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Hospital admissions increase Religion andi Society is theme, as in-patient visits set record The United States has 7,137 University Hospital nursery of UCF©s seven-week series registered hospitals, according to admissions between January and University Campus Fellowship is conducting a seven week series of Friday night meetings discussing the American Hospital June of this year totaled 365. Association, spending a record Births reported by other hospitals relationships and responsibilities of religion and society at the University Church, Loma Linda. $19 billion providing the best around the country dipped to In a variety of formats, seven health care possible. 3,268,000, down fifteen thousand pertinent issues facing the young In-patient admissions to from 1967. It was the seventh adult will be highlighted. The hospitals in 1968 reached a new straight year of birth rate decline. purpose of this series is to stimu high of 29.8 million, an increase Community hospitals, such as late creative dialogue helping to of 405,000 over the previous the University Hospital, account keep religious beliefs relevant to year. for 5,820 of the 7,137 modern life. Loma Linda University institutions registered by the Jack W. Provonsha, MD, PhD, Hospital admitted 5,600 patients AHA. These hospitals, categorized professor of philosophy of re between January and June of this as non-federal, short-term general, ligion and Christian ethics, gave year, filling 85.6 percent of the and other specialized hospitals, the keynote address last Friday available beds, states Robert H. deal with the majority of all night as he introduced the upcom Koorenny, manager of the patients, and provide the greatest ing series topics. hospital©s patient business office. proportion of civilian health care Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m., J.L. Out-patients visits were also up services. Butler, chaplain of the Riverside throughout the nation, says the Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, AHA. One hundred and fifty-six Market purchases will discuss "Race and Religion." million people visited hospitals as Mr. Butler has been active in the out-patients in 1968, almost eight new checkstands struggles of the Black Christian million more than in 1967. American. The 1968 association survey New Lozur checkstands will be On September 26, Paul C. shows that while hospital usage installed in the Loma Linda Heubach, professor of applied has increased, the number of Market by the end of September, theology; A. Graham Maxwell, hospitals and beds is less. This is according to Fred W. Black, PhD, professor of New Testa due, in part, to the large influx of market manager. ment; and Dr. Provonsha will pre out-patients. The new checkstands, which sent the topic "God and War." University Hospital has shown are the latest in commercial Other meetings in the series will a steady increase, however, as it design, will feature customer be Pauline E. Goddard, a litera expands toward its maximum participation, Mr. Black states. ture evangelist, presenting "Angel capacity, says Mr. Koorenny. In "We feel that this will improve of 4^..« oi..-.© 1 .., .;,...,,U. .-, the past few months, all three our service to the customer," Donald L. Bauer, assistant dean of units on the eighth floor have Mr. Black says. "We hope our students, will discuss the concern been completed and are now customers will be patient with us for ecological awareness in the open, giving the hospital a total of while we get familiar with the context of Christian responsibility 408 beds. new equipment." on October 10; "God and Within the next year the three Carpeting will be installed Change" will be the subject dis units on ninth floor will open, between the market and hardware cussed by Dr. Provonsha, Dr. THE CAST FOR the moral drama, Christ in the Concrete City, by adding 72 additional beds. Also areas of the building at the same Maxwell, and Mr. Heubach in the P. W. Turner, rehearses for their performance. The play, part of the planned, is a new intensive care time. second part of "Conversations seven-week series on ©Religion and Society© sponsored by UCF, will be unit, which will give the hospital a about God" on October 17. presented on Friday evening, October 24, in the University church. total of 512 beds. Concluding the seven-week ser Last week University Hospital Personnel needed ies, the Loma Linda Players will census report showed a large gain present the dramatic play, "The in patient admissions as doctors for ©Scope© staff Concrete City," a protrayal of life Physician shortage persists; return from vacations. As many as The University SCOPE is hiring in the complex American city. 395 of the available 408 beds part-time staffers to work as re Every program in the series will were occupied during part of that porters, typists, and photogra begin at 7:30 p.m. Schools need more facilities time. There are over 100 people phers. awaiting admission to the hospi For further information, call: The United States is short The shortage problem can be tal, many of them for the surgical 796-7311 (Ext. 2373). Teacher pens study 50,000 physicians, according to traced, in part, to the lack of units. of college-students© Richard M. Magraw, MD, deputy facilities at most of the nation©s assistant secretary for health medical schools. Operating a missions attitudes manpower in the Department of medical school. is an expensive Health, Education and Welfare. business, according to Walter B. Attitudes of Seventh-day Ad- "Of the 310,000 physicians in Clark. BA. dean of admissions for ventist college students toward the United States," observes Loma Linda University. missions is the subject of a new Dr. Magraw, "fewer than 280,000 Scarcity of applications is not 130-page book published by Lo of them are directly involved with a problem for most medical ma Linda University as the first in patient care." The other 30,000 schools, and especially not at a series of monographs from the work in research and hospital Loma Linda University, says Dean department of sociology and administration. Clark. This year, the university anthropology. This averages out to one received 850 applications for 110 The book contains the findings practicing physician for every 750 openings. So most© medical of research conducted by Betty persons in the country. But with schools, particularly those on the R. Stirling, PhD, associate profes many physicians specializing in west coast, must be selective in sor of sociology, with the assis one field, the average of general accepting students. Thus many tance of graduate sociology stu practitioners or family doctors qualified applicants are turned dents Gordon R. Butler,- Annees who are available for all occasions away with virtually no other A. Haddad, and John E. Lawson, is much lower. school at which to reapply. Jr. A 1967 American Medical Some of the smaller states have "The purpose of the study," Association survey shows that five residence requirements forbidding according to Dr. Stirling, "was to counties in Colorado with a their medical schools from ascertain the attitudes of students population of two to five accepting students from out of in Seventh-day Adventist colleges thousand had no physician at all. state. To comply with this law, toward the mission program of The survey also shows a fifth of the states must recruit less the church and to find out how the county seats in Illinois had no qualified medical students from they would feel about mission physician. One southern Illinois within the boundaries of their service." county of 10,500 people had only state, rather than take an Questionnaires were distributed one physician. applicant from a larger state, such to 2,039 students on 14 Seventh- Part of the problem lies in the as California, where each year day Adventist college and univer small number of students more qualified students attain the sity campuses in North America graduating each year from status required of them to enter a and Australia. medical schools, explains medical school. Information from the returned Dr. Magraw. There are 99 medical questionnaires was transferred to schools in the nation, and six To combat the shortage of data processing cards and ma more are scheduled for physicians in the country, medical chine-analyzed at the university©s completion by 1970. But these schools must have the money to scientific computation facility. schools on the average, graduate expand their facilities. In an Topics covered included stu less than 100 students a year. effort to do just that, the dent attitudes on current mission Only 7,973 were graduated last government is offering extra LEONARD P. FARRAR, a pressman for the University Printing programs, how students look on year. bonuses for schools training Service, sets up his six-inch reflector telescope during last Thursday©s mission service, the type of indivi- Loma Linda University physicians, particularly for those eclipse of the sun. Mr. Farrar©s telescope was available to anyone who graduated 70 medical students physicians who begin their wished to observe the phenomenon. Continued on page 4 ©last year. practice in rural areas. University SCOPE Thursday, September 18, 1969

