Scope - Volume 02, Number 07

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Vol. 1, No. 7 Friday, October 9, 1 964
Editor, Alumnus Die in
Week- end Air Crash
A plane crash near Hermosillo, Mexico, resulted in the
deaths of Tor Lidar, editor of Scope, Johan B. Furulund,
DDS, a 1962 School of Dentistry alumnus, and two other
men on October 2. A third victim, Dallas R. White, was a
former University employee.
Mr. Lidar was accompanying a missionary flight by
members of the Mexico- Pan American Medical- Education
al League. He was interested in the role of University
alumni in the private group, and on several previous oc
casions had reported their service to the Mexican people
in the pages of Scope.
The league is incorporated
under the laws of Mexico as a
non- profit, non- sectarian or
ganization devoted to improv
ing health and educational op
portunities for residents of iso
lated Mexican villages. A large
number of Loma Linda Univer-
Gift to University Library
Estimated at60,000 Volumes
sity alumni are active in the
organization.
Otbers in Crash
Killed with Mr. Lidar and
Dr. Furulund when the single-engine,
four- passenger plane
crashed short of the airport
runway at Hermosillo were:
Bennett Esposito of High
land, California, a mortgage
broker in San Bernardino, and
Dallas R. White, RN, San Gab
riel resident and a former
nurse at White Memorial Med
ical Center in Los Angeles.
Mr. White had been em
ployed by Loma Linda Univer
sity from 1950 until the Los An
geles hospital changed hands
ten months ago. All four were
Seventh- day Adventists.
Witnesses to the crash re
ported that the craft appeared
to suffer engine failure as it
approached the runway at low
altitude. One account described
an apparent attempt by the pi
lot to glide the plane safely to
a belly landing.
Bough Terrain
Rough terrain precluded the
effort's success, according to
the witness, and the plane
struck an embankment. It im
mediately burst into flames.
When rescuers reached the
blazing wreckage minutes later,
the occupants were all dead.
Their bodies were removed to
a Hermosillo hospital where
they were later identified by
Paul Freeman, MD, president
of the league and passenger in
another plane making the mis
sionary flight.
The Friday afternoon tragedy
began a week end of shock and
sorrow for the victims' survi
vors and friends in California.
Notified by a telephone call to
John Parrish, director of pub
lic information at the Univer
sity, President Godfrey T. An-derson,
Vice President for Pub
lic Relations and Development
Howard B. Weeks, and other
friends and associates of the be
reaved families organized ef
forts to help them.
Delmar L. Herrick, DDS, a
1964 School of Dentistry alum
nus and friend of the victims,
agreed to supervise arrange
ments for return of the bodies
to Loma Linda. Repeated calls
to and from the hospital and a
mortuary in Hermosillo, and to
a mortuary and the U. S. Con-
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sular office in Nogales, Arizona,
could not completely clear the
way for their return across the
international boundary.
The following day Dr. Her
rick and Loma Linda funeral
director W. William Hughes
flew to Hermosillo with San
Bernardino dairyman Harold
Willis, a league supporter, in
Mr. Willis' plane. There they
were able to arrange for the
return of the bodies to Loma
Linda by way of Nogales.
Funeral services for all four
men were Tuesday. Combined
services for Mr. Lidar, Dr. Fur
ulund, and Mr. White were in
the University Church at Loma
Linda Tuesday evening; sep
arate services for Mr. Esposito
were that afternoon in the
San Bernardino Seventh- day
Adventist Church.
Building Date Hears
For New Structure
Ground will be broken in No
vember for a new building to
accommodate teaching pro
grams in the School of Medi
cine department of biochemis
try and the Graduate School
department of chemistry.
The $ 650,000 structure, two
stories high with a full base
ment, will rise at the northeast
corner of Central Avenue and
San Bernardino Street. It will
occupy a portion of the parking
area now immediately west of
Frederick Griggs Hall.
First to use the new building
will be teachers and students
of biochemistry. The biochem
istry laboratories, destroyed in
the fire that swept Edward Ris-ley
Hall last February, will be
on the top floor of the new
chemistry hall. The ground
floor and basement, ultimately
to be used by the Graduate
School department, will not be
finished or equipped before the
opening of the building in the
late spring or early summer,
according to Vice President for
Financial Affairs Robert L.
Cone.
The upper floor, equipped for
teaching biochemistry, will be
put to use as soon as the
building can be completed. The
ground floor and basement
space will be finished and out
fitted as the Graduate School
department of chemistry grows
to require the area, Mr. Cone
explains.
Contractors are now studying
plans for the structure, and
bids will be accepted soon, Mr.
Cone says. Architects for the
building are Heitschmidt and
Thompson, Los Angeles.
With 79 per cent employee
participation, the University
has exceeded its goal by $ 1700
in the United Arrowhead Fund
campaign, according to Dor
othea A. Mathisen, community
relations officer for the Univer
sity.
