Scope - Volume 01, Number 21

              VERNIER RADCLrFFE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY
L. OMA LINDA. CALIFORNIA
READ INSIDE-.
» HT ^"^ J University i JMBK* i t/
President's message to alumni; Dr. Lemon's
editorial
Picture story about special study on smoking
Interview with the School of Medicine alumni
president
Vol. 1, No. 21 Friday, January 31, 1964
THE LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY IV E E K LY N E W S P A P E R
EDUCATIONAL EXPANSION:
We must continue to look for
ward to the development of ed
ucational programs in many
more areas of the arts, sci
ences, and humanities, and
thereby add to what we have
now for the. benefit of the peo
ple. Walter E. Macpherson
Foundation
Grants SM
$ 194,280
The John A. Hartford Foun
dation of New York has award
ed $ 194,280 to Loma Linda
University School of Medicine
for experimental research in
treating arteriosclerosis.
Directing the 3- year investi
gation is Lester M. Morrison,
MD, assistant professor of med
icine. Working with Dr. Mor
rison in the University's Los
Angeles research laboratories
will be Joseph J. Quilligan,
MD, a research professor at
the school; Katsumi Murata,
MD, PhD, assistant visiting
professor; Leon Freeman, PhD,
Hiker Laboratories biochemist;
and Ole A. Schjeide, PhD, pro
fessor of radiobiology at UCLA
Medical School.
Dr. Morrison describes the
project as an effort to develop
an effective method of treating
human atherosclerosis and ar
teriosclerosis. The two related
arterial ailments and their
complications are now the
leading cause of death from
disease in the United States,
with no satisfactory method of
treatment having yet been
found, he says.
A $ 353,040 grant from the
Hartford fund for research in
multiple sclerosis was an
nounced by Loma Linda Uni
versity earlier this month.
LLU Alumni
In Troubled
World Areas
Although the University has
at least seven alumni in the
troubled areas of Kenya, Tan
ganyika and Uganda, no report
has reached SCOPE concerning
the effect on them of the re
cent rebellion of African troops
in those areas.
Seventeen Africans died in
rioting after the initial flareup
in Tanganyika following the
Communist- tinged coup that
toppled the sultan of Zanzibar.
Alumni hi Tanganyika are
Walter E. Birkenstock, SM' 45;
Charles L. Wical, SM' 60; and
Charles R. Stafford, PT60, who
only recently left Loma Linda
for Tanganyika.
All three work at the Heri
Mission Hospital.
In Kenya at the Kendu Hos
pital are E. Arthur Calkins,
SM' 56, and Allan W. Perepelit-za,
SM' 55.
William H. Taylor, SM' 47, is
at the Ankole Mission Hospital
in Uganda.
Apparently the University
has no alumni in the Congo,
where a Baptist missionary has
teen killed and another
wounded in a communist- sup
ported guerrilla attack which
swept through Kwilu Province.
Plane Crash
Kills Alumnus
A University alumnus, Erie
M. Blunden, SM' 37, and Dr.
Byron E. Hall, nationally-known
San Francisco specialist,
were killed January 17 in a
plane crash in the Malibu
Mountains less than half an
hour after takeoff. The private
craft apparently dived almost
vertically into a narrow canyon.
Both were members of the
board of directors of the Cali
fornia Division of the American
Cancer Society and had at
tended a meeting of the board
at a hotel near Los Angeles
International Airport.
They took off in a twin- en
gined Cessna 310 from the Van
Nuys Airport at 6: 40 p. m. after
the meeting ended.
A search for the plane was
begun shortly after 7 p. m, when
mountain area residents re
ported hearing what they
thought was a plane in trouble
and then a crash.
The wreckage was not found
until daylight, however, when
the pilot of a Sheriff's Air
Squadron plane spotted it. Res
cue workers reached the site
hours later.
Dr. Blunden, 51, had been
a pilot for 25 years and was a
member of the Sacramento
Sheriff's Air Squadron and the
Flying Physicians.
In addition to the Univer
sity he had attended Pacific
Union College, Angwin, Cali
fornia.
He was a fellow of the In
ternational College of Sur
geons and in 1962 was an
American delegate to the
( Continued on page 7)
1967: Goal for Completing
University Medical Center
County Board Requests Vets'
Loma Linda Medical Center
The Riverside County board
of supervisors last week
adopted a resolution supporting
the establishment of a southern
California veterans home and
suggested that it be adjacent
to Loma Linda University med
ical facilities.
Southern California veterans
have requested the use of the
former Corona Naval Hospital
as a home and hospital, but
Supervisor Norman Davis ob
served that Corona now is be
ing used as a narcotics insti
tution and there would be no
point in suggesting its use for
other purposes.
The county board of trade is
working with legislators, vet
erans organizations and various
individuals and groups in as
sembling supporting data for a
veterans home and hospital in
this area, according to George
C. Gerwing, general manager.
At a recent all- day session
of a Senate Fact Finding Com
mittee on Labor and Welfare
rn San Bernardino representa
tives of seven veterans organi
zations in southern California
testified concerning the need
for such a medical center.
Three of those representatives
Cost to Construct,
Equip Medical
Center Increases
Latest estimates by ar
chitects show the proposed
Loma Linda University
Medical Center will cost
$ 17,650,000, reports Presi
dent Godfrey T. Anderson.
The figure includes con
struction and equipment of
the complex including a
366- bed hospital, research
and teaching facilities, and
outpatient clinics, Dr. An
derson says.
recommended the Loma Linda
area as a site, contending
there are no better medical
facilities in the country than
those at Loma Linda.
Findings of the committee
will be presented to the Senate
at its next session.
The Loma Linda area also
has been proposed as the site
for a federal veterans hospital
in addition to the state institu
tion.
Preliminary planning for con
struction of the new Loma Lin
da University Medical Center
at Loma Linda is nearing com
pletion, with March 1 set as
the date for final approval of
those plans.
Only two or three internal
areas have not been definitely
settled as to precise size and
arrangement, according to Rob
ert L. Cone, vice president for
financial affairs and chairman
of the planning committee for
the proposed center.
Operational in 1967
Students entering profession
al curriculums at the Univer
sity in the fall of 1967 will be
the first to get their educations
largely within the walls of the
new facility, says Mr. Cone.
The final stage of a four- part
construction calendar will be
completed then, he says.
The first of the four stages
begins within the period of sev
eral weeks immediately follow
ing the formal ground breaking
June 7 of this year. Excavation
and foundation work for the
entire complex will be under
way from July 1 or sooner un
til about March 1, 1965, ac
cording to the committee's cal
endar.
Structural framing of the
eight- story hospital and related
facilities will begin about that
date ( March 1965) and overlap
into the actual construction
stage. March 1967 is the goal
for completing actual construc
tion, Mr. Cone discloses.
The fourth and final stage of
the construction timetable be
gins with completion of the ac
tual building, the committee
indicates.. It involves the out
fitting and equipping of the mul-tirnillion-
dollar medical center
for high- quality patient care
and teaching programs.
The months between comple
tion of actual construction in
March and beginning of the
academic year in September
should allow ample time for
equipping and staffing the facil
ity to accommodate incoming
students in 1967, Mr. Cone says.
DR. AND MRS. LESTER H. LONERGAN look on as a five- day plan enrollee under
goes a test of his lung capacity. The program is under the direction of Mervyn G.
Hardinge, professor of pharmacology; Dr. Lonergan, associate professor of pharma
cology; and Donald L Peterson, assistant professor of pharmacology. A picture story
appears on the inside pages. Photo by Ellis Rich.