Association©s 52nd annual Dietetics student meeting held jointly with the fifth Employees hear Rushin Roulette i»- chon Day wins scholarship International Congress in new reducing plan Washington, D.C., The American Dietetic September 8-12. A five-day weight reducing Association Foundation has program has just been completed named Judy L. Reeser, a dietetic Academy reunion at Loma Linda University, intern at Loma Linda University, announced by according to Helen F. Register , the recipient of a $500 Mead nutritionist for the San Johnson Scholarship. Oak Park alumni Bernardino County Health Miss Reeser, who received a The annual reunion of alumni Department. bachelor of science -degree from The new plan, developed by Andrews University, Berrien from Oak Park Academy, Nevada, Iowa, will be held at Sylvan Park John A. Scharffenberg, MD, Springs, Michigan last June, was assistant professor of awarded one of ten scholarships in Redlands on Sunday, Septem ber 28, beginning at 12:30 p.m. epidemiology, consisted of five given each year by Mead Johnson evening lectures and food Laboratories, Evansville, Indiana. Tables one through five have been reserved in section A of the preparation demonstrations. The announcement of "The purpose of the new Miss Reeser "s award was made at park. There will be an Oak Park Academy sign posted. program is not to prescribe diets," the American Dietetic says Mrs. Register, "but to present principles of weight control." A six-month follow-up plan is scheduled for the sixty University employees participating in the pilot program. Tentative plans include a public presentation of the program in the near future. Medical alumni to host picnic for students students, faculty A picnic has been planned for the alumni, faculty, and students of the School of Medicine on UNIVERSITY Sunday, September 28, at 1 p.m. The picnic, held in Orange County©s Irvine Park, will begin with recreation activities such as The Travelers Safety Service baseball and volleyball. A potluck at 4:30 p.m. with supper will start Inattention and speed are major causes of highway students guests of alumni. At 6:30 p.m., the Wedgwood accidents. Trio will highlight a program com plete with student skits and door prizes. Irvine Park is located four and Of Future one half miles east of the New Calendar port Freeway on Chapman Ave Events nue (California State 55).

to sponsor Friday, September 19 Sunset 6:51 worship, David Osborne, La Sierra ... an assortment of fine, nationally-advertised JMA campus chaplain, "Don©t Give Up": products courtesy of famous manufacturers, an award winning 8:15 a.m. LA SIERRA CHURCH, LS - Colle giate Christian League: 7:30 p.m. LA SIERRA CHURCH, LS - Hour of and your college store movie presentation worship, Richard Rice, AS©66, "The a.m. The color motion picture, "A CAMPUS CHAPEL, LL - University Unpredictable God": 11 You will receive such products as thesei Campus Fellowship, J.L. Butler, chap Man for All Seasons," will be Nashville, Ten lain, Riverside Hospital, "A Man shown October 18, at 8 p.m., in nessee, "Race and Religion": 7:30 COLLEGE HALL, LS - Film, Women©s Campus Pac Gentry Gymnasium. p.m. for All Seasons": 8 p.m. * Adorn Hair Spray Sponsored by the Junior Medi- Loma Linda GENTRY GYMNASIUM, LL - Uni * Clairol Hair Conditioner LINDA HALL. LL - versity Artist and Lecture Series, Continued on page 4 Youth Association, open house at the Adventures": 8 * Jergen©s Soap Jr., MD, Dwight Long, "Pacific home of Varner J. Johns, p.m. * Pamprin tablets professor of medicine: 8 p.m. * "My Own" Hygenic Towlette Monday, September 22 Dental hygienist wanted.; Saturday, September 20 * Excedrin Three to five days a week.. LOBBY LEVEL AMPHITHEATRE, UNIVERSITY CHURCH, LL - Hour LL - Ob * Scripto Marking Pen worship, associate pastor Richard C. UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Modern general practice. Ex-; of stetrics and gynecology Grand Rounds, * Plus Valuable Coupons cellent salary. Perfect oppor Gage, "The Surge of Expectancy": 8 pro * * * * and 10:55 a.m. Stewart W. Shankel, MD, assistant tunity for professional© fessor of medicine, "Kidney Func Men©s Campus Pac and development. 