Scope - Volume 01, Number 10

              LOMA L1NUA Uniivi . rial I Y
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* California Conferences Largest in World
* Affiliated College Announces $ 5,000,000 Addition
* SCOPE adds Members to the Editorial Staff
* Use of Bulletin Board Restricted. No Advertising
* Alice Gregg Writes Book Talk, a New Column
* Alumni Attend Mexican Liga Meeting at Loma Linda University I
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Vol. 1 No. 10 Friday, November 15, 1963
THE LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
A WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NURSE and member of the Pakistan heart team last week was
chosen Queen for a Day. She is Mrs. Lavaun W. Sutton, here flanked by Mrs. Kathryn Crosby, program
guest, and Jack Bailey, emcee. Photo by Ralph Widman.
WMH Nurse Reins
As Queen for a Day
By Jerry Wiley
HOLLYWOOD " It was simply
marvelous," Queen Lavaun said
as we sat discussing the coro
nation in her suite at the Holly
wood Knickerbocker Hotel.
" Everyone was genuinely
happy for me. They were so
interested and seemed so proud
that a nurse from the White
Memorial Hospital had been
chosen that I was as over
whelmed when I go to work as
I had been at the program it
self. I've been very fortunate
this year, but no one seemed
to mind that."
The comely young nurse was
recalling the previous Thurs
day's unexpected crowning as
" Queen Lavaun, Queen for
a Day." But more than that,
she was reliving a few hectic
days from the summer, June
29, 30, and July 1 and 2, when
she and her fellow members of
the Heart Mission had missed
desperately some of the equip
ment from home as they struggled
unsuccessfully to save the life
of a little girl in Taipei, Taiwan.
They felt the little girl's life
might have been saved if they
had had a positive pressure
respirator. But they could not
find one anywhere in Taiwan.
Viewers of ABC television's
network program " Queen for a
Day" on November 14 saw and
heard Lavaun W. Sutton recount
the tragedy of the little girl in
Taipei and ask that Edward C.
Frank, MD, be supplied this much
needed piece of equipment at
the Taiwan Sanitarium and Hos
pital. Dr. Frank is a 1947
Loma Linda University School
of Medicine graduate.
After the program, Mrs. Sutton
went to work on the evening shift
at the White Memorial Hospital
where she was inundated with
congratulations.
Excited and happy about the
fact that the program had
agreed to get the equipment and
pay the cost of shipping and duty
to Dr. Frank, Lavaun seemed
scarcely to realize that her con
cern for the mission hospital
in Taipei had reaped for her
a substantial reward.
As I visited with her in the
Queen's Suite on " her day" four
days after the program, she had
begun to realize even more of
her own good fortune. A score
of gifts including new nursing
uniforms, dress clothes, hair
styling for a year, a hair dryer,
iron, canopy bed, linens and a
convertible were numbered
among the gifts.
" Some of the gifts I certainly
don't need, and I hope to be able
to give them to a place where
they can be appreciated.
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Church Members
to Hear Startling
News of Growth
Fellowship dinners for both
Loma Linda churches are sche
duled for next week.
Adult members of the Univer
sity Church will meet November
17 at Azure mils Country Club
in Grand Terrace at 6: 30 p. m.
to study their church's Sabbath
school and academy building
needs.
Members of the Hill Church
will dine at the same place and
time on November 18 to discuss
their expansion plans.
Host at the University Church
dinner will be Thomas I. Zirkle,
SM' 28, associate professor of
surgery in the School of Medi
cine. Dr. Zirkle is general
chairman of the church canvass.
Ferdinand Welebir, assistant
clinical professor of urology in
Clinic Maintains
Service Record
An all- time attendance record
was set at the third monthly dental
welfare clinic held November 10
at the Loma Linda University
School of Dentistry. The amount
of service rendered more than
doubled that done during any pre
vious clinic.
Participating were 121 dental
students, 12 alumni, six faculty
members and ten assistants.
Alumni from the area and the
faculty oversee the procedures.
One alumnus came from near
Sacramento to assist.
In cooperation with the San
Bernardino County Welfare De
partment, the clinic provides
needed dental care for many pat
ients by students of all four
dental classes, with assistance
from dental hygiene students.
With the treatment, each patient
is given oral care education with
emphasis on preventive den
tistry.
The clinic is sponsored by the
Dental Students Association with
Del Herrick, « 64, serving as its
president, and George Foust, ' 64,
coordinating the clinic.
Newspaper Features
WMH Heart Mission
A two- page feature story with
pictures on the Loma Linda Uni
versity Heart Mission Team trip
to Pakistan appeared in the
magazine section, California
Weekly, of the November 10 issue
of the Los Angeles Herald-
Examiner.
The team was the first of medi
cal specialists asked by the U. S.
State Department to go to another
nation to assist in medical care.
Members are Ellsworth E.
Wareham, associate professor of
surgery; C. Joan Coggin, as
sistant professor of medicine;
F. Lynn Artress, anesthesiolo
gist; Lester A. Gibson, heart-lung
machine technician; Jerry
Wiley, mission administrative
assistant; Wilfred M. Huse, re
sident in surgery; and Lavaun
Ward Sutton, nurse.
the School of Medicine, is gen
eral chairman of the canvass at
the Hill Church.
The canvass stage of the cam
paigns to support expansion at
both churches and at Loma Linda
Union Academy is under way.
Development programs for the
two churches are being coordi
nated with both supporting needed
construction at the academy.
" The need for more buildings
is evident by the growth of the
University Church," says Pastor
Charles W. Teel. Since 1953
church membership has in
creased over 210 percent, from
981 to 2150. Total church income
from member contributions has
increased over 300 percent, from
$ 183,000 in 1953 to $ 604,000
in 1962. Tithe has increased from
$ 104,000 in 1953 to $ 426,000
in 1962, a jump of over 400
percent.
Included in the expansion plan
is a two- story Christian
education building at the Univer
sity Church, which will house
Sabbath school rooms and church
offices.
" We currently have ten Sabbath
school rooms in our one- story
Christian education building,"
says Pastor Teel. " We need
16 more."
In the present building, five
rooms are used for cradle roll
classes and four for kinder
garten. Six primary classes are
scattered over the campus.
The five cradle roll classes
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