Vol. 50 Madison, Tennessee, 37115, July-September, 1968 No. 3

32 College Students Arrive Academy. Mary Kate Gafford is a part- 58th Southern Self-Supporting On Madison Campus time worker in the library, chiefly as a Convention at Madison cataloger of books. Thirty-two SMC sophomores, who have The annual Southern Self-Supporting Mrs. Wilma Chaffee, formerly assis- registered for class work on the Madison tant director of food services at Georgia- Campus were presented in a recognition Workers Convention will be held at Madison this year. The date had been Cumberland Academy, is a part-time service September 15. The service was worker at the school cafeteria and in the held in the Sutherland Memorial Chapel set for Nov. 21-23, but as we go to press, word comes that this has to be changed. hospital cafeteria. A hot meal is served of Madison Hospital. Thirty of these at noon in Williams Hall on school days students have enrolled in the second One of the speakers will be Elder C. H. Lauda, new president of the ASI. for elementary and academy students. year of the Associate Degree nursing Charles Hessler, formerly academy ac- program. Two Medical Record Tech- Those planning to attend should write countant, is now treasurer, and teaches nology students are taking the second the secretary of the convention, Mrs. bookkeeping. year of their course at Madison Hospital. Florence Jasperson, Box 1272, Madison Speaker for the recognition service was Paul Casler is head of academy main- College, Tenn., 37115. Many Madisonites tenance. His wife Mary is director of Elder E. E. Duncan, ministerial and P.R. were disappointed in not being able to secretary of the Kentucky-Tennessee social service at the hospital. The Caslers attend Homecoming this year. Now is came from Fitchburg, Mass. Conference. your second chance to come back and en- The Madison Campus nursing faculty joy a good meeting and see many old for 1968-9 consists of the following: Mrs. friends. Alumni Weekend, June 21, 22 Brenda Riley, acting coordinator of in- struction and instructor in psychiatric "A Time of Remembrance and nursing; Miss Maxine Page, instructor A picture of the new class will appear Sentiment" in the next SURVEY. in medical-surgical nursing; Mrs. Joan Theme: " "Es Almost Time" Wilson and Mrs. Sharon Redman, teach- ing assistants. Mrs. Hazel Kramer is Madison Academy Report It was the greatest Homecoming yet, registrar, and Mrs. Frankie Gepford is Madison Academy opened as a day just about perfect, except for the hot, office secretary and financial director. humid weather. This was the first time Mrs. Linda Pumphrey, R.N., is the school September 2, with an enrollment of 173, only a few less than as a boarding the event was held during vacation time, dean of nurses. Her husband is the Bible and it really paid off. It was a wonderful teacher of Madison Academy. J. Paul academy last year. This is the largest day academy in the Southern Union, and weekend in point of attendance, interest, Landa, studying for his doctorate in and program. Over 260 registered. They Church History at Vanderbilt University, has the third largest enrollment of all academies in the Southern Union. New came from far and near-3 from Cali- teaches the two Bible courses, Prophetic fornia, two from Canada, two from Gift and Personal Evangelism. Miss faculty members are Don Keele, Robert F. Pumphrey, and Albert Hamilton. Mexico. 18 states were represented. Elizabeth Cowdrick is librarian. The following came from out-of-state: Mr. and Seventy-four have enrolled this year at Mr. Keele, new principal of the day Mrs. George Cothren, Alabama; Alberta Yates Collegedale for the first year of the academy, was principal of the church Randolph. Zoetta Nichols Hauser. Anna Sorenson Associate Degree program in nursing school for the past two years. After came across the continent from California; from and 15 more are taking general educa- graduating from SMC, he was boys' dean the Carolinas came William Bumby. Mr. and Mrs. tion courses, anticipating enrolling in the at Highland Academy, principal of Co- T. C. Lowder, Mr. and Mrs. Bernhard Jensen; A.D. program in September, 1969. Al- lumbia Junior Academy in South Caro- Mr. and Mrs. Ben Brost and James Culpepper though some are taking the courses in lina, and boys' dean of Madison Academy. registered from Colorado; Mr. and Mrs. Larry three years, and others' plans will He and his wife Della, have three chil- Cheever. