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Vol. 4. No. 9 Wednesday, April 26, 1967
College, University to Merge July 1
La Sierra College, Riverside Loma Linda University, Loma Linda
New University President Full Consolidation in One Year
To Take Office July 1
Trustees representing a newly merged Loma Linda
University have chosen a new University president to take
office on July 1. He is David J. Bieber, 56, now president of
La Sierra College, Riverside.
TV\ e new cYtief
executive will
succeed Godfrey
T. A n d e r s o n,
PhD, the Uni
versity's presi
dent for over 13
years. Dr. An-derson
a n- (
nounced last
February that
he will step down as president
at the end of June.
President- elect Bieber is a
native of Tolstoy, South Dakota,
who earned a Bachelor of Arts
degree at Union College, Lin
coln, Nebraska, in 1936, and a
Master of Arts degree at the
D. J. Bieber
University of Minnesota, Min
neapolis, in 1945. He has since
engaged in graduate study at
Stanford University, Stanford,
and at the University of Cali
fornia at Berkeley.
A teacher and school admini
strator for all of his adult life,
Mr. Bieber was president of his
alma mater, Union College, for
seven years before accepting the
La Sierra College presidency in
1965.
President- elect Bieber is mar
ried and the father of one son,
a teacher in Hawaii. He and
Mrs. Bieber live close to the La
Sierra College campus in River
side.
new. consolidated board of University. " We felt," he said,
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Freshman Medical Students
To Do Research at Missions
This summer Michael Norris, James D. and Nancy W. Simpson,
and Cheryl E. Vulliet, all freshman medical students, will gain
first hand knowledge of the problems and rewards mission life has
to offer, besides gaining practical experience with patients.
Each year from two to eight
students are sent to Central
America, South America, and
Monument Valley for the sum
mer, to participate in the for
eign research program. Students
are under the careful super
vision of well- qualified person
nel from the hospital staffs in
these areas and preceptors from
the department of preventive
Continued on page 3
A proposal for merger of La Sierra College and Loma Linda University received
final approval Sunday.
The measure was passed by members of the Loma Linda University Corporation,
final governing authority for the school, in a meeting on the campus here. La Sierra
College authorities had ap- _____________________________________________
proved the merger last Tuesday,
following months of lis. 4 im
between the two schools.
Consolidation under one name,
Loma Linda University, will be
come effective this July 1.
Teaching and administrative
programs will be integrated in
stages during the following 12
months, according to the action.
Instruction will continue on
the two existing campuses, at
Riverside and Loma Linda.
About 1,700 students are cur
rently enrolled at La Sierra Col
lege, and 1,200 students at Loma
Linda University.
Unanimous Vote
The merger proposal was pas
sed in Sunday's meeting by a
unanimous vote. The three- page
report underwent several
amendments prior to voting, but
the changes were described as
minor. College representatives
at the meeting raised no objec
tion to the amendments.
Representatives of the two
schools and the church elected a
Maynard V. Campbell was
elected chairman of the new
board and Reinhold R. Bietz its
vice chairman. Both men served
in comparable posts in the Uni
versity's former governing body.
Pastor Bietz also heads the La
Sierra College trustees.
At a Monday morning press
conference, chairman Campbell
stated, " The primary reason for
the merger of the two institu
tions is that a University should
have a liberal arts college."
He pointed out that the spon
soring organization has a full-grown
college institution just
twenty miles away from the
unite the two. A freeway be
tween makes them little more
than twenty minutes apart."
He also noted that merger
proposals were discussed as
much as 30 years ago. Negoti
ations have been under way for
the past two or three years.
In answer to a question about
any intended shift of academic
emphasis on the campuses, Pas
tor Campbell referred to the
constituency action to center
the liberal arts college itself as
well as graduate and under
graduate work in liberal arts,
Continued on page 2
Nurses' Homecoming to Include
Celebration, Speakers, Tours
Monument Valley Dental Clinic
Ceremonies Held; Rate Color TV
The official opening of the University sponsored Monument Valley Community
Oral Health Service was held in colorful Monument Valley last week.
Representatives from the Utah State Dental Association and the United States
Public Health Service met with University officials at the Seventh- day Adventist
Cordelia P. Reynolds, SN' 24, will be the featured speaker at the
School of Nursing alumni homecoming banquet June 1 on the Uni
versity campus, according to Elsie H. Ziprick, SN' 41, president,
School of Nursing Alumni Association. She will discuss her current
world tour of Seventh- day Ad
ventist mission stations where
School of Nursing alumni are
serving.
Also to be included in the
day's activities will be hourly
afternoon tours of the new Med
ical Center, and twenty- fifth
and fiftieth anniversary class
celebrations.
VISITOR PERMITS
REQUIRED
Now that equipment- is
being installed in the new
Medical Center, no one
will be permitted entry
without authorization
from the University Re
lations Office, extension
334. Security officers of
the L- C. Havstad- Del
E. Webb Corporation will
be posted at all unlocked
doors at all times to verify
visitor's permits.
Monument Valley Mission Hos
pital.
Speakers for the April 17
opening included R. Chester
Dalgleish, DDS, secretary of the
Utah State Dental Association,
Salt Lake City, Utah; Gunner
E. Sydow, DDS, representative
from the United States Public
Health Service, Denver, Colo
rado; William S. Moyes, Chair
man of the Utah State Depart
ment of Health, Ogden, Utah;
Godfrey T. Anderson, PhD,
president of Loma. Linda Uni
versity, and Charles T. Smith,
DDS, dean of the School of
Dentistry.
The opening ceremonies were
also viewed by thousands of
television viewers in California,
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico,
and Utah. The University Pub
lic Information Office released
a filmed 45 second color news
report of the event to 24 tele
vision stations and network
news staffs in the five states.
John Parrish, director of public
information, and Ellis R. Rich,
acting director of Audiovisual
Service, directed and filmed the
news sequence.
The health service, under the
direction of Dr. Smith, has been
in operation since last Decem
ber. Remodeled at a cost of $ 25,-
000 from an existing hospital
outpatient clinic, the new dental
health service includes five op-eratory
units, laboratory, x- ray
processing area, waiting room,
and an administrative office.
Staffed by Kenneth E. Wical,
DDS, assistant professor of re
storative dentistry, two senior
School of Dentistry students,
three resident dental assistants,
and a secretary- receptionist, the
clinic serves over 10,000 Paiute,
Navajo, and non- Indian families
Continued on page 3
Forms Have Been Mailed
All School of Nursing Alumni
are invited to attend the ban
quet with their guests, tickets
may be purchased for $ 2.75 each
on the day of the event. Pre-registration
for the annual event
will begin at 12: 30 p. m. in Linda
Hall and registration will be at
6 p. m. in the Campus Cafeteria
patio.
Forms for making the neces
sary reservations have been
mailed to alumni whose ad
dresses are known, and after
completion should be returned
to the Loma Linda University
Alumni Relations Office, Loma
Linda, California 92354.