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Fulfilling the vision 4Loma Linda University and Loma LindaUniversity Medical Center celebrate 100years | KM

Breaking the bond that ties 16Conjoined twins separated at Loma LindaUniversity Children’s Hospital | PCS

Giving life to Afghanistan 20Loma Linda University works to givelife to a country that has nothing butits will | RWW

No small enterprise 24Research at Loma Linda Universitymakes strides toward improved healthfor all | HR

Newscope | PKT 28

Alumni notes | NRC 36

Executive editor:W. Augustus Cheatham, mswEditor: Richard W. WeismeyerManaging editor:Dustin R. Jones, maContributing writers:Nicole R. Cheatham; Dustin R.Jones; Ken McFarland; Heather Reifsnyder; PrestonC. Smith; Patricia K. Thio; and Richard W. Weismeyer

Volume 41, Number 1SCOPE is published by Loma Linda Universityand Loma Linda University Medical Center,educational and medical institutions operatedby the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.For subscription information, alumni news notes, oraddress changes, you may write to:

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On the front cover:Top left: A nurse comforts an infant in the old Sanitarium. The School of Nursing,which was opened in 1905, was the first school on the Loma Linda campus. Top right:The Loma Linda Sanitarium. Mrs. Ellen G. White urged the purchase of this 64-roombuilding on 76 acres of land. She wrote, “In regard to the school, I would say, make it allyou possibly can in the education of nurses and physicians.” Bottom: A postcard thatshows all 76 acres of the Loma Linda property.

On the back cover:Top left: Beginning construction on the new hospital on the hill in 1924. Now calledNichol Hall, the School of Public Health and the School of Allied Health Professions arecurrently housed there. Top right: Visitors to Loma Linda Sanitarium were greeted withthis sign near the gas station. Center: The dedication of the new Good Samaritan sculp-ture. Pictured, from left, are Gaines Partridge, EdD; Bernard Brandstater, MD; Reuben,MD, and Mrs. Frances Matiko; B. Lyn Behrens, MBBS; and Alan Collins posing behindthe unveiled Good Samaritan sculpture in 1995. Bottom: Loma Linda University MedicalCenter at its opening in 1967. The fountain in front was removed in the mid-1980s.

John Burden received this telegram in 1905 from a church officer advising him not topurchase the Loma Linda property.

LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY ADVENTIST HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER

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LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY ADVENTIST HEALTH SCIENCES CENTERPRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: B. LYN BEHRENS, MBBSEXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, finance & administration/CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER:KEVIN J. LANG, MBA

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, hospital affairs: RUTHITA J. FIKE, MAEXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, medical affairs:H. ROGER HADLEY, MDEXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, University affairs: RICHARD H. HART, MD, DRPHSENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, clinical faculty: RICARDO PEVERINI, MDSENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, faculty practice: DAVID WREN, MHASENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, health care administration: GERALD A. ELLIS, MBASENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, human resource management & risk management:MARK L. HUBBARD

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, strategic planning/government relations:MICHAEL H. JACKSON, MPH

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT: ZAREH SARRAFIAN, MBAVICE PRESIDENT, advancement: J. LYNN MARTELL, DMINVICE PRESIDENT, diversity: LESLIE N. POLLARD, DMINVICE PRESIDENT, educational affairs: LISA M. BEARDSLEY, PHD, MPHVICE PRESIDENT, outreach: B. LYN BEHRENS, MBBSVICE PRESIDENT, health care business development:MELVIN SAUDER, MDIV, JD, MBAVICE PRESIDENT, information systems for academia: DAVID P. HARRIS, PHDVICE PRESIDENT, information systems for health ministries:RICHARD HERGERT, MDIV

VICE PRESIDENT, patient care services:ELIZABETH J. DICKINSON, RN, MPH, CNOR

VICE PRESIDENT, public affairs:W. AUGUSTUS CHEATHAM, MSWVICE PRESIDENT, research affairs: BARRY L. TAYLOR, PHDVICE PRESIDENT, spiritual life & wholeness: GERALD R. WINSLOW, PHDGENERAL COUNSEL: KENT A. HANSENASSOCIATE GENERAL COUNSEL: DULCE PENACOMPLIANCE AND PRIVACY OFFICER: LINDA MASON, MDSPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT: THOMAS A. ZIRKLE, MDINTERNAL AUDITOR: LLEWELLYN L. MOWERY JR., CPAASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT: KENNETH J. BREYERASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT: RAUL CASTILLOASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT: JERRY DALY, MA, MSLSASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT: GEORGE E. JOHNSTON, PHDASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT: LIZETTE NORTON, MBACONTROLLER/ASSISTANT FINANCIAL OFFICER: ORLANDO HUGGINSASSISTANT FINANCIAL OFFICERS: EDWARD FIELD, MBA; ROBERT FROST, MBA;STEVE MOHR, CPA; VERLON STRAUSS, CPA

LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITYPRESIDENT: B. LYN BEHRENS, MBBSCHANCELLOR/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: RICHARD H. HART, MD, DRPHCHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER/TREASURER: KEVIN J. LANG, MBAVICE CHANCELLOR, academic affairs: LISA M. BEARDSLEY, PHD, MPHVICE CHANCELLOR, advancement: J. LYNN MARTELL, DMIN

VICE CHANCELLOR, financial affairs/compliance officer: VERLON STRAUSS, CPAVICE CHANCELLOR, information systems: DAVID P. HARRIS, PHDVICE CHANCELLOR, public affairs:W. AUGUSTUS CHEATHAM, MSWVICE CHANCELLOR, research affairs: BARRY L. TAYLOR, PHDVICE CHANCELLOR, spiritual life & wholeness: GERALD R. WINSLOW, PHDSPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE CHANCELLOR: LESLIE N. POLLARD, DMINDEANS: RONALD CARTER, PHD, Science & Technology; AVIS ERICSON, PHARMD,

Pharmacy (interim); CHARLES J. GOODACRE, DDS, MSD, Dentistry;H. ROGER HADLEY, MD, Medicine; CRAIG R. JACKSON, JD, MSW, Allied HealthProfessions; HELEN E. KING, PHD, RN, Nursing; JAMES KYLE II, MD, MDIV,Public Health; ANTHONY ZUCCARELLI, PHD, Graduate Studies (interim);EDWIN HERNANDEZ, PHD, Religion (effective 8/1/05)

ASSISTANT VICE CHANCELLOR, student services: RICK WILLIAMS, PHD

LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

PRESIDENT: B. LYN BEHRENS, MBBSCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/ADMINISTRATOR: RUTHITA J. FIKE, MASENIOR VICE PRESIDENT/CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER: KEVIN J. LANG, MBASENIOR VICE PRESIDENT/ADMINISTRATOR, Children’s Hospital: ZAREH SARRAFIAN, MBASENIOR VICE PRESIDENT/ADMINISTRATOR, East Campus:MICHAEL H. JACKSON, MPH

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT/ADMINISTRATOR, signature programs/institutes:GERALD A. ELLIS, MBA

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, adult division and patient care services:ELIZABETH J. DICKINSON, RN, MPH, CNOR

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, finance: STEVEN MOHR, CPAVICE PRESIDENT, adult division: DANIEL FONTOURA, MPPMVICE PRESIDENT, advancement: J. LYNN MARTELL, DMINVICE PRESIDENT, facilities and environment: JESSE MOCKVICE PRESIDENT, health care business development:MELVIN SAUDER, MDIV, JD, MBAVICE PRESIDENT, human resource management/risk management:MARK L. HUBBARDVICE PRESIDENT, information systems/CIO: RICHARD HERGERT, MDIVVICE PRESIDENT, medical administration: DANIEL W. GIANG, MDVICE PRESIDENT, public affairs & marketing:W. AUGUSTUS CHEATHAM, MSWVICE PRESIDENT, quality and patient safety: JAMES PAPPAS, MDSPECIAL ASSISTANTS TO THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: LESLIE N. POLLARD, DMIN;GERALD R. WINSLOW, PHD

LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE CENTERPRESIDENT/CEO: RUTHITA J. FIKE, MACHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER/TREASURER: STEVEN MOHR, MBAADMINISTRATOR: JILL POLLOCK, RN, MSCONTROLLER: EDWARD FIELD, MBA

LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH CAREPRESIDENT: H. ROGER HADLEY, MDCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: DAVID WREN, MHACHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER: KEVIN J. LANG, MBA

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FACULTY PRACTICESPRESIDENT: RICARDO PEVERINI, MDCHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER: KEVIN J. LANG, MBA

2005 Administrat ion

2005 Boards of TrusteesCHAIR: LOWELL C. COOPER, MDIV, MPHMEMBERS:CAROL ALLEN, PHD, RN (1, 2)DONALD R. AMMON, MBA (1, 2, 3)LORNE BABIUK, PHD (1, 2)MATTHEW A. BEDIAKO, MA, MSPH (1, 2, 3)B. LYN BEHRENS, MBBS (1, 2, 3)DENNIS N. CARLSON, DMIN, MDIV (1, 2)ROBERT G. CARMEN, OTR, MPA (1, 3)JAMES J. COUPERUS, MD (1, 3)LUKA T. DANIEL, MA (1A)GARLAND DULAN, PHD (1, 2)T. GRACE EMORI, MS, RN (2E)CELESTE FERGUSON, PHD (1, 2)GWEN W. FOSTER, MPH (1, 2)ALBERTO C. GULFAN JR. (1A)H. ROGER HADLEY, MD (1, 3)ALLAN R. HANDYSIDES, MBCHB (1, 2A, 3)RICHARD H. HART, MD, DRPH (1, 2, 3)DAVID B. HINSHAW SR., MD (1E, 3E)

DANIEL R. JACKSON, MA ( 1A, 2A )DONALD G. KING, DPH (1A, 2A)GERALD KOVALSKI (1A, 2A)HAROLD LEE, DMIN (1, 2)JAIRYONG LEE (1A)ISRAEL LEITO, MS (1)ROBERT E. LEMON, MBA (1, 2, 3)RONALD A. LINDSEY, MBA (1, 3)CARLTON LOFGREN, DDS (1, 2)GEOFFREY G. MBWANA (1A)NORMAN K. MILES, PHD (1A, 2A)THOMAS J. MOSTERT JR., MA (1, 2, 3)PARDON MWANSA, DMIN, MDIV (1A)RUY H. NAGEL (1)JAMES PAPPAS, MD (3)LUTHER PARK (1, 3)JERE D. PATZER, DMIN, MBA (1, 2A)JAN PAULSEN, DTH, BD (1, 2, 3)TED L. RAMIREZ, JD (1, 2, 3)LEROY A. REESE, MD (1, 2)

GORDON L. RETZER (1A, 2A)CALVIN B. ROCK, DMIN, PHD (1E, 2E, 3E)STEVEN G. ROSE, CPA (1A, 2A)CHARLES C. SANDEFUR JR., MDIV (1A, 2A)DON C. SCHNEIDER, MA (1, 2, 3, 4)ARTUR STELE (1A)RALPH J. THOMPSON, MD (3E)MAX A. TREVINO (1, 2, 3)DIXIE WATKINS (1, 3)D. RONALD WATTS (1A)DOUGLAS WELEBIR, JD (1, 2)BERTIL WIKLANDER, THEOLD, MTH (1A)NEAL C. WILSON (1E, 2E, 3E)PATRICK Y. WONG, MBBS (1, 2)WALTER L. WRIGHT (1A, 2A)TOM ZAPARA (1, 2)

LEGEND:1=LLUAHSC; 2=LLU; 3=LLUMCE=EMERITUS; A=ADVISOR

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Fulfilling the visionL O M A L I N D A U N I V E R S I T Y A N D L O M A L I N D A U N I V E R S I T Y

M E D I C A L C E N T E R C E L E B R A T E 1 0 0 Y E A R S

ising from the valley floor southof San Bernardino, California, thelow hill was of such modest

elevation that its late-19th-century develop-

ers dubbed it only a “mound.” Theywould call the town Mound City, wherethey intended to build surrounding thehill. New owners would later change thename of this place to the more eupho-nious “Loma Linda”—Spanish for“Beautiful Hill.”To the south of the Beautiful Hill were

nearby hills no one could ever have mis-taken as simply mounds. At a distance tothe north, looming thousands of feet abovethe great inland valley, stood the SanBernardino Mountains, high enough to wearthe snows of winter for months at a time.But it would be the Beautiful Hill and

not its loftier neighboring prominencesfrom which, early in the 20th century, alight began to shine that would signal hopeand healing. Over the next century, thiscommitment to the restoration—the heal-ing of humanity—would radiate outwardfrom the Beautiful Hill like rings from apebble dropped into a quiet pond, ulti-mately reaching the farthest corners of the

A picture of the Loma Linda Sanitarium

from a postcard that declared itself “The

Pacific Portal to Health,” complete with

private cottages and an unexcelled climate.

world. This commitment would includemore than treating the body—more thanjust physical healing—but would focus onthe healing of the whole person: body,mind, and spirit.As early as 1875, a group of Southern

California investors discovered the smallprominence surrounded by a broad valleyand—nurturing dreams of creating a newplanned city—called themselves theMound City Land Association. Low interestrates, a burgeoning citrus industry, and newrail connections fueled optimism for thespeculators, who foresaw a possible boom-town in the making.But not all dreams come true, and plans

for Mound City failed. Within a year, thepost office closed, and in 1882, a Mr. H.E.Hills bought 267 acres from the MoundCity association. Mr. Hills (no ironyintended) built his home on the mounditself and turned much of his remainingland into a large farm he called “MoundCity Ranch.” By late 1886, deterioratinghealth led Mr. Hills to sell his property toyet another investor group for $30,500.They quickly formed a corporation calledthe Mound City Land and Water Company.This new investor group also dreamed

of creating a boomtown. Farmers allthrough the valley were growing rich—notso much from their farming as from buyingand selling land. It wasn’t a rarity for aparcel of land to double in price andchange owners several times in a single day.In early 1887, the two big railways—South-

ern Pacific and Santa Fe—began a fare waron the Kansas City to Los Angeles route.Ticket rates fell steadily and swiftly from$125 to just $1.The developers of the old Mound City

Ranch were convinced their investmentwould pay off handsomely. They wouldretain the name “Mound City,” and intenton luring business to the new development,they invested $40,000 to build an ornate,five-story Victorian-style wooden hotel onthe summit of that mound.But no investment is without risk, and

hardly had the Mound City planners fin-ished the hotel, than the building boomcollapsed, owing at least in part to thearrival of a prolonged, intermittent drought.Then came the Depression of 1893, forcingMound City’s developers to abandon theirplans and put the land on the market. Bythe turn of the 20th century, Mound Cityand its hotel stood vacant.In time, yet another group—this one

composed of 80 physicians and 40 busi-nessmen—saw new possibilities as theylooked over the parcel of land with amound in its midst that had aroused thedreams of so many others before them.This consortium of doctors and businessinvestors decided to convert the hotel andits surroundings into a health resort. The120 investors renamed Mound City as“Loma Linda.” In September of 1900, theLoma Linda Association filed its Articles ofIncorporation, and the next month, theybegan transactions to purchase the land for

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Above is a postcard featuring Burden Hall. Built by Larry C. Havstad for a mere $22,000,

it served as a chapel for college students for almost a quarter of a century.

