Today - Volume 01, Number 13

              LOMA LINDA UNIV. LIBRARY
SERIALS DEPARTMENT
LOMA LINDA. CA 92350
OCT27 1988
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Adventist Health System / Loma Linda raw
Volume 1, Number 13 Wednesday, October 26, 1988
Annual LLU Black Students
The annual Loma Linda
University Black Students
Retreat will be held Friday, Sab
bath, and Sunday, November
11- 13, at Camp Cedar Falls in
the San Bernardino mountains.
Special guest speakers will be
Mark Woodson, pastor from the
Kansas Avenue Seventh- day
Adventist Church and Danny
Blanchard, PhD, from Oakwood
College, Huntsville, Alabama.
Other speakers will include
Frederick Anderson, computer
for the Loma Linda campus.
Cost for the full weekend is
$ 25 per person; 18 for one night
and meals; and $ 5 for Sabbath
visit.
Further information may be
obtained by contacting the stu
dent affairs office.
employees honored at
special recognition ceremony
Over 800 Loma Linda Univer
sity employees were honored at
a special recognition ceremony
held in the University Church of
Seventh- day Adventists on Mon
day evening, October 17.
Following the invocation pre
sented by Lowell Bock, vice
chairman of the University Board
of Trustees, and a welcome by
Dr. Blanchard
specialist at Hartnell Communi
ty College in Salinas, California;
and Louis Jenkins, PhD, a
psychologist involved in the
King- Drew Family Practice
Center in Los Angeles.
The theme of the retreat is
" Be on Top of the World," and
is being sponsored by Gaines R.
Partridge, PhD, dean of students
Loma Linda University president Norman J. Woods, PhD, presents John E. Peterson, MD, pro
fessor of medicine, with a service pin representing 45 years of employment at Loma Linda. Dr. Peterson
is former chairman of die department of medicine in the School of Medicine. Over 10,000 years
of service to Loma Linda University were represented by the 800 honored employees.
Helen Ward Thompson, PhD,
vice president for academic ad
ministration, Loma Linda Uni
versity president Norman J.
Woods, PhD, commended the
employees for their faithfulness in
their performance of service to
Loma Linda University and to
the Seventh- day Adventist
church.
In his remarks, Dr. Woods
noted that the University would
not be what it is today without
the faithfulness of its employees.
Dr. Woods then asked the
employees in attendance to stand
according to their years of service
to Loma Linda.
Employees who had worked at
Loma Linda University for 25 or
more years were invited to come
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Dr. Woods presented the em
ployee with a service pin.
Fifty- nine employees have serv
ed on the Loma Linda campus of
the University for 25 or more
years.
Following the ceremony, the
employees, family, and friends
were invited to attend a recep
tion held in their honor in the
Fellowship Hall of the church.
At this time, those employees
serving the institution for five to
24 years were presented with ser-
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Dr. Longo awarded
NATO professorship
from Italian government
Lawrence D. Longo, MD, pro
fessor of obstetrics and gyne-cology,
and of physiology, has
recently been awarded a NATO
professorship from the Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche ( CNR),
the research council of the Italian
government.
The five- year award ( only two
of which are awarded annually by
the CNR) will allow him to
spend several months each year
in Italy where he will conduct
research on developmental neuro-endocrinology
in die laboratory of
Dr. Rita Levi- Montalcini, Uni
versity of Rome. Dr. Levi- Mon
talcini received the 1986 Nobel
prize in physiology and medicine
for her discovery of nerve growth
factor.
Dr. Longo also will present a
series of lectures at the Univer
sity of Perugia, and assist that
group in the development of a
joint research program with LLU
in perinatal biology.
In addition, Dr. Longo has
been awarded a grant from the
National Institutes of Health for
a new reproductive scientist train
ing program. This unique post
doctoral training program will
provide five years of basic
research training in cell and
molecular biology to individuals
who have completed a residency
in obstetrics/ gynecology. The in
itial two- year period of full- time
laboratory investigation will be
spent in an outstanding molecular
biology laboratory.
This will be followed by a
three- year period in a department
of obstetrics and gynecology, dur
ing which time the individual
will spend at least 75 percent of
the time in research.
The objectives of this training
program are to facilitate research
training of obstetrician- gynecolo
gists in contemporary research ap
proaches and techniques, and to
further progress in the reproduc
tive sciences in medical school
departments of obstetrics and
gynecology.
The areas of research interests
covered by the program are
broadly defined, but die emphasis
in this training is in cell and
molecular biology as applied to
problems in reproduction. Specifi
cally, the program is designed for
promising physicians following
their fourth year of obstetric /
gynecologic residency who desire,
in addition to their clinical skills,
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