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Lama Linda. Calif. 82354
Vol. 3, No. 25 Friday, Auaust 5, 1966
School Provides Dentists,
Clinic for 10,000 Indians
A School of Dentistry faculty member left here this week for Arizona- Utah's vast,
colorful Monument Valley, where he will oversee the area's first regular dental health
program.
He is Kenneth E. Wical, DDS, of Loma Linda, an associate professor at Loma Linda
University School of Dentistry
with previous experience in the
US Public Health Service Divi
sion of Indian Health. Dr. Wi-eal
also served on the faculty
as an instructor in restorative
- dentistry, 1958- 61. He will over-construction
and remodel
ing of a dental
clinic and auxil
iary buildings
begun in late
July on the
grounds of
Monument Val
ley Seventh -
day Adventist
Hospital
Dr. Wical
will remain as a resident of the
valley after the clinic and its
related dental health program
enter full- scale operation Oct
ober 1. The service first in
history for Monument Valley's
10,000 American Indians and
other residents will be operat
ed by Loma Linda University
School of Dentistry with sup
port from the US Public Health
Service and from tribal funds.
The clinic will be staffed by
honors students and teachers
from the School of Dentistry
under the direction of Dr. Wical.
The first student named to
serve a one- to- three month
term is senior Donald L. Cram.
Mr. Cram and his wife LaVelle,
a graduate nurse, are slated for
arrival in Monument Valley
Dr. Wical
October 1.
According to Charles T.
Smith, DDS, dean of the school
and administrator of the Monu
ment Valley program, the serv
ice has been in planning for
several years. Titled " Monu
ment Valley Community Oral
BULLDOZER readies new construction sites at Monument Valley.
A new four- family apartment building to house dental students and
employees and a dental clinic director's house are the only new
buildings to be added. Existing structures will be remodeled for
the dental clinic.
Health Service," it was first an-nourced
publicly in August
1965, when the Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare
allocated $ 129,217 for setting
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Summer Mexico Mission Jaunt
Staffed With 44 Participants
Forty- four Loma Linda University students and faculty mem
bers left Tuesday to provide medical and dental care for the In
dians of remote regions of southern Mexico.
The group will arrive August 3 at Colegio Linda Vista, a Sev-
_______________, enth- day Adventist boarding
school in Chiapas, the southern
most Mexican state. There the
volunteers will divide into three
separate teams to begin a peri
od of intensive clinical work.
The teams will travel by
truck, ox cart, mule, and foot
to the small mountain villages
of Sonora, Aurora Ermita, and
Tabasco near the Guatemala
border where they will set up
their clinics.
Student participants repre
sent dental hygiene, medicine,
dentistry, nursing, physical
therapy, and public health cur-riculums.
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Each year the clinical group,
sponsored by the University,
treats thousands of patients for
medical and dental problems.
No charge is ever made for the
care, often the first modern
health service experienced by
the Indian patients.
Education to needs and con
ditions in other lands is one of
the primary objectives of the
annual clinical trips, according
to University officials. The trips
have been made annually since
1957 at the invitation of Chia-pa's
governor.
Fire Burns
Barn and Equipment
A Loma Linda University
owned barn valued at $ 2,000
was consumed by fire early
Sunday morning, July 17. The
fire, discovered at 3 a. m. by a
passing motorist, sent units of
the Loma Linda Volunteer Fire
Department and the Loma
Linda State Division of For
estry racing to the scene. The
fire was extinguished by 9: 30
a. m.
The barn, located at the cor
ners of Anderson and Orange
Grove streets contained 200
tons of baled oat hay valued at
$ 7,000, 15 surplus truck tires,
and a hay loader, which were
virtually destroyed. Only a corn
chopper rescued from the
flames was partially salvable.
William R. Gurney, Univer
sity auditor, estimated the loss
at $ 10,000-$ 12,000.
Firemen fron the State Divi
sion of Forestry in San Bern
ardino stated they believed the
fire a case of arson.
Bank of America
Contributes $ 1,000
Loma Linda University has
received a $ 1,000 cash gift from
the Bank of America, San Fran
cisco.
