Scope - Volume 04, Number 03

              Vol. 4, No. 3 Wednesday, February 1, 1967
Medical Center Project Enters Final Phase
— An Architectural Rendering
Denomination to Have Services
Of All 1966 Nurse Graduates
All members of the 1966 class of the School of Nursing now are,
or plan eventually to be, in the employ of the Seventh- day Ad
ventist denomination, according to Maxine Atteberry, dean of the
School of Nursing. Eight graduates have accepted appointments
to the mission field. ____________________
Three of the eight are pres
ently serving overseas. Cherie
LLUH Administrator
Relinquishes Post
Clarence A. Miller has asked
to be released from his respon
sibilities as University Hospital
and Loma Linda campus admin
istrator, two positions he has
held since 1953.
Announcement of his decision,
attributed to personal reasons,
comes at the end of Mr. Miller's
third full four- year term as ad
ministrator. His first two years
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Committee to Plan Opening Ceremonies
A planning committee has been selected to shape formal opening ceremonies for the
new University Medical Center, according to President Godfrey T. Anderson, PhD.
The seven- member group is considering comprehensive proposals for observing the
historic occasion, including a possible earlier date than previously announced, says
C. McClure and her husband
are in Singapore; Lynette N.
Roesel and her husband are
serving at the Castle Memorial
Hospital in Hawaii; and Judy
D. Whitehouse and her hus
band, Jerald W. Whitehouse,
GS, are working in a Seventh-day
Adventist hospital in Beng
hazi, Libya.
Scheduled to leave this sum
mer are Linda F. Kizziar and
her husband, John W. Kizziar,
SD' 67, who will practice in Ja
pan; Karen W. Peterson and
her husband, Arnold L. Peter-son,
SM' 66, are scheduled to
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Howard B. Weeks, PhD, com
mittee chairman.
Other members of the plan
ning committee are Robert E.
Cleveland, PhD, vice president
for academic affairs, David B.
Hinshaw, MD, dean of the
School of Medicine, Charles T.
Smith, DDS, dean of the School
of Dentistry, Maxine Atteberry,
dean of the School of Nursing,
Ivor C. Woodward, dean of the
School of Health- Related Pro
fessions, and Clarence A. Miller,
University Hospital administra
tor."
Staff personnel working di-
Partial Acceptances Listed
For School of Dentistry
Sixteen 1967- 68 acceptances to the freshman class of the Loma
Linda Univerity School of Dentistry have been announced by
Walter B. Clark, dean of admissions. Additional acceptances will
be made and announced sometime in March.
Students who will enter the ____________________
School of Dentistry next Sep
tember are Roger M. Anderson,
Clovis, California; Frederick L.
Bunch, Lodi, California; Elmer
H. Chinnock, Redlands, Cali
fornia; Gerald A. Fillmore,
Gridley, California.
Patti A. Herndon, La Sierra,
California; George A. Jackson,
Collegedale, Tennessee; Gerald
T. Kraft, Bloomington, Cali
fornia; Gary M. Lai, San Fran
cisco, California; Duane E.
Marietta, Loma Linda, Cali-
Recent No- Time- Loss Totals
Over Quarter Million Hours
University Hospital received an award last week for achieving
more than 200,000 hours of accident- free time, Gary J. Rood,
assistant hospital administrator, announced.
Mr. L. C. Chase of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company presented
the certificate of merit to Mr. ____________________
Rood and Karl C. Fischer,
coordinator of environmental
health, in recognition of 282,891
hours of time- loss free perfor
mance from July 27 to October
21, 1966, by University Hospital
employees.
This is the first time that the
University Hospital has re
ceived such an award. This is,
Mr. Fischer says, because rec
ords of accident free time have
not been kept until recently.
Adelphi, Maryland; Dennis F.
Steele, Fairmont, Georgia; and
Klaus D. Wolfram, Los Angel-,
es, California.
Four- color Photos
Mark Scope First
fornia.
Kenneth W. Pierson, River
side, California; Donald W.
Richards, La Sierra, California;
Karl G. Scheffrahn, La Puente,
California; Clarence C.
Schmidt, Jr., Loma Linda, Cali
fornia; Richard M. Smith,
This issue of University
SCOPE marks the first time
that full color has appeared on
its pages.
While a second color has
been used on the masthead
from the first issue, September
3,1963, four- color reproductions
were not technically possible
until the recent installation of
an advanced- type press at the
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— Staff photo
CERTIFICATE in recognition of an exemplary accident free status
on the part of University Hospital employees is given to ( left to
right), Gary J. Rood, assistant hospital administrator, and Karl C.
Fischer, coordinator of environmental health, by Mr. L. C. Chase,
representative of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.
rectly with the committee are
Charles C. Case, newly appoint
ed director of University rela
tions, and John Parrish, direc
tor of public information. The
entire public relations and de
velopment staff is implement
ing the committee decisions, to
gether with volunteer personnel
from the University.
Plans call for the appoint
ment of a community advisory
committee of representatives
from the area to take com
munity interests into account
in the planning stage.
" A keynote speaker of na
tional stature, and representa
tives from local, state, and na
tional governments will be in
vited as special participants,"
says Dr. Weeks. Numbered
among other invitees will be
officials from medical and edu
cational institutions, profes-
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MRA Students Pass
Registry Exams
All students in the medical
record administration curricu
lum during the 1965- 66 school
year have passed the registry
examination given by the
American Association of Medi
cal Record Librarians, F. Faye
Brown, director of the Depart
ment of Medical Record Ad
ministration, announced re
cently.
The registry examination is
offered each December for
graduates from schools ap
proved by the American Medi
cal Association Council on
Medical Education.
Students who completed the
course this past spring were L.
Jean Baden, Elizabeth L. Brid-well,
Vicki D. McCurdy, Alice
F. Rogers, Rita M. Stiffler, and
Alta M. Sweiger.