Vol. 49 Madison, Tennessee, 37115, January-March, 1967 No. 1

California Chapter Meets Lottie Stewart gave the history. A few New East Wing Opened thoughts gleaned from that paper About one h u n d r e d Californian follows: Patients were moved into the two Madisonites met Saturday night, Feb- "You might say that welfare work upper floors of the new East Wing of ruary 18, at Clifton's Cafeteria in West started at Madison in 1904 — the same Madison Hospital on January 24 and Covina, according to Mrs. C. E. Ran- year the institution was founded . . . 25. Medical patients occupy third floor, dolph, secretary of the chapter. Dr. There was no organization then, with and pediatrics patients are on the sec- Randolph is the chapter president and officers, and designated duties, but there ond floor. The first and ground floors was chairman of the meeting. Mrs. was a leader, fondly called `Mother D.' will be ready in early April and will Randolph gives further details as fol- In those days there were great needs in be occupied by Physical Therapy, Occu- lows: various parts of the world, and tender- pational T he r a p y, and Corrective "Everyone passed through the serving hearted people sent clothing here to the Therapy. line at the cafeteria, and we all joined Madison School. Even wealthy people Dr. and Mrs. Howard C. Seely have in eating together in a reserved Kellogg in California and other far-away places moved to Madison, where the doctor, a Room. A joyous time of visiting and sent dried fruit and clothing also for physiatrist, is director of Physical Medi- renewing old acquaintances was engaged the mission barrels. Some of these gar- cine and Rehabilitation at the hospital. in by all. The accommodations were ments were given to poor students who He has the pleasure of heading up this really too small for our crowd, so we were anxious to obtain a Christian edu- new department in the new East Wing. moved out into the main dining area for cation. Some were packed in barrels and Dr. Seely completed his residency in most of our program. sent to the `Units' and other places." Phiysical Medicine and Rehabilitation at "Special music was brought to us by Tribute was paid to Mrs. Elizabeth the V.A. Hospital, Long Beach, Calif. students of LLU. Mr. Tui Pittman, a Bowen (mother of Bernard) and Mrs. He is a graduate of LLU, Class of 1953. graduate student, rendered two saxo- George Bartlett, among the early Dorcas Mrs. Seely is a registered nurse and is phone solos and Miss Faye Heath a vocal leaders, and later Mrs. Julian Gant. This on the nursing staff of Madison Hospital. solo, accompanied by Miss Carol Witt- was before a building was erected. Much man. Speaker of the evening was Ogden credit was given to Dollie Bowen for Aaby, former Madison College student continually dreaming and agitating the and staff member. He told us of his ac- need for a building. The foundation was A.D. Nurses' Dormitory News tivities in the mission field and also his laid in early 1960, and the building be- experiences in the making of soybean came a reality, although the building Classes have been held for some time products. Mr. Aaby, presently on fur- was not completed until February, 1967, in the new brick educational building lough, is under appointment to return just before dedication. The building is back of the E. R. Moore residence across to the Far Eastern Division as business located on Sanitarium Road between the from the hospital. The young women in manager of the Youngberg Memorial hospital and Larkin Spring Road. Miss the two-year A.D. nursing program Hospital in Singapore. Vandermark said this was the 2,763rd moved into the new nurses' dormitory "One of the highlights of the evening center established around the world. January 26, 1967. Fifteen nursing stu- was the showing of Kodachrome slides dents are living there at present. The of the new hospital at Madison, fur- rooms are all carpeted and have a bath- nished by the P.R. Department of the REMEMBER HOMECOMING, APRIL 28, 29 room between each two rooms. hospital It was with some nostalgia for Remember Homecoming at Madison the last Mrs. Betty Ann Howard, dean of old Madison that the pictures were week-end in April. Please write us if you plan to women, and her 11-year-old son, Frank viewed. We all rejoiced that so beauti- come. and wish overnight lodging. (Also write, IV, occupy the dean's apartment. Mrs. ful a plant has supplanted the old. even if you plan to stay with friends or at a Howard attended Pine Forest Academy Everyone wishes it well as it serves motel.) Dr. R. F. Waddell, secretary of the Gen- in the 8th, 9th, and 10th grades. Mr. mankind in that area. eral Conference Medical Department. will be the and Mrs. A. J. Wheeler were two of "The place for the next meeting was chief speaker. The Saturday night program will be her teachers. chosen as Loma Linda, the date to be in in the hospital cafeteria this year, instead of Mrs. Howard attended Highland Acad- August, specific day to be chosen later." Williams Hall. Tickets are $2.00 each, and space emy and took her nurses' training and will be somewhat limited. It will be helpful if anesthesia at the University Hospital reservations are made ahead of time. in Birmingham, Ala. She worked two years in the V.A. Hospital in Bronx, Dorcas Building Dedicated Class of '42 to be Honored N.Y., taught anesthesia for nurses at A goodly number from the Silver Anniversary University Hospital, Birmingham, and The Health and Welfare Center at Class of '42 have responded. Some plan to be pres- St. Vincent College, Worcester, Mass., Madison was dedicated February 26. ent at Homecoming. and others have written let- and is now teaching anesthesia at Madi- Maybelle Vandermark was present from ters. These will be printed in the next SURVEY son Hospital part time. She is the widow the General Conference, and Elder W. after Homecoming. If you haven't responded yet, of Frank Howard, M.D., a graduate of L. Mazat from the Southern Union. Mrs. please let us hear from you. U.T. College of Medicine, Memphis. Alumni Donate Organ and Fireplace to Madison and fulfilling a lifelong Professional Pins Available dream to take X-ray, and he always The Schools