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$15,000. Once in their possession, theinvestors poured an additional $155,000into Loma Linda, intending to bring theirnew health resort to the front ranks of themany such developments in Southern Cali-fornia. Aggressively promoted, a LomaLinda brochure touted the resort as “TheSwitzerland of California, where health andpleasure are twins.”It seemed as if fortune was finally ready

to smile on the mounded tract of land inthe great inland valley. But again, successslipped from the grasp of yet another groupof optimistic owners. Sometimes, the resorthad no guests at all. Amazingly, in 1904 theowners reluctantly offered the property fora price that represented a major loss ontheir investment: $110,000. In April of1905, the doors of Loma Linda closed. Arearesidents called the place “LonesomeLinda.”Might it be that Lonesome Linda, beset

by the serially dashed dreams of its succes-sive owners, would even yet realize somespecial destiny?As it happened, half a state away to the

north near the Napa Valley’s little town ofSt. Helena, the eventual destiny of LomaLinda was stirring in the mind and heart ofa woman named Ellen G. White. In 1901,she had described a Southern Californiaproperty she had seen in vision where theChurch would build a medical institution,on the grounds of which were great shade

trees forming a massive, tent-like canopyover patients in wheelchairs enjoying thebenefits of fresh outdoor air. Mrs. Whiteknew the property was somewhere to befound—but where?The Loma Linda property matched

that description—but in 1901 was stilloccupied and not for sale.Enter now a young Seventh-day

Adventist minister named John AllenBurden. Mrs. White had been greatlyimpressed by this gifted pastor, who at theage of 29 had managed the St. Helena San-itarium in Northern California near herhome. She described him as a man “ofmore than ordinary business acumen.”Convinced that the property she had

previewed in her vision existed, Mrs.White asked Church members in SouthernCalifornia to start looking between River-side, San Bernardino, and Redlands. PastorBurden was now in Southern California,and being a devout believer in Mrs.White’s leadership and prophetic gift, hetook her request to heart and beganactively looking in the area.A local Adventist pastor first located the

Loma Linda property, and in early 1905,John Burden reported to Mrs. White thathe had evaluated the tract of 76 acres a fewmiles west of Redlands. It appeared tomatch her description. The caretaker ofthe Loma Linda property told PastorBurden that though $155,000 had been

invested in the land and its buildings (anastonishing $3,100,000 in the currency of acentury later), it could be purchased for$110,000.This was out of the question for an

already debt-laden membership. Onlyrecently, they had purchased two otherSouthern California properties that wouldbecome today’s Paradise Valley Hospitaland Glendale Adventist Medical Center—and they were now under strict direction toget out of debt.Later, the price for the Loma Linda

property came down to $85,000. At thispoint, Ellen White wrote a letter datedApril 12, 1905, to the Church members inSouthern California, in which she urgedthem: “Arouse, and avail yourselves of theopportunities open to you.”Soon afterward, the price dropped again

to $45,000. When Pastor Burden relayedthis information to Mrs. White, she advisedhim to stay close to the situation and keepher posted.Proactive by nature, the young pastor

approached the owners again to see if hecould determine their rock-bottom price.They quoted him a price of $40,000, firm,with only a few days option to buy at thisprice.“What shall we do?” he asked Mrs.

White. “We must act at once as the [LomaLinda Association] is anxious to sell, andthere are others who want it.” Pastor


Burden suggested that she confer with con-ference leaders.Based on a confirming vision she had

received the night before, she asked herson, W. C. (“Willie”) White, to telegramPastor Burden to immediately secure theoption to purchase the Loma Linda prop-erty. “I advise Willie to send you a telegramwithout spending time to ask the advice ofthe brethren. Secure the property by allmeans, so that it can be held and thenobtain all the money you can and makesufficient payments to hold the place. Thisis the very property we ought to have. Donot delay; for it is just what is needed….We will do our utmost to help you raise themoney.”Meanwhile, members of the local con-

ference committee, who were meeting atthe time in Washington, D.C., wired PastorBurden to say, “Developments here war-rant advising do not make deposit onsanitarium.” John Burden found himselfcaught squarely in the middle betweenMrs. White and “the brethren.”With money donated by a Los Angeles

farmer, Pastor Burden put down a $1,000deposit to hold the property and on May29, 1905, signed papers. Additional pay-ments were due in July and in August, withthe balance to be secured by a three-yearmortgage.In urging the acquisition of the Loma

Linda property, Mrs. White had promisedthat God would bring funds from “unex-pected sources” to complete its purchase.On July 26, 1905, the due date for the

second payment, the conference commit-tee of the Southern California Conferencemet in emergency session in Los Angeles.The second installment, $5,000, was due at2:00 p.m. They didn’t have the first dollarof it. Some members again were openlycritical of the plan to purchase the property.John Burden later reported that “the inten-sity of feelings was running high,” and thatthey were “in deep perplexity.”Someone suggested that the troubled

group wait for the morning mail. Soon theyheard the postman walking up the stairs.The mail included a letter from a woman

in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The senderwas unknown to anyone on the committeeand is unknown to this day. The letter hadtraveled, possibly for weeks, completelyacross the North American continent.Inside was a note saying, “I do not knowjust what your immediate need is, but ifthis will help, use it”—and a bank draft for$5,000, the exact amount needed fourhours later on that deadline day. Suddenly,there wasn’t a dry eye in the place. JohnBurden later reported, “It was as solemn asthe judgment day…. We then took newcourage, as we felt that our Lord was goingbefore us.”Just as Ellen White had predicted, more

money had come from “unexpected

sources.” Through a series of truly remark-able providences, the entire sum wasactually paid in full within another sixmonths, bringing a discount of $1,100.Thus, for a purchase price of $38,900 (plus$7,000 in interest and taxes), Southern Cal-ifornia Adventists now possessed their thirdproperty for medical work.Two weeks after John Burden signed

the first papers on Loma Linda, Mrs.White on June 12, 1905, visited the prop-erty for the first time. Arriving with her sonby express wagon from Redlands, shelooked at the main building and said,“Willie, I have been here before.”“No, Mother,” Willie responded, “you

have never been here.”

Ellen White speaks at the dedicatory service held April 15, 1906, on the Loma Linda

campus.

Elder John Burden was one of the few that

believed, as Ellen White did, that Loma

Linda would one day become a successful

educational institution.

The $40,000 purchase price, later reduced to $38,900, included a herd of healthy dairy

cattle.

Teachers and students join in a “medical-evangelistic” tour in the sanitarium’s Moore truck in

1912.

Loma Linda’s first nursing class admires the newly-arrived Richard Edward Abbott. The

School of Nursing was the first school at Loma Linda.

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“Then this is the very place the Lordhas shown me, for it is all familiar,” sheanswered. Turning to one of the ministers,she added, “We must have this place. Weshould reason from cause to effect. TheLord has not given us this property for anycommon purpose.”On August 22, 1905, Mrs. White wrote

in a personal letter that “this is the mostdelightful situation for a sanitarium I haveever seen. The scenery is magnificent, andeverything possible has been done to beau-tify the premises.”On August 24, 1905, John Burden

signed the Articles of Incorporation as thepresident of the new Loma Linda Sanitar-ium. He and Mrs. White immediatelybegan an aggressive recruiting effort. InOctober, the Sanitarium admitted its firstpatients.But Ellen White had seen that Loma

Linda was to be not only a sanitarium, butalso an educational center. In December,Loma Linda accepted its first students intothe nursing program. But Ellen Whitecounseled that physicians, too, should betrained at Loma Linda, and in 1906 theLoma Linda College of Evangelistsopened its doors. From this providentialbeginning, the College of Evangelists went

need by approving a new hospital, “at a costnot to exceed $20,000, including furnish-ings.” The Board was directed to arrange for“extensive solicitation for gifts” to financethe new hospital building.Meanwhile, study had begun focusing on

the possibility of locating a dispensary (clinic)in Los Angeles to provide clinical experienceduring the final two years of medical train-ing. Some had reservations about the LosAngeles option, andMrs. White’s counselwas sought. Asked if it would be “right togive the last two years of instruction in LosAngeles or if we should hold all the work atLoma Linda,” she replied through her sonWillie in early April of 1912 “that we do inLoma Linda just as much of the work ascould be done acceptably there, and carrythe remainder to Los Angeles.”The way thus cleared, CME opened its

dispensary, the First Street Clinic, at 941East First Street in the Boyle Heightsneighborhood of Los Angeles on September29, 1913. This would become the first stepin creating the clinical division at Los Ange-les and what would, in successive stages,become what is today the White MemorialHospital complex.Alas, however, in the months following,

it became apparent that the Loma LindaHospital faced a challenge that would leadto its early demise. Financially unable tooperate the hospital as a charity institution,and failing also to fill enough beds withpaying patients, the 70-bed facility simplycould not provide an adequate number ofpatients to support a strong clinical educa-tion program.This would not be the end of the line for

a hospital at Loma Linda—an obvious factto anyone visiting Loma Linda today. Butthe first effort fell short. Students wouldnow spend three and a half years at LomaLinda studying basic sciences, gaining whatpractical experience they could at the sani-tarium—then spend a full year gainingclinical experience in Los Angeles, followedby six months in review and examinations atLoma Linda.On July 16, 1915, at the age of 87, the

founding voice and presence that had

on to become the College of MedicalEvangelists—and would be known by thatname for more than 50 years.From the beginning, the story of the

place that would come to be known asLoma Linda was to be a continuing recordof divine providence and interventionlinked with human vision and faith, effort,and sacrifice. No human enterprise beginsin strength and maturity, of course. As itprogressed from its infancy through child-hood and youth, Loma Linda—vulnerableand finding its way—needed the protectionand guidance of its founding Parent. Andbecause the healing and teaching missionof Loma Linda was so firmly aligned withthe forces of good in the universe and just asunequivocally entrenched against the forcesof evil, for this reason, too, Loma Lindaneeded divine protection and intervention.While the time would never come when

divine providence was no longer needed orevident, during Loma Linda’s earliestyears, God’s protecting and interveninghand was perhaps most apparent.Once its twin ministries of healing and

teaching were established, new challengesfrequently arose to test the faith of LomaLinda’s leadership—challenges that oftenbecame crises that seemingly threatened

the very survival of the newly opened Sani-tarium and College.In the decade leading up to the 1920s,

no such challenge loomed larger than theneed for the College of Medical Evange-lists (CME) to obtain full officialrecognition and acceptance from the Coun-cil on Medical Education of the AmericanMedical Association (AMA) in the form ofadvanced ratings. This would give LomaLinda’s medical graduates full legitimacyand acceptance by individual state medicalboards and licensing agencies.To gain the needed ratings from the

AMA Council on Medical Education, CMEwould need to provide its medical studentsappropriate clinical training and experi-ence. This need was priority one at aNovember, 1912, meeting of the Board.“Two very essential features of the med-

ical college,” the minutes recorded, “are aclinical hospital and a dispensary. The lawof the medical association requires that ahospital and dispensary be connected witheach college that graduates physicians.”1

A May, 1912, meeting of the Board hadalready approved construction of a smallclinical hospital on the Loma Linda campus.But funds were slow in materializing, and byJanuary of 1913, Wells Ruble, MD, presi-dent of CME, felt it necessary to underscoreto the Board just how serious the situationhad become. The previous year’s surveyfrom the AMA had pronounced CME defi-cient because of its lack of clinicalfacilities—a rating that would prevent itsgraduates from being allowed to sit for stateboard examinations.“This means death to our college,” Dr.

Ruble said in confronting the Board, “unlessimmediate steps are taken to provide whatis necessary for giving a thorough medicalcourse. One year has already passed sincethis matter was [first] placed before thisboard, and what we see today was fullyprophesied at that time. The question nowbefore us is, ‘Are we to make good in estab-lishing this medical college?’ If so, thehospital must be built at once.”2

The next day, January 28, 1913, the con-stituency meeting responded to the urgent

guided the church and encouraged theestablishment of its first medical institutionsfell silent. Ellen White passed away at herhome—Elmshaven—in Northern California.But her written counsels remained toinstruct, clarify, and inspire.Meanwhile, the challenge of lifting

CME’s rating with the AMA seemed daunt-ing indeed. To provide the facilities and staffto offer adequate clinical training would becostly. So much so that when the Fall Coun-cil of the world church met at Loma Lindain 1915, not a few of the delegates attendingwere prepared seriously to consider closingCME’s School of Medicine.Reaching a painful and almost paralyzing

impasse of silence, a subcommitteeappointed to study the crisis watched as anold, gray-haired brother arose from the frontand spoke in a quavering voice.“Brethren,” he said, “I am bewildered. I

can hardly believe my eyes and my ears.What is this I hear you say? We must closethis school?…Soon the vote will be taken,but before it is taken, let me say this:“You know who I am, George I. Butler. I

used to be president of the General Confer-ence, and I think I received moretestimonies from the servant of the Lordthan any of you, and most of them rebukedme. We were at times urged to do whatseemed impossible, but when we went for-ward by faith, the way opened. Brethren, Ibelieve in God and in His prophets!…“Now, Brother Daniells [the president of

the General Conference] will soon call for avote. When he does, here is one old handthat will not go up.” Mr. Butler then heldout his shaky arm and concluded, “Thishand has not learned how to vote to closewhat God says should be open.”3

Others, unprepared to close the school,nonetheless felt that the curriculum shouldbe reduced to two years of basic sciences,after which students would be encouragedto complete their medical education atestablished schools of medicine elsewhere.Feelings ran deep.The next day, General Conference Presi-

dent A.G. Daniells added his voice insupport of keeping the school open.“My brethren,” he said, “I am astounded

and I must speak. If I do not say my mind, Iwill be a coward and unworthy of your confi-dence. Brethren, listen to me. We all professfaith in the spirit of prophecy, but we forgetthat one of the last things the prophet everwrote was that our young men and womenshould be given their full training in ourown school and should not be forced to goto worldly schools. And here we are, beforethe prophet is hardly cold in her grave,proposing that our young men and womenshall only have half of their education fromus and then shall be turned loose in theseworldly schools. Now, I protest against it.That is all that I can do, but I do mostearnestly protest it. We can build up thisschool. We can do anything God wants us todo.”4

A patient receives hydrotherapy at Loma Linda Sanitarium. Sanitariums often catered to the

chronically ill and those who suffered from an unhealthful lifestyle.

