Scope - Volume 02, Number 11

              Vol. 2, No. 11 Friday, December 4, 1964
Heating, Cooling Plant to be 2,135 Persons Tested In
Completed Next Summer Diabetes Detection Week
THE NEW HEATING AND COOLING PLANT is scheduled to be
completed around August, 1965. Architects are Heitschmidt and
Thompson, Los Angeles.
Additional plans were re
leased this week for the heat
ing and cooling plant being con
structed in connection with the
new medical center. The 10,000-
square- foot building will be
built on Loma Linda Drive
southeast of the School of Den
tistry.
" The new plant is designed
to have a steam output of
60,000 pounds per hour and a
cooling capacity of 2,000 tons,"
said Robert L. Cone, vice pres
ident for financial affairs-, Tne
plant will furnish heat to the
medical center and other cam
pus buildings. It will supply
cooling to the medical center
only.
Del E. Webb Corporation,
Phoenix and Larry C. Havstad,
Loma Linda, will build the pro
posed structure for $ 1.5 million,
a figure which is included in
the $ 17.5 million total estimated
cost of the medical center.
Students who have
not received a copy of
the 1964- 65 Student Di
rectory may obtain one
from the. registrar,.
Choirs Sing Carols
And " The Messiah"
The combined Chancel and
University choirs will give an
annual Christmas concert to
night at the Friday evening
Campus Fellowship service in
the University Church from
7: 30 to 9: 30 p. m.
The program
will begin with
" A Ceremony
of Carols" writ
ten by the con
temporary Eng
lish composer
Benjamin Brit-ten
during
World War II.
" The carols are
gloriously medieval in spirit,
joyous, mysterious and decep
tively simple," said Patrick H.
Hicks, minister of music.
Providing harp accompani
ment will be Eilcen Beerman
from Redlands University.
Following the " Carols" the
choir and University orchestra
will present the Christmas por
tion of " The Messiah" by
George Frederick Handel.
Mr. Hicks
SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS for the School of Dentistry are
( front, 1 to r) William C. H. Outhwaite, chaplain; C. Robert
Breckenridge, vice president; W. Eugene Rathbun, president;
( back, 1 to r) Marden E. Alder, secretary- treasurer; Robert W.
Meckstroth, social activities director; and Robert A^ Neufeld,
sports activities director.. Class sponsor is Melvin R, Lund, DMD,
associate professor of restorative dentistry ( not shown).
Dr. Charles Weniger
Dies After Illness
Dr. Charles Elliot Weniger,
renowned American speech ed
ucator, died at his home in Lo
ma Linda Monday, November
23. His death at 68 followed a
long illness. *
Dr. Weniger, at the time of
his death administrator of Cali
fornia Extension Schools for
Andrews University ( Mich
igan), held the PhD degree in
speech from the University of
Southern California. An hon
orary Doctor of Letters degree
was conferred by Andrews Uni
versity in August 1964.
He had held teaching and ad
ministrative posts at colleges
and universities throughout the
United States, and . was a noted
author and contributor to
speech journals. His academic
competence embraced English,
speech and rhetorical criticism.
At the time of his death he was
a member of the Speech Asso
ciation of America, the South
ern Speech Association, Phi
Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa
Phi. Born in Vallejo, Califor
nia, October 22, 1896, he was
educated in Oakland, Califor
nia, elementary and high
schools. He received the AB
degree from Pacific Union Col
lege, Angwin, in 1918, and be
gan his teaching career immed
iately upon graduation. Master
of Arts and Doctor of Philos
ophy degrees were earned at
the University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, in 1933
and 1948.
More than two thousand Inland Empire residents had free dia
betes tests at the detection center in Loma Linda ' November 15 to
19. j
One hundred twenty of the 2,135 persons tested had positive re
sults indicating that they may have diabetes, reports Jerald C. Nel
son, MD, assistant professor of medicine. Dr. Nelson was director
of the free testing program sponsored by the Diabetes Association
of Southern California on the Loma Linda University campus.
Dr. Weniger is survived by
his wife, Eunice Clark Wen
iger, whom he married in 1920.
Mrs. Weniger will continue to
live at her Loma Linda home.
Dr. Weniger had been a pro
fessor at Pacific Union College
and at Columbia Union College
( Washington, DC). He was for
a time dean and head of the
department of applied theology
at the Seventh- day Adventist
Theological Seminary, and from
1947 to 1960 was dean of the
Andrews University School of
Graduate Studies and a uni
versity vice president.
Commencement Speaker
Dr. Weniger was an outspok
en advocate of moral objectives
in education. In June 1964 he
was to have delivered the com
mencement address at Loma
Linda University, but his ill
ness obliged him to allow a
colleague to read his address.
It said in part:
" Tossed between opposing
ideas of spiritual values and
materialism, absolute standards
and relativity, excellence and
mediocrity, our era may be
characterized as The Age of
Confusion. To meet the needs
of this age is the business of
education."
Loma Linda Leads in Final
Arrowhead United Fund Report
" Further, more definitive lab
oratory tests will show that
sortie of the tests were positive
for another reason than dia
betes, and that those persons
don't have the disease," Dr.
Nelson says. " But past experi
ence indicates that by far the
most of them will."
The further tests, also pro
vided without charge, have been
scheduled at the University
Hospital's clinical laboratory
four- a- day until nearly Christ
mas. Results will be sent to
the personal physician of each
patient.
Eighty- two of the 120 sus
pected diabetics had never be
fore been told that they might
have the disease. They range
in age from 18 months upward.
" Probably about 60 previous
ly unrecognized diabetics will
be turned up by the glucose
tolerance tests we've sched
uled," Dr. Nelson estimates.
" The prospect of better health
and longer life for sixty of their
Inland Empire neighbors is
more than enough reward for
the scores of willing volunteers
at Loma Linda University and
elsewhere who worked tireless
ly in the testing program.
" The volunteers can't be
praised enough," he declares.
Phenomenal Success
Phillip H. Rabin, executive
director of the association, said
in Los Angeles that success of
the Inland Empire testing unit
at Loma Linda was " phenom
enal."
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Final Arrowhead United Fund
reports given at the AUF vic
tory luncheon at the Orange
Show last week placed Loma
Linda first among Inland Em
pire communities.
" University personnel, under
the chairmanship of President
Godfrey T. Anderson; the busi
ness community, led by Secur
ity First National Bank man
ager Alexander A. Brown; the
University and Hill churches
and individual contributors all
merit high praise for giving
and pledging a total of $ 14,400.
This is 132% of the Loma Lin
da goal," according to Oliver L.
Jacques, an AUF vice president
and community campaign chair
man for Loma Linda.
Commenting on the increase
in AUF support in the last
three years, G. David Ackley,
general AUF campaign chair
man, said, " This strong trend
indicates a growing awareness
of our area's needs on the part
of a segment of our community
that is already distinguished
for its service to mankind. The
entire Arrowhead area is in
debted to the Loma Linda cam
paign leadership and to the
people of Loma Linda for show
ing the way in doing an increas
ingly satisfactory job in sup
porting the Arrowhead United
Fund's fifty- two humanitarian
agencies." ;
GROUND WAS BROKEN for the $ 650,000 biochemistry- chemistry
building at Loma Linda University November 16. Excavation has
begun for the structure which will rise next to Griggs Hall, the
Graduate School building, at the northeast corner of Central Ave
nue and San Bernardino Street. Exterior dimensions of the build
ing are 132 feet ( east- west) by 103 feet ( north- south).