of Medical Technology, The alumni voted sometime ago to wanted to take it at Madison. Mr. Cruz allocate $2,500 of the building funds X-ray, and Inhalation Therapy at Madi- is married to the former Sara Vinas, son Hospital have recently designed to furnishings for the new nurses' dormi- and they have one son, Obed Ismael. tory. Still later it was decided to spend class pins which are now available to all this money on an organ and a fireplace School of Medical Technology graduates of these programs. (Earlier for the dormitory parlor. The fireplace Warren Watts ('58) and Fe Resuello, the School of Anesthesia designed a of craborchard stone was built at the recent graduates of .Medical Technology pin.) Each pin carries an appropriate are now working in the Madison Hos- symbol. The pins are blue enamel and time the building was erected. On Feb- pital lab. Mrs. Watts (Phyllis Cullen) is gold plate. They are approximately the ruary 24, a beautiful walnut Hammond taking X-ray. size of a quarter. The price is $5.00. organ was delivered to the parlor. Ap- and Eliza Bautista propriate plaques are being installed to Beatriz Domingo Checks should be made out to Madison show the donors of these gifts. (both M.T. '66) are working in the clin- Hospital. Requests should be forwarded Previously the alumni had furnished ical lab of Lutheran Hospital in Cleve- to the department head — John C. Acker- land, Ohio. They came to Madison from man, technical director, School of Medi- the E. A. Sutherland Memorial Chapel the Philippines to finish their medical at the hospital, and the girls' parlor at cal Technology; William V. Campbell, technology course after graduating from technical director, School of X-ray; John Williams Hall. Centro Escolar University in Manila. Fe Nickless, technical director, School of Resuello (M.T. '66) is staying on at Mad- Inhalation Therapy; Bernard Bowen, ison Hospital lab. director, School of Anesthesia. Community Classes Three new students have arrived from Community people have opportunity to the Philippines to take Medical Tech- Professional Nurses Pins enroll in one or two classes taught in nology. They are Delores David, Lolita Now and then a graduate nurse writes the A.D. Nursing Program at Madison. Rubic, and Delia Razon. the alumni office saying a pin has been Elder Ray Hartlein taught such a class School of Anesthesia lost, and wondering how to get another in Prophetic Guidance the first semester, Helen Beard and James Shilling are one. These pins have to be ordered and is teaching Principles of Personal new students in Anesthesia. through the Nursing Education office Evangelism the second semester. Also Senior students affiliating at other here at Madison. There are four choices, being taught during the second semester hospitals are Mrs. Jean Fitch, Vera depending on the size and number of is a class in Literature and Life by Bergman, Janice Musselwhite, and initials, ranging from $5.45 to $8.75, plus Elizabeth Cowdrick. Brenda Knight. ten cents for each initial. Guards for Carolyn Bautista (Anes. '67) has re- either pin are $2.59 each. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Riley moved to turned to the Philippines, and is work- While ordering your professional pin, the campus in January. Mrs. Riley is ing as a nurse-anesthetist in Manila don't forget your dues ($2 a year, $50 the former Brenda Botts, and is teach- S-H, where she took her R.N. training. lifetime) and/or donation to the SUR- ing Psychiatric Nursing the second se- Her father is a departmental secretary VEY. If you wish to pay for your dues mester. She completed her work for a in the North Philippine Mission. and your pin all in the same remit- Master's degree in Psychiatric Nursing School of Inhalation Therapy tance, we will be glad to route the order in December at Ohio State University. Bill Allen was the first student to and the money to the correct place. Ad- finish Inhalation Therapy at Madison dress: Madison College Alumni Asso- Hospital. He is now head of the Inhala- ciation, Madison, Tenn. 37115. Nursing Journals Still Needed tion Therapy department at Ardmore The Madison Extension Division of Nursing of S-H in Oklahoma. New S.M.C. Alumni Officers SMC is still in need of certain issues of the Tom J. Finney V and Robert M. Dr. DeWitt Bowen, cousin of Bernard Bowen. American Journal of Nursing. Mrs. Del Watson Davis, Sr., were the second and third is the newly elected president of the SMC Alumni reports : "We are attempting to assemble a second students to graduate from the School Association, and Wallace ("Buddy") Blair (Mad- and third set of these journals for the library, so of Inhalation Therapy at Madison Hos- ison College '50) is the treasurer. SMC is the fast- more students can have access to them when pital. Mr. Finney is now the assistant est growing college in the denomination, according classroom assignments are made. to the chief of Inhalation Therapy at to the SMC Alumni Bulletin of December, 1966. "The following issues are needed: November, Madison Hospital (John Nickless). Mr. A.A.C.P.A. Newsletter Makes Its Debut 1958 ; April, 1960 ; May, June, August. 1961 ; April, Davis attended the elementary school May, November. December, 1962 ; February, March, here at Madison in 1945-6, when he was The Alumni office was pleased to receive a copy 1963; January, May, October, December, 1964 ; a lad in the second grade. He is now of the A.A.C.P.A. Newsletter. Volume I, Number November, December. 