Today - Volume 01, Number 05

              Loma Linda University
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Adventist Health System / Loma Linda TODAY
Volume 1, Number 5
LOMA LINDA UlNiv. LIOKMKY
SERIALS DEPARTMENT
LOMA LINDA, CA 92350 Incorporating Newsbreak and Observer May 18, 1988
MAY 1 G 1988
The Loma Linda University Overseas Heart Surgery Team, headed by Joan Coggin, MD,
associate dean for international programs in the School of Medicine, hosted an appreciation
dinner for medical supply and pharmaceutical companies who contributed equipment and
supplies to the heart team for use in their missions to Zimbabwe and the People's Republic
of China. Forty- four companies contributed thousands of dollars worth of supplies and equip
ment for the team's recent visit to the southern African country of Zimbabwe. Fifty- four
companies contributed to the success of the team's 1987 trip to the People's Republic of
China. This year marks- the iittr anniversary oi the Overseas Heart Surgery Team. The
Loma Linda trip made their first overseas trip in May of 1963 to Pakistan, India and Taiwan.
Since then, the team has traveled to Greece, South Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Hong
Kong, Zimbabwe, and the People's Republic of China. The team is scheduled to travel to
Kenya in June.
Norwood Lecture to link 19th century
water- cure movement with women's health
" Wash and Be Healed: The
Nineteenth Century Water- Cure
Movement and Women's
Health" will be the topic of
discussion for the Tuesday, May
24, William Frederick Norwood
Lecture in the History of the
Health Sciences.
Presenting the lecture will be
Susan E. Cayleff, PhD, associate
professor of women's studies at
San Diego State University.
In Dr. Cayleffs view, 19th cen
tury American women were par
ticularly attracted to the water-cure
movement and its establish
ments for its mild therapeutics,
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LLU professors cooperate in White Estate
plan for leadership / management book
lated social reform activism, and
nurturing women's community.
The American Water- Cure
Movement emerged as an alter
native system of disease manage
ment that allowed women to re-conceptualize
their potential
social roles.
For many women, hydropathic
ideology legitimized their ills,
The Ellen G. White Estate is
developing a leadership and
management book utilizing the
writings of Mrs. White.
Professors from Loma Linda
University and Andrews Univer
sity, Berrien Springs, Michigan,
are compiling information for
the publication.
Paul R. Cone, PhD, lecturer in
strategic management in the
School of Business and Manage
ment, is coordinating the
project.
Other Loma Linda Universi
ty faculty members participating
on the project include Ignatius
Yacoub, PhD, dean of the
School of Business and Manage
ment; Harold Phillips, PhD, pro
fessor of health administration
in the School of Public Health;
and Vernon H. Koenig, EdD,
chairman of the department of
counselor education and educa
tional foundations in the School
of Education.
Justin Sing, a doctoral student
in the School of Education, is
assisting in the project by work
ing with Dr. Koenig in glean
ing educational leadership infor
mation from Mrs. White's
writings.
The White Estate will prepare
the material for publication.
Dr. Cayleff
urged the abandonment of infir
mity and offered in its place per
sonal responsibility for their own
health care.
Dr. Cayleff has published
numerous scholarly articles and
is an experienced public lecturer.
Please turn to page 7
LLUMC volunteers
honored for service
The Campus Cafeteria was
filled with a festive group on
Monday evening, May 2, as
Loma Linda University Medical
Crooks birthday gala
planned for May 19
Hulda Crooks, affectionately
known as " Grandma Whitney,"
will celebrate her 92nd birthday
on Thursday, May 19, at the
Maruko Hotel San Bernar-dino
Convention Center in San
Bernard inc.
Invited to the May 19 event
are numerous leaders in govern
ment and business plus sports
and entertainment celebrities.
A special invitation to the
event is extended to all Loma
Linda University and Loma Lin
da University Medical Center
empl
communityT
Tickets, which are tax-deductible,
are available through
the School of Public Health at
$ 50 per person. All proceeds
from the event will benefit the
School of Public Health student
tuition fund.
Mrs. Crooks became an in
stant celebrity last year by climb
ing Japan's highest mountain,
12,388- foot Mt. Fuji, on July 24,
at the age of 91. In addition, she
has climbed 14,494- foot Mt.
Whitney in California 23 times.
Center volunteers and their
guests were honored at the an
nual volunteers appreciation and
awards dinner.
Each table was decorated with
blue, yellow, and magenta
balloons, a pot of flowers, and
a teddy bear from the collection
of Gayle Valiton, a volunteer,
who also played dinner music on
the piano.
Guests were welcomed by Wil-ma
Titus, president of the Vol
unteer Service League, and
David B. Hinshaw, Sr., MD, presi
dent of LLUMC. Norman J.
Woods, PhD, president of Loma
Linda University, offered the
invocation.
After the buffet dinner, the
Loma Linda Flute Ensemble,
composed of seven women,
played three selections.
A slide program about the pro-
: ieia! oi being huilt
Tor fnetreatment ot cancer pa
tients at LLUMC was presented
by James M. Slater, MD, chair
man of the radiation sciences
department. Dr. Slater stated
that he expected the proton
beam accelerator to be in use on
Medical Center patients by the
first quarter of 1990.
A highlight of the evening
was the presentation by Edith
Saknit, treasurer of the Volun
teer Service League, of a check
for $ 173,000 to the Medical
Please turn to page 7
Dean of the School of Allied Health Professions Joyce Hopp,
PhD, was named the " Distinguished Faculty Lecturer" by
Loma Linda University's Faculty Senate. Dr. Hopp, pro
fessor of health promotion and education, has been on the
University faculty since 1967, presented her address to a
capacity audience at the Campus Cafeteria. The text of her
lecture, " Health Education and the Bandwagon
Phenomena," begins on page four of TODAY!