University President Godfrey
T. Anderson announced that
the gift, received recently,
would be applied toward con
struction of the new University
Medical Center. The bank had
placed no restrictions on uses
to which the money might be
put, he said.
The check was presented to
Dr. Anderson by two regional
vice presidents of the bank,
W. H. Baughn and D. S. Pier-son.
Mr. Baughn is in charge of
area administration for River
side and San Bernardino count
ies and Mr. Pierson is manager
of the Redlands branch of Bank
of America.
The men described the grant
as one of many made by the
bank to California colleges and
universities for support of their
educational porgrams.
REGISTRATION DATES
August 15, 8 ajn. Pre-registration
for returning
on- campus students, at
Registrar's Office.
September 12, 8 a, m.
Mew student registration
at Burden Hall. Orienta
tion September IS.
September 13, 9 turn.
Returning student regis
tration at Registrar's Of
fice.
Expect September Enrollment
To Top All Previous Records
The largest student enrollment in the history of Loma Linda
University is expected for the 1966 fall term, states Herbert A.
Walls, University registrar.
Over 1,150 students are expected to register in September. The
number is only 40 students
higher than last year, says Mr.
Walls, but student population
on the Loma Linda campus will
be up about 200 compared with
1965- 66.
Nearly all of the 1,150 stu
dents will receive their instruc
tion on the Loma Linda campus.
Students in only two curricu-lums
medical technology and
radiologic technology will con
tinue their studies in Los
Angeles, where the University
has been phasing out its edu
cational programs after more
than half a century.
Medical technology students
who have already begun the
final two years of the four- year
curriculum in Los Angeles will
complete the program there in
September 1967, although new
ly accepted students will begin
this fall in Loma Linda. Stu
dents in the radiologic techno
logy program will all continue
in Los Angeles through the com
ing school year, with all stu
dents in the curriculm schedul
ed for study at Loma Linda the
following year.
Both radiologic technology
and medical technology are
parts of the newly formed
School of Health Related Pro
fessions. The school, organized
July 1 iinAr the Hpntiship of
Ivor C. Woodward, combines
five of the smaller medical- re
lated schools and curriculums
which had previously been ad
ministered separately.
A breakdown of the expected
enrollment shows 340 in the
School of Medicine, largest of
the University schools, and 225
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Brasley Foundation
Makes $ 1,000 Gift
The Ben Paul Brasley Foun
dation recently contributed
$ 1,000 to the new University
Medical Center, according to
Wesley L Unterseher, associate
director of development.
The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvan
ia, Foundation earmarked the
contribution to aid in the con
struction of the new Medical
Center. A previous contribution
was made by Mr. Brasley last
December. The Medical Center
is scheduled for completion in
the spring of 1967.
New Japan University Library
Gets Medical Book Send- Off
More than 500 scientific peri
odicals were donated by Loma
Linda University to Japanese
students as part of " Project
Bookshelf," according to Jess
Hayden, Jr., PhD, associate
professor of anatomy. The pro
ject is sponsored by the Ameri
can College of Dentists.
Sixteen boxes, packed with
medical books and journals,
were loaded aboard a Navy
ship recently to help fill empty
shelves - at the new University
of Hiroshima library. Japanese
officials had requested any extra
copies of medical journals for
the newly established univer
sity, since none was available in
their country.
Dr. Hayden has been involved
in the world- wide project since
1963 when be was a Fulbright
professor in Denmark. He win
be leaving the University short
ly for the University of Iowa,
but the project win continue
under the direction of Edwin
M. Collins, DDS, professor of
oral medicine and chairman of
the department, School of Den
tistry.
The medical books were
picked up at Loma Linda by
members of the San Bernardino
Naval Reserve Training Center
and transported to a ship an
chored at San Diego.
The Navy's " Operation Hand
clasp" delivers everything from
books to buses donated by
American organizations for use
in schools and hospitals over-
.
MEDICAL BOOKS recently contributed to a new Japanese Univer
sity are being stowed away by Johnnie C. McGuffie ( right) of the
San Bernardino Naval Reserve Training Center and Dr. Jess Hay
den, Jr. ( center). Commander L, D. Galbraitb, of the Naval Re
serve Training Center, supervises the operation.