The newly constructed Loma Linda Sanitarium and Hospital had its first unit completed

in 1924.


business meeting on November 14, theCouncil on Medical Education and Hospi-tals voted that the College of MedicalEvangelists be granted a ‘class A’ rating.”CME was now the only “Class A” med-

ical school in Southern California. Not onlydid it ensure the continuing deferment ofCME students from active military servicebut also qualified CME graduates to takestate board examinations anywhere in theUnited States.The decade of the 1920s moved on with

growth, progress, and expansion—and thearrival of 1928 brought a major milestone inLoma Linda’s history. Over the years,Loma Linda’s on-campus medical institu-tion had transitioned from a sanitariumserving primarily “rest-cure” patients—many of them on extended vacations—tomore seriously ill patients who had comefor treatment as well as to learn the secretsof better living. This transition, of course,was to the benefit of the medical studentsand staff, allowing them to study and servea greater variety of medical cases.Groundbreaking and construction on a

new Loma Linda Sanitarium and Hospitalbegan on the “Beautiful Hill” on April 22,1928. The new 200-foot tall Spanish-stylebuilding—which over the years wouldcome to be known simply as “The San”—opened for occupancy on March 20, 1929,after three days of moving patients, staff,and equipment.In its practical use, the new Loma

Linda Sanitarium and Hospital functionedmore as a hospital than as an extended-carefacility. Surgical and obstetrical patientsoccupied most of the hospital area, whilepatients with nonsurgical problems occu-pied the sanitarium portion.Repeatedly enlarged, the new Loma

Linda Sanitarium and Hospital on the hilleventually could accommodate nearly 200patients.Loma Linda had accumulated hard-won

experience at enduring hard times. Its lead-ers and workers now had not onlywell-developed survival skills but a strongwill to succeed, rooted in the convictionthat their mission was of divine origin. But


the 1930s would bring adversity that wouldtest the dedication of everyone associatedwith the Sanitarium and College—theGreat Depression. No one could foreseethe ever-greater sacrifices that would benecessary to ride out the lean years.As the downward slide continued, the

General Conference of Seventh-dayAdventists called for a major slashing of theCollege’s budget, with worker salaries to bepared by between 5 percent and 20 percent.“It is up to us to make the thing go or

turn it over to someone who can,” saidPresident Magan. The College, he added,must “get down to bedrock and putthings on a better basis…eliminateextravagance and waste…and make per-sonal sacrifices.”By October of 1932, occupancy rates at

White Memorial Hospital in Los Angelesplummeted to only 50 patients—thelowest-ever patient census. In response,physicians often accepted eggs, flour, chick-ens, groceries, and other goods as paymentfor services. A group of nurses from theWhite Memorial Hospital responded withcompassion and formed the “Ellen WhiteNurses” to serve thousands of poor peoplein the surrounding community. Theydonated their time. The hospital provided

food. And the County of Los Angeles pro-vided transportation. At both Loma Lindaand White Memorial, some nurses took lessthan full-time work so others could have atleast a few hours of employment each week.Despite the widespread financial failure

that now permeated all of American soci-ety, the combination of divine blessing,workforce sacrifice, and Church supportkept Loma Linda afloat during these bleakyears—and not just afloat but actuallymoving steadily forward.As the difficult decade of the 1930s

closed, CME had not only survived a seriesof crises just as daunting as any it hadencountered in its earliest years, but it hadgrown in size and strength. At Loma Linda,two new churches served the students andstaff, and two parallel rows of new sciencebuildings now faced each other across awide, grassy campus mall. In Los Angeles,the White Memorial Hospital, which beganas a storefront clinic some 25 years earlier,was now a fully equipped city hospital of190 beds.On the cusp of yet another decade,

would that Loma Linda and its institutionscould now dispense with so many strugglesto survive—so many threats to existence—and focus fully on growth and service? But

as all truly great institutions learn, in thevery struggle to overcome threats and chal-lenges lies the secret to strength andsuccess. The combination of unmistakabledivine providence and human dedicationand commitment had by now broughtLoma Linda from little more than a dreamand a shoestring to a thriving two-campuscenter of education and healing.But the arrival of the 1940s would not

bring peace or ease for Loma Linda, theUnited States, or the world. Soon enough,the entire planet would convulse in thethroes of conflict and death. Yet even as theincoming tides of a world at war spilledacross the Loma Linda campuses, theywould be answered by outgoing tides ofservice, sacrifice, and patriotism.For the second time in its still-young

existence, the College of Medical Evange-lists was forced to confront and examine itsrelationship to its nation during a time ofwar. This time, though, the college was farstronger than it had been a little more than20 years earlier when it had fought for itsvery survival, faced with the prospect oflosing most of its male students to theWorld War I draft. Now the school was suf-ficiently developed to position it to make asignificant and highly valued contributionto the new war effort. That contribution,however, was prepared to make only withinthe confines of its own principles—chiefamong them, noncombatancy.During the First World War, various

medical schools across the country enteredagreements with the office of the U.S. Sur-geon General to form their own militaryhospital units. Members of the teachingstaff at these schools held reserve commis-sions in the U.S. Army.Soon after the close of World War I, some

of the younger physicians at CME proposedthat as a gesture of cooperation and pre-paredness with the United Statesgovernment, the college organize a Seventh-day Adventist-staffed, standby militaryhospital. While this entity would exist duringpeacetime as little more than a paper organi-zation, it would be ready for immediateactivation in the event of another conflict.6

Also present at the meetings was Dr.Percy T. Magan. Near the close of the dis-cussions, Dr. Magan, an acknowledgedorator, found that he simply could not con-tain himself and launched a most eloquentplea for the college to continue as a fullfour-year school.When the vote came, not a single hand

was raised to close the school. The schoolwould teach basic sciences at Loma Lindaand provide clinical training in Los Ange-les—at the new $61,000 Ellen G. WhiteMemorial Hospital.The onset of World War I posed a new

threat to CME’s medical classes, as onlystudents attending medical schools withthe AMA’s highest ratings were exemptfrom being drafted into the army. But inNovember of 1917, the AMA awardedCME its second-highest rating—a “B”—just in time to prevent CME’s classes frombeing emptied of their young men.When Dr. Nathan P. Colwell, secretary of

the American Medical Association’s Councilon Medical Education, had first visitedLoma Linda in 1912, he afterward recom-mended that—based on what he hadseen—those promoting the idea of a med-ical school abandon their attempts. TheAMA, he noted, was out to crush “one-horsemedical schools,” and that is all he couldconceive of Loma Linda ever establishing.In its earliest years, the new medical col-

lege could barely merit the AMA’s lowestrating—a “C”—which wasn’t enough evento ensure that its medical graduates could sitfor their various state board examinations.

Then, just in time to save its medicalstudents from the World War I draft, CMEearned its “B” grade. Nonetheless, CMEcontinued to reorganize and strengthenmany of its vital programs and departmentsas recommended by the AMA.Invited in 1922 to a banquet in Los

Angeles, Dr. Colwell shared his journeyfrom skeptic to enthusiastic supporter:“When the Seventh-day Adventists first

started…a number of us felt they weredoomed for defeat. I told them over andover again not to make a start. But today Imust confess that their faith has triumphedover my unbelief. Some years ago, Dr.Magan took me over the place which theirhospital now covers. It was then a mass ofweeds and cockleburs, and there were twoor three sorry-looking animals feeding uponit. Dr. Magan remarked to me that some-day we would have a great medicalinstitution there. I thought to myself: Youpoor soul, you do not know what you aretalking about; you will never be able tohave a first-class medical school; but todayI walk over the block covered with beauti-ful buildings, and a veritable hive ofmedical activities…. I am almost certain asto the kind of report I will make, and I amsure you will all be satisfied with it.”5

On November 16, 1922, Dr. Colwellwrote a letter to Dr. Magan with the newsCME had waited years to hear:“After watching the efforts you have

been making to develop your medicalschool during the past several years, it is mymost pleasing duty to inform you that at its

Sandra Nehlsen Cannarella and Leonard L. Bailey comfort Baby Fae. Dr. Bailey performed radi-

cal surgery on Baby Fae in October, 1984, replacing the infant’s ailing heart with that of a baboon.


Percy T. Magan, MD, at the time, deanof the School of Medicine, was so favorablyimpressed with the idea that he approachedofficers of the Ninth Corps Area of the U.S.Army in San Francisco and negotiated withthem to establish the 47th General Hospitalof the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Underauspices of the army, CME officially orga-nized the 47th General Hospital in 1926,with President Newton Evans, MD, as itsfirst commanding officer, with the rank oflieutenant colonel in the Reserves.On August 11, 1941, leaders of the

Seventh-day Adventist Church, with Gen-eral Conference President J.L. McElhanypresiding, met at CME’s Los Angelescampus for some concentrated study ofthe school’s relation to the war nowspreading over the globe. Some expressedconcern over excessive entanglementbetween the Church and the military. Butthe 47th General Hospital had existedthrough 17 years of peace, and a decisionwas reached that it would continue. Thecollege could hardly abandon its commit-ment now that America seemedthreatened with early involvement in asecond world war.7

On June 30, 1943, the dormant 47th wasactivated at Hammon General Hospital inModesto, California. And in the spring of1944, the S.S. West Point transported the47th General Hospital to the South Pacific,where CME officers helped construct a mil-itary facility at Milne Bay on the southern

tip of Papua New Guinea. In May of 1945,the 47th marked its first anniversary of for-eign service. But by that time, the unit wasalready beginning to break up, as the U.S.Army transferred medical officers andenlisted personnel to shifting fronts inother theaters of the war.As the war progressed, the United

States War Department virtually comman-deered America’s medical schools. In part,this was to increase the number of physi-cians available for the war effort. But it wasalso in part to ensure that young menwould not seek to escape induction intomilitary service by taking a professed inter-est in studying medicine.But one provision of the military’s proac-

tive effort to assure a sufficient ongoingsupply of new physicians for the war effortcreated a looming crisis for CME. Themili-tary itself assumed the right to selectpromising college students for medical train-ing. This took the selection process out of thehands of the schools of medicine. Eachschool was assigned a quota—an assignednumber—of new freshmenmedical students.This provision created consternation for

CME’s medical school administrators.Founded by the Seventh-day AdventistChurch, CME operated in harmony withthe unique principles of the denomination,including such Christian ideals as foregoingthe use of alcohol and tobacco, advocacy ofvegetarianism, and honoring the seventh-day Sabbath by holding no classes on that

day. The prospect that CME could soonbecome a training center for students, themajority of whom would be ignorant of orunprepared to harmonize with those ideals,was deeply unsettling.And what of Seventh-day Adventist

young men who would normally seek med-ical training such as CME was ordained toprovide? Suppose that under this new pro-vision, some of them should be assigned toother, secular schools of medicine? Theywould find themselves having to forfeiteither their religious convictions or theopportunity of becoming a physician.Faced with this complication, the CME

Board of Trustees sent its president, WalterE. Macpherson, MD, to Washington, D.C.Evidence seems convincing that divineprovidence had already anticipated thisemergency and had been preparing the wayto meet it. In Washington, Dr. Macpher-son’s first stop was to visit with one of hisown CME classmates—Walter S. Jensen,MD (class of 1924), who now served as acolonel in the U.S. Air Corps. Dr. Jensencould readily understand CME’s plight, buthe did not have the authority to mold mili-tary policies relating to medical schools.Nonetheless, he could open doors for Dr.Macpherson, and arranged for CME’s presi-dent to see Col. F.M. Fitz in the SurgeonGeneral’s office. Col. Fitz was very recep-tive to Dr. Macpherson’s appeal and said, “Iwill refer you to Colonel White, who is incharge of drafting plans for assignments to


medical schools.” At last, Dr. Macphersonhad reached the man who did have theauthority to get things done on CME’sbehalf.What happened next, some might see

as simple coincidence. Those familiar withthe repeated evidences of divine involve-ment throughout the years in times of crisisat Loma Linda would see it as yet anothersuch providential intervention.As Dr. Macpherson presented CME’s

dilemma to Col. White, a soldier enteredhis office, saluted, and delivered a sealedenvelope to the colonel. Col. Whitereturned the soldier’s salute, accepted theenvelope, and dismissed the courier.Momentarily, he interrupted his conversa-tion with Dr. Macpherson to open theenvelope, and discovered to his surpriseand delight that he had just been promotedto the rank of brigadier general.Dr. Macpherson remained convinced

after that meeting that the now-Gen.White’s elation at that moment spilled overinto the matter under discussion andprompted from him a spontaneous promise:“I will keep you folks in mind.” And that,he did. CME would become the onlyschool of medicine in America allowed tochoose its own students, starting with Sev-enth-day Adventists about to be assignedto other schools.8

During the war, more than 500 CMEalumni performed military service for theircountry, including many physicians whoserved outside the auspices of the 47thGeneral Hospital. Many received the SilverStar, the Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit,and the Citation for Meritorious Achieve-ment. CME’s graduates attracted favorableattention wherever they went because ofthe quality of the service they rendered.Some became prisoners of war. And somedied in service to their country.If the dominant focus of the 1940s at

Loma Linda was the world at war, duringthe 1950s attention returned to its owncampus. And no story of that decadeloomed larger than the establishment of theSchool of Dentistry.The idea of a Seventh-day Adventist

school of dentistry dated back to LomaLinda’s earliest years. In fact, the originalArticles of Incorporation for the College ofMedical Evangelists in 1909 authorized itto grant degrees not only in medicine andnursing but in dentistry as well. But theidea would need till the decade of the1950s to see reality.Over those intervening decades, the

idea would move forward by fits and starts.In 1914, Wells Ruble, MD, the president ofCME, expressed his interest in the idea ofa dental school on the campus. In 1932, Dr.R. G. Hosking, an Adventist dentist in SanFrancisco, California, believed—along withsome other interested dentists and prospec-tive dental students—that the time hadarrived when CME should have its ownschool of dentistry.Also in 1932, however, the possibility of

starting a dental school was considered bythe General Conference Committee of theSeventh-day Adventist Church. A smallercommittee was appointed to study thequestion and bring in recommendations.The church’s Autumn Council later thatyear acted on this committee’s work, rec-ommending that for the time being,arrangements be made with one or moreexisting dental schools for Adventist stu-dents to take their professional trainingthere, while being granted the privilege ofobserving the seventh-day Sabbath.

CME still did not have a green light tolaunch its own dental school, but this defi-nitely represented an interim step forward.As a follow-through on the 1932 AutumnCouncil recommendation, two Adventistdentists, also brothers, carried out thisdirective. J. Russell and Gerald A. Mitchellsuccessfully persuaded the Atlanta-South-ern Dental School in Atlanta, Georgia, toexcuse Seventh-day Adventist studentswho would attend there from Saturdayclasses or tests. Atlanta-Southern acceptedup to 10 Adventist dental students annu-ally. A good number of other Adventistdental students succeeded in having theirday of worship honored while attendingsuch schools as the College of Physiciansand Surgeons, a proprietary school in SanFrancisco, California.Early in 1938—the same year that the

first Adventists graduated from Atlanta-Southern—CME commissioned HerbertG. Childs Jr., DDS, a Los Angeles dentistwho had in 1935 been hired onto the staffof Loma Linda Sanitarium and Hospital, toprepare a proposal advocating a church-operated dental school.9

For a number of reasons, action on theproposal was deferred. Despite the urgentneed, for the remainder of the 1940s,progress toward an Adventist dental schoolresembled the stop-and-go flow of rush-hourtraffic that would in later decades become

President Richard M. Nixon visits LLU in

1971 to announce construction of a veterans

administration hospital. He is accompanied

by Ronald Reagan, governor of California.

Loma Linda University Medical Center was constructed in three years, from 1964 to

1967, for $17,200,000.

Current Loma Linda University Adventist

Health Sciences Center leaders pose for a

picture. From left is Richard H. Hart, MD,

DrPH; B. Lyn Behrens, MBBS; H. Roger

Hadley, MD; Ruthita Fike, MA; and Kevin

J. Lang, MBA.


routine on Southern California’s freeways.By 1949, NASDAD—the association of

Adventist dentists—increased the intensityof its efforts toward establishing a dentalschool. Twenty-three of its memberspledged $50,000 as seed money. And thatyear, M. Webster Prince, DDS, who hadhelped found NASDAD and now served asits president, presented a paper stressingthe need to forge ahead and take immedi-ate steps toward founding an Adventistschool of dentistry. A rising chorus of othervoices joined in calling for the school’sestablishment.In May of 1951, Dr. Prince made yet

another powerful appeal for a denomina-tional school of dentistry.10 In it, heconcluded, “No, brethren, we cannot affordto longer delay the decision for this valuableand important help in carrying this Message.We need a dental school! And we need itnow! It is your responsibility to decide.”Momentum accelerated, and on Octo-

ber 18, 1951, a committee appointed byGeneral Conference president William H.Branson returned a formal recommendationthat the General Conference establish aschool of dentistry at Loma Linda. Threedays later on October 21, the General Con-ference unanimously authorized CME tofound a school of dentistry and voted$750,000 as its contribution to the project.11

With the road now cleared to move for-ward, CME’s board met in early 1952 to

begin putting together a faculty and cur-riculum. On January 31, it appointed Dr.Prince to become the first dean of theSchool of Dentistry. After his death in1969, the School of Dentistry buildingwould be named Prince Hall.As the 1950s closed, the College of

Medical Evangelists had grown dramati-cally and become a far more complexorganization. An unresolved issue still facedLoma Linda’s leaders: the divided campusof the School of Medicine. When early on,Loma Linda had looked to Los Angeles toprovide needed clinical training for its stu-dents, the two-campus approach proved areasonable and useful solution. But the pas-sage of time often brings the need to adapt,to change, to adjust.Frequent reminders from the American

Medical Association began warning thatthis arrangement was unsatisfactory andwould have to be terminated. Yet after muchstudy by many committees over many years,the issue remained unanswered.From its earliest days, a hallmark of

Loma Linda’s growth and success had beenits ability to solve problems and overcomeobstacles. This challenge, too, would even-tually be met—bringing Loma Linda to amajor milestone in the 1960s.For decades, Loma Linda’s administra-

tors wrestled with the problems inherent inmaintaining dual campuses: costly duplica-tion of administrative functions, teaching

facilities, equipment, libraries, and curricu-lum—to say nothing of the time involvedin travel between the two locations, sepa-rated by 60 miles.Following the 1958 evaluation of CME,

accrediting officials, instead of recommend-ing consolidation of the two campuses asthey had so many times before, nowrequired it, in what one Board memberdescribed as “a polite ultimatum.”12 By1959, CME was the only medical school inAmerica operating on two campuses.No longer could a decision be deferred.

