Scope - Volume 04, Number 04 Extra

              UNIVERSITY SCOPE REPRINT
As a courtesy service to our many off- campus readers, the following four
pages of " constituency extra" news releases have been included with the
regular issue. The " extra" has had prior local distribution. The reports it
contains have been condensed to fit the available space.
To avoid confusion, the " extra" issue has the letter " X" added to the
page numbering.
_ T • *• • . University
Vol. 4, Extra Friday, February 10, 1967
Dr. Anderson
President's Report
By Godfrey T. Anderson, PhD
President, Loma Linda University
I would like to comment first on the nature of a university. The
term as used in the United States covers a wide range of institu
tions. Today the large American university is a whole series of
communities and activities held together by a common name, a
common governing board, a statement of vaguely related purposes,
and sometimes by a common plumbing system. It often suffers from
an edifice complex. It is neither of this world nor entirely apart
from it.
It is a receptacle . of the past and a
promise of the future. It is " an expression
of the age, as well as an influence operating
on the present and portentous for the
future." A university is, or should be, a
place dedicated to the adult pursuit of
learning. It must remain the capital and
fortress of thought a place for the de
velopment of scholars, who defined very
simply by Emerson, are people who think.
It enriches and is enriched by those
who are its components. It is concerned
with the broad spectrum of human learn
ing and accomplishment as well as with the specialized areas of
knowledge and professional skills.
Academic ' Buy Now, Pay Later'
When an institution becomes a university in name, it assumes
the mantle without the inner reality. This is the academic equiva
lent of " buy now, pay later." But at length the time comes when
the university must be deserving of its name. We are facing now
the need to meet the obligation of our title. If you were to remind
me, as many have, that in fact we do not yet have a university,
I would have to agree with you completely.
Having attended and been a part of two great universities I
am painfully aware of this fact. But I submit that we will not ever
live up to our current title by dwelling on our deficiencies in this
regard. Here I must confess that I have cherished a dream for the
past few years that here at Loma Linda we could develop a high
quality, small university with the support and cooperation of our
ftneijprofessiorval schools, that would serve the Church well in car
rying out its mission in these complex and challenging times.
If the constituency and the board which it selects understands
and believes in the concept, and if unitedly we move in this direc
tion, there is every reason to expect, under the blessing of God,
good results.
A university is not established by fiat. It is not an organization
or institution which can be merely voted into existence. It takes
much planning, and maturing, and seasoning much work and
many people and adequate facilities and assured support to make
a university.
Freedom of Inquiry
One criterion of a genuine university is freedom of inquiry in
seeking and promoting truth. It is to the search for truth, and its
dissemination, that a university is largely dedicated. Of necessity,
investigation must play an important role in this advancement of
knowledge, and it is this search for truth in all areas in which it
operates that makes the work of the university valid and signifi
cant. A proper and essential objective of a Christian university is
to demonstrate the congruity of faith and learning.
There are those who believe that a Christian university is an
anomaly. They believe that it is not possible to join in the untram-meled
search for truth and still operate within the framework of
the Christian faith. We who believe in Christian education are
dedicated to the proposition that not only is a Christian university
not an anomaly, but that it may, in the fullest sense achieve these
purposes that it may demonstrate the highest form of mind and
faith working hand in hand toward the discovery and dissemina
tion of truth. It can, in fact, in its ideal form, be a panacea for
many of the ills which affect the world around us.
One of the critical problems which the church faces today is
the growing secularization of life in all its aspects. This has ex
tended to education also, and there is much speculation in regard
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Academic Affairs Report
By Kobert E. Cleveland, PhD
Vice President for Academic Affairs
One of the more encouraging signs of the present era is the pre
occupation of Americans with their educational system. Such a
trend is heightened when we observe by a brief study of the na
tion's financial statistics that the average American spends $ 27 on
chewing gum for every dollar
he spends on
books. Our
sense of values
is further
skewed when
we conclude
that it must be
better to build
houses than
Dr. Cleveland minds because
bricklayers are
paid more than college profes
sors.
As Seventh- day Adventists,
we have always recognized the
importance of education. Chris
tian education is, for us, nei
ther the " right arm" nor the
" left arm" but the " heart" of
our denominational effort. We
have consistently believed that
true education enrolls men at
the cradle aftd graduates them
at the grave. Loma Linda Uni
versity was a vital part of that
philosophy yesterday; it still is
today; it will be tomorrow.
Yesterday is but a dream,
but our predecessors dreamed
that dream well. If today we
can see a bit farther, it is be
cause " we are standing on the
shoulders of giants."
Today is with us. In every
direction, from almost any spot
on the campus, one can see am
ple evidence that physical
growth is taking place. The
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President Asks to Step Down
At End of Present School Year
Loma Linda University President Godfrey T. Anderson, PhD, said this week he
will end his 13 years in office next June 30.
Dr. Anderson's announcement came at the end of a presidential progress report
to members of the University Corporation. The University bylaws provide for such a
— Staff photo
SEATED IN DELIBERATIONS on University affairs, the Board
of Trustees is addressed by President Godfrey T. Anderson. At the
speaker's table are ( left to right) Reinhold R. Bietz, chairman
Maynard V. Campbell, and Kent W. Dickinson. They are convened
in'the University Church Fellowship Hall.
