Scope - Volume 01, Number 13

              VERNIER RADCLIFFE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY
LOMA LINDA. CALIFORNIA
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Chairman of Trustees Outlines LLU Growth
Doctor Sanford P. S. Edwards, 90 years old, Dec. 10
Picture Story from Riverside Hospital
Vol. l, No. 13 Friday, December 6, 1963
THE LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Memorial Service Emphasizes
Qualities of Late U. S. President
Dr. Abraham Lu
Lectured in Turkey
Dr. Lu Lectures at
Turkey Universities
Loma Linda University As
sociate Professor of Pathology
Abraham T. Lu returned in
October from a European trip
during which he was asked to
lecture at the three universi
ties of Turkey Istanbul, Egp
and Ankara.
The universities issued in
vitations to Dr. Lu after the
appearance of his paper postu
lating the pathogenesis of
brain lesions in Behcet's syn
drome in the June 1963 issue
of the Bulletin of the Los An
geles County Neurological So
ciety.
Behcet, late professor at Is
tanbul University, described
in detail a triad of clinical
symptoms ( oral ulcers, genital
ulcers and occular lesions) in
his initial description of the
syndrome now bearing his
name. Dr. Lu's extensive neu-ropathological
study of the
syndrome at Loma Linda Uni
versity has brought additional
information on an infrequent
complication the brain lesions.
Previous cases with brain le
sions had been reported only
rarely in the world literature
on the subject, according to
Dr. Lu.
Dr. Lu's preparation for neu-ropathological
work includes a
year of study at Queen Square
National Hospital for Nervous
Piseases in London.
When asked his impression
of Turkey during his stay
there, Dr. Lu was warm in his
praise for the hospitality of
the Turkish people. " They
treated me royally," he said.
" Not just the professors in the
universities, but the average
man on the street."
Famous Windsor-
Boys Choir to Sing
At Hole Memorial
The Windsor Boys Choir of
Montebello, California, will
perform December 11 in Hole
Memorial Auditorium, La Sier
ra College, at 6: 30 p. m.
Since its founding in 1956
the choir has made over 900
personal appearances, includ
ing guest appearances last
summer on Jack Barry televi
sion programs. It also is dis
tinguished as being the only
boys choir to sing in the Capi
tol building in Washington,
D. C.
Given at the University Church November 25,1963
by Godfrey T. Anderson, Ph. D.
We are met together at this hour to pay a final tribute
to the memory of the late Chief Executive of our Repub
lic, who has been cut dowii like a tree in its prime green
ery, leaving a gaping void against the sky. We are met,
not as partisans nor as sectarians, but as Christians, and
Americans, and patriots, with a deep love for our country
and for those who by the historic processef of democracy
have been chosen to lead the nation.
Campaign to Establish Veterans
Hospital Begins; Some Object
Veterans organizations in the
San Bernardino- Riverside area
have begun a campaign to es
tablish a Veterans Administra
tion hospital in or near Loma
Linda. They contend that pres
ent Veterans Administration
hospitals, strung along the Pa
cific coastline northward from
San Diego, are practically in
accessible to the 150,000 vet
erans of military service in the
inland counties of southern
California.
The effort to persuade fed
eral officials to build a new hos
pital in the Loma Linda vici
nity is opposed by some com
munity groups, including pri
vate medical practitioners in
the area. Almost unanimous in
support of the proposal have
been local government and
trade organizations in nearby
cities where it has been dis
cussed.
The University Trustees have
taken no position for or against
erection of the proposed vet
erans facility.
AFTER TEN YEARS of scientific probing, Jerrold K.
Longerbeam, MD, associate professor of surgery, has left
Riverside County General Hospital for a trip to University
of Minnesota. The Loma Linda University professor, who
was named to his position at the Riverside Hospital Oc
tober 1, is taking oral exams in preparation for a PhD
degree and also an MS which he expects to have by June,
1964. In the background is some of the display material
which Dr. Longerbeam is using in teaching his favorite
subject of the treatment of irreversible shock, which is
the thesis for his PhD discourse. His painstakingly thor
ough probing has established a method by which the
shocks can be treated with a minimum of damage or fatal
result. Staff photo.
Our gathering today in our place of worship is in
keeping with the proclamation of our new- President, who,
in his first official pronouncement, said, " I earnestly rec
ommend to the people to assemble ... in their respec
tive places of divine worship, and to bow down in sub
mission to the will of Almighty God, and to pay their
homage of love and reverence to a great and good man."
The unbelievably tragic pageant of violence of the
past few days, which left in its wake three dead, includ
ing our late President, and another wounded, has in its
bizarre and Wagnerian awfulness jolted us into a new
realization that the forces of evil still stalk abroad on
this sin- cursed planet.
In all the torrent of words which have come forth in
the press, radio, and television since last Friday, some of
the most penetrating came, I believe, from a sports writer
who wrote these lines: " A sniper crouches behind a para
pet. His enemy is himself; so he is going to kill a friend.
He is going to clean the shadows out of his own deranged
mind by sending a bullet into a clear one. ... A prom
ising young statesman, who with his nation survived con
frontation at the missilehead with the most dangerous
power the world has ever known, cannot survive a single
shot out of a grooved barrel and a twisted mind. His ul
timate enemy is not a foreign despot, but a homegrown
madman. The political persuasions of the assassin are a
camouflage. His allegiance is to hatred."
To these words we might add the comment of Pres
ident Wilson's grandson that the gun was not only in the
hands of the assassin, but also in the hearts of anyone
who has cherished hatred in his heart. The tragic events
of the past few days point up a very real and present
danger to our country. It is easy for us as individuals to
be impatient of differing ideas, to be intolerant of differ
ent beliefs. When we give rein to this intolerance we not
only betray the American dream but the Christian way
of life as well. This is a danger to us as individuals, as
members of a Christian community and of a church, as
well as citizens of a state and nation.
A little more than twenty years ago when America
was threatened by the waves of hate which were creating
such havoc in Europe, one of our poets, deeply distressed
by the apathy of the American people toward events
abroad, wrote a warning. He said in part:
We are slow to wake, good- natured as a country.
( It is our fault and our virtue.) We like to
raise
A man to the highest power and then throw
bricks at him.
We don't like war, and we like to speak our
minds. ( Continued on page 2)
University's
Cerebral Palsy
Center Grows
Attendance at the cerebral
palsy center in Loma Linda has
risen to 14 children, the cen
ter's directors were told at
their November meeting. The
teaching and rehabilitation fa
cility is operated by the Uni
versity for preschool and school
age children. It is supported
by the United Cerebral Palsy
Foundation of San Bernardino
County, « ?~ ^ qency of the Ar
rowhead buited Fund.