927 LL - Hour tion"; Raymond Herber, MD, assistant growth CAMPUS HILL CHURCH, professor of medicine, "Liver Func * Old Spice Burley Cologne Deep Valley Drive, Palos; of worship, pastor Wilbur K. Chapman, 8 a.m. communion service, "Table Talks of tion": * Man Power Deodorant Verdes Peninsula, California Jesus": 8 and 10:55 a.m. 90274. (213) 377-5567. UNIVERSITY CHURCH, LL - Convo * Sea and Ski Suntan Lotion speaker, LA SIERRA CHURCH, LS - Hour of cation, George E. Vandeman, * Dial Soap "It Is Written" television series: 8:10 * Scripto Memo II Pen a.m. * Excedrin Tuesday, September 23 * Plus Valuable Coupons Welcome Back To School LA SIERRA CHURCH, LS - Chapel, George E. Vandeman, speaker, "It Is Only 1 Pac per student JANET©S CLEANERS Written" television series: 10:25 a.m. LOBBY LEVEL AMPHITHEATRE, This valuable array of products comes to you with 24579 University Avenue UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, LL - Pedi Loma Linda, California - Phone 796-8161 atrics Grand Rounds, Richard L. the compliments of the manufacturers. Tompkins, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics, "Diagnosis and Management One CAMPUS PAC is yours- 24 HOUR SERVICE of Neonatal Meningitis": 12:10 p.m. only while the supply lasts. Exclusively afj BLOCKING - RE-WEAVING Wednesday, September 24 ALTERATIONS & REPAIRS LOBBY LEVEL AMPHITHEATRE, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, LL - MOM. THURS. 7:45 A.M.-5:30 P.M. Medecine Grand Rounds, Lamont University Supply FRI. 7:45 A.M. - 3 P.M. Murdoch, MD, instructor in medicine, "Dwarfs and Midgets": 8 a.m. SIERRA VISTA CHAPEL, LL - Posi tive living prayer clinic: 7 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS MEMORIAL CHAPEL - Redlands Community Forum, Russell Potter, Give Your Child Hie Advantages film lecture, "Egypt - Key to the Middle East": 7:30 p.m. 5*3 September 25 Of A Musical Education ©:*:* Thursday, COLLEGE HALL, LS - Collegiate Playing the Piano helps your child develop Christian League: 10:25 a.m. 1 concentration, coordination ... a personality m.V. and skill . . . that make a girl or boy popular. NURSES FOUR POSITIONS OPEN Director of Nursing, salary NEW SPINET PIANOS open. General Duty Nurse, salary open Minimum $700 per month. L.V.N. Salary open. Summer relief R.N. Salary open. HOLLEY & JACKSON District Hospital, P. O. Box 758, Corcoran, California Redlands Blvd. at New York St.. REDLANDS 93212. Phone 992-3124. Even ings 992-3476, Theron W. Wood, Administrator. Thursday. September 18. 1969 University SCOPE

community relations officer, ex ploring the old sanitarium in search of artifacts. He discovered relics from the early 1900©s such as text books, an old spinning FIRST FEDERAL wheel, bloomers, and a flapper dress. One of the compelling reasons for working here, according to CURRENT Mr. Schaefer, is the university©s heritage. "It is miraculous!" As .^ ANNUAL Francis D. Nichol once said: "Loma Linda is literally a city set upon a hill that cannot be hid. It is a O spectacle to the world and RATE to angels, as one of the greatest ventures of faith in the history of the Advent movement." "One of the reasons I am here," EFFECTIVE OCT. 1,1969 said Mr. Schaefer, "is that I feel we are part of that destiny." Though many employees may not be aware of it, every time YOUR SAVINGS they come in contact with either visitors or patients, they are act ing as unofficial members of the community relations office. Peoples© first impressions are of RICHARD A. SCHAEFER, community relations officer, welcomes ten lasting ones. EARN A BIG 92 new university employees. Part of his job includes giving new "Everything done at this hospi employees a brief history of Loma Linda University, and a description tal has to do with community of their individual responsibilities in furthering good public relations relations," states Mr. Schaefer. to visitors and patients. "Regardless of the employee©s job description, he or she also has a Spotlight on: public relations responsibility. We can sponsor dinners, publish bro chures, or set up friendly welcom The ing signs. But if one visitor or community relations office patient fails to get the service he In a small office just opposite When I saw those deformed ba deserves, everything we have done WHEN YOU INVEST the lobby level passenger elevators bies, and the guide said that cer is worth nothing." in University Hospital is the head tain drugs can make this happen, I Mr. Schaefer, and his secretary, IN A THREE YEAR quarters for one of the hospital©s realized that I didn©t want any Jo A. Nelson, are the only mem most important, non-medical part of them. So I have stopped bers of the public relations staff functions. using drugs, and I want to thank in the hospital. They are members The sign on the door identifies you. It was really an out-of-sight of a team which includes officers the