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ward. Carlos change during the year, it is expected dren. Alvin Morford, math and science Quevedo and family from Florida; Thomas Brown- that between fifty and sixty will be on teacher, is assistant principal and super- ing, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Weeks. Dr. 0. C. the Madison Campus next year. visor of janitor work. Meissner and family, Dr. Wm. H. Harp and The SMC A.D. program received full Mr. Pumphrey, a graduate of SMC, family. Ward Shaw and family, from Georgia; accreditation from the National League heads the Bible department. Formerly Mr. and yr, &bert Hendricks, Mr. and Mrs. for Nursing in December, 1967. It is one he taught one year in a self-supporting Willis A daia . NIES 144/thi ITeEzieL4EtAft'hidd of two A.D. programs in SDA schools to academy at Winter Haven Vocational daughterAtiti=vLane tucky; Dr. John ipen- receive accreditation; of the 75 A.D. School (formerly Waccamaw Institute) cer, Ra tAIN n4.1* VE Ras, 'TV nursing programs in the South, this in Bolton, N.C., and has been engaged Grant Tow otipo Efrvini#,tc(3101i Ft jam school was the fifth to be accredited. in district pastor work in Dunlap, Tenn. Massachusetts; Alfred Peterson findv'fantiVIllice Giraduates from the previous two The Pumphreys and little Melanie Dawn Hecox DignamlikLWAGEon RSOMfOr from classes have scored high in State Board live in the new nurses' dorm, where Mrs. Michigan; Gertrude Scheible. Frank IrohUx from examinations, their grades being well Pumphrey is dean. Mr. Hamilton is Missouri; Ethel Overdorf from Mississippi; Mr. above the national average. SMC's A.D. ..p.bysical education teacher and library and Mrs. Norman Anderson from Nebraska; Mr. course in nursing is a successful, grow- superviwrenVor as dean of and Mrs. Godfrey Duran, Corrine Friend from ing program. boys atriO4,1t-T-atkiAcadeY- and Mrs. Maurice Culpepper from m anircippiEmitAkir trPaNDRiws Po+ UNIVERSITY I DRYS Rhode Island; Thelma Watkins and daughter Dr. Knittel, Speaker at Church Emogene McBride from Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dr. Frank Knittel, academic dean of Bondranko from Virginia. SMC, delivered the sermon at the two CONSECRATION SERVICE. The con- preaching services Sabbath morning. His secration service Friday evening was subject was "The Christian and Educa- conducted under the chairmanship of tion," based on Col. 2:3. "In whom Vera Jensen '46, then vice-president of [Christ] are hid all the treasures of the M.C.A.A., and welcoming remarks wisdom and knowledge." He spoke of were made by Paul Blankenship '58, the role that Madison College had played alumni president. in the field of education. There was a time when the college had a national Message from reputation, when people came from many Bessie DeGraw Sutherland places to see Madison. As a result of the The audience was thrilled to hear a article about Madison in the Reader's recording from Bessie DeGraw Suther- Digest, "Self-Supporting College," by land, taken in her home by Bernard Weldon Melick, May, 1938, hundreds of Left. Oil portrait of Bessie DeGraw Sutherland. Bowen several years ago at Homecoming students applied for entrance, attracted unveiled at Homecoming. time, May 17, 1962, when she was no to the idea of working their way through. Right. Davidson Sisters singing Friday evening longer able to attend meetings. The first Dr. Knittel mentioned three factors in at Homecoming. part of the message was as follows: the success of Madison: Confidence of "It has been some time since I have faced the the leaders; eagerness of the students; not be held on Saturday night. Thus the Alumni Association of Madison College. but as and commitment on the part of the staff. enlarged plan of a potluck fellowship always, I am very glad to look you in the face. These three factors were fully developed dinner at Williams Hall cafeteria came Possibly it is my privilege to be the first and as the audience sat in rapt attention. into being and seemed to be a suitable the oldest one on the campus who has this op- There was so much interest that many substitute. portunity. If I were to go back in your history wanted a copy of the whole sermon. Dr. Alumni In Action and mine, it would bring before you a large Knittel has furnished the SURVEY Sabbath afternoon, Bernard Bowen, number of people who have lived their lives and office with a copy. Due to lack of space chairman, read a telegram from Dr. and have been laid to rest. It's a long. long time since we are not reproducing it here, but plan Mrs. Dale Putnam ('28 & '32) who sent I first saw the first students here. I have a picture to do it later if not published elsewhere. regrets from Kettering Hospital that of the first student who came here." She did not An unusual and enjoyable feature of they could not be present for Homecom- give the name of the first student. the Sabbath morning service was a vio- ing. They had planned to come. Mrs. UNVEILING OF PORTRAIT. Taking loncello solo by Oscar Meissner, D.D.S. Marion Simmons '43 sent a cablegram the place of awarding a plaque to an '40. The cello itself was made by Dr. from Singapore, where she had just honor alumnus