Quadrennial Financial Report
0HR£ fc| R By Kobert L. Cone -
Vice President for Financial Affairs
More than anything else, perhaps, the explosive rise during the
postwar years in the total cost of the nation's educational activi
ties has driven home the realization that education, whatever else
it may be, is unmistakably big business. Collective public and non-public
outlays on formal educa- ____________________
tion were running at about $ 50
billion a year in 1966 a fig
ure which includes expendi
tures for elementary, secondary,
and higher education.
At this rate, education ab
sorbs a larger share of national
product than any other single
activity except
national de
fense. The $ 50
Ib i 11 i o n now
flowing through
school channels
about four-fifths
of it for
^^ current expen-
B. L. Cone ditures, includ
ing salaries,
and the other one- fifth for cap
ital outlays compares with
only $ 4 billion at the end of
World War II.
I am sure that we all agree
that education is big business
and that this trend of growth
has also been reflected at Loma
Linda University. In 1945 the
University had an operating
budget of $ 3,341,270 and total
assets of $ 5 million. Today it
has an annual operating budget
of approximately $ 16 million
and assets of more than $ 40
million.
Two Campuses Consolidate
Loma Linda University at
the beginning of this quadren
nial period was a complex cov
ering two campuses one in
Loma Linda and one in Los
Angeles and included the White
Memorial Hospital in Los An
geles, which primarily served
the two clinical years of medi
cine, the School of Nursing,
and other health related areas.
In addition to the White Me
morial Hospital there were siz
able facilities at the Los An
geles County Hospital which in
volved an annual contract with
Los Angeles in the amount of
$ 458,640 for services rendered
to Los Angeles County. This
contract was terminated April
1, 1966, and required the School
of Medicine to pick up salaries
alone in the amount of $ 110,000
annually which were paid from
this contract.
The net worth of the com
plex at that time was $ 10.75
million with employees num
bering approximately 3,000. In
1963 the Board of Trustees
took action for the combining
of all schools on the Loma
Linda campus. A major deci
sion of this kind involved much
planning and many changes in
the operating pattern of the
University as well as in the
building operations and with
the thought that the change-
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meeting, comparable to the
stockholders' meeting in a com
mercial corporation, every four
years.
Delegates included faculty
members, alumni, officers, and
employees of the University;
representatives of the Seventh-day
Adventist Church at various
administrative levels; and
others. They heard reports from
the University president and
vice presidents and elect new
members of the University
Trustees, governing board for
the school. They also re- elected
other University officers and
key administrative personnel
for the customary four- year
term.
Dr. Anderson is in his twenty-first
year as a college president.
He had been president of La
Sierra College, Riverside, prior
to taking office at Loma Linda
in 1954.
" I do not wish to present my
self for consideration for a
fourth quadrennial term of ser
vice," he told the corporate
membership meeting in Burden
Hall. The decision was based
upon his own desire for a change
and his belief that the univer
sity could also benefit, Dr.
Anderson said.
" A university every so often
profits by a change in leadership
which can apply fresh and
sharply objective appraisals to
current problems and start
anew, free of the associations,
friendships, and scars of the
past," he observed.
" With the addition of under
graduate work in the liberal
arts, I believe a new and vital
era will begin for the university.
I know that nothing will be done
that will erode the quality of
the educational enterprise built
at Loma Linda University by
the labors and dedication of
so many people over so many
years," Dr. Anderson said.
His statements concluded a
four- year progress report cover
ing his current term of office.
Key University Administrators
Re- Appointed to New Terms
Trustees of Loma Linda University Tuesday re- elected officers
of their own board and named key campus administrators to new
four- year terms of office.
The trustees themselves had been elected or re- elected to four-year
terms in a meeting of the
corporate membership Monday.
Maynard V. Campbell, world
vice president of the Seventh-day
Adventist Church, was
named chairman of the trustees
and president of the University
corporation, a legal entity or
ganizationally separate from
the regular University admini
stration. He had served in both
offices for the preceding eight
years.
Pastor Campbell, of Wash
ington, DC, will be assisted in
both positions by Reinhold R.
Bietz, president of the Advent-ists"
five state Pacific Union
Conference. Pastor Bietz, of
Glendale, also was re- elected
to third term as vice president
of the corporation and vice
chairman of the trustees.
Kent W. Dickinson was re-elected
secretary of the trustees
and Arthur W. Spoo remains
treasurer of the corporation
and manager of the Loma Linda
Foundation, according to chair
man Campbell. Both Mr. Dick
inson and Mr. Spoo are Loma
Linda residents.
Trustees re- appointed Robert
E. Cleveland, PhD, to be univer
sity vice president for academic
affairs; Howard B. Weeks, PhD,
vice president for public rela
tions and development; and
Robert L. Cone, vice president
for financial affairs.
Deans of all the university
schools were re- appointed to
new terms. They are David B.
Hinshaw, MD, dean of the
School of Medicine; Charles T.
Smith, DDS, dean of the School
of Dentistry; J. Paul Stauffer,
PhD, dean of the Graduate
School; Ivor C. Woodward,
dean of the School of Health
Related Professions; and Max-
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