Scope - Volume 03, Number 20

              Vol. 3, No. 20 Friday, May 6, 1966
Pulitzer Prize- Winning Writer
Calls for Mass- Media Changes
" Competition is the force that can most effectively help the
mass media fulfill their collective purpose of telling the truth to
an educated public," asserts Allan Nevins, Pulitzer Prize- winning
writer and historian.
In a lecture at the University
last week he said that most
Americans are convinced that
the mass media newspapers,
radio, television, the cinema,
and paperback books are not
adequately doing their jobs.
Television has degenerated in
the past five years to a " waste
land of vulgarity and violence."
practically de
void of culture
and informed
controversy, he
continued. The
same trend is
evident in
American mov
ies.
Radio, often
treated with si-very
little use of anything else."
Newspapers, under fire for 20
years for allegedly irresponsible
and biased reporting, are im
proving, Nevins believes, but
still have a long way to go.
Best Solution Is Competition
The best solution to the medi
ocrity in mass media is not
regulation by state, church, or
educators, he says but true
competition both within each
medium and among the differ
ent media.
Dr. Nevins
lent contempt by critics, has
done well with music but has
made " a clumsy use of news and
Foundations or the federal
government could support an
independent television network
similar to the BBC, he suggests,
" but government intervention
is justified only to promote
competition."
Photo by Ellis R. Rich
AN ILLUMINATED MAP showing the dispersal of Loma Linda
University graduates around the world is the backdrop for a dis
cussion of foreign missions by ( left to right) R. H. Pierson,
president of the Trans- Africa Division, speaker for the eighth
annual Medical Missionary Convocation; Richard G. Ruhling,
SM' 66, and Curtis C. Frembling, PT' 66, student leaders of the
Week of Missions Emphasis; and University President Godfrey
T. Anderson.
Trans- Africa Mission Director
Reports Standards Upgrading
" The West predicted that the emerging national govern
ments in Africa would be forced to lower educational and medi
cal standards, but the opposite has proved true," declared Robert
H. Pierson at Loma Linda University last weekend.
Pastor Pierson, president of ____________________
the Trans- Africa Division of
Seventh- day Adventists, was
speaking to 300 persons at
tending the eighth annual Med
ical Missionary Convocation
which climaxed the student- or
ganized Week of Missions Em
phasis April 30.
" The newly - nationalized
countries not only are not fall
ing behind the established in
dependent African countries in
educational or medical stan
dards, but most of the 17
countries in the division are
raising accreditation stan
dards," - he said.
To meet the demands for
more highly trained personnel,
Seventh- day Adventist institu
tions are continually upgrad
ing facilities. " Entrance quali
fications and graduation re
quirements of the five nurses
training schools in the division
are becoming more rigid each
year," Pastor Pierson reported.
" And the trend is for spec
ialists to replace general prac
titioners in many of our hospi
tals.
A pilot program for rehabil
itation of lepers is scheduled to
begin full operation in Zambia
by the end of 1967. " We have
four leprosariums, but we have
never tried rehabilitation, so
this is a big step forward,"
the president said.
Seventh- day Adventists are
also supporting a group of
Christian leaders who plan to
establish a medical college in
Tanzania, he added. The group
is supported by the Christian
Council of Churches.
The Medical Missionary Con
vocation annually recognizes
and honors those who have re
cently returned from overseas
service, those on their way to
foreign mission assignments,
and those who have accepted
deferred appointments to for
eign posts.
University Co- Sponsors
Freedom Award Program
Former president Dwight D. Elsenhower, Utah governor George D. Clyde, and state
senator Randolph Collier have been chosen recipients of inaugural honors of the an
nual Freedom Awards program jointly co- sponsored by the Pacific Union Conference
of Seventh- day Adventists and Loma Linda University.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Riker Laboratories
Contribute $ 10,000
To Medical Center
Riker Laboratories and its
parent firm, Rexall Drug and
Chemical Company, have given
$ 10,000 to Loma Linda Uni
versity.
