and
research laboratories will fol
low.
Loma Linda University will
adopt an academic calendar com
mon to all its schools and cur-riculums
if an action of the aca
demic affairs committee is real
ized. The committee set fall 1965
to introduce a uniform calendar
which can be operated in either
three terms or four.
Vice President for Academic
Affairs Keld J. Reynolds de
scribes the proposed calendar
unification as essential if max
imum benefit is to be had from
cooperative teaching across
school lines.
He cites examples from the
basic science division of the
School of Medicine, offering 150
semester credit hours to students
of other curriculums, and from
the Division of Religion, serv
ing all schools and curriculums
with over 50 separate courses
totalling more than 100 quarter
hours of credit.
" Year by year U becomes
more difficult to make the re
sources of one school avail
able to students of other schools
when some are on the quarter
system, some on the semester
and some on both," Dr. Rey
nolds comments. " The alter
natives which faculties, deans,
and administrators have been
studying since 1961 are to dis
card teaching across school lines
or to adopt an academic calendar
common to all schools."
Unwilling to sacrifice the ad
vantages of interschool cooper
ative teaching, the academic af
fairs committee studied the three
academic calendars in general
use among colleges and univer
sities the semester, the tri
mester and the quarter.
The trimester calendar,
adopted in recent years by se
veral major American universi
ties, was rejected because its
adoption would dictate year-round
operation of all University
schools. This might cause hard
ship to both teacher sand students
in some cases, according to Dr.
VICE PRESIDENT REYNOLDS
Reynolds.
Both the semester and four-term
calendars offered advant
ages for University- wide use,
Dr. Reynolds explains, but the
committee decided in favor of
the four- term calendar for sev
eral reasons. Among these are
the flexible curriculum plans af
forded teachers and deans by a
system permitting either three
or four terms per year, and the
freedom in instructional pro
gramming made possible by the
eleven or twelve- week term, he
says.
" The decision to adopt the
four- term plan lays upon the
faculties in medicine, dentistry
and others on the semester plan
the task of curriculum reconstru
ction," reads a letter explain
ing the decision to faculty mem
bers. " Had the decision gone the
other way, the same task would
have been assumed by nursing
and other schools on the quarter
and by the Division of Religion."
Deans, Directors
Comprise Committee
The academic affairs com
mittee, which made the decision,
comprises a dean or director
from each school, the university
registrar, dean of students and
librarians. Chairman is the vice
president for academic affairs.
Among North American Sev
enth- day Adventist colleges,
which contribute the majority
of students to Loma Linda Uni
versity, Walla Walla College and
Pacific Union College operate
on the quarter system. Several
leading Western schools, includ
ing Stanford, likewise follow a
four- term calendar, and officials
of the University of California
and the 18 California state col
leges have taken steps toward
initiation of a similar plan.
University Corps
At Clinical Meet
In San Francisco
A delegation of 20 School of
Medicine staff members attended
the 49th Clinical Congress of
the American College of Surgeons
this week. Six of them presented
papers in their specialties.
Heading the delegation was
David B. Hinshaw, dean of the
University School of Medicine.
He read a paper entitled " Evalua
tion of Secondary Operations for
Dumping and Malnutrition."
Weldon B. Jolley, assistant pro
fessor of physiology, presented
a paper on " The Origin of Mono-cytic
Cells Using a Sex Chromo
some Label." He is presently
engaged in surgery research
project at the University.
Lyman Brewer, clinical pro
fessor of surgery, read a paper
entitled " The Wet Lung Syn
drome."
Louis L. Smith, associate pro
fessor of the School of Medicine,
read a paper on " The Effect of
Manitol on Renal Function in
Cardiovascular surgery."
Geoffrey Chisolm, a resident
from Hammersmith Hospital,
London, England , presented a
paper based on his work in the
Loma Linda University surgery
laboratory. Its title was " Effect
of Acute Uretrial Obstruction on
paper at the clinical congress. He
was featured in a current issue
of NEWSWEEK. The University
SCOPE has a report on this else
where in this issue.
Faculty Members,
Residents Attend
Clinical Congress
Other faculty members attend
ing the congress were Arthur I.
Kugel, chief- of- staff of the White
Memorial Surgery department;
Samuel Fritz, Ellsworth E.
Wareham, Richard Carter, Mor-ton
M. Woolley, WilfredM. Huse,
Ralph J. Thompson Jr., Oran
Reiswig, Lyman Brewer and
Eugene J. Joergenson, all mem
bers of the surgery department.
White Memorial Hospital sur
gery residents who attended were
Merle Peterson, lan Nelson,
Frank Koos and Arthur Dick.
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ENROUTE TO THE 49th Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco
fellow surgeons tour the Los Angeles campus. They are ( l. r.) Ulrich Gruber, chief resident in surgery ^ ^^ Wicliiaj
Kantonsspital Chur, Switzerland; Martin Allgower, professor of surgery at the University of Basel, Renal Function>> ,
Switzerland; Louis Smith, assistant professor of surgery at Loma Linda University; and Geoffrey
Chisolm, resident in urology at Hammersmith Hospital, England. Staff photo.
Philip J. Vogel, professor of
NeurosurRery also presented a CD