Scope - Volume 02, Number 24

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Vol. 2, No. 24 Friday, June 4, 1965 Sixtieth Anniversary and Commencement Edition
311 to Get, Degrees, Certificates
In Commencement Program Sunday
Trustees Decide to Expand
University Medical Center
Loma Linda University trustees voted May 25 to extend the
new medical center, now under construction, upward another
two floors.
The completed building will now rise 11 stories instead of the
nine originally planned. The additional floors will provide room
for 150 more patient beds, raising the hospital's capacity to 510.
A second major addition to
the new health- care facility
will be another full floor over
the outpatient wing. This ad
dition will serve office and
teaching needs of the School
of Nursing.
Trustees
Chairman May-nard
V. Camp-bell
told a
Founders' Day
luncheon audi
ence on the
campus May 26
that the trustee
action vas Mr. Campbell
prompted b y
needs in the schools of medi
cine and nursing. The two
schools, long divided between
University campuses at Loma
Linda and at Los Angeles, are
both proceeding more rapidly
than had been expected in con
solidating their programs at
Loma Linda, he said.
School of Nursing programs
currently are centered in the
old hotel building bought with
the campus property on May
26, 1905 the event being ob
served by the luncheon gather
ing where Mr. Campbell an
nounced the new plans.
The original medical center
construction plan had called for
additional stories in a second
phase of building to follow
completion of the basic unit.
Builders will now include the
two upper floors in the basic
project now under way, but
will leave them only " shelled
in" that is, unfinished
temporarily until they are
needed for use.
The School of Nursing floor
will be added to the lower, rec
tangular area of the medical
center extending northward to
ward the central campus, away
from Barton Road. The two
top floors will be on the south,
overlooking Barton Road.
PAYING JUST 25 CENTS for his lunch is Dr. William D. Leech,
professor of chemistry. Some 550 people were served the special
1905 meal on June 1, according to Mrs. Gladys Masat, cashier.
Photo by Ellis Rich.
Sixtieth Anniversary Event
A City Set Upon a Hill:
Nichol Says of Loma Linda
" Loma Linda is literally a city set upon a hiU, that cannot be
hid," said Francis D. Nichol May 26 in a Founders' Day convoca
tion. The editor of the Review and Herald ( official organ of the
Seventh- day Adventist Church) addressed an audience at the
University Church in a service designated as the May event com
memorating the sixtieth anniversary of the University's founding.
In his speech titled, " Loma
Linda A Story of Faith Re
warded," Mr.. Nichol reviewed
the University's history begin-ing
with the purchase of the
property in 1905. A resident of
the community from 1905 to
1910, he related personal ex
periences to describe life dur
ing the first few years of the
struggling institution's exist
ence.
" The high faith of the work
ers offset their deep poverty,"
he said. " This was strikingly
true of John A. Burden for it
was he who personally borrowed
$ 1000 to bind the deal to pur
chase the hill. He was the mov
ing spirit for the first and most
difficult decade of Loma Lin
da," he declared.
The church was just begin
ning to expand the medical pro
gram which began in Battle
Creek, Michigan, when Ellen
G. White, respected Adventist
leader, encouraged the opening
of three new sanitariums In
southern California at Para
dise Valley, Glendale, and Lo
ma Linda. Loma Linda was es
tablished in faith when the
church's total membership was
pitiably small, the speaker
stated.
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Old- fashioned Lunch
Served for 25 Cents
Patrons at the University's
cafeteria on June 1 were sur
prised to find that the price of
lunch for the day was only
twenty- five cents. Hostesses
explained that a 1905 meal was
being served at a price similar
to that charged in the early
twentieth century.
The lunch was sponsored by
the University which is cur
rently observing the sixtieth
anniversary of its founding.
On the menu were corn on
the cob, boiled potatoes, bean
loaf, brown gravy, sliced toma
toes, green onions, bread, but
ter, milk, and apple cobbler.
Though no general advance
publicity was released for the
inexpensive lunch, approximate
ly 550 persons crowded the din
ing room during a two- hour
period for the meal which was
served family style. Waitresses
with wide bonnets and long,
flowing skirts, and music from
a pump organ complemented
the historical atmosphere.
THIS NEWLY RELEASED master plan reveals how Lo
ma Linda University will appear in 1970. The 10- year pro
jection drawing shows the new medical center at upper
right. The site of the present hospital is at left.
More than 300 Loma Linda
University seniors will receive
degrees and certificates in com
mencement events today, to
morrow, and Sunday. The three
traditional weekend services
will be held in Loma Linda, Pa
sadena, and Redlands_
Winton H. Beaven, PhD, aca
demic dean and president- elect
of Columbia Union College will
deliver the commencement ad
dress titled, " The Private
World of the Inner Me," Sun
day evening in the Redlands
Community Bowl ( Eureka and
Grant Streets). The 5 pjn. pro
gram will include the confer
ring of degrees on 294 candi
dates, and the awarding of di
plomas to 17 others enrolled in
non- degree professional curric-ulums.
In the first of the weekend
events Dr. Daniel Walther, pro
fessor of church history at An
drews University, will present
a homily, " We Have Promises
to Keep," during the Friday
evening vesper service in the
University Church at Loma
Linda. Prior to this year the
vesper program set for 8
o'clock has been conducted
on the University's Los Angeles
campus.
Sermon in Pasadena
The Saturday afternoon com
mencement sermon, however,
will be delivered in Pasadena
Civic Auditorium ( 300 East
< Jreen Street), as has been the
practice in recent years. Rein-hold
R. Bietz, president of the
five- state Pacific Union Con
ference of Seventh- day Ad-ventists,
will speak on the sub
ject, " The Church and Society,"
for the event at 3 p. m. The
University Choir, ' directed by
Patrick H. Hicks, will present
two anthems at the program.
Graduates this year will re
ceive 142 bachelor's, 31 mas
ter's, and 121 doctoral degrees.
Attendance at the three formal
events is expected to exceed
10,000, limiting admission to
the Pasadena service to ticket-holding
friends and families of
graduates and making early ar
rival at the other services rec
ommended, officials advise.
Sixtieth Anniversary Events
Additional features of the
commencement Sunday pro
gram will be tram tours of the
Loma Linda campus open to
the public from 9 a. m. to 2
p. m., and a ceremony naming
the University administration
building after a pioneer- pres
ident. Tours begin at the ad
ministration building facing
Central Avenue.
The building will become
Percy T. Magan Hall in a pro
gram beginning at 2 p. m. on
the mall north of the adminis
tration structure. Erected in
1955, the building had never
been formally named. Dr. Ma
gan, the institution's third pres
ident, held the office from 1928
to 1942.
Reminiscences from the pe
riod of Dr. Magan's presidency
and the years before will make
this program the final event of
the University's sixtieth anni
versary celebration series. Mu
sic for the occasion will be pro
vided by the Long Beach Muni-
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