The funds donated by the
Northridge pharmaceuti
cal firm will be applied toward
construction of the new medi
cal center, according to Uni
versity officials. The new facil
ity is scheduled for completion
in the spring of 1967.
The gift to the University's
expansion program represents
a departure from industry's
general method of support of
education, a company repre
sentative says. Grants are us
ually allocated to the National
Fund for Medical Education.
He explains that in this in
stance the donors made an ex
ception in order to support a
local institution which provides
75 per cent of the cost of each
student's education from
sources other than tuition.
Stores Open Longer
The Friday closing hour of
the Loma Linda Market, Hard
ware, and Pharmacy will be
extended to 4 p. m. during the
period April 29 to October 28,
according to Kent W. Dickin-son,
associate manager of the
Loma Linda Foundation.
Riverside Hospital
Adds " University"
To Official Title
Riverside County General
Hospital last week adopted a
new name that shows its af
filiation with Loma Linda Uni
versity Riverside General
Hospital and University Medi
cal Center.
The county, board of super
visors officially changed the
designation in response to a
request by the hospital admini
strator backed by the hospi
tal's medical staff.
The 450- bed hospital has
been affiliated with Loma. Lin
da University for two years.
A number of School of Medi
cine faculty members are on
the Riverside hospital's staff
and an increasing number of
junior and senior students are
assigned to the hospital each
year.
George D. Clyde
Randolph Collier
" Liberty Bell" awards will be
made annually to guests of
honor who have made a tan
gible contribution to religious
freedom, according to Reinhold
R. Bietz, president of the
Church State Council. The
Council is a non- profit corpora
tion organized to perform the
traditional religious liberty
functions of the Seventh- day
Adventist churches of Western
America.
Randolph Collier, Yreka's
senior state senator from the
second district, has been cho
sen to be speaker and recipient
of one of the awards to be pre
sented at the first annual Free-dom
Awards Dinner May 15,
at Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim.
The announcement was
made by attorney Warren L.
Johns, dinner coordinator and
Church State Council advisory
board member. " It is a matter
of record that Senator Collier
has been a champion ol reli
gious liberty during his tenure
of office," Johns remarked.
Former president Eisenhower
and governor Clyde will receive
( Continued on page 4)
Slotkin Brothers Honored Here
For $ 125,000 Book Donation
Two Los Angeles brothers who gave away the contents of
their bookstore were honored recently by Loma Linda University.
Stanley S. and Milton Slotkin, respectively board chairman
and president of Abbey Rents, a national equipment sales and
rental firm, were awarded the
honorary title " University As
sociates" by University presi
dent Godfrey T. Anderson, PhD.
The ceremony at a testimonial
luncheon in the University Din
ing Hall made the Slotkins the
sixth and seventh persons to be
honored as associates in the
University's 61- year history.
Their gift last year was re
portedly the largest book col
lection ever given to a library.
It comprised over 60,000 new
and used volumes valued at
$ 125,000, according to George
V. Summers, director of libra
ries at the University.
The books had been the entire
stock of the Magnolia Park
Book Store in Burbank, until its
closing one of the largest used-book
outlets on the West Coast.
Summers said the 44- ton col
lection, still being sorted and
processed by the library staff,
is rich in classics and liberal
arts subjects.
The luncheon, at which Stan
ley Slotkin accepted plaques for
himself and his brother, also
featured tributes by Robert E.
Cleveland, PhD, vice president
for academic affairs, and Rein-hold
R. Bietz, vice chairman of
the Board of Trustees.
Photo by Eugene Hood
NE\ VLY- NAMED UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATE Stanley E. Slothin
( center), who with his brother Milton gave 60,000 books to Ver
nier Radcliffe Memorial Library, accepts a plaque from Presi
dent Godfrey T. Anderson, PhD, as Reinhold R. Beitz, vice chair
man of the Board of Trustees, looks on. Both Slotkin brothers
were named " University Associates."