Consolidation was imperative. But where?The debate intensified—with sincere andoften passionately adamant voices raised onbehalf of each location. Not surprisingly, thebasic sciences faculty in Loma Lindafavored Loma Linda—the clinical faculty inLos Angeles favored Los Angeles. TheChurch constituency and a majority ofCME’s councilors favored Loma Linda. TheCME administration and Board were split.For the final years of the 1950s and into

the early years of the 1960s, debate contin-ued, both on campus and at AdventistChurch headquarters. Meanwhile, attentionfocused also on the name of Loma Linda’scollege. Since its beginnings, the name“College of Medical Evangelists” hadserved well. But with plans in place to offernot just medical training but a full liberalarts program, the time had arrived to con-sider a new name for the institution thatwould provide an umbrella over not just


medical training but other academic disci-plines as well. Thus, on July 1, 1961, theCollege of Medical Evangelists officiallybecame Loma Linda University.Book-length publications more fully

detail the story of how ultimately, LomaLinda consolidated its two campuses. Suf-fice it to say that finally, on September 25and 26, 1962, the Board arrived at a his-toric decision—voting to unify thecampuses at Loma Linda. The decisiondid include, however, a provision to main-tain a connection with the WhiteMemorial Hospital, where certain gradu-ate, paramedical, and premedical coursescould be offered. Church leaders attend-ing Autumn Council approved the vote ofLoma Linda’s Board.Divided for 48 years, the School of

Medicine was once again united on onecampus. As the decision was implemented,control of the White Memorial Hospitaland its associated facilities passed over tothe Southern California Conference of Sev-enth-day Adventists.Once the decision to consolidate had

been made, one of the most urgent needswas to develop at Loma Linda a newmedicalcenter—capable of fully providing for theclinical training of physicians-in-training—toreplace the Sanitarium on the hill.A general design for the new hospital,

approved in May of 1963, included plans foran 11-story, 2,050-room facility. Little more

University Church, one of the central campus buildings, has just undergone a major renovation.

Through a partnership with NASA, the Pro-

ton Treatment Center is able to assist in

improving radiation shielding in space suits.

than a year later on June 7, 1964, ground-breaking ceremonies for the newmedicalcomplex took place. The last concrete waspoured on January 25, 1966—and the com-pleted Loma Linda University MedicalCenter was occupied on July 9, 1967.Patient rooms circled the perimeter of

three circular towers—each seven storieshigh—and were clustered on each flooraround a central nursing station hub. Thetriple towers of the Medical Center wereprominently visible from points all acrossthe Inland Empire valley and continue tobe a major area landmark.Now Loma Linda University’s School of

Medicine had a state-of-the-art facility toaccommodate not only basic science train-ing but clinical education as well. But ifLoma Linda were truly to live out its newname as a university, it would need a fullfour-year undergraduate liberal arts schoolas part of its academic program.In the early 1960s, the Western Associa-

tion of Schools and Colleges notified LomaLinda that the Association would soon limitaccreditation to only those institutionsoffering an adequate liberal arts program.Finally, after much study, on April 23,

1967, the Loma Linda University con-stituency approved the merger of nearbyLa Sierra College in Riverside, California,with Loma Linda. On July 1, 1967, LaSierra officially became the College of Artsand Sciences of Loma Linda University.For the remainder of the 20th century,

Loma Linda, now firmly established,moved forward with strength and momen-tum in ever-increasing realization of itsmission to heal, teach, and bring hope to itscommunity, its nation, and its world.The 1970s would see the establish-

ment of several new schools within theUniversity as well as many new buildingsto house Loma Linda’s expanding Univer-sity and Medical Center. Also in the1970s, a major Veteran’s Administrationhospital would be constructed nearby,with which the Medical Center would beclosely affiliated. The Overseas HeartSurgery Team was developed to enhanceLoma Linda’s global service outreach.

During the 1980s, Loma Linda came tonational and worldwide attention when in1984, Leonard L. Bailey, MD, a pediatric car-diac surgeon at Loma Linda, transplanted theheart of a baboon into an infant girl born witha defective heart. Though “Baby Fae” livedonly another three weeks, her brief life notonly highlighted the critical need for humaninfant heart donation but opened the doors toan ongoing program of human heart trans-plantation at Loma Linda that has drawnworldwide acclaim. As of March, 2005, LomaLinda’s heart transplant doctors had per-formedmore than 410 infant hearttransplants—255 of those on babies under sixmonths of age. At 10 years following surgery,66 percent of these transplant patients arestill alive—patients who would have had nochance at all to live without the transplants.The 1990s and the first five years of the

newmillennium have been years of steadyand often spectacular growth at Loma Linda.New institutes, new schools, new buildings.A world-renowned Proton Treatment Centerfor cancer. A world-class Children’s Hospital.As the secondmillennium A.D. began,

Loma Linda had—like a jumbo jet—achieved cruising altitude. It moved swiftly,surely, powerfully, carried along by themomentum built of years of vision and sacri-fice, of prayer and hard work.Now even more years have passed since

the world crossed the millennial marker—years that have brought Loma Linda notonly to its centennial year but propelled it,by its unwavering mission, into a futureaglow with the promise of new opportuni-ties for service—for as long as time onEarth continues.

REFERENCES1. CMEBoard of Trustees minutes, Nov. 9, 1912, pp. 55, 56.2. CMEBoard of Trustees minutes, January 27, 1913, p. 147.3. A.V. Olsen, Through Crisis to Victory, pp. 90, 91.4. TheMedical Evangelist, February 15, 1940, p. 4.5. Richard Utt, From Vision to Reality, pp. 61, 63.6. Harold Shryock, MD, DiamondMemories, p. 104.7. From Vision to Reality, p. 112.8. DiamondMemories, pp. 107, 108.9. Letter from Percy T.Magan, MD, to J.L. McElhaney, April4, 1938.

10. “Proposal for a Seventh-day Adventist Owned andOperated Dental School,” receivedMay 9, 1951.

11. “CME’s Dental School Approved,” TheMedicalEvangelist, Nov. 1, 1951, p. 1; CMEAlumni Journal, Oct.1953, p. 24.

12. CMEBoard of Trustees minutes, September 11, 1958, p. 5.

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rystal and Cristina Molina sharea bond closer than most sib-lings. Not only are the sistersidentical twins, they were bornJuly 16, 2004, joined at the head in

one of the rarest types of conjoined twins.Parents Blanca Cabrera and BernardoMolina of Coachella Valley delivered thegirls at Loma Linda University Children’sHospital knowing this.An ultrasound in March, 2004, showed

Ms. Cabrera was carrying craniopagus con-joined twins. Only 2 percent of conjoinedtwins are joined at the head. A little fright-ened, Ms. Cabrera and Mr. Molina, alreadywith two other daughters, 5-year-oldWendy and 2-year-old Daisy, had a goodreason to be afraid. Even with the supportof a 120-member team to deliver and carefor their babies, they knew that only eightother craniopagus twins have been sepa-rated before. Not all of them have survived.“I was thinking and a lot of things came

to my mind. I thought I would never seethem again,” admits Ms. Cabrera.As the ultrasound at three months

revealed conjoined twins, Ms. Cabrera didnot understand what that meant for herbabies. “We went and they did the ultra-

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sound but it seemed like something waswrong and when they finished, theywouldn’t tell me anything.“At first [the doctor] told me there

were two, then I started crying. As theyexplained, all I did was cry,” remembersMs. Cabrera. Little did she know that allher tears would be forgotten after a verysuccessful separation surgery just a yearlater.“I was in the delivery room, and it was

probably the most amazing birth I’veseen,” says Renatta Osterdock, MD, leadneurosurgeon for the Molina twins of theCesarean delivery of the girls. “When thebabies were actually delivered, I rememberbeing in the ICU dealing with stabilizingthe babies. They rolled mom by to see thetwins, and the look on her face was just oneof fear. It was like she was looking at some-thing that didn’t belong to her.”Dr. Osterdock, along with one of the

largest multidisciplinary teams ever assem-bled at Children’s Hospital, worked tometiculously chart a treatment plan for thegirls from prenatal care all the way throughpost-operative care and discharge to proveMs. Cabrera’s fear misplaced.“We had fetal imaging,” says Dr. Oster-

dock. “Before they were even born I couldtell mom that it looks like the brains arenormal. When we first got the imagingstudies and had an idea of what was goingon, we were able to say ‘Hey, you know, Ithink this is going to be okay and I thinkyour girls are going to be fine.’ Still, we

knew there were a lot of risks.”A lot of risks and an unexpected reward

awaited the entire team. The twins cap-tured the heart of every member involvedwith their care, spreading a compassion farbeyond the confines of their hospital ICUroom. The girls even touched those outsideof their direct caregivers. Companiesdonated specialized equipment, allowingthe surgery team to create 3-D models ofthe twins’ heads to practice on, and aunique bed for the twins’ surgery thatwould rotate 360 degrees and stabilize theirheads during surgery. Parkview Commu-nity Hospital employees funded a van forthe family’s transportation needs. KNBCChannel 4 reporter Mary Parks docu-mented the entire separation process withthe help of Medical Center audio/visualstaff Ganim Hannah, Marlon Paley, JanisTucker, and Robert Raae-Nielsen. Thespirit of cooperation and compassion thatbonded the twins’ team made a largeimpression on Dr. Osterdock.“It was truly remarkable to see how

everyone came together to care for thesegirls,” Dr. Osterdock says.After a brief stay in the hospital follow-

ing their birth, Cristina and Crystal spentfive months at home in Coachella Valley,where Mr. Molina works as a custom tilelayer, and Ms. Cabrera stayed at homecaring for the four girls. Then, on January2, the family brought Crystal and Cristinaback to Loma Linda University Children’sHospital to prepare for the separation. All

Crystal and Cristina Molina leave LLUCH

in the arms of their parents on March 22,

going home separately for the first time in

their 7 months.

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the imaging studies showed the twins’skull bones were fused together, but noother major tissues were joined. Theirbrains were completely separate and eventheir blood vessels were apart.The twins went through several opera-

tions once back in Children’s Hospital.Andrea Ray, MD, lead reconstructiveplastic surgeon for the Molina twins,inserted skin expanders into the girls’heads. These expanders, balloons filledwith saline solution, stretched the skin toprovide the extra tissue needed to coverthe girls’ foreheads after separation. Theexpanders were used instead of the moretraditional approach of skin grafts for twomain reasons.“We felt [using skin grafts] would

increase the chance for infection,” says Dr.Ray. “And the result we could get from thestandpoint of their final appearance we feltwould be better if we could avoid usingskin grafts.”Cristina and Crystal also spent time

with Dr. Osterdock in the operating roombefore separation. She and the surgicalteam needed to implant three bolts intoeach of the girls’ heads that would fasten torods on the rotating bed, immobilizing theirheads during surgery.Dr. Osterdock devised the three

implants especially for the infant girls.

Normal methods for fixating the headapply 60 pounds of force to the skull,something an infant simply cannot endure.Once all the procedures leading up to

the separation were completed, the workwas still not done. With the 3-D modelsand bed in place, the surgery team per-formed a mock operation, a completerun-through of the separation procedure tohelp the physicians practice what none ofthem had ever been involved with prior.At the end of February, after two

months of pre-operative care tense with therisk of infection, the team planned for theseparation on March 3. One of the majorconcerns for the surgery was blood loss. Aninfant’s small size only holds so muchblood. A full-grown adult can safely losemore blood than is in an infant’s entirebody.The main reason for performing the

separation surgery on children so youngcame from imaging that showed gradualevidence of the two girls’ circulatory sys-tems beginning to merge in their skulls.Immediate surgery versus waiting a fewyears for the girls to grow was decidedupon to prevent blood vessels in the brainfrom growing together, further complicat-ing the procedure.Thursday, March 3, 2005, the team

wheeled Crystal and Cristina into the oper-

ating room. Chaplain Saul Silva offered aprayer and then Dr. Osterdock and fellowneurosurgeon Alexander Zouros, MD,began to cut. Working alongside plastic sur-geons Dr. Ray and Brett LeHockey, MD,the surgical team relied on a five-memberanesthesia staff, led by Linda Mason, MD,during the separation of the girls.“You’re always on edge with these oper-

ations that something’s going to go wrongor that there’s going to be some surprise. Ithink the surprise on this one was thateverything went so smoothly,” says Dr.Zouros. The procedure went so smoothly,in fact, that at 4:22 p.m., after two hours ofsurgery, the twins were separated. Dr.Osterdock took the opportunity to deliverthe good news to the family.“We have two babies,” Dr. Osterdock

told Ms. Cabrera and Mr. Molina.“When I told them, my voice was quiv-

ering, because I could see the fear, and I wasabout to cry. And mom just broke down andstarted crying,” remembers Dr. Osterdock.“The day of the surgery, I was feeling

very bad,” says Ms. Cabrera. “I was feel-ing like I had something very heavy.When the doctor came, and told us thatthe babies were doing fine, I felt like thatheavy weight over me was taken away.”“The look of relief and tears, made it all

worthwhile,” says Dr. Osterdock. And thenshe returned to the operating room, wherefor the next few hours Dr. Ray and theteam worked to reconstruct the girls’ skulls.By 8:00 p.m., everything was complete.Ms. Cabrera and Mr. Molina were able

to see Crystal and Cristina separate for thefirst time. The girls spent the next threeweeks at Children’s Hospital recoveringand winning over the affection of thenurses and administration.Dr. Osterdock is still amazed at the

spirit of cooperation and compassion thatsurrounded the team caring for the Molinatwins.“The nursing staff did a tremendous

job—we didn’t have one infection theentire time,” Dr. Osterdock remarks.Crystal and Cristina don’t know it, but

they were so popular during their stay at

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Renatta Osterdock, MD, lead neurosurgeon for the Molina twins, poses for a picture before the

surgery. Skin expanders were inserted into the girls’ heads to prepare them for surgery.

Children’s Hospital that they inspired twoscrapbooking events, resulting in threememory books for the parents and the girls.Alane Allbee, RN, and Jeannie Martinez,RN, case manager for the twins, organizedtwo Monday night scrapbooking soirees forall of the team members who wanted toshare photos and stories of the twins. Ms.Martinez was also instrumental in keepingsuch a large team communicating andworking smoothly together throughout sev-eral months.On March 22, the staff held a going-

home party for the twins on the day of theirdischarge. Full of a tearful room of well-wishers, Mr. Molina used the opportunityto cement his love for his family. In front ofeveryone and to Ms. Cabrera’s greatdelight, he got down on one knee and pro-posed to her. Amidst tears and smiles shesaid yes.“I just decided on that day,” says Mr.