1966. head of the Inhalation Therapy Depart- 1. This is the organ of the Adventist C.P.A.'s. ment at Hartselle Hospital in Alabama. Kenneth C. Knight is president of the organiza- "Local people may leave journals at the Madison tion ; Ralph Davidson is chairman of the profes- Hospital switchboard. The college will reimburse Mrs. Davis, a sister of Tom Finney, was sional development committee ; Wallace Blair is folk for postage on journals mailed to us. Mailing a telephone operator at the hospital membership committee chairman, and his wife, address, S.M.C. Division of Nursing, Madison Ex- switchboard while Bob was in training. Elsie, is editor of the Newsletter. At the time of tension Campus. Box 336, Madison, Tenn. 37115." Eight students are enrolled in Inhala- tion Therapy at present. publication there were 28 members in the Medical Records A.A.C.P.A., but there are 70 known Adventist Darleen (Mrs. William) Campbell, a C.P.A.'s to recruit from. The paper is published Paramedical Courses at Madison worker in Medical Records at Madison at Collegedale, Tenn. (Box 9). School of X-Ray Hospital, is taking a course in Medical Corrections Records by correspondence from the John Tidwell finished the X-ray course American Association of Medical Records In the December SURVEY it was incorrectly at Madison Hospital December 30, 1966 stated that Dr. Ethel Brownsberger practiced in and is now working in the X-ray De- Librarians. Los Angeles County for over 30 years. She spent partment at Hinsdale S-H. Proper Postal Address two years in maternity and child hygiene clinics Rachel Ramsey Piper (El. Ed. '58) Many changes have been made on the Madison of the L.A. County Health Department; and for started the X-ray course in December, campus. but the name of the post office remains 33 years practiced obstetrics and pediatrics in 1966, and Joe Chandler, Jr. enrolled in the same—Madison College. a branch of the Mad- Asheville, N.C. February, 1967. ison, Tenn., post office. and the zip is 37115. This Also in the December SURVEY under Alumni Shirley Ann (Mrs. Wayne) Hayes en- is true for Madison Hospital, Madison Academy. in Hawaii, Todi Shinkawa was listed at Castle rolled in X-ray, September, 1966. and the Alumni office. (Box number for the alumni Memorial Hospital. a State institution for retarded Luis Ismael Cruz has completed his office is 396.) children. with 150 beds in the hospital and a training in X-ray and has gone to work Addresses Wanted population of 790. as an X-ray technician at Hialeah Hos- In the December, 1966. issue we listed names of In the list of alumni in Hawaii we should have pital in Florida. Mr. Cruz attended Madison graduates whose addresses were not mentioned Marvin C. Midkiff. administrator of Antillian Junior College in Cuba, then known. Our grateful thanks to those who sent in Castle Memorial Hospital since July, 1966. Pre- went to night school for a year and a addresses of several of these, and helped us "find" vious to that he held the same position at Hays half in Miami while working at Hialeah them. Keep up the good work. We need more Memorial Hospital. San Marcos, Texas, and Me- Hospital. In 1964 he succeeded in getting addresses. morial Hospital in Beeville. Texas. Page 2 Madison Survey and Alumni News years. he has seen it grow from a "corner grocery store" to a business that grosses $1.4 million a year—the largest volume grocery store operated by SDA's. One unique feature of the Loma Linda Market is the wide selection of natural foods, which is a big drawing card for market customers. The mar- ket has regular customers who come from neigh- MCAA boring States to do quantity shopping in the nat- NEWS ural foods section. Currently the natural foods department grosses nearly $140.000 annually. 1920 1932 Mr. Black has been employed by LLU since 1943, when he became dairy manager. In 1946 he Helen Krum Brown (N '20) writes Leonard H. Robinson (N '32) has re- transferred to the market and was assistant man- from Takoma Park, Md.: "Thank you cently moved to Ardmore, Okla., where ager until he was appointed manager in 1952. for continuing to send me the SURVEY. he is working in a 76-bed nursing home. The Blacks have two daughters : Nancy. who I am a real old-timer, and for many He sends dues and writes: "I enjoy is employed by Security First National Bank, and years was out of touch with activities getting the SURVEY to keep in touch with Ginger, who is a sophomore at La Sierra College. at Madison, but since receiving the people and progress at Madison." SURVEY again have learned the where- Dr. Russell C. Herman ('39) is in the abouts of many of my old friends and 1933 practice of surgery in Riverside, Calif. acquaintances. My three years at Madi- Frances (Hopps) Fry (N '33) is liv- He graduated from CME in 1953 and son, in my younger years of student ing at Grapevine, Texas. She has been completed his residency in surgery at life, taught me much, as well as helped working as head nurse in a clinic in the Broaddus Hospital, Philippi, W. Va., me make some lifetime friends. May its Dallas, Texas, since 1949. She has three and at the Leland Memorial Hospital, influence continue!" sons — David, Edmund, and Kenneth. Riverdale, Maryland. Harriet (Holloway) Moergeli (N '20) Frances is a sister of Herbert Hopps 1940 '45, and an aunt of Cecil Hopps '58. is now a life member of the M.C.A.A. Dr. and Mrs. Roy R. Bowes ('40, '56) She lives in Fresno, Calif., and writes 1936 moved to California three years ago, us that she has glaucoma and cannot and are located at Santa Ana. Their do much work. Albert G. Dittes, M.D. (Premed. '36) has been in general practice in Port- son, Bob, is a second-year medical stu- 1924 land, Tenn., since 1946. He graduated dent at LLU. Larry, a senior at PUC, Leonard W. Ramsey, M.D. of Canoga from LLU in 1941. He is married to the has been accepted to enter medical Park, Calif., is a Diplomate of Ameri- former Elinor Ruth Steen who also at- school this fall. Karyn is in San Pasqual can Board of Surgery and Fellow of tended Madison College. Dr. and Mrs. Academy, and Elizabeth is in Orange- American College of Surgeons, with Dittes have four children, two of whom wood Academy. Dr. Bowes is busy with practice limited to general surgery. After are students at S.M.C. his medical practice. Mrs. Bowes is a completing nurses' training at Madison volunteer in the hospital auxiliary and Dr. Robert Kellar (premed. '36) re- active in three other auxiliaries. In the in 1924, he graduated from W.M.C. and ceived his M.D. at Loma Linda in 1942. finished his medical course at C.M.E. summer of 1966 the Bowes family took He is in general practice at Weslaco, a trip to Europe and traveled in 21 in 1936. He writes: "I have a warm Texas. His wife (Fannie Cannada, '36) spot for Madison." countries. They visited S.D.A. schools, finished the dietetics course at Madison. health centers, churches, and conference 1925 The Kellars