office as being the center of trip." of the university©s offices of pub hospital community relations. But The community relations office lic relations and development. BONUS PLAN often, visitors and employees pass maintains a busy pace fulfilling The members of this team are by that office, casually wondering speaking obligations to civic, busi writers, photographers, editors, what the people that work there ness, and professional groups. It and speakers that represent Loma do. They vaguely believe it has also works with the personnel Linda University to its many pub CERTIFICATE something to do with public rela office on a program of personnel lics. It is their goal to represent tions. They have seen people from orientation, demonstrating how the hospital and university as a Your savings will earn First Federal©s high that office around the hospital, each one plays an important role center of the community; a place quite often taking pictures, put in the functions of the University. where people come for care, for 5% current annual rate plus a bonus .25% ting up welcoming signs, or The university maintenance ser competent service, and for contin each year for three years when you invest guiding tours. The people who vice and the community relations uing education. associate these duties with the office were responsible for placing As Mr. Schaefer observes, "For in a bonus plan certificate. It©s not for community relations office are the 16-foot Christmas star on top many years, people came to hos everybody but if you invest $1,000 (mini correct. -^. of the hospital last December. pitals to die. We are still trying to But the responsibilities of the This year they hope to place that change that image of hospitals. mum deposit) and leave it for three years, community relations office star on the east side of the hospi We believe it is a place where you©ll encompass much more than just a tal so it may be seen from the people should come to live." earn an extra .75% over the three few, obvious roles. One of its main entrance. In addition, they year period. Passbook accounts, with no main responsibilities is to wel will build a much larger star for come guests to the hospital. Last the north side that may be seen OP LOCATION withdrawal restrictions, still earn the na year, 120,000 visitors, guests, and from San Bernardino. tion©s highest rate 5% at First Federal... patients came to the University. Other projects the community Modern equipped, air con In Their first impressions are of ma relations office is working on is ditioned clinic. County seat either plan, your funds are insured to jor concern to the community identifying buildings on campus $15,000. Savings deposited by the 10th of relations office. So the office with cast aluminum letters and town. 1,000 population. attempts to gather feedback from placing illuminated information Southwest Nebraska. Con the month earn from the first. the public who come in contact signs in strategic locations for tact G. W. Shafer, Jr., Bea with the hospital. This informa visitors to Loma Linda. ver City, Nebraska 68926. tion is given to hospital and uni Mr. Schaefer lists among the versity administrators so they can highlights of his three years as implement the university©s role as a center of community service. One of the more rewarding aspects of the community rela tions office are the tour groups that visit the hospital, according to Richard A. Schaefer, commu Go by Jef or Ship nity relations officer. Almost 1,000 people a month tour the hospital. Many of the tour groups CALL 793-2555 are high school biology classes. FIRST Some of the groups specify only certain areas of the hospital and University they wish to see. Most of the high school groups© that come to Loma Linda for a tour CLEM LAU SERVICE FEDERAL visit the Alfred Shryock Museum ^SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION LAURA CREATURA 298 E. Citrus Ave. of Anatomy. CLEM LAU OF SAN BERNARDINO Mr. Schaefer has compiled quo Redlands tations from letters written by ©"©i a*? students to the community rela tions office. 555 No. E Street, San Bernardino, Calif. One student wrote, "I feel that Loma Linda, 11142 Anderson Barstow, 602 E. Main I learned much more in that one day than a month in a class room." Another said, "I was influenced by the trip to change my college HAMMONTON PARK major." w SIGN Up in Store Perhaps the most interesting let MANHATTAN SHIRTS ter came from a former drug user. "I want to thank you for leading ARNOLD PALMER ^ for Special me to the light. Prior to the trip I . had experimented with drugs. SPORTSWEAR FINE APPAREL FOR MEN Drawing