this year, an oil portrait Meissner; the composition, "Longing for joined the Far Eastern Division staff: of Bessie DeGraw Sutherland, former Jesus," was written by him; and he ac- "Greetings from Singapore to Alumni "Queen of the Campus," was unveiled by companied himself, by means of a previ- assembled." Duke Sutherland, son of Dr. and Mrs. ous recording, so that the rendition of Many other alumni wrote or tele- Joe Sutherland, after Dr. Sutherland the number seemed to be that of a duet phoned their regrets and greetings. From spoke a few words. The portrait was a rather than a solo. the Class of 1943: Adolph Johnson '43 gift to the M.C.A.A. from the Druillard SABBATH SCHOOL. Sabbath School from Pine Forest Academy, Chunky, Trust, and is now hanging in the was conducted by Esther Kendall (MCA Miss.; Todi Shinkawa '43 from Hawaii; Druillard Library alongside two other '31), general superintendent, and Doyle Gladys Parmley '43 from Cortez, Colo.; worthies in Madison's great history—Dr. Martin '43, superintendent for the day. Lt. Col. Isabelle Miller '43 from Phoenix, E. A. Sutherland and Nellie H. Druillard. Craig Meissner, son of Lydia Jo '43 and Ariz. Mabyn "Hessie" Gillin '43 and Following the unveiling 23 names of Oscar Meissner, D.D.S. '40, played a Norma Kiger Sufficool '43 wrote letters. those laid to rest since last Homecoming trombone solo. The following from the early classes were read, and a white carnation was The lesson study was ably presented wrote letters, from which news items placed upon a memorial cross for each. by F. Lincoln Millet '28, writer and were gleaned, and will appear in this or A ladies quartet composed of the David- A.U.C. archivist from Lancaster, Mass., future issues: Elizabeth Bowen '19, Elsie son Sisters (Virginia Sellars '57, June a man who is deeply interested in Madi- Peterson Brownsberger '18, Gola Morgan Schmale '61, Joan Rouse, and Ann Petty) son and its history. Closing the service Bryan '25, Vera Dortch Honeycutt '17, sang, "We'll Talk It Over." The congre- was a duet by the two charming daugh- Elizabeth Koppel '25, George McClure gation then stood in silent tribute of ters of Emmett '56 and Margaret '42 '29, Dora Mountain '25, Mable Robinson honor while taps were sounded for those Pierce—Patricia and Margaret Rose. '20, Elizabeth Rush '21, Norma Kiger who had passed on. In the missions feature Bill and Roby Sufficool '43, Christene Jensen Sargent Elder E. E. Duncan, ministerial and (Hirst) Sherman reenacted an ambu- '26, Jeanette Sego '27, Mary Mowry public relations secretary of the Ken- lance scene, carrying in a small patient Wilson '28, Edith Winquist '27. Harry tucky-Tennessee Conference, was the (Judy Hartgrove) into a clinic in Central and Edna Wilson '27 called briefly at the guest speaker Friday evening. He spoke America. Bill recounted the beginning of alumni office the day Homecoming was of the men and women of faith who Yerba Buena Hospital, Chiapas, Mexico, to start, but deeply regretted that work started the Madison institution on carved out from the jungle ten years ago commitments forced them to go back to hallowed ground over sixty years ago. by Ray and Marie Comstock. The "ambu- Dunlap, Tenn. He drew a parallel of the world as we lance" was made from a chair strapped Next came the feature, "Alumni in find it today with conditions prior to to Dick Graves' back. Patients are Action," in which a number of Madi- Christ's coming. carried many miles through the jungle sonites present were called on to come to When the right time was come, God in these "chair ambulances." Dick is the the front and tell of their location, work, sent His son. (Gal. 4:4) How long will son of Dr. Harold Graves '32, and he and experiences. God's people delay in finishing the told of his father's work in Guatamala, Roger Goodge, teacher and hospital work? Gross darkness covers the earth. where he plans to go back soon. administrator at Little Creek, and re- How much darker must it get? People FELLOWSHIP DINNER. Following cently elected president of The Layman everywhere are looking for a way out the second church service, a bountiful Foundation, was the first to speak. "Dr. of the world dilemma. When will we and delicious potluck dinner was served Sutherland and Mrs. Scott came to finish the work of the pioneers of this at the school cafeteria in Williams Hall. Evansville, Indiana, where our family institution? Am I, are you, going to go The large dining room was full and run- was living and interested us in coming through with it? Reference was made to ning over with alumni and their friends to Madison. We moved into the house an editorial in the Review and Herald. as they ate and fellowshiped together. next to Miss DeGraw. I grew up here One of the editors said what startled It was not realized at first in the graduating from