have two sons. headquarters. Roberta (Yates) Gilbert (N '25), one Mildred Payne (Cummings) Connell 1942 of the Yates twins, is living in St. (N '36) writes from Burbank, Calif., We have an abundance of news from Petersburg, Fla. She and her husband that she is not working at present. She the Honor Class of 1942. This will be moved there in 1957 after he retired. did do nursing from 1936 to 1942, and published in the next issue after Home- She worked as a nurse from 1925-1940 helped in Dr. Arthur Cummings' office coming. at the Harding Sanitarium in Worth- in Rackerby, Calif. She is the mother 1943 ington, Ohio, and did private duty nurs- of three boys, Morris, Dennis, and Larry We are indebted to Viola Carleton ing. Cummings, who are all married. (N '37), supervisor of surgical nursing 1927 1937, 1938 stations at Hinsdale S-H, for giving us Elder Alfred T. Okohira ('27) is the address of her cousin, Isabelle pastor of the Denver Japanese and Ger- Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bischoff (N '37, Miller (N '43), who is a lieutenant man churches, and a speaker for the '38) are living in Keene, Texas, where colonel in the U.S. Army, and is sta- Japanese Voice of Prophecy. The Oko- Mr. Bischoff is president of Keene tioned in Glendale, Ariz. hiras have three children — Theodore, Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mrs. Bischoff Ogden L. Aaby and family, on fur- Grace, and Patricia. (Esther Barbara Robey) has been em- lough, are living in Riverside, Calif., ployed for the past ten years at John- 1928 where Mrs. Aaby is attending La Sierra son County Memorial Hosp., Cleburne, College. In June they will go to Singa- F. Lincoln Millet, of the S. Lancaster, Texas, surgical floor supervisor. Daugh- pore, where Mr. Aaby will be manager Mass., Village Church has been named ter Barbara and husband Jo Koobs are of Youngberg Memorial Hospital. Mr. Press Secretary of the Year, by the both employed at Ardmore SDA Hos- Aaby was a student at Madison 1940-3, Southern New England P.R. Depart- pital in Oklahoma. Son Robert Wayne and on the faculty from 1945-51 as head ment. Mr. Millet took some nurses' is a teacher and accountant at Valley of the business department and credit training at Madison and has served as Grande Academy, Weslaco, Texas. manager on the sanitarium. His wife, an L.P.N. in Massachusetts, and taught 1938 Amy, taught at Madison elementary in several high schools. He writes, "I school, 1945-6, and took classes from owe a lot to the Madison school. Prin- Helen (Leslie) Mathis (N '38) is as- Mrs. Spaulding. The Aabys spent seven ciples they taught there have always sistant nursing supervisor at the V.A. years at Tokyo S-H in Japan; four been helpful to me." Hospital in Bradenton, Fla. years in Taiwan as business manager 1929 1939 and treasurer of Taiwan S-H; and three years as business manager and treasurer Dr. Elwin B. Johnson (premed '29) Dr. Julius P. Dietrich (premed '39) of Philippine Union College. Brother sends in a Life Membership to the sends in a wanted address and writes Aaby has the distinction of being the from Allegan, Mich.: "I am still in ac- Alumni Association from McMinnville, first name in our alumni card file. tive practice in the same old place. Our Tenn. He writes: "I'm still running a children are all married, and my wife one horse hospital here (Faulkner Dr. John Spencer (N '43) is in gen- eral practice in Burtonsville, Md. He (Charity, N '30) busies herself with Springs)—work horse, that is." was married to Mari Lynn Rideout while housework and Dorcas, although she has Fred Black (B.S. '39) was featured in LLU they were both students at Madison. had to slow down some on account of Scope under title. "Meet University Personnel." her health." Having The Spencers have three children: Shel- worked at the market for the past twenty don, in the army; Sheryl Ann, and January-March, 1967 Page 3 Debra Lynn. Dr. Spencer writes that he will give the standard commission of 25% of the otherapy at Madison, and working in enjoyed a little glimpse of the new hos- retail price on all stamps sold through an an- the Bethesda Hospital in Toronto. pital while traveling through Nashville nouncement in the SURVEY." Daughter Christina, a former nursing in January. He is the physician who We hope many of our readers will order stamp student of Madison, is working in a answers questions in Life and Health. pads from Brothers Wihers. and be sure to say, rest home for elderly people, while her "I saw it in the SURVEY." See elsewhere in this husband, Clinton Johnson (X-ray '57) Gertrude Schieble (N '43) wrote in her issue. is working in the V. A. Hospital in Christmas card to Mrs. E. R. Moore: "When I attended the International Con- William R. Johnson (N '51) has been Boise, Idaho. Son David finished lab at gress of Nurses in Frankfurt, Germany, appointed assistant administrator at Madison, and has been a lab technician while doing a year of voluntary service, Baptist Hospital in Nashville. He has in Canada. He and his family are now I thought of you and my nurses' training served ten years in Nashville hospitals at College Place, Wash., where David at Madison. There were over 6,000 nurses in various nursing service capacities. is studying at W.W.C. and working part from all over the world . . . Before leav- He obtained his Master's degree in Ad- time in General Hospital, Walla Walla. ing Europe I visited cousins in Germany ministration of Nursing Service at the Daughter Virginia took Medical Records and Switzerland. Then I spent a few University of Maryland and returned to at Madison, and is now a certified days in the Netherlands before taking Baptist Hospital in January, 1965. Bap- Medical Record Librarian and head of the ship home." tist Hospital has 375 beds and includes the M.R. work in a hospital in Santa five schools of medical training. Mr. Ana, Calif. 