Today - Volume 02, Number 18

              Loma Linda University
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Wednesday, October 25, 1989 LOMA LINDA, CA 92350 Volume 2, Number 18
School of Religion dean Neils- Erik Andreasen, PhD,
delivers the convocation address entitled " Christian
Education Is Different. . . and Better!"
Convocation opens academic year
at University's Riverside campus
The rw. school year opened on the Riverside campus of Loma
Linda University with the pomp and circumstance of the fifth an
nual convocation held in the La Sierra Collegiate Church of
Seventh- day Adventists on Tuesday, September 26.
Led by Walter S. Hamerslough, EdD, University marshal, the
campus facultv and administration, in academic regalia, entered the
church in procession to the accompaniment of organ and brass
ensemble directed by William R. Chunestudy, professor of music.
Later, the University Singers, led by Donald W Thurber, PhD,
provided the anthem for the service.
University president Norman J. Woods, PhD, and campus
chancellor R. Dale McCune, EdD, welcomed new and returning
students and faculty. Presenting the morning's address was Neils-
Erik Andreasen, PhD, dean of the School of Religion.
OT students launch drive to aid
victims of Hurricane Hugo
Occupational therapy students
from the School of Allied Health
Professions are in the process of
collecting clothes ta be shipped
to fellow allied health students
victimized by Hurricane Hugo,
centered primarily in Charlot-tesville,
South Carolina.
Four allied health schools were
devastated by Hugo, according to
Edwinna Marshall, chairman of
the department of occupational
therapy.
" Students lost clothes, books,
personal belongings, and
household items," Miss Marshall
states.
Any interested individual who
would like to help in this program
are invited to bring clothes or
money to room A903 in Nichol
Hall.
Students from the occupational
therapy program are also able to
pick up bundles of clothes, ac
cording to Miss Marshall. In
dividuals may call ( 714) 824- 4628
for information.
Receipts will be given for
clothes and funds donated.
WHAT'S INSIDE. . .
Blood drive ............. 2
Employees of the month . . 3
Slogan contest ........... 3
New LLUMC controller ... 3
Week of Spiritual Emphasis. 4
New biotherapy lab ....... 5
Director, materiel mgt.... 6
Parent volunteer study .... 7
Infant heart transplants .... 8
Director, social work.... 11
New SBM faculty ....... 12
Back Page ............. 16
Two search committees established to
recommend candidates for chancellors
Two search committees one
for each of the University's cam
puses have been established by
the Loma Linda University Board
of Trustees to review and recom
mend potential candidates to the
Board of Trustees for the position
of chancellor for each campus.
Chairing both committees is
Norman J. Woods, PhD, presi
dent of the University.
During their August board
J. Dee Lansing, MD, president of the University Councilors
( right), presents a check for $ 70,000 to William H. Heisler,
DDS, as a result of a challenge the Councilors made to den
tal alumni.
Councilors give $ 70,000 to dentistry
The Loma Linda University
Councilors presented the School
of Dentistry Alumni Association
with a check for $ 70,000.
This amount was presented to
the alumni association as a result
of a challenge made by the
University Councilors to the
School of Dentistry alumni.
In order to receive the $ 70,000
from the Councilors, School of
Dentistry alumni had to reach
$ 219 in qualifying gifts from 674
donors during last fiscal yaer.
The presentation was made by
J. Dee Lansing, MD, president of
the University Councilors, at the
first School of Dentistry chapel
of the year held earlier this
month.
Funds from this multi- year
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meeting, the University trustees
voted to restructure the Univer
sity, in effect making it a single
university with a dual organiza
tional structure.
The new structure provides for
separate operating boards and
chancellors for each campus, but
retains a single board of trustees
and a single president. Dr. Woods
was unanimously elected presi
dent and chief executive officer
in the new organizational plan.
Serving on the La Sierra search
committee is James Beach, PhD,
associate professor and chairman
of the department of mathe
matics; Samual Croft, JD, assis
tant professor of business and
management; Eugene Gascay,
EdD, professor of curriculum and
instruction; Stephen Gifford,
president, Southeastern California
Conference of Seventh- day
Adventists; Mike Kinnen, La
Sierra campus student; Wallace
Miriderr EdD, dean, School of
Education; Thomas Mostert,
president. Pacific Union Con
ference of Seventh- day Advent
ists; David Osborne, vice presi
dent for student affairs; Richard
Rice, PhD, professor of religion;
Adeny Schmidt, PhD, assistant
professor of psychology; Don Van
Ornam, campus business mana
ger; Ignatius Yacoub, PhD, dean,
School of Business and Manage
ment; and Ed Zackrison, PhD,
associate professor of religion.
Loma Linda campus members
include Neils- Erik Andreasen,
PhD, dean, School of Religion;
B. Lyn Behrens, MB, BS, dean,
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Autumn quarter shows enrollment decrease
Autumn quarter enrollment
figures for Loma Linda Univer
sity show a slight decrease of 45
students overall, down from
4,392 to 4,347, in the ten schools
of the university, according to Ar-no
Kutzner, PhD, director of
University Records.
In a lunch- time presentation to
the Riverside campus faculty on
Tuesday, October 17, Dr. Kutz
ner presented the enrollment
figures for autumn quarter, which
show steady enrollments in most
of the professional schools and
the graduate school, but
decreases in enrollments for the
Riverside campus schools. In fact,
at just around 1,600, the head-count
enrollment on the River
side campus is down by over 200
students, and the admissions of
fice experienced a rise in the
number of " no- shows," those
students who applied and were
accepted, but did not register.
" We knew that our pool of
graduating academy seniors was
smaller last year," says Rosie
Saval, associate director of recruit
ment, " but we are still disap
pointed at the drop."
The largest drop from kst year
was definitely in the number of
entering freshman, 272 compared
with last fall's 343. The other
classes are slightly up or holding
reasonably close to last year's
numbers.
According to Dr. Kutzner, the
university is very pleased,
however, with the number of
students registered in the ABLE
program through the Center for
Lifelong Learning. This program,
with four degrees offered on the
Riverside campus through the
College of Arts and Sciences and
the School of Business and
Management, can boast a large
jump in enrollment and is
generating over 500 units. This
mirrors the phenomenon that
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