University employees contri
buted $ 10,765.72 for the 1965
drive in contrast to $ 8,999.71
for the present year.
" The fact that the University
was the first organization in
the Arrowhead United Fund to
reach its goal is wonderful.
However, it is even more grati
fying that faculty, staff, and
employees have so generously
recognized their responsibility
to the activities of the com
munity as indicated by their
generous and prompt response,"
said President Godfrey T. An-derson
in thanking the em
ployees for their support.
President Anderson and oth
er personnel representing the
University were applauded
when the grand total was an
nounced at the AUF campaign
luncheon in San Bernardino
this week.
In speaking of the campaign
success Oliver L. Jacques, a
vice president of the Arrow
head United Fund and chairman
of the Loma Linda drive, said,
" The remarkable achievement
of going over the goal at this
early date indicates that the
personnel of Loma Linda Uni
versity are sensitive to the
needs of their fellow men.
" This fine accomplishment is
an effective way of telling our
community that we are ready
to accept our share of com
munity responsibility. It rep
resents by far the greatest re
sponse by University personnel
since they began participating
in AUF during the 1950' s. The
business segment of Loma Lin
da is moving to complete its
quota very soon."
Campus departments and of-
SWAMPED BY THE TASK of classifying and cataloguing the
60,000 books given by Stanley R. Slotkin are Alice E. Gregg, ac
quisitions librarian, and George V. Summers, acting director of li
braries. Photo by Robert Kreuzinger
University Is First to Top "~
Arrowhead United Fund Goal
Mr. Slotkin
fices which had reported 100
per cent participation as of
October 6 were:
Academic areas: Administra
tion, anatomy, animal house,
biochemistry, Daniells Hall,
Kate Lindsay Hall, microbiol
ogy, Occupational Therapy Cur
riculum, physical medicine and
rehabilitation, School of Phys
ical Therapy, preventive medi
cine and public health, regis
trar's office;
Business areas: Accounting,
campus business administra-
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Faculty Retreat
Begins Today
The annual faculty retreat of
Loma Linda University begins
today at Cedar Falls Camp in
the San Bernardino Mountains.
Some 300 persons, including
full- time faculty and adminis
trative staff members and their
families, will be on hand for
opening events this afternoon
and tonight. Most will spend
the night in cabins at the
Southern California Conference
youth camp, although some are
expected to stay in private
trailers or campers at one of
the nearby public campgrounds.
Nearly 200 other members
of the faculty family are ex
pected for the religiously-oriented
programs during the
day tomorrow. Reservations
for the noon meal approached
500 when the deadline was
passed, according to housing
arrangements chairman John
Parrish.
The organized week- end pro
gram ends Saturday night after
supper, but some of those in
attendance will take advantage
of the opportunity to remain
in the mountains a few more
hours, delaying their departure
until Sunday.
Reservations are required for
all cabins and meals during the
week end.
The book collection of the
Vernier Radcliffe Memorial Li
brary in Loma Linda was near
ly doubled last week through
the generosity of a Los Angeles
businessman.
Stanley B. Slotkin, chairman
of the board for Abbey Bents,
presented an estimated 60,000
new and used volumes to the
library on a permanent loan
basis. This compares to the
74,000 volumes acquired by the
library in the past 59 years.
Mr. Slotkin
indicated i n
telephone con
versations with
George V. Sum
mers, acting di
rector of libra
ries, and Alice
E. Gregg, ac
quisitions libra-
J>| rian, that he
plans for the
books ultimate
ly to become the property of
the library.
$ 125,000
Most of the books in the
transaction were stocked in the
Magnolia Park Book Store in
Burbank. They were valued by
appraisers at nearly $ 125,000.
The library staff now faces
the job of checking through
the 2,000 cardboard cartons to
eliminate duplicates and un
wanted titles, cataloguing, card-filing,
and cross- indexing the
newly acquired books before
they can be made available to
library patrons.
Stack Space
Stack space for shelving the
collection is not a problem, ac
cording to Mr. Summers.
Stacks in the library addition
completed a year ago will ac
commodate these books, but
" we will start getting cramped
when the 50,000 volumes in
our Los Angeles campus library
are moved out here," he pre
dicts.
Both library staff members
and Maintenance Service crews
worked overtime getting the
books to Loma Linda from the
Burbank location. A condition
of the transaction was that
they be removed from the
bookstore by October 1, when
Mr. Slotkin's business interests
required it to be free for other
use.
36 Tons
The boxed books, amounting
to some 36 tons, are stored in
unused areas of the library
building and in basement cor
ridors until acquisition pro
cedures can begin.
Weeks Elected
Society Director
The Inland Professional
Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi
elected University Vice Pres
ident for Public Relations and
Development Howard B. Weeks
as one of five directors at its
organization meeting Septem
ber 23.
Sigma Delta Chi is a nation
al journalistic society, of which
the newly formed chapter
serves San Bernardino and Riv
erside counties. It will be chart
ered officially on October 24.