Molina. “I just felt something good, I thinkit was the perfect day.” And at the end ofthe perfect day, the Molina family tookCrystal and Cristina home, separately, forthe first time.

As far as the twins are concerned, theyare developing well considering they arestill adapting to being separate.“They’re a little bit slow, in that they’re

not sitting up independently yet, whichthey probably should be doing, but they’regoing to get caught up by the time they’rea year old,” says Dr. Osterdock.While most craniopagus twins suffer

some sort of neurological damage to one or

both of the individuals, the Molina girls’unique situation of only a skull connectionleft them both with normally functioningbrains.“It depends a lot on the connections in

the brain,” says Dr. Osterdock of the pos-sibility for neurological damage afterseparation. “If the brains are connectedthen they will have problems. But theMolina twins’ brains were separate.”The separation went so well it is diffi-

cult to tell Crystal and Cristina wentthrough a major surgery.“They have a full head of hair already,

and if they wear these little hats, you can’teven tell they’ve had a major surgery,”says Dr. Ray.The family loves having the girls back

home again.“It’s just wonderful, hugging and play-

ing with them. We got so lucky,” says Mr.Molina.After the twins left the hospital on

March 22, when a luncheon was heldto celebrate the successful surgery andcomplication-free post-operative care,KNBC Channel 4 aired a 10-part seriesthroughout Southern California docu-menting the girls’ stay and the carereceived during the week of March 28 toApril 1. The story, titled “Journey ofHope,” told of Crystal and Cristina’s hos-pital care to their first days at home afterseparation. � SCOPE

Blanca Cabrera and Bernardo Molina look over their daughters, Crystal and Cristina

Molina. They were born conjoined at the head, one of the rarest types of conjoined twins.

On March 3, after nearly a year of preparation, Crystal and Cristina Molina were success-

fully separated at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital.

fghanistan was once a placeonly a few Westerners vaguelyknew about. Many people could

not locate this intriguing country on aworld map. In the 1960s, Afghanistan was aplace for Americans to land who wanted to“drop out of society.” Today, the realities of9/11 have brought images of this land-locked country into households around theworld on an almost daily basis.Slightly smaller in area than the state of

Texas, Afghanistan is bordered on thesouth and east by Pakistan, on the west byIran, and on the north by Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Afghanistan’srecent history is a story of war and civilunrest. The former Soviet Union invadedthe country in 1979, but was forced towithdraw 10 years later by anti-Communistmujahideen supported by the UnitedStates.Subsequent fighting among the various

mujahideen factions gave rise to a state ofwarlordism that eventually spawned theTaliban, which seized power in 1996. Fol-lowing the September 11, 2001, terroristattacks on New York City and Washing-ton, D.C., the United States, assisted byAfghani Northern Alliance resistance

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Giving life to AfghanistanL O M A L I N D A U N I V E R S I T Y W O R K S T O G I V E

L I F E T O A C O U N T R Y T H A T H A S N O T H I N G B U T I T S W I L L

forces, toppled the Taliban regime.For all of their 100-year history, Loma

Linda University and Loma Linda Univer-sity Medical Center have been involved ininternational health care initiatives. Theroots of the Adventist health message inAfghanistan began in the early 1920s. PastorJ. E. Fulton of India, writing in the Septem-ber, 1920, issue of the Loma Linda MedicalEvangelist, reported that one of the leadingofficials in the Afghani government hadurged members of the Seventh-day Advent-ist Church working in India to come toKabul to investigate the opening of a lim-ited sanitarium. In his article, Pastor Fultonnoted that “this Afghani delegate is aninfluential man and has promised to help usin various ways to get our health workstarted in his country.”It was in this setting that in 1962, Loma

Linda began its official involvement inAfghanistan. Anchored by G. GordonHadley, MD, dean emeritus of the Schoolof Medicine, and assisted by Loma Lindaphysicians including Bernard Briggs, RoyJutzy, Benjamin Herndon, and John E.Peterson, this effort has provided facultyand consultation resources to the leadingmedical school in Afghanistan and othersimilar facilities throughout the country.This effort temporarily stopped when theSoviet Union invaded the country in 1979.In 1996, at the request of national and

medical school officials in Afghanistan, ateam from Loma Linda, headed by JoanCoggin, MD, MPH, immediate past vice

president for global outreach for LomaLinda University Adventist Health Sci-ences Center; Michael Ryan, PhD, directorof Global Mission for the General Confer-ence; and Dr. Hadley returned toAfghanistan to assess the needs of the med-ical school curriculum and see what helpcould be provided.Maranatha Volunteers International,

with funds from the Euro-Africa Division ofSeventh-day Adventists, Global Mission, andprivate donors, constructed a four-bedroomhome and three one-bedroom apartments forLoma Linda in Kabul. A teaching center,named the Loma Linda Center, was con-structed at Kabul Medical University inexisting space. This center consists of teach-ing laboratories, a medical library, and acomputer center for students and faculty.The Loma Linda efforts progressed

rapidly. Previously, the medical school’slibrary consisted of books and journalsdated prior to 1972. Now this has changed.Books and journals donated by LomaLinda, various international entities, andpublishers have vastly improved the hold-ings in the medical library.On September 11, 2001, all of Loma

Linda’s efforts in the country came to ahalt. “Fortunately, no Loma Linda person-nel were in-country during the time of theterrorist attacks on the United States,” saysRichard H. Hart, MD, DrPH, Loma LindaUniversity chancellor. “We were concernedabout possible damage to our housing com-plex in Kabul with the overthrow of the

A merchant sells prayer rugs in an

open-air marketplace in downtown Kabul.

Free enterprise is thriving throughout

Afghanistan.

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Taliban government and the resulting inva-sion of Afghanistan by the United Statesand its coalition forces. But miraculously,largely because of the efforts of our Afghanistaff employed by us, the propertyremained untouched.“The entire medical school complex

was severely damaged during the struggleswithin the country,” says Dr. Hart, who iscoordinating Loma Linda’s efforts inAfghanistan. “Currently, the medical schoolhas almost been completely restored due tothe efforts of the United States militaryusing local contractors.“A primary need of the health care

system in the country is for qualified per-sonnel in multiple disciplines. Thisincludes a variety of individuals in the‘intermediate’ categories such as nurses,midwives, and other allied health supportpersonnel.”As peace returns to Afghanistan, med-

ical students have returned to school. Themedical curriculum is a seven-year programafter a student completes the equivalent ofa high school education. Previously, anystudent admitted to Kabul Medical Univer-

sity could choose to enroll in the new med-ical curriculum. Consequently,approximately 6,000 students were enrolledin the medical curriculum—many morestudents than they adequately could teach.Efforts have been underway to institute amore selective process in the admitting ofstudents. This year, approximately 70 stu-dents were admitted in the new selectionprocess.Loma Linda is also working with the

Afghanistan Ministry of Health to enhancethe health care system in Kabul, accordingto Dr. Hart. Currently, physician and den-tist teams headed by Roy V. Jutzy, MD,retired chair of the department of medi-cine, have traveled to Kabul to holdcontinuing medical education programs.“The Ministry of Health identified

continuing education topics for the localphysicians,” Dr. Jutzy notes. “Our course-work focuses on the development ofclinical skills, using interactive teachingmethodologies. The Ministry of Health isextremely interested in developing con-tinuing medical education programs forthe entire country that will help upgrade

the quality of physicians now practicing inKabul and throughout the rest of thecountry.”In March, 2004, a team of five Loma

Linda personnel, headed by Dr. Hart, trav-eled to Kabul in response to a requestmade by the Ministry of Health to explorethe possibility of Loma Linda operatingthe Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital, a majorteaching facility in Kabul.The hospital, operated by the Ministry

of Health, was constructed approximately35 years ago. The hospital is located in anaffluent quarter of town and is surroundedby a cluster of medical facilities includingthe Indira Ghandi Children’s Hospital, aphysical therapy clinic, and an allied healtheducational complex. Located on an adja-cent piece of property is a military hospitaloperated by the Afghani Ministry ofDefense.In early 2004, the then-deputy minister

of health, Abdullah Sherzai, MD, on a tripto Loma Linda, asked if Loma Lindawould consider operating the Wazir AkbarKhan Hospital and upgrading the facility tothe equivalent of a progressive Americancommunity hospital.During his visit to Loma Linda, Dr.

Sherzai noted that if “Loma Linda Univer-sity is able and willing to take on this task,this collaborative effort could play a signifi-cant role in changing the way the Islamicworld sees the United States. What betterway to change the world view and theworld direction than to give life to a coun-try that has nothing but its will?”Loma Linda recently received a one-

year, $3-million grant from the UnitedStates government to operate the WazirAkbar Khan Hospital. This grant will hope-fully be renewed annually to assist in theoperation of the hospital, according to Dr.Hart.“The Norwegian Red Cross, operating

under the auspices of the InternationalCommittee of the Red Cross, has com-pletely renovated the hospital,” Dr. Hartsays. “The 200-bed hospital is almost likenew. Prior to the closing of the facility forrenovation, the hospital could accept only

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the most poor patients. Elective surgeriescould be scheduled only one or two days aweek because of lack of adequate medi-cines.”“Without a doubt, human resource

development is the biggest challenge weface,” says Jerry E. Daly, MA, MSLS,assistant vice president for global outreachfor Loma Linda University AdventistHealth Sciences Center, and coordinatorof the logistical support system for theAfghanistan project. “Great emphasisneeds to be placed on training of alliedhealth personnel.”In a recent survey, when 227 nurses and

midwifes sat for an examination of 100multiple choice questions—only ninepassed at the 70 percent level; 13 passed ata 69.5 percent level; and 25 passed at a 65percent level. “We must keep in mind thatin a post-conflict environment, scores likethis are to be expected,” Mr. Daly notes.Equipping the facility poses another set

of challenges, Mr. Daly says. Outpatientmedication can easily be obtained. Obtain-ing inpatient medicines is far morechallenging.“Even though we may be allowed to

buy medications through Loma Linda, theapproval process is lengthy,” Mr. Dalysays. “Waivers must be granted from theUnited States Agency for InternationalDevelopment for the purchase of medi-cines outside their standard list ofessential medications. In addition, awaiver must be obtained to purchase med-ications outside normal channels.”In addition to the renovated hospital,

current plans call for the construction ofan outpatient facility and living quarters

for expatriate employees. These facilitieswill be located on vacant land adjacent tothe hospital.Many challenges lay ahead. Hospitals

in Afghanistan have limited resources.Many of those located in regions outsideKabul do not have stable electricity orrunning water in the facility and lackmodern medications.“We estimate that it will take approxi-

mately $2 million for equipment andsupplies to bring the hospital up to thestandards that the Afghan governmentwishes,” Dr. Hart says. “Additional fundsare needed for staffing, construction of theoutpatient clinic, and housing for expatriatehospital staff.”It is anticipated that 7 to 10 overseas

personnel will play key administrative andmedical roles in the immediate future,according to Dr. Hart.“We are very interested in assisting

Afghanistan with this facility,” Dr. Hartsays. “In addition to working with KabulMedical University, we recognize the addi-tional value of establishing a solid teachinghospital. We expect to have local medicalstudents and residents, as well as nursingstudents and other students in the alliedhealth professions working and learning inthe facility.“Tremendous challenges lie ahead.We are

pleased that Loma Linda can be a part of thiseffort to rebuild the health care andmedicaleducation systems of Afghanistan.”

Loma Linda University Chancellor Richard H. Hart, MD, DrPH, visits with children at a

hospital daycare center. Several health care facilities in Kabul operate their own childcare

center for children of employees.

Afghan physicians participate in a continuing education course presented by Loma Linda

University and Loma Linda University Medical Center. For the past two years, continu-

ing education courses coordinated by Roy V. Jutzy, MD, retired chair, department of

medicine, have been presented to physicians in the Kabul area.

Loma Linda University has been asked by the Afghanistan Ministry of Health to assist in

the operation of the Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital in Kabul. The hospital serves as a teach-

ing facility for Kabul Medical Institute.

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No small enterpriseR E S E A R C H A T L O M A L I N D A U N I V E R S I T Y

M A K E S S T R I D E S T O W A R D I M P R O V E D H E A L T H F O R A L L

hile once a minor focus atLoma Linda University,

research is today a growing com-ponent of the University’s efforts to

serve and heal mankind. Research atLoma Linda has grown from a $4-million-a-year enterprise in the early 1990s to $35million in 2004.Funded increasingly by federal grants

from organizations such as the NationalInstitutes of Health (NIH), faculty researchprojects range in scope from paleontologyto sociology to the biomedical sciences.“Research at Loma Linda develops

innovative medical therapies but peoplenow recognize that it has also providedsupport for the health mission of theAdventist Church which began the insti-tution in 1905,” says Barry Taylor, PhD,vice chancellor for research affairs.Loma Linda University is a United

States leader in developmental research, afield few in the general population under-stand, but one that is literally of vitalimportance. LLU’s Center for PerinatalBiology is world-renowned, attractingnumerous postdoctoral fellows and visit-ing scholars.“Young scientists come from all over

the world to study and work here,” saysLawrence D. Longo, MD, director of theCenter for Perinatal Biology.Perinatal biology is the study of the

biological processes and development ofthe fetus and newborn infant. Sound dryand dull? It isn’t.The work has practical applications for

everyone. The conditions a fetus experi-ences in the womb can predispose him orher as an adult to diseases such as hyper-tension and diabetes. Known as fetalprogramming of adult disease, this is oneof the center’s research thrusts.For example, the center has helped to

establish that fetuses exposed to hypoxia(lack of oxygen) can subsequently endurelifelong effects. Smoking and drug useduring pregnancy are important contribu-tors to fetal hypoxia.Lubo Zhang, PhD, and other center

members were recently published in TheJournal of Physiology for their discoverieson the effects that prenatal cocaine expo-sure in rats has on the heart in theiradulthood.While Drs. Longo, Zhang, and others

focus on the very beginnings of life,others on campus are studying life at theother end.Wolff Kirsch, MD, professor of surgery,

and the team at the Neurosurgery Centerfor Research, Training, and Education aretrying to discover the roots of Alzheimer’sdisease. They are focusing on the role themetal iron plays in Alzheimer’s; people

who suffer from this disease tend to havemore iron in their brains.Now in its fourth year, the study is fol-

lowing 64 adults with memoryimpairment and 31 control subjects.The neurosurgery center team is also

active in developing new surgical devices,not all of which are used in neurosurgeryitself. A recent example is a device usedfor closing the femoral artery after it hasbeen catheterized in cardiology proce-dures.“Without research, medicine cannot

advance,” says Dr. Kirsch. He furtherexplains that a research presence onthe Loma Linda campus balances theinstitution.“It points to this institution as being

on the cutting edge,” he says.Cutting-edge research at Loma Linda

also looks at how oxygen receptors sensehypoxia, how harmless bacteria becomepathogenic, and mechanisms of radiationdamage to tissue. The School of Den-tistry is a leader in developingbiomaterials for use by dentists.The Proton Treatment Center at

Loma Linda University Medical Centerhas long been a leader in treating prostateand other cancers. Now, the center is test-ing a new spot scanning proton beam thatwill allow it to treat additional types ofcancer, such as lymphoma.The spot scanning technology will

allow doctors to treat tumors with greater,three-dimensional precision. Jerry Slater,

The Proton Treatment Center is poised to

expand its ability to treat several different

kinds of cancers. Currently, the Center

sees about 1,000 patients a year.

