Today - Volume 02, Number 17

              LOMA LINDA,
OCT121989
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Adventist Health System I Loma Linda TODAY
Wednesday, October 11, 1989 Volume 2, Number 17
Hailing from the mid- western United States, Fernando
and Ana Stahl paid their own way to the highlands of
Bolivia and Peru in 1909, beginning three decades of mis
sion service among the peoples of the Andes and
Amazon. This pioneer missionary couple arrived in
the Andes at a time ripe for change. A near- feudal state
characterized the highlands at the beginning of the 20th
century. A closed social order maintained by a self-serving
alliance of landowner, priest, and judge kept
the numerically dominant Indian population in ignorance
and at bay. In the face of formidable barriers posed by
race, religion, and class, the Stahls threw in their lot with
the Indian. In addition to founding chapels, clinics, and
markets, this couple established the first co- educational
and first indigenous school system in the highlands a
system that would encircle the vast Lake Titicaca and
boast 200 schools enrolling tens of thousands of students.
The presence of these schools introduced marked social
change. Within but a single generation the formerly
marginalized Indians of the highlands had elected a
graduate of these schools the eldest son of the Stahls;
translator / guide to represent them in Peru's
Congress. See additional story on page 9.
Trustees name Dr. McCune as
Riverside campus chancellor
The Loma Linda University
Board of Trustees met Wednes
day, October 4, 1989, in an eve
ning session at the General Con
ference of Seventh- day Adventist
headquarters in Silver Spring,
Maryland. Key actions taken by
the board include:
1. After receiving a report from
the Loma Linda University / Riv
erside Campus search committee,
the board voted to ask R. Dale
McCune, EdD, to serve as chan
cellor for the 1989- 1990 school
year which ends on June 30,
1990.
First annual Stahl Lecture on
World Mission to be October 21
On Sabbath, October 21, the
first annual Stahl Lecture on
World Mission will be convened
at 4 p. m. in the University Church
by LLU president Norman J.
Woods, PhD.
In addition to a report by Dr.
Teel, presenters will include
Andes- bai- tJ Mai/ knoli JJDCS,
Esteban Judd Zanon and Univer
sity of California at Berkeley Latin
Americanist Dan Chapin Hazen.
The priest, who has ministered to
altiplano villagers for two
decades, praises Adventism for
a missionary methodology
which called converts to at once
be fully Adventist and fully
Aymara a people who remain
solidly rooted in Andean life and
culture.
Dr. Hazen, whose Yale
University dissertation on
altiplano schooling highlights
the impact of the Stahl schools,
has developed the thesis that
" Adventists have consistently
i> een in the inn front nl itmrij. i
In naming Dr. McCune to the
position, the board elected to not
call this position either " interim"
or " acting," wishing to instead
grant him full authority as
chancellor. The board further
reiterated that this action in no
way circumvents the role and
function of die search committee,
which has been commissioned to
submit a recommendation for a
permanent chancellor at the Feb
ruary, 1990, board meeting.
The president presented an
update on die possible organiza
tional structure and future work
of the search committee for the
Loma Linda campus chancellor.
2. The board looked with
favor on an official name change
for die La Sierra Campus of
Loma Linda University to Loma
in the altiplano."
Those planning the Stahl lec
tures feel confident that such
evaluations from beyond the
Adventist community may in
fuse new interest in world mis
sion among Adventist students
who have become accustomed
to hearing mission stories told
only " from the inside."
Campus. However, the board
asked the president and chan
cellor to seek input from the
faculty prior to taking final action.
3. The board also asked the
Riverside Campus chancellor to
study the possibility of reorganiz
ing the College of Arts and
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Zimbabwe hospital
continues heart surgery
program
Some people wondered what
the lasting effects of the three-week
visit of the Loma Linda
University Overseas Heart
Surgery Team to Zimbabwe
would be.
Would an all- national team be
able to carry on the work after the
three- week visit? Some felt that
the effort and money spent was
wasted, and that no lasting im
pact would be made in
Zimbabwe.
It was gratifying to see the
headlines of the national
newspaper in Zimbabwe, " City
hospital scores a first." In his ar
ticle, reporter Pikirayi Deketeke
states, " The first open- heart
operation by an entirely local
team of surgeons, perfusionists,
technicians, anesthetists and
sisters, was successfully perform
ed at Parirenyatwa Hospital....
Open- heart surgery was first con
templated early last year when a
team of open- heart surgeons from
Linda University came to Zim
babwe and performed 15 heart
operations at Parirenyatwa
Hospital.
" With the assistance of the
Loma Linda team, the local
medical staff.. . had the oppor
tunity to acquire enough ex
perience to carry out the opera
tions on their own.
" The Parirenyatwa medical
superintendent, Cde. Sam
Mutamba, said all the equipment,
including accessories to the heart
and lung machine they were
waiting for in order to resume the
operations, has arrived in the
country.
' The perfusionists who had
gone for training [ to Loma Lin
da] to operate the heart- lung
machine and the technicians had
also completed their training and
were also part of the team that
undertook the operation.
" Now that we have everything
we need and that the operation
was a success, it is now going to
be a programme we will be able
to continue in the future."
The all- national Zimbabw- e
team have, since this report ap
peared in the newspaper, per
formed six open- heart operations,
all of which have been successful.
The contribution the Loma
Linda team made in their three-week
visit cannot be
underestimated. We believe that
a three- week visit, in such a
highly specialized area of
medicine, and with meticulous
pre- planning and careful follow-up,
is a major contribution to a
third- world country, who have
highly qualified specialists on site,
but who need the kind of
assistance that the Loma Linda
University Overseas Heart
Surgery Team provided.
Highly specialized teams from
many organizations frequently
visit Africa. These include heart
surgery teams, orthopedic surgery,
cleft- palates, and other head and
neck surgery, cataract and refrac
tive microsurgery, and urology.
They make a significant con
tribution to the country and to the
local medical schools. The Loma
Linda team not only assisted in
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