1945 Johnson is skilled in painting and wood- "Ettie" (Jacobsen) Reddig (N '45) of carving. He gives his former art teacher, 1958 Sylmar, Calif., wrote Mrs. E. R. Moore Mrs. Bertram, credit for arousing his on her Christmas card: "The past year Marie (Wilson) Logan (N '58) sends interest in these hobbies. Mrs. Johnson is a copy of her Christmas card from has been good to us. Bob keeps busy the former Hilda Schneider, Nursing with his maintenance business. I'm still Farmington, Mich. Her husband, Reu- Class of 1956. The Johnsons have a ben, had a heart attack, and her son, doing private duty nights. I was with little daughter, appropriately named Walt Disney for the last two weeks be- Lee, nearly lost a leg in a scooter acci- Hildegarde. fore he died. Randy is 15 now and of dent. "But Lee is fine now, and Reuben course taller than I am, Linda will soon Helen Palewich (Lab '51) had a very is better," she says. "We had a terrific be 10. Every opportunity we get we go interesting nine-week trip from her home year otherwise. Had 49 staying with us looking for 'Ghost Towns' in the moun- in Hinsdale to South America in 1966, during the General Conference Session tains and desert on weekends, and rum- where she said it was wonderful to see in Detroit (not all at once). Cobo Hall maging through old mines. our missions first hand. She traveled by is just 20 minutes away. I am teaching "My dad is still traveling around, plane and bus and stopped off in Pan- a Bible Doctrines class and will follow taking several trips a year." ama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, with Denominational History for a Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. group who are working on their Master 1950 On the way back she says, "From the Guides . . . We have a home in Wood- Henry and Pauline (Burk) Knapp plane window I thought I must be seeing bury, Tenn., as well as here in Detroit." have moved from Denver to National another planet, the colors of blue and Jean Hassenpflug, graduate of nurs- City, Calif., where they are both doing beige in marble design were so fascinat- anesthesia at Paradise Valley S-H. ing, college, and anesthesia at Madison, ing. My seatmate told me it was the has moved from Selmar, Tenn., to Ard- Peter D. Durichek, superintendent of Bahamas. I was very happy that my more, Okla., where she is working at LLU laundry, has been elected president sister and cousin were at O'Hara Field the Memorial Hospital. Jean and hus- of the Institutional Laundry Managers' to meet me. It was a great feeling to be band Ed were connected with Madison Association. Mr. Durichek has been ac- back in the States again." for a number of years, she as instructor tive in the laundry business for the past 1952 in the School of Anesthesia. Mr. Hassen- 21 years. His wife, '50 is an instructor pflug is recovering from a serious back in the School of Nursing at LLU. Ramona (Seath) Lubke (N '52) lives in Pomona, Calif., where her husband, operation. Jean writes that Pat and Wallace Slater (MCA '50), chief Dr. William Lubke, specializes in Ob- Esther Edmundson Scott are working in pharmacist at Kettering Memorial Hos- Gyn. In September, 1966, they lost their Ardmore Hospital in the same city. pital, has been installed as president of youngest son, Mark. He was crushed be- 1959 Miami Valley Hospital Pharmacists As- tween two cars. She writes: "Life is so sociation, which includes hospitals of the uncertain. In view of the fact that Jose and Lea (Sepulveda) Rodriguez greater Dayton, Ohio, area. He was Christ is soon to come, we should be are living in Hialeah, Fla., where Mr. pharmacist at Madison Hospital, 1959-63 ready each moment of every day." Rodriguez is assistant chief in the X-ray and president of M.C.A.A. 1960-61. His department at Hialeah Hospital and wife, Thelma Holwegar Slater (N '53, 1955 Leah is director of in-service training Anes. '63) is working as an anesthetist Mary Jane (Sparks) West (N '55) is at three local nursing homes. They have at Mercy Hospital, Hamilton, Ohio. night supervisor at Memorial Hospital one girl and three boys. Stephen Tsao (BS '50) is in charge in Madison, Tenn. She has held that po- of special chemistry at the Washington sition since the opening of the hospital 1960 S-H lab. in July, 1965. Hilda M. (Byasee) Thurmond (Anes. 1951 Bill Grover (lab. '55) is working in '60) writes from Martin, Tenn.: "I Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Withers. Jr., came to Mad- the Blood Bank department of Washing- was married in August, 1965, to Dr. E. ison in 1949. She worked in the diet kitchen and ton S-H lab. He is secretary of the D.C. C. Thurmond, Jr., of Martin, Tenn. My studied Art under Mrs. Bertram. He Completed Society of Medical Technologists. His present work is dual, since I administer lab and part of X-ray in 1951. Mr. Withers is wife, Marilyn (M.R. '59) transcribes the anesthesia at Volunteer General presently lab and X-ray technician at Oneida Mt. dictation in the Medical Records office, Hospital here, and work with my hus- Hospital in Kentucky. He is also purchasing agent working at night. band in his office. My fond regards to for the hospital. all of you at Madison. My heart fairly Mr. Withers wrote recently with a bit of nos- 1956 swells with pride when I tell someone talgia for Madison. "We miss the 'old' Madison Don Wilson (lab. '56) is presently at where I finished Anesthesia school, and very much. We were new in the faith when we SMC finishing his Bachelor's degree. they reply with some complimentary came to Madison, and our two years there helped 1957 statement about the school and its peo- us greatly. The nature classes, under James Zieg- ple. I know that I had superior training ler. as we met at dawn, or noon, or late at night Mabyline Holloway (N '57) is now Mrs. Michael Antonetti, and is working from Mr. Bowen, and I shall always be to study the Creator, helped us draw closer to grateful." God through His handiworks. To this day, I look in the operating room at Florida S-H. forward to October. when I may again see Orion." Bertha E. Warner (El Ed. '57) Lila Moore Adams (N. '60) is working In addition to his triple duties. he has a spare- writes from Kelowna, B. C., Canada, part time as a staff nurse at Kettering time business, "Village Industries," and makes that she has retired, after teaching Memorial Hospital, and her husband, rubber stamps. He wrote recently, "I gather from English and French in Okanagan Acad- Marvin, a former student at Madison, is what I read that the Alumni