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MD, chair of radiation medicine, says theyhope to begin treating patients with thenew beam in the next 18 to 24 months.The Adventist Health Study-2, now in

its fourth year, continues to strive towardits goal of 105,000 Seventh-day Adventistparticipants, with about 80,000 people inthe USA and Canada signed up so far.Leaders hope to include 30,000 to 35,000black Adventists, making it one of thelargest nutritional studies of AfricanAmericans—and white Americans—to bedone.“We’ve plowed a lot of new ground in

this study,” says Gary Fraser, MBChB,PhD, director of the project.The study will help determine rela-

tionships between diet and cancer rates.Specifically, the study, a project of theSchool of Public Health, is looking atthree relationships:

1. the relationship between soy con-sumption and breast, prostate, and coloncancer;2. the relationship between calcium,

vitamin D, sunlight exposure, andprostate and colon cancer; and3. the relationship between meat con-

sumption and cancer.The Seventh-day Adventist Church is

uniquely positioned to study such dietaryissues because its members embrace awide range of diets, from total veganismto regular meat consumption. Further-more, as a group, Adventists eat a lot ofsoy products.While Loma Linda’s mission state-

ment is “to make man whole,” not everyresearch project is health focused. Facultyin the earth and biological sciences workto broaden our knowledge of the Creator’shandiwork in the world.

Take Leonard Brand, PhD, professor ofearth and biological sciences, School of Sci-ence and Technology, who has been to Perufive times studying well-preserved fossilwhales in the Pisco Formation. He mostrecently spent the month of May there.Because the team is anchored by individ-

uals from Loma Linda and other Adventistinstitutions, it is able to work through thelens of a Biblical perspective. Dr. Brand saysthis allowed his team to consider how thewhales could be so well-preserved if theywere buried slowly, a question that may nothave been considered by secular researcherswho believe in a very old earth.The growth of research at Loma Linda

University has been intentional. The Uni-versity has strengthened its programsthrough critical factors such as hiringresearch-trained faculty and giving themtime to focus on research.

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The University administration has alsocreated some financial incentives toencourage faculty to embrace research.With so many research interests on

campus, the faculty have earned grants onprojects ranging from sensory transduc-tion in bacteria to culture and cancer: thecase of Latino women.A recent example of a new grant

awardee is Lois Van Cleve, PhD, RN,professor and an associate dean in theSchool of Nursing, who recently learnedthat she won a three-year grant from theNIH’s National Institute of NursingResearch to study quality of life, symp-toms, and management in children livingin advanced stages of cancer.Loma Linda’s focus on basic research

is currently stronger than clinical research,which involves testing on patients.“We need to expand our clinical

research base,” Dr. Taylor says.One way the University is considering

doing so is to establish a clinical trialcenter that would help support clinicians’research efforts. Help in securing projectpermission and funding and collectingdata could greatly advance a clinician’sability to advance modern medicine.Such a center could possibly be estab-

lished within two years, Dr. Taylorestimates.Closely related to clinical research is

translational research, a field that picks upwhere basic research leaves off. (Basicresearch concerns itself with understand-ing how healthy cells function. It exploreshow nature operates without seeking toturn discoveries into medical treatments.)One team at Loma Linda heavilyinvolved in this field is led by oncologistMichael Lilly, MD, director of the Centerfor Molecular Biology and Gene Therapy.The team is researching a gene called

pim-1 kinase, a stress response gene thatcan help tumor cells develop resistance tocancer drugs and radiation.The team is studying several mole-

cules that they hope can inhibit the pim-1enzyme. Such agents could then be givenalong with chemotherapy or radiation to

enhance antitumor effects. The mostpromising of these is called quercetagetin,a molecule found naturally in citrus andother fruits. The Loma Linda team hasshown that quercetagetin is a potent,selective inhibitor of pim-1 activity andcan inhibit the growth of prostate cancercells in culture.As Loma Linda’s focus on research con-

tinues to grow, other faculty may be able tolook forward to what a few already experi-ence—a workload composed primarily ofresearch. Dr. Kirsch is one of the campus’sfaculty who spends a majority of time inresearch, while still teaching a few basic sci-ence courses in the School of Medicine. It’sa good time in his career.“I’ve never had it better,” he says.

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Leonard Brand, PhD, professor of earth and biological sciences, School of Science and Technology, poses for a photo next to a fossil

whale he discovered in the Peruvian desert. More than 100 fossil whales are located in that area.

The funding garnered by Loma Linda University research projects has grown dramati-

cally during the past decade. The School of Medicine represents a large portion of the

funding received, with $25.1 million received in fiscal year 2004.

Growth of total(direct and indirect) research funding

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DDS, director of service learning, Schoolof Dentistry, and former missionary toZimbabwe; G. Gordon Hadley, MD, deanemeritus, School of Medicine, and pio-neer in Loma Linda’s Afghanistan project;and Quint Nicola, DDS, director of inter-national dental affairs, School ofDentistry, and associate director of thedepartment of health for the General

Conference of Seventh-day Adventists,who coordinates a number of dental clin-ics around the world.A special Centennial Global Vision

Award was presented to Helen King, PhD,dean, School of Nursing. Dr. King, who isretiring from her position as dean this year,accepted the award on behalf of the Schoolof Nursing—the University’s first school.Providing special music for the evening

was nine-year-old violinist Miclen LaiPangand Wintley Phipps, world-renowned vocaland recording artist.

Featured during the program were anumber of videos highlighting each of theservice areas honored by LLU andLLUMC.Proceeding and following the gala

were buffet dinners serving cuisine repre-senting various areas of the world.Employees with 25 years of service or

more were invited to the celebration.All LLU, LLUMC, and affiliated

employees—approximately 13,000—willbe invited to a special 100th anniversarycelebration scheduled for October 2005.

Renowned vocal and recording artistWintley A. Phipps presented a mini con-cert at the Centennial Gala. At theconclusion of the evening, Mr. Phippssang an original song commemorating theinstitution’s 100th anniversary.

The National Institute of GeneralMedical Sciences (NIGMS), of theNational Institutes of Health (NIH),awarded $2.3 million to the School ofMedicine to fund a biomedical researcheducation and training program to reducehealth disparity.The four-year grant supports programs

in the basic science departments andis administrated through the office ofminority student development in thebiomedical professions. The purpose ofthe LLU-NIH initiative for minority stu-dent development is to increase thenumber of students that belong to groupsthat are underrepresented in biomedicalresearch.

Daisy DeLeon, PhD, associateprofessor of physiology, assistant deanof diversity, and co-investigator in theapplication, coordinates the medicalstudent component. Sandy Hilliker,PhD, instructor in biochemistry andmicrobiology, and Susan Gardner, PhD,associate professor of English from LaSierra University, Riverside, offerenrichment activities through workshops.Scientists in the basic sciences depart-ments and research centers of the Schoolof Medicine serve as research mentorsfor the students.Keren Espinoza, MSHSA, is the

administrative assistant and programcoordinator for the program.

School of Medicine receives $2.3 million grant

Allan Handysides, MBChB (at podium), director, department of health, General Con-ference of Seventh-day Adventists, congratulates the recipients of the CentennialGlobal Vision Awards for alumni global service. Receiving the awards are (from left)James Appel, MD, and Sarah Appel, RN, missionaries to Tchad in central Africa;Quint Nicola, DDS, director of international dental affairs, School of Dentistry; G.Gordon Hadley, MD, dean emeritus, School of Medicine; and Ronald Forde, DDS,director of service learning, School of Dentistry.

Marino DeLeon, PhD, associateprofessor of physiology and associatedirector of the Center for Molecular Biol-ogy and Gene Therapy, announced thatthe National Institutes of Healthapproved a grant to support the initiativefor minority student development onThursday, March 17. Dr. DeLeon is theprincipal investigator for the grant. Thegrant supports a four-year research andeducational training program based in thebasic sciences departments of the Schoolof Medicine.Carlos A. Casiano, PhD, associate pro-

fessor of microbiology and co-investigatorin the application, is coordinator for theundergraduate research component.

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Approximately 2,500 guests attendedthe Loma Linda University and LomaLinda University Medical Center Centen-nial Gala honoring the 100th anniversaryof the founding of the two institutions.The Centennial Gala, held at Drayson

Center, was the third of three events heldduring the weekend of February 11, 12, and13 celebrating Loma Linda’s beginnings.Hosting the evening were B. Lyn

Behrens, MBBS, president and CEO,Loma Linda University Adventist HealthSciences Center, and Lowell Cooper,MDiv, MPH, vice president of the Gen-eral Conference of Seventh-dayAdventists, and chair of the Boards ofTrustees for the Loma Linda institutions.Serving as master of ceremonies for

the gala was William Johnsson, editor ofthe Adventist Review, the general magazineof the Seventh-day Adventist Church.Highlighting the evening was the pre-

sentation of Centennial Global VisionAwards to a number of individuals honor-ing their local and global service.Those receiving awards included Joan

Coggin, MD, and Ellsworth E. Wareham,MD, co-founders of the Loma Linda Uni-versity Overseas Heart Surgery Team.The two received the awards for theircontributions in establishing heart surgeryprograms in various countries around theworld.Individuals representing four nations

received the Centennial Global VisionAwards. Receiving awards on behalf ofthe Islamic Republic of Afghanistan wereKhushal Stanisai, MD, president of theAfghan Medical Association of America;Ibrahim Seraj, MD, associate clinical pro-fessor of obstetrics and gynecology, LomaLinda University School of Medicine; andMohammad Ayub, country manager at theLoma Linda University Center in Kabul,Afghanistan.Receiving awards representing the

People’s Republic of China were BaDanian, MD, from the Ministry of Health

of the People’s Republic of China; LouisPage, from the Sir Run Run Shaw Foun-dation, Hong Kong; He Chao, MD, SirRun Run Shaw Hospital, Hangzhou; andZhen Shu, MD, Zhejian University,Hangzhou.Shantharam Pai, MD, from Manipal

University, Manipal, India, accepted theaward for his institution, signifying theclose cooperation that Loma Linda Uni-versity and Manipal University have hadduring the past several decades.Receiving the award on behalf of the

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was Joyce W.Hopp, PhD, former dean, School of AlliedHealth Professions. Dr. Hopp had closerelationships with the Kingdom of SaudiArabia in the late 1980s and into the 1990s.During a 15-year period, Dr. Hopp madenumerous trips to Saudi Arabia, where the

School of Allied Health Professions offereda respiratory therapy degree program inSaudi Arabia’s capital city, Riyadh.Receiving awards representing local

service were Jack Brown, CEO of StaterBros. Markets; Judith Valles, mayor, Cityof San Bernardino; Richard Hart, MD,DrPH, chancellor, Loma Linda University;and Michael Jackson, MPH, senior vicepresident, Loma Linda University Med-ical Center.These individuals received awards for

their health and educational contributionsthey have made to the citizens of theInland Empire.Five individuals received the awards

representing alumni in global service.Receiving the awards were James Appel,MD, and Sarah Appel, RN, missionaries toBere Hospital in Tchad; Ronald Forde,

Centennial Gala inaugurates 100th anniversary celebrations for LLU & LLUMC

Past and present administrators of Loma Linda University Medical Center visit followingthe Centennial Recognition Banquet held in Wong Kerlee International Conference Centeron Saturday evening, February 12. Pictured (from left) are Herbert H. Hill (1974–1977);John D. Ruffcorn (1977–1987); David B. Hinshaw Sr., MD (1987–1994); J. David Moor-head, MD (1994–1999); B. Lyn Behrens, MBBS, president, LLUMC (1999–present); andRuthita J. Fike, MA, CEO& administrator, LLUMC (2004–present).

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Children’s Hospital Foundation gala raises$380,000 for neonatal intensive care unit

Dixie Watkins (right), chair, Children’s Hospital Foundation gala planning committee,along with Matthew and Raechelle Neufeld, present Ricardo L. Peverini, MD, chief,division of neonatology, with a $380,000 check for the neonatal intensive care unit.Raechelle received a new heart at LLUCH when she was four months old.

Dora Barilla, MPH, public health doc-toral student and organizer of the event,speaks during the American Health CareCongress.

School of Public Healthpresents AmericanHealth Care Congress


The first ever Biology of the Rat-tlesnakes symposium took place at LLUfrom January 15 to 18, 2005, bringingmore than 300 participants from aroundthe world to learn the latest, cutting-edgediscoveries. The event featured morethan 100 presentations, a live rattlesnakeexhibit, a presentation by Animal Planet’s“Venom ER” producer, a radio-telemetryworkshop, a banquet, an emeritus panel,and much more.“I genuinely feel that our collective

understanding of rattlesnakes and theirinteraction with humans advanced a hugestep during these last few days,” sharesSean Bush, MD, emergency physician andenvenomation specialist, LLUMC, andassociate professor, School of Medicine. “Itwas almost like 300 brains synapsedtogether. We really connected the dotsbetween laboratory basic science, fieldresearch, and clinical medicine.”A number of events took place during

the four-day symposium. Saturdayevening, January 15, featured an author’sbook signing and social mixer including aslide show of photographs by MannyRubio, a well-known rattlesnake photog-rapher and author.The highlighted event, the Sunday

night banquet and emeritus panel,opened with a 30-minute presentation byJanet Klauber, granddaughter of Lau-rence Klauber, whose two-volumemasterpiece, Rattlesnakes: Their Habits,Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind,continues to inform and inspireresearchers today.The presentation, titled “Laurence M.

Klauber 1883-1968: Renaissance Man inSan Diego,” included a recording of himspeaking.


More than 40 million Americans haveno health coverage of any kind. That is onereason why Dora Barilla, MPH, publichealth doctoral student and organizer of theevent, planned the first health care confer-ence to invite the American public toparticipate in a dialogue about what ahealth care system should do.“This is a first step to change the way

health care is done in our local communi-ties,” states Ms. Barilla. “I believe thatchange needs to come from the communitywith support at the national level. This typeof conference was long overdue.”The School of Public Health, West End

Community Health Action Network (WE-CAN), and CodeBlueNow! America’s HealthCare Voice hosted the American Health CareCongress. More than 200 people attendedthe event, held on October 12, 2004, at theDoubleTree Hotel in Ontario, California,which included national and local expertswho spoke about the issue.Participants in the daylong program heard

talks in the morning from leading health fig-ures including keynote speaker JohnKitzhaber, MD, former two-term governor ofOregon and emergency physician.Kathleen O’Connor, founder of Code-

BlueNow!, America’s Health Care Voice,noted that studies have determined mil-lions of dollars could be saved annually onhealth care costs if more patients weregiven preventive treatment, because theywould be less likely to develop more seri-ous illnesses.

On Sunday, March 13, the Loma LindaUniversity Children’s Hospital Foundationcelebrated its 12th annual gala at the SanBernardino National Orange Show EventsCenter, Orange Pavilion. Brad Paisley, coun-try music star, presented the entertainmentfor the evening, and Derek Parra, Olympicgold medalist speed skater, presided asmaster of ceremonies as patrons proceeded toraise $380,000 for the Loma Linda UniversityChildren’s Hospital neonatal intensive careunit.Mr. Parra, a native of San Bernardino, is

the first Mexican-American Olympian.During the 2002 Winter Olympics in SaltLake City, Utah, he earned a gold medal forthe 1,500-meter event and a silver medal forthe 5,000-meter performance.Included in the evening’s activities were

special recognition of key individuals whohave made a difference in the lives of chil-dren. The prestigious Shirley N. Pettis Awardwas bestowed upon Mr. and Mrs. Neal andCarol Baker, founder of Bakers Drive ThruRestaurants. As lifelong residents of theInland Empire, Neal and Carol Baker havemade a mark of distinction on the local com-munities. For more than 50 years, they havededicated themselves to caring for childrenthrough firm values, a commitment to excel-lence, and philanthropic vision.Two community members were honored

at the gala as hometown heroes. This year’s

reward recipients are Tom Hartman fromRiverside and Juan Carlos Luna from SanBernardino. Mr. Hartman has volunteeredwith LLUMC and LLUCH since March of2001 and has contributed more than 5,660hours. Mr. Luna is the Kiwanis advisor for K-Kids, a group of 52 students who dovolunteer work in the local community. Healso oversees and instructs the Junior PoliceAcademy at Lytle Creek Elementary School,where he is a fifth-grade teacher.The evening’s entertainment was pre-

sented by Brad Paisley. His many awardsinclude two from the Country Music Asso-ciation. He established the Brad PaisleyFoundation, a nonprofit organization createdto provide funding for various charities.Inland Empire families can rely on the

neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) atLoma Linda University Children’s Hospitalto provide life-saving treatment for their pre-cious babies. This advanced neonatal centerprovides the highest level of care for eachinfant, without regard for the family’s finan-cial condition.A skilled team of physicians, nurses, and

other clinicians provide care for a wide rangeof diagnoses in a family-centered environ-ment able to accommodate up to 72 infants.The NICU transport team, available round-the-clock, cares for critically ill patientsduring transport from community hospitals byambulance, helicopter, or fixed-wing aircraft.