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Will this be our epitaph? Univi Here lies the greatest civilization ever developed upon this earth; the finest and best hope that all men could be free, self-governing and THE LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY NEWSPAPER prosperous, and that the burden of excessive toil, disease, and poverty University SCOPE Is a non could be lifted from the backs of men. profit news publication of Loma Linda University, an This great civilization died not as a result of external aggression, educational institution oper ated by the General Confer but from internal crumbling of the character of its people. The ence of Seventh-day Adven- tists, with campuses at Loma phenomenon was more in the nature of suicide than murder. The Linda and Riverside, Califor nia. people had become so luxury-loving and soft that they would not Circulation: 20,000 Subscription: $5 per year exert themselves hi their own defense. Possessing great power, they refused to use it against criminals who developed in their own country EDITOR: or those from abroad. A malignant disease that might be described as Jerre K. Iversen a maudlin sympathy for one©s enemies seemed to paralyze their will. Consulting Editor: Oliver L. Jacques© Having incomparably greater strength than any other nation or Editorial Assistant: combination of nations, this nation stooped to appeasement and Peggy M. Hanson compromise until it lost its will to live, while its enemies grew Book Editor: steadily more powerful. Alice E. Gregg Here lies the nation that sacrificed its life in an effort to gain the THIS IS PART OF the Esperanto exhibit in the University library. Advertising: F. Richard Doolittle good will and friendship of its enemies. Esperanto, a language spoken by 8,000,000 people in 80 countries, is offered on Tuesday evenings at Redlands Senior High School. Unless otherwise noted. Here lies the people who abandoned their priceless heritage of University SCOPE articles may be reprinted without patriotism, religious faith, and truth for the Socialism that sapped permission. Appropriate cred Man for All Seasons it would be appreciated. their manhood. Advertising compatible in America Continued from page 2 content with the standards of Here lies the nation that abandoned the faith of its fathers who church-related higher educa cal Auxiliary the proceeds will be tion is accepted subject to had made it great, for the cynical skepticism and atheism of its approval by the advertising needs your used for JMA©s adopted mission committee. Copy should be enemies. family. received no later than the Wednesday before publication Here lies the nation that died from loss of faith in God, loss of "A Man for All Seasons" is the date; rates available on re help story of Sir Thomas More, an quest. pride and confidence in itself, loss of desire to help the less fortunate, English writer, statesman, and au Communications about news and editorial content, and a loss of the will to defend itself against both its internal and BUY U.S. thor of the book, "Utopia." He advertising, or subscription/ was beheaded in 1535 for his circulation matters should be external enemies. SAVINGS BONDS, directed to University SCOPE refusal to support the Act of Loma Linda University, Loma Here lies the United States. Supremacy which impugned the Linda, California 92354. Of NEW FREEDOM pope©s authority and made Henry fices are in Griggs Hall on SHARES VIII, King of England, the head the Loma Linda campus; tele - Courtesy of Howard E. Kershner, CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS of the English Church. phone (714) 796-7311, 888-3211, Ticket information will be avail or 686-5432, extension 2373. able at a later date.

Abbreviations Used In Book University Scope: AS College of Arts and Continued from page I Sciences DH Dental Hygiene duals sent as missionaries, and DI Dietetics Intern GS Graduate School mission reports in Adventist LL Loma Linda campus You can©t be there_ churches. LS La Sierra campus Copies of the research book MR Medical Record may be obtained by sending Administration MT Medical Technology $3.95 plus 25 cents for postage OT Occupational Therapy to help them. We can. and handling to the Department PH School of Public Health of Sociology and Anthropology, PT Physical Therapy Loma Linda University, Loma RT Radiologlc Technology SD School of Dentistry Linda, California 92354. Califor SM School of Medicine nia residents should add five per SN School of Nursing