Association is always emy and French in Canadian Union employed in purchasing and receiving. a little short on funds, like the rest of us. If you College. Her daughter Davina (Mrs. They have a two-year old son and also wish to start a campaign for rubber stamps, I Allen) is a former student of physi- have a nine-year-old foster son, who Page 4 Madison Survey and Alumni News was a medical research child until they home—a house instead of an apartment. LETTERS found a cure for his nephrosis. Edward works at the Frigidaire Division of General Motors, and Lolita is working Elder Felix Lorenz, C.U.C. Vittorio C. Rivera (X-ray '60) is an Felix Lorenz. former editor of the Madison artist for the Oregon State Compensa- part-time at Kettering in the nursing office. She writes, "I do enjoy the SUR- SURVEY and faculty member of Madison College tion Department and lives in Salem. for ten years, is now connected with the Depart- His wife (Betty Umali) took Medical VEY very much and appreciate the work that goes into it." ment of Religion at Columbia Union College. He Records at Madison, finishing in 1959. writes, "Reading again the October-December They have one daughter, Hydie. Ann (Shrader) Storer (N '63) lives SURVEY I noticed that The Madison School is Harold E. Iles ('60) is a teacher for in Dayton, Ohio, where she is active in available. free. I have many students here who the Georgia-Cumberland Conference in church work. She plans to work part- get very much interested in self-supporting work the church school at Ellijay, Ga. His time at Kettering soon. Her sons, John when I teach 'Prophetic Guidance and S.D.A. wife, Goldie ('59), took teacher training and Carl, are both taking piano lessons Church History' classes, and I would like to coag- at Madison. and both energetic Pathfinders. John's ulate such interests by giving them copies of this hobby is railroading Bald Carl's is Indian wonderful booklet. I am still teaching a full load 1961 lore. here in the Department of Religion at C.U.C." John Dovich (Ind. Arts '61) writes Dorothy ( Maxwell ) Hirshkorn ( N Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Herrick, Hemet, Calif. from Canada: "I am still teaching in a '63) writes from Turlock, Calif. "I am public high school in Swift Current. busy being wife, mother and R.N., too. After working together as nurses for 35 years However, this will be my last year here, I work as relief night nurse two nights in several hospitals in California, Lee and Pearl as I have accepted a call from the Gen- a week in a small 40-bed hospital. (Hill) Herrick have retired and are living in eral Conference to teach Industrial Arts Hemet, Calif. Mr. Herrick graduated from Nursing Lowell is working as an orderly three at the Vincent Hill School in Mussoorie, nights a week in the same hospital and in 1931. Mrs. Herrick wrote recently: "I am glad India, leaving North America around in the ambulance company of Turlock. there is some reason to hope the college will be the end of July, 1967. Our son Lowell Donnell, Jr., was born reopened. To so many it seemed a tragedy that it "Our family has grown somewhat closed. I am sorry about selling the farm land. Aug. 20, 1966." since we left Madison in 1961. We now Dr. Sutherland felt it would be a haven for Nash- have four children. Steven was born at 1964 ville •S.D.A.'s in the time of trouble ahead. I just Madison, while the other three are all Mary Louise Calloway (N '64) is cannot believe Madison and all the sacrifices that natives of Saskatchewan . . . The Lord's working on her B.S. degree in Nursing went into it has outlived its usefulness. I am sure work is progressing here in Swift Cur- at Walla Walla College, and expects finances or lack of finances determined Madison's fate, but having seen what our organizational rent. When we came here a few years to finish in June of 1967. ago, there was no church and only a few work has accomplished in mission work both in families as church members. Now we Glynda Howard (M.R. '64) became the U.S. and foreign fields. I feel that the powers have a new church building, a church Mrs. Lyle Means on Valentine's Day, at the head of the work should have been more school in operation, and a $500,000 nurs- 1967. She is a medical records technician understanding and charitable. After all, much of ing home nearly completed." at Boulder Memorial Hospital, Colorado. 'our' work in the South would not be there now, "I appreciate the SURVEY. It serves Her husband is employed at Ball Broth- had it not been for Madison and its vision." ers Research, Inc. Glynda wrote recent- a good link for the alumni who are scat- • "I worked with Madison nurses many years tered around the world." ly: "I do enjoy the SURVEY, as it is the only means by which I hear news of my at Harding Hospital and elsewhere, and enjoy When Gene L. Sellars (B.S. in N '61) received classmates and campus developments." seeing how some of them have continued and the certificate in physical therapy at the Univer- developed. My mother knew the first Mrs. Suther- sity of Tennessee Medical Units in Memphis, Dec. Dorothea Grotheer (B.S. '64) is as- land as a girl in Iowa—Sallie Bralliar." Mary J. 18, 1966, he had the distinction of being a grad- sistant instructor of medical technology Weber. M.D., Alhambra, Calif. uate of Tennessee's first School of Physical Ther- at the University of Mississippi School apy, a member of the first graduating class, and of Medicine in Jackson, Miss. Elder Wil- • Mrs. Irma Kelsey. former student and girls' the first Tennessean to graduate there. He re- liam H. Grotheer, former head of the preceptress of Cabin Court at Madison, sends a ceived a B.S. degree in nursing from Madison Col- Bible Department at Madison College, is SURVEY donation from Hendersonville, N.C., and lege in 1961. and was president of his class. The presently director of social services for writes: "The Madison school has had a large part following year, he received his M.S. in Public S.T.A.R. (Systematic Training and Re- in my life. May the Lord continue to bless the Health Education at L.L.U. habilitation, Inc.) He graduated from work there." Previous to attending U.T., Gene was associated A.U. in 1966, where he received his with the Middle Tennessee Heart Association for M.A. degree. Daughter Nancy, former two years, and served as nursing consultant in a Madison student and 1966 graduate of Vanishing Security of "Good Old Days" home-care stroke rehabilitation program sponsored SMC, is doing cost accounting for Mis- (At the Southern self-supporting worker's meet- by the Heart Association. He was president of the sissippi Federated Cooperatives in ing in Fletcher, October, 1966, Leland Straw read 1961 senior class at Madison College. He served in Jackson. an editorial by Ernest Lyon reprinted in the the United States Navy from 1946-57. While in 1965 Knoxville News Sentinel. Since we are sure our service he received the World War II Victory readers who believe in rural living will find it of Medal, U.N. medal. Korean conflict, with two Lloyd (Anes. '65) and Ruth (McClel- interest, we are reproducing part of it.