William Hayes, PhD (left), associate professor, earth and biological sciences, LLU,speaks with Robert Stebbins, PhD, professor emeritus, University of California, Berke-ley, during the book signing event. Dr. Stebbins has authored many books including thehighly influential A Field Guide to Western Reptiles & Amphibians.

LLU holdsBiology of theRattlesnakesymposium

On July 27, 2004, LLUMC and numer-ous collaborating fire and EMS agenciesjointly announced the beginning of a newstate-of-the-art integrated pre-hospital andhospital data collection system. The newsystem allows field paramedics to enternotes electronically—eliminating the time-consuming pen and paper entrymodel—and then integrates these elec-tronic notes with ambulance and hospitalmedical records systems already in place.“Historically, data collection has been

fragmented,” says Jeff Grange, MD,FACEP, director of emergency medicalservices at LLUMC. “The new system

allows us to make it a continuous processfrom start to finish, with the research ben-efits of comparing medicines andtechniques with their related outcomes.”The bottom line this new system cre-

ates is a seamless transition between firstresponders and ambulance and hospitalstaff that improves both accuracy and effi-ciency. This translates into faster, bettercare for patients right from the momentthe paramedics arrive.The creation of an integrated medical

record is a project funded by a $4-millioncongressional appropriation through Con-gressman Jerry Lewis.

The remainder of the program fea-tured a panel of retired research expertswho were honored for their significantcontributions in rattlesnake biology. Thesix-man panel included Henry S. Fitch,PhD, professor emeritus, University ofKansas; Findlay E. Russell, MD, profes-sor emeritus, University of Arizona, andan alumnus of LLU; and Robert C. Steb-

bins, PhD, professor emeritus, Universityof California, Berkeley; among others.“The panel members were an inspira-

tion to all of us. Their passion wasinfectious,” expresses William Hayes,PhD, associate professor, earth and bio-logical sciences, LLU. “It was veryspecial for us researchers to meet thosewhose work we’ve studied.”

LLUMC emergency departmentannounces new EMS data collection


After a century of caring, the School ofNursing celebrated its 100 years of exis-tence with an alumni weekend held March31 to April 3.The weekend began with a research

conference. As a gift to commemorate theSchool of Nursing’s centennial celebration,the golden anniversary class of 1955 spon-sored a research conference, “GlobalHealth: Providing Quality Care with Evi-dence-Based Nursing Practice.”Conference objectives were to give

examples of research evidence of racialand ethnic disparities in health care; dis-cuss the impact of health disparities onglobal health; describe nursing strategiesto improve health care in vulnerable popu-lations; explain how using evidence-basednursing practice can improve the processand outcomes of patient care; and examineways practitioners can make health caredecisions that are equitable, accountable,and effective.“This conference was a generous gift to

the School of Nursing from the class of1955,” remarks Helen King, PhD, RN,dean of the School of Nursing. “We appre-ciate the opportunity this conference gaveus to highlight nursing research and itscontribution to the science of caring.”Friday afternoon, alumni were invited

to an open house held at West Hall.Guests registered for the weekend, andwere then treated with a tour of theschool, highlighted by a centennial dis-play presented by the Heritage Room.Richard Schaefer, LLU historian, was onhand to give brief historical vignettes tovisitors. Friday evening featured “A Cen-tury of Caring: The LLU School ofNursing Journey.”Zelne Zamora, MSN, RN, assistant

professor of nursing, and president of theAlumni Association, presented a slideshowfeaturing the highlights of each of the hon-ored years.On Saturday, the golden anniversary

class of 1955 hosted both the Sabbathschool and the church service at Univer-

sity Church, followed by a potluck inWest Hall.Sabbath afternoon brought the focus of

the centennial weekend up to the heritagecottage area behind Nichol Hall. It washere that the School of Nursing had a spe-cial dramatic presentation titled “ACentury of Caring.”“A Century of Caring” was written by

Alexandria Harter, religion and dramateacher at Loma Linda Academy.The drama presentation had four

School of Nursing faculty and studentsdressed in vintage clothing portraying acertain personage in the history of theSchool.Dynnette Hart, DrPH, RN, associate

professor of nursing, played “Grace;”Deleise Wilson, MA, RN, assistant profes-sor of nursing, played “Winifred;”Catherine Comilang, School of Nursingstudent, played “Irene;” and JoanelleAdajar, School of Nursing student, played“Karen.”The dramatic presentation was open to

the public and had two showings. Almost100 people attended the first showing,more than double what was expected.Following the dramatic presentation,

Mr. Schaefer gave a brief history of howLoma Linda University was purchased.This seemed especially poignant againstthe backdrop of the more than 100-year-old cottages.Saturday evening was the alumni ban-

quet held at Wong Kerlee InternationalConference Center.Several awards were presented, includ-

ing two Alumna of the Year Awards.Doreen Mary Louise Elvedahl–Kuhn,

RN, and Ina (Britta) Muderspach, MS, RN,both members of the class of 1955, wererecipients of the Alumna of the Year Award.Helen Emori King, PhD, RN, dean of

the School of Nursing, received the Life-time Achievement Award. Dr. King hasannounced that she will be retiring at theend of this school year.Carolyn Pierce Thompson, RN, was

presented with the Philanthropic Award.

School of Nursing celebrates 100 years with alumni

In commemoration of 100 years of excellence in nursing, the School of Nursing iscurrently displaying two large centennial banners in front of West Hall.


The School of Pharmacy has beennamed to administer a new grant programsponsored by a major pharmacy consultingfirm.Pharmacy Healthcare Solutions (PHS),

an AmerisourceBergen Company, will spon-sor the Innovations in Pharmacy Practiceawards program to encourage pharmacyresearch and innovative pharmacy practices.Applicants must describe new proce-

dures, or modifications of existingprocedures and/or technology, aimed atenhancing current pharmacy practices. Pro-jects may adapt existing technology fromother industries or they may focus on newand unique approaches to aspects of

pharmacy operations. Methods of imple-mentation, description of critical issuesinvolved, and expected outcomes must alsobe included in award applications.The program is the brainchild of Gamal

Hussein, PharmD, associate professor ofpharmacy practice, School of Pharmacy.Dr. Hussein himself is a winner of theInnovations in Teaching Award presentedby the American Association of Colleges ofPharmacy. The recognition serves a similarpurpose but is limited to pharmacy facultynationwide. Hussein is also the winner ofthe health system practitioner awardoffered by the National PharmaceuticalAssociation.

Japanese students learnmore than academicswhile studying at SAHP

The students enjoyed visiting the Grand Canyon during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Two months after the students left, Ms.Khoo was reunited with them when she vis-ited Japan to interview prospectivestudents. At the end of a long day, Ms.Khoo discovered them waiting for her in theschool’s rotunda. They asked her to pray forthem. Ms. Khoo willingly agreed, givingthanks for their spiritual growth and peti-tioning for success on their Japaneselicensing board examinations, which theytook in February.The partnership with Humanitec Reha-

bilitation College began in 2000 at therequest of Masayuki Ohashi, who is nowchair of the board. Mr. Ohashi read LLU’smission and was impressed by the School’swork for the good of people and the com-

munity and not just for money. Thisinspired his confidence and trust that LLUwould train his students honestly. The firstgroup of 17 students studied on the LLUcampus in 2002 and was followed by 19 stu-dents in 2003.“Partnering with Humanitec, a non Sev-

enth-day Adventist school that sought usout because of our mission, allows studentsto experience our values in an academicenvironment that upgrades their skills andhelps them contribute to their professionwhen they return home,” says Craig Jack-son, JD, MSW, dean of the School of AlliedHealth Professions. “I am proud of ourcommitment to whole-person care andeducation.”

The School of Allied Health Professionsis making an impact on the occupationaltherapy and physical therapy workforce inJapan. The School’s partnership withHumanitec Rehabilitation College inYokkaichi, Japan, brings several Japanesestudents to the Loma Linda campus eachfall, where they learn about more than justphysical and occupational therapy.Last fall, the 15 students composing the

third cohort from Humanitec were exposedto a world of new ideas and habits duringtheir stay, in addition, of course, to complet-ing their college degrees. By spending theirfinal quarter at Loma Linda, the studentsearn a bachelor’s degree in health sciencefrom LLU’s School of Allied Health Profes-sions, specializing in either occupationaltherapy or physical therapy.When finals week arrived, the program’s

director, Keiko Khoo, MS, MA, conducted agroup exit interview. The students men-tioned many new ideas and experiences thatcaptured their enjoyment, including1. Weekly chapel. While it may surprise

some students who have such opportunitiesyear-round, these students said they felt theblessing of “newfound peace” in theirhearts;2. Classes with American students,

specifically, observing their learning stylesand willingness to tutor strangers from a for-eign country;3. Eating breakfast;4. Brown rice and whole-wheat bread;5. A cigarette-free lifestyle;6. Trips to galleries, museums, gardens,

the zoo, and the Crystal Cathedral;7. Sabbath services. Even though none

were Christians, the students never misseda week;8. Praise songs. The group learned sev-

eral favorites, arranged a couple of songs,and sang them at the Japanese AdventistChurch for their parting gift; and9. Small-group Bible studies.

SP runs national awards program

Sunday, April 10, well before dawn,members of the community began gather-ing under tents near the Good Samaritansculpture on the campus mall. They wereon campus to attend the 15th annual Clinicwith a Heart, a day of dental care providedat no cost to those in financial need.Though patient registration did not

begin until 6:30 a.m., individuals beganarriving before 4:30 a.m., warmed by hotchocolate, tea, and apple cider that hadbeen set up in front of the Good Samari-tan sculpture.This year, the School of Dentistry

screened 115 adults and 26 pediatricpatients. A total of $24,223 in dental carewas provided at no cost to the patients.Volunteers included 41 faculty, 52

staff, 250 dental and dental hygiene stu-dents, and 8 students and faculty fromBaldyview Regional Occupational Pro-gram Dental Assisting School and ChaffeyJunior College dental assisting program.Najwa Medina, director, campus catering,donated hot drinks for the patients andcampus engineering donated chairs,tables, and tents. Dynnette Hart, DrPH,RN, associate professor, School of Nurs-ing, organized and supervised nursingstudents who took blood pressures duringthe prescreening. Staff from Universityhousekeeping also provided assistance forthe event.Procter & Gamble (Crest) provided

toothbrushes and toothpaste and fundingfor T-shirts for the volunteers. Each yearat the clinic a child in immediate need ofcare is selected, and the company pro-vides funding for more extensive dentalwork to be completed.

Al Ochoa (left) and Matthew Murray, both third-year dental students, provide oralsugery for a clinic patient.

BMC participates in CSAM Legislative Day IIIIn California, 1,000 people die every

month from chemical dependency. Toadd to that problem, insurance benefitsfor addiction treatment were cut 75 per-cent between 1990 to 2000. On February2, 2005, Behavioral Medicine Center(BMC) professionals took part in the Cali-fornia Society of Addiction Medicine(CSAM) Legislative Day III to educatelegislators about this brain disease—addiction.“The bottom line is that addiction is a

chronic disease. When we treat it, it getsbetter,” says Don Kurth, MD, medicaldirector of recovery services at BMC andCSAM president. “It needs to be viewedas a public health issue, not a criminalissue.” According to Dr. Kurth, $4 billionis spent every year on the national levelfor addiction treatment, while $400 billionis spent every year for enforce-ment/incarceration due to the disease.A total of 135 physicians and health

care professionals assailed the hallowedhalls of the California Legislature to pressfor better addiction treatment publicpolicy. CSAM joined co-sponsors OASISand Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) to bringaddiction issues to the forefront of Sacra-mento discussion.Legislative Day began with a press

conference and television interviews

which included Sen. Wes Chesbro; Dr.Kurth; Diana Sylvestri, MD, OASISfounder and CSAM member; and GlennBackes, director of Drug Policy Alliance,Sacramento.TV reporters asked Sen. Chesbro if he

would take these issues to the people inballot initiatives if the governor failed toact and improve addiction treatmentpublic policy in California. He respondedby explaining that he wanted to give thelegislative process a chance to work.CSAM members and health care pro-

fessionals attended scheduled visits withmore than 30 newly elected legislators toeducate them about a variety of topics.Issues discussed included support foraddiction treatment parity, continuedsupport and expansion of the verysuccessful Proposition 36 treatment-in-lieu-of-incarceration initiative, educa-tion for expansion of the needle sales/exchange laws, and a voice against com-bining the department of substance abuseprograms with the department of mentalhealth programs.“Generally, our points were well

received,” shares Dr. Kurth. “But, it wasclear that a great deal more education ofour policy makers would be necessary forall of them to really understand the mag-nitude of the issue at hand.”

School ofDentistryholds 15thannual Clinicwith a Heart

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Inland Empire radio listeners pledgeda total of $366,495 during a two-day radio-thon benefitting Loma Linda UniversityChildren’s Hospital. The annual radio-thon was held on Tuesday andWednesday, October 19 and 20, 2004.Heavy rains during morning drive-time

did not dampen the spirits of loyalKFROGGERS who kept phone linesringing at the San Bernardino 40th StreetStater Bros. market. The Stater Bros.location served as a remote broadcast sitefor the two-day Stater Bros./KFRG“KFOGGERS for Kids Radiothon.”Stater Bros. and KFRG-95.1 FM

joined forces to sponsor the radiothonbenefitting pediatric cancer patients atChildren’s Hospital.“The response of KFRG listeners was

incredible,” says Patti Cotton Pettis, execu-tive director, Loma Linda UniversityChildren’s Hospital Foundation. “We are sograteful for the wonderful partnership that

we share with Stater Bros. and KFRG tobenefit the children in our community.“We can’t say enough about the won-

derful KFRG listeners who made thispossible.”During the two-day event, people lis-

tening to the broadcast heard testimonialsfrom pediatric patients and their families.Employees from the various Loma LindaUniversity Adventist Health SciencesCenter entities, along with local InlandEmpire service organizations, volunteeredtheir time to staff the phone lines on eachof the two days.Additionally, KFRG listeners donated

funds to provide a total of 1,019 bicycles andsafety helmets for fourth-grade Inland Empirestudents who have never had a bicycle.A special bicycle presentation cere-

mony was held on Sunday, November 14,at the Arrowhead Credit Union Stadiumin San Bernardino, home of the SanBernardino Stampede baseball team.

Teachers and school administratorsfrom San Bernardino and Riverside coun-ties also selected students who werepositive role models, and who previouslyowned a bicycle.“It takes a special person who gives

from the heart so children can look for-ward to a healthier and brighter future,”says Ms. Pettis.

The California Endowment, a privatefoundation that supports programs to facili-tate access to health care, recently approveda $307,000 grant to the Social Action Com-munity Health System (SACHS) clinics.Specifically, the endowment’s grant will

assist SACHS staff to implement a grouptreatment and health education programaimed at clinic patients who suffer fromdiabetes.“Typically, uninsured or underinsured

patients do not have access to health promo-tion and education services,” says RichardH. Hart, MD, DrPH, chancellor, LomaLinda University, and president of SACHS.“Since many of our clientele are unin-

sured or underinsured, all they can afford isseeing a physician for common illnesses.“Generally, patients who suffer from a

chronic disease such as diabetes, and are alsouninsured, can only follow up with theirphysician to get their prescriptions written.

“What we are trying to do at SACHS,through this endowment grant, is to linkpatients’ clinical visits to a health educationmodule through which patients with similarchronic illnesses share their experiences andreceive health-promoting counsel. Thegroup experiences can be a source ofencouragement and will hopefully stimulatepatient adherence to prescribed regimens tocontrol their disease, in this case, diabetes.”The program will be implemented at

SACHS–Norton over the next two years.The project will be directed and coordi-nated by Maryellen Westerberg, DrPH.“This effort will be challenging,” Dr.

Westerberg says. “I don’t know of any com-munity clinic system that has tried a grouptreatment approach linked to health educa-tion. At SACHS, this project potentiallyopens the door to a more comprehensivehealth education and promotion program forthe patients that SACHS serves.”

“We call this program ‘Amigos ParaVivir,’” Dr. Hart notes. “This Spanishphrase has at least two relevant connota-tions—friends for life, and friends for life orliving.“We would like to see whether group-

based treatment and health educationwork with the Hispanic patient population,a group with whom this approach has notbeen tried,” Dr. Hart continues. “If thisworks, we may in the future implementit with other patients that share commondiagnoses such as cardiovascular disease,teenage pregnancy, obesity, or asthma.”Beginning in 2005, the grant award

is being disbursed over two years. TheCalifornia Endowment’s mission is toexpand access to affordable, quality healthcare for underserved individuals and com-munities, and to promote fundamentalimprovements in the health status of allCalifornians.

SACHS receives $307,000 grant from California Endowment

Stater Bros./KFRG radiothon raises $366,495 for LLUCH

Stater Bros./KFROGGERS for KidsRadiothon volunteers answer telephonesduring the two-day radiothon for LLUCH.

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medley of fruits and vegetables in lieu ofmon-etary payment. His passion for counseling ledhim to pursue advanced training in the field ofpsychiatry at Vanderbilt University, Nashville,Tennessee, in 1970. Hewas appointed chair ofthe department of psychiatry atMeharryMed-ical College whilemaintaining a privatepractice in the greater-Nashville area. Threeyears ago, Dr. andMrs. Coopwoodmoved toHenderson, Kentucky, where he served as themedical director of the geriatric unit of Dea-coness Cross Pointe in Evansville, Indiana. Heis remembered by his wife of 53 years, SaritaLawrence Coopwood; five children: JaniceFord of Ft.Worth, Texas; Ronald Coopwoodof Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; DawnBoyd ofDeSoto, Texas; Diane Earle of Lancaster,Texas; andReginald Coopwood of Brentwood,Tennessee; one sister, Julia Johnson ofDenver, Colorado; and 13 grandchildren.

Frances Foster (SN’57B) and her husband,Dr. Ray Foster, recentlymoved toHermosa,SouthDakota, to join themedical team at theBlackHillsHealth andEducationCenter.Eachmonth a group of 10 to 24 guests arrivesfor a three-week lifestyle program. Shewrites,“It is rewarding to see how these guests fit inwith their program and new lifestyle habits,andmost of them are (or become) open to thespiritual help available….The group dynamicand friendships they formduring this timeoften continues after they leave. Sometimesguests return to further encourage their healthor bring friendswith them.This is a wonderfulexperience.”

Nancy Moore (SN’59) is retired after 25years of geriatric nursing. She has two chil-dren. Her daughter, Sheri, 40, a teacher inSan Diego, California, just found out she hasbreast cancer and will be treated with radia-tion until Christmas. Ms. Moore is alsoplanning a visit to Salt Lake City, Utah, tovisit her granddaughter, Mia.

Harriet E. (Dinsmore) Johnson(SN’63) is still enjoying opportunities toserve in her Avon Park, Florida, community

through parish nursing and the localsquadron of the Civil Air Patrol. She and herhusband, Harold, occasionally enjoy a fewdays in Tennessee, where they can be a partof their grandchildren’s lives.

Armaity Irani (SAHP’66) now lives withher mother in Los Angeles, California,where she continues to love work as a homehealth physical therapist. She has been inthe United States for 43 years and returns tovisit India often. Armaity loves to sew, docrafts, and travel. She writes, “With God’sgrace my life has been good…I pray to Godfor everyone’s good health and happiness.”

Levi Fabrigar (SAHP’67) is now retiredfrom his medical technology career atSmithKline/Beecham Clini-cal/Pharmacological Laboratories. He andhis wife, Rebecca, have recently started ahome health care service, Sunlight GuestHome, Inc., in Glendale, California, and alsoenjoy mission work in the Philippines andCosta Rica, where they assisted in churchbuilding and evangelistic campaigns. Theyhope to travel to Guatemala this year onanother mission trip. They have two sons,Levi and David.

Shirley (Bowen) Finneman (SN’67)recently enjoyed a global missions trip withher husband, Gerald; daughter, Kim; and otherchurchmembers to Batangas, Philippines. Shewrites, “[This was] the first time I had everdone an evangelistic series where I did thespeaking…with an interpreter. None of us willforget the night the topic was the SecondComing. I had just felt a small tremor as I cameto the platform.When I asked howmany feltit, only a few handswent up. I started towaxeloquent about when Jesus comes there willbe lightning and thunder and angels andeveryone would seeHim, when a real earth-quake hit. The building structure shook, lightsstarted swinging and I grabbed the pulpit tokeep from falling. Then it was over. But, all ofus weremightily impressed with the reality ofHis coming. Only one of the other churcheseven felt a slight tremor.”When not serving inthemission field,Ms. Finneman enjoys life in

Coarsegold, California.Since graduation,Charlaine (Awe)Macaulay (SN’68) has lived in Sunnydale,California, andMolokai, Hawaii (for threeyears), where she worked with a nativeHawaiian man who required homehemodialysis. Ms. Macaulay now lives inSanta Barbara, California, where she works atthe local blood bank. Previous blood bankexperience includes five years she spent atStanford University along with years at otherprivate blood banks in California. She writes,“I enjoy helping others as they help savelives thus giving people another tomorrow!”

Born May 19, 1951, in Los Angeles, Califor-nia,Donald Arthur Newbold (SAHP’74)died November 13, 2004, in Colusa County,California. He spent much of his career as amedical technologist managing medical lab-oratories in Grenada, Mississippi; St. HelenaHospital in Deer Park, California; Moberly,Missouri; and Turlock, California. In 1992,he began examining medical laboratories forthe California Department of Health Ser-vices and conducting investigations of fraudin conjunction with the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation. In 1999, Mr. Newboldbecame an attorney and stayed with the

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fessions, LLU, in December 2002, but con-tinues teaching in both the SAHP and theSchool of Public Health. Her first priority,however, is babysitting for her daughter,Helen HoppMarshak, so she can continueto teach in the SPH. She has two preciousgrandsons: Jason, 2 and a half, and Jeffrey, 6months. Dr. Hopp’s husband, Kenneth, diedlast year. Though he received excellent careat the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VAMedicalCenter, a cure wasn’t possible.

Barbara (Babienco) Sturges (SN’50) isnow fully retired in Woodland, California,after living in Ethiopia, Kentucky, Ohio,Colorado, and Arizona. Her husband,Hubert F. Sturges, MD, worked at the Tur-lock Medical Clinic for 20 years whileBarbara raised their three children: LynnDel Newbold; Sylvia Barton, RN; and PaulH. Sturges (SM’85). Barbara and Hubertare enjoying their retirement years and arestill very busy.

Audrey Quay Hon (SN’51) was born inBoggabri, New South Wales, Australia, onOctober 25, 1926, and died on September25, 2003, of cancer in Bradbury, California, atthe age of 76. In 1948, she married EdwardH. Hon (SM’51). She had worked formany years as a labor and delivery nurse atvarious hospitals. She also volunteered forthe Red Cross from 1954 until she becameill. Among her other accomplishments, Ms.Hon received a bachelor’s degree in sociol-ogy in 1976 from California State University,Los Angeles, and a master’s in social sciencein 1981 from Azusa Pacific University,Azusa, California.

William E. Coopwood (SM’56) passedaway onMay 4, 2005. Hewas born on January16, 1930, in Little Rock, Arkansas, as theyoungest of eight children. Dr. Coopwood’smedical career spanned 49 years. After receiv-ing his medical degree fromLLU, he beganhis medical service inMurfreesboro, Ten-nessee. As compensation for his services, Dr.Coopwood frequently accepted a various

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friendships keep us happy. E-mail keeps usin touch with our other friends around theworld,” she writes.

Eleene Mattison-Jacobsen (SN’47) isnow retired and attends the Costa MesaSeventh-day Adventist Church. She enjoysher garden, five children, and 12 grandkids.Two of her four sons, Wayne and Bruce, aregraduates of LLU School of Medicine;Mike, an orthodontist, received his dentaldegree from LLU; and Gary is an attorneyin Orange, California. Her daughter, Cheryl,is the secretary for the Crosswalk AdventistChurch in Redlands. Ms. Mattison-Jacobsen hopes to visit LLU for theCentennial Celebration in 2005.

Alice A. Breech Dachary (SN’48) retiredat age 61 after 13 years working for Channel2 CBS in Los Angeles, California. She cur-rently enjoys life in Claremont, California,where she has lived since 1984, and looksforward to visits from her grandchildren,Ariel Rae, 18, and Scott Vincent, 16. Ms.Dachary’s husband, Vincent, recently passedaway on August 22, 2004.

Joyce (Wilson) Hopp (SN’48) retired asthe dean of the School of Allied Health Pro-

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William E. Coopwood (SM’56)

...passed away

Bernice Sandness Palmer (SN’29)passed away on April 19, 2004, just short ofher 96th birthday. She had worked as anurse until turning 65. Her daughter,Judith Palmer Miller, writes, “Berniceenjoyed a wonderful life. She was loved byall, as she was always cheerful and giving.”

Viola Friesen (SN’42) passed away onFebruary 5, 2005. She was born in Lerdo,California, to Gerhardt and Agatha Friesen.After receiving her RN degree fromWhiteMemorial Hospital School of Nursing, Ms.Friesen and a few of her classmates movedto Seattle, Washington, to work together atSwedish Hospital. After a year, she went toDinba, California, to work in the office of Dr.Walter Ruminson. Four years later, shemoved to Fresno, California, to be near herfamily. She worked at St. Agnes Hospital forthe next 35 years. She traveled extensivelyacross most of the United States and visitedall the continents, except Antartica. She wasan avid photographer and collected manypictures from around the world. Ms. Friesenwas very compassionate, thoughtful, gener-ous, and kind to all. Viola is survived by hersister, Clara Laikam; brother, LavernFriesen; and many nieces and nephews.

Virginia Marie Saxon (SAHP’42) cur-rently lives in Apison, Tennessee. At age 83,she has no physical ailments and can driveanywhere she wishes to go. Virginia’s hus-band died three years ago, and she now livesin an apartment near one of her sons. She isenjoying life with three sons, one daughter,and six grandchildren.

Anna-May Vaughan (SN’45,’58) isretired in Harrah, Oklahoma. Unofficially,she is on call to any resident in her retire-ment community that needs healthinformation or help. Anna-May is also care-giver to her sister,Olive VaughanBlumenshein (SN’44,’60). “Our homehere is very comfortable and our community

Donald Arthur Newbold (SAHP’74)

...passed away

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Gayle (Svendsen) Butler (SN’76)

...and her daughter, Betzi Butler Bodell (SN’01)Catherine Joy Rotua Siahann (SN’85)

...passed away

Department of Health Services as staffcounsel before moving on to the CaliforniaDepartment of Corporations. Survivorsinclude his wife, LynnDel Sturges Newboldof Woodlands, California; daughtersRachelle Newbold of St. Helena, California,and Stephanie Green of Gresham, Oregon;brothers Dudley Richard of Sacramento,California, and Daniel of Loma Linda, Cali-fornia; and twin sister Linda Thorpe ofDownington, Pennsylvania.

Gayle (Svendsen) Butler (SN’76) hasworked in the operating room for 24 years.She is currently the specialty lead for gen-eral gynecology and urology services atAnaheimMemorial Medical Center, whereshe has worked for the past 22 years. Ms.Butler is a member of the Association ofperiOperative Registered Nurses and hasher CNOR certification. “The education Ireceived at LLUSN has proven to be a greatfoundation for my nursing career!” writesGayle. She and her husband, James, havetwo children: daughter, Betzi ButlerBodell (SN’01), married in October, 2003,and now living in Colorado Springs, Col-orado, where she works as a pediatric ICUnurse; and son, Joseph, 23, an aeronauticsand commercial aviation graduate from the

University of North Dakota.After more than 20 years,Debbie Ricker(SAHP’78) recently transitioned fromworking in the psychiatric field to workingwith seniors. She is the program director forthree programs: the Memory Center, theDriving Center, and Low-Vision Rehabilita-tion, which provide services to people whosuffer from memory loss or dementia. Ms.Ricker also enjoys spending time with hertwo children, Jon Marc, 13, and Desiree, 15.

Jennifer Centerwall Dysinger (SN’82)and her family returned to the United Statesafter 16 years overseas in 2001. For the pastthree years, Ms. Dysinger, her husband,Edwin, and their three children: Evangeline,20; Caroline, 18; and Paul, 14, have beenliving in Silverton, Oregon, taking care ofher father. Recently, Jennifer and familymoved to Amity, Arkansas, where she andEdwin will teach at Ouachita Hills College,and Caroline and Paul will attend OuachitaHills Academy. Evangeline married duringthe summer of 2003 and is now living inNorthern California with her husband.

Catherine Joy Rotua Siahaan (SN’85)

passed away September 25, 2004. She wasborn in Penang, Malaysia, on April 20, 1963,to Evelyn and Jan Hatauruk. After finishingher nursing degree in 1985, she began work-ing at LLUMC. In 1993, she marriedThoman Siahaan. Joy, as she was known tomany of her friends, was involved in praisingand uplifting God’s name as a musician atlocal churches in the late 1980s and early1990s. A wonderful and creative writer, sheenjoyed expressing herself in journals andpoetry. She loved to cook and entertain herfriends with food from “Joy’s Kitchen” andwould experiment and try new and differentrecipes. She was very involved with the“Hands of Hope,” a support group for breastcancer survivors. She especially valued rela-tionships and treasured the moments shespent with friends and relatives. But most ofall she was devoted to her husband and herbeloved boys, Joshua and Ian.

Henkie P. Tan, MD, PhD (SAHP’86)was recently made director of the livingdonor kidney transplantation program at theThomas E. Starzl Transplantation Instituteat the University of Pittsburgh MedicalCenter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Kimberly (Smith) Bradbury (SAHP’94)is currently working per diem, after manyyears of working full-time at a rehabilitationhospital in Connecticut. She and her hus-band have one daughter, Madison, 2, andwelcomed a baby boy in February.

Celene (Williams) Cross (SAHP’94)married Lorne M. Cross in March, 1996. InDecember, 2001, they moved to Washing-ton. She and her husband have two children,Sydney and Joel.

For the last three years,Melissa Post-Sissons (SN’99) and her husband, GilbertSissons, have been volunteer missionaries inGuyana. She is working as a school nurse ata local government clinic. She writes, “Godis truly blessing our efforts as missionaries.”They have one daughter, Abigail, born Sep-

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