—Editor.) battle stars, and was discharged with the rank of lan) Trivett (Anes. '64) are located in petty officer, first class. McMinnville, Tenn., where Lloyd is doing Historians of the future will say of us: "Theirs He is married to the former Virginia Davidson, anesthesia at Warren County Hospital. was the generation that saw the first jet vapor '57. daughter of Ralph Davidson, former president trails, the first blinding light of the unleashed atom. the first rockets carrying men into outer of Madison College. She is now employed with Need A Rubber Stamp? Madison Hospital as a night charge nurse. The space—and felt more insecure than ever before. Sellars have two sons. Use convenient rubber stamps at home and in Outstanding changes of modern times are: Super- your business, and at the same time help your sonic air-speed, ability to unleash the energy in 1961 Alumni Association, which will receive a commis- matter and to harness it, putting men into orbit Isabelle (Altenbrun) Hendricks (N sion of 25% on all orders sent as a result of this around the earth, sending probes to the moon and '61) is living in Shawnee, Kansas, where notice. Rubber stamp prices : one line $1.10 ; two far planets—and worrying more. her husband, Robert, is employed at the lines. $1.65; three lines, $2.20; four lines, $2.75; But the biggest change from the "good old days" Shawnee Mission Hospital as boiler op- five lines, $3.30 ; each additional line, 55c. Maxi- to the present has occurred within the lifetime of erator and in general maintenance. mum length of stamp on this offer. three inches. our citizens now in their 60's and 70's. They look Daughter Kristal Jean was born March Carter's heavy-duty felt base stamp pad, size 1, in back nostalgically to the horse and buggy, the 19, 1966. She writes, "At present I'm black, blue. or red ink. 95c when ordered at the mule and plow, the chicken flock, the family gar- retired from nursing to full-time mother same time as rubber stamp. These prices postpaid den . . . A perspicacious chronicler might say and housewife." in U.S.A. Send payment with order. Kentucky that the 20th century separated millions of Amer- orders add sales tax. Write for information on ican families from the domesticated animals and 1963 larger stamps or special stamps. Zip code should plants with which they had been so closely asso- Lolita (Townsend) Puterbaugh (Sec. be included on all address stamps, and must be ciated. That was the most radical change from the '63), husband Edward, and little "Chip" included for your order to be shipped. Send your ways of their fathers. The national insecurity, moved back to the Dayton, Ohio, area in order to Village Industries, Oneida. Kentucky, which so many have noted, may well be traced to October, 1966, and into their first real 40972. Say you saw the offer in the SURVEY. the fact that most families have long been cut off January-March, 1967 Page 5 from the only real security known to man for ages DR. BLANCHE NOBLE BEAKLEY LULU V. GREGORY past—a direct link with the soil and ownership of Dr. Blanche Noble. former student. teacher, Lulu Gregory, wife of the late Dr. A. L. Greg- the creatures which provided meat, milk. eggs. and worker. and physician at Madison for twelve years. ory, died Sept. 17, 1966, in the Cumberland Mt. transportation. died of pneumonia at Glendale Adventist Hospital. Rest Home. Coalmont. Tenn. She was the daughter Poverty Is Dependence March 1. of Elder and Mrs. Corliss. pioneer workers in Miss Mary More gives the following informa- the United States and Australia. Dr. and Mrs. The ultimate insecurity is not knowing where tion regarding her longtime close friend: "Blanche Gregory spent seven years in medical mission work your next meal is coming from. now magnified by came to Madison in 1915 and took the nurses' in Brazil, and more than forty years in Central the fact that a constant flow of money must come course while working for Dr. Sutherland and America. chiefly in Honduras. Dr. Gregory died in in to buy the productive efforts of others. . . . Miss DeGrew, finishing in 1918. She and John 1949. Mrs. Gregory returned to the States. and Poverty is not a new word—but it has acquired BrownsVerger and Elsie Peterson (whom he later made her home at Madison for a time. The Greg- a new meaning—dependence. The squalor and pov- married) became very useful and important figures orys had no children of their own. but reared erty of the cities have always been with us, but on the Madison campus. She and Elsie both took nine girls and one boy. One of the girls is Ivy now there are also the rural poor, small-town the nurses' course. besides teaching about every- Carrie. wife of Van Baldwin Jackson, who got poor, mountaineer poor—all facing "instant pov- thing that needed to be taught. his B.S. in Agriculture at Madison College in 1957. erty" if their money is cut off. "During World War I. 1917-19, when most of Mrs. Jackson attended Madison two years, and is No one was absolutely poor who had his own the men were gone. she and Elsie ran the farm an L.P.N. food supply and could "make do" with his own and raised everything the school family ate but AUGUSTA EZELLE BAIRD hands. That's why most Americans have admira- flour and sugar. In 1920 she and the Brownsber- tion for the independent Amish of Pennsylvania. Augusta Ezelle Baird was born in 1916 at Big gers went to Loma Linda, where Blanche and Dr. who cling to the old secure ways of making the Rock, Tenn.. and died at Madison Hospital, Feb. John graduated in 1924. In 1925 she interned at earth be fruitful. There is no poverty among the 4. 1967. Mrs. Baird completed her nurses' training the Protestant (now Baptist) Hospital in Nash- Amish and no juvenile delinquent problem. at Madison College in 1938, and later entered into ville. She then connected with the Madison Sani- military service as an Army Nurse in 1942. She Gardens Gone Too tarium, as lady doctor. She drew the plans for all was with the 47th General Hospital in World When the cackle of the hen faded in our small the covered arcades that used to connect the var- War II, staffed with S.D.A. doctors and nurses. towns and countryside . . . when the garden patch ious cottages of the sanitarium. and the plans With a second lieutenant rating. she served in no longer supplied a good part of the larder, we for the main administration building. New Guinea. and other places in the South slid deeper. We have changed from the most inde- "Dr. Noble was married about 1929 to Dr. Benn Pacific. After World War II she completed her pendent people in the world to the most depend- Nicola of the famous Nicola family of College tour of duty in 1946 with the rating of first lieu- ent. . . . View. Dr. E. A. Sutherland performed the cere- tenant. She received several medals, the bronze The real poverty is the universal substitution of mony on the porch of Miss DeGraw's cottage near star. silver star. and three overseas service bars. dependence for independence. When we cut our the present library. Dr. Nicola connected with She worked at Madison Hospital from 1948-51, ties with the earth and the animals. we gained Madison for several years. Then they went to then at Veterans Hospital in Nashville, and then many glittering things at the price of vexations. California into private practice. After his death returned to Madison Hospital. where she worked worries and a haunting question: "What will we she married Mr. Beakley, who died a year later. as a supervising nurse from 1960 until her recent do if the money runs out?" Inflation bothers us She was still practicing in North Hollywood. illness. more than whether it's going to be a good year Calif., when she was injured in a car wreck on Survivors are two sons. Douglas and Bruce, who for crops. Dec. 25, 1966. Two brothers survive--Harry Noble. are enrolled in Madison Academy. and her mother. of North Hollywood. a former Madison student. Mrs. Nettie Ezelle. who lived with her since 1947. and Loren Noble of Yucaipa." She was buried in National Military Cemetery. Beckner-Brock Wedding Of interest to the present editor of the SURVEY Nashville. Dr. Blanche wrote sometime ago: "As an English Janet Beckner, daughter of Elder and teacher. and in charge of the workers in the Baird Memorial Fund Mrs. H. R. Beckner, married Paul Brock print'rp. office, I helped print the first MADISON on February 16, 1967, at the Wee Kirk SURVEY. I had charge of the printing office In past issues of the SURVEY,41we spoke of our of the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial during George B. McClure's absence in World Memorial Scholarship fund and our Book of Re- Park in Glendale, Calif. Janet is a regis- War I." membrance. listing those who have memorialized tered nurse, formerly on the staff of LENA HOLDER GEE loved ones and the names of those memorialized. Following the death of Mrs. Augusta Baird, a Madison Hospital. The Brocks have their Word has come that Lena Holder Gee (N'64) memorial fund was set up to assist her two sons home in Long Beach. was in an auto accident and died February 6. Her in their education. The response has been good husband. Glen. had just been employed by the from her classmates. fellow-workers. and friends. Florida S-H Inhalation Therapy Department. and The amount of $550 has been received. $100 of Fellemende-Jasperson Wedding was en route there from Pensacola when the which was donated by V.A. accident occurred. Glen received very little injury. Florence Fellemende ('47), secretary- If there are others who would like to donate They returned to Pensacola where she was hos- treasurer of the Layman Foundation, money to this fund through the M.C.A.A., we will pitalized. She had fractures of the lower limbs. and A.A. Jasperson, president of the give a receipt. which is income tax deductible. All and it was thought she would have a lengthy Foundation, were married by Elder R. names (but not the amount) will be written in convalescence. but none seemed prepared for the M. Ruf in the Little Creek School chapel our Memorial Book under Mrs. Baird's name. The sudden turn for the worst. culminating in her Feb. 26, 1967. They will continue to re- money is being placed in a separate fund to draw death. She is buried in Orlando. Glen is continu- side on the Madison campus. interest. She expressed herself sometime before ing his work at Florida S.H. she died, that her great desire was to live until M.C.A.A. OFFICERS her boys got their education. This was not possi- • We invite Madisonites to visit the Alumni ble. How pleased she would be to know of this President E. E. Schlenker '42 Vice-President John Williams '59 Office when passing through or visiting in Nash- Memorial which has been set up for them by her Treasurer Vera Jensen '46 ville and vicinity. We are open every day but many friends. Send donations to Madison College Assistant Treasurer William V. Campbell '56 Sabbath. Alumni Association. Madison, Tenn., 37115. Executive Secretary Mable H. Towery Assistant Secretary Yvonne Danner '63 Assistant Secretary Dorothy Mathews '37 9 Board Members: Edythe S. Cothren '47 and 1:S1S CIS *LIG "c1 S Bernard Bowen '56 1:10 4 4.A. qo-clit 3 043 • 1.10 ,A.9:17P4si The Madison Survey and KO, -\.S 9 kWer Alumni News 91- V.Ft 9 Madison, Tennessee. 37115 January-March, 1967 Editor, Mable H. Towery Subscription Price, $1.00 a year Published Quarterly by Madison College Alumni Association Second Class postage paid at Madison. Tenn. RETURN REQUESTED