the college in 1937. him most was the fact that SDA's seem planning stage, but after the date for "Some of the objectives of The Lay, not to be startled by the tremendous Homecoming had been finally set, some- man Foundation and units are rural events taking place all around them. one pointed out that we had selected the living; adherence to principles of health; We must arouse ourselves and ask God longest day in the year—June 21. As the small institutions, manned by more SDA to take away our sinfulness, our committee thought it over we knew that workers; dignity of labor and sense of lethargy. sunset would be so late a banquet could personal responsibility; raising own food; Page 2 Madison Survey & Alumni News a balanced program—physical, mental, and was present at Homecoming. After Larry and Lois Cheever, Winter Park, and spiritual. Are these objectives im- ten years the Tolles sold that home and Florida, both took the nurses' course, portant today? bought the Island Terrace Nursing Home finishing in 1951. Larry took anesthesia, "The Layman Foundation was founded in Lakeville, Mass., and have been there and worked at Pewee Valley a short time, in 1924 [twenty years after 1904, when ten years. then went to Savannah, Tenn., for sev- Madison was started]. It fostered rural Alvada Voss Peterson '43 and husband eral years. "I was really there for soul- education in the South. Most of the Alfred came and brought five of their winning," he said. His brother, Warren, units have received help. Ten institutions seven children, including daughter Bev- called several times, urging him to come are now affiliated. Just lost out on build- erly, who is taking LPN at Takoma to Florida and work with him. The ing $600,000 unit at Pewee Valley. A Hospital. They brought their bedding family moved to Florida, and the Cheever stronger work is being launched at and stayed in Williams Hall. Alvada is brothers have been doing anesthesia in Harbert Hills and other places. We must a charge nurse at Gratiot Community St. Cloud, Kissimee, and Apopka. Larry's help finish the work the founders Hospital in Alma, Mich. Her sister, wife, Lois, said, "Madison is the only started." Dorothy Voss, is a graduate of Madison place that would have my heart." The Doyle Martin had the distinction of also. editor chatted with Lois after the busi- being president of both honor classes of Corrine Friend '43 went into the Army ness meeting at the very end of the 1943—college and nursing. Later he for a while after leaving Madison. She program. She said how happy she was finished anesthesia in 1952, and is now has been doing industrial nursing in the that Homecoming was held during vaca- living in Portland, Tenn., and doing steel mills (Dayton Steel Foundry) at tion so they could come. (They had left anesthesia. He spoke of the death of Dayton, Ohio, since 1954. She has given their four children at Lawrenceburg with Dr. and Mrs. A. W. McCorkle's 22-year- more time to volunteer work than any her sister.) In reply, the matter of heat old Donna Jo, killed in an auto accident, other industrial nurse in the Dayton was mentioned as the only disadvantage. and read part of a letter from Dr. area. From 1954 to 1966 she worked in Then Lois replied, "We can suffer a McCorkle, with the striking title, "May Red Cross emergency aid, providing first little with the weather, but this is the I share a blessing ?" (The McCorkles aid at the Montgomery County Fair, at only way we can get here, and we love were sponsors of the honor (nursing) football games, parades, and other func- to come." class of '42, and have been located in tions. During the flood disaster in south Anna Sorenson said she had had more Hialeah, Florida, for some time where Dayton in 1964, she administered first blessings than any one here. When she the doctor is on the medical staff.) aid at the emergency shelters. In 1965 came to Madison, they said, "That girl Josephine (Mattson) Bengston '43 did she was awarded a ten-year Red Cross can't take nurses' training." (But she did for the alumni office this year what Volunteer Service Award Pin. At present and got the highest grade in the class on Dorothy Harp did last year. She wrote she devotes much time to helping Junior State Board.—Editor) She had planned all her classmates and urged them to Achievement. Corrine is, like her name, to go to Africa with the N. C. Wilson attend Homecoming. She finished nurs- a true friend of Madison. Recently she family, but went to Lawrenceburg Sani- ing in '43, had a tour in the Navy, used. sent lifetime dues. tarium to work. She came back to the GI Bill and got into anesthesia. She Forest Pride '47 started out with the Madison for a week of prayer, and lost has been doing anesthesia in several class of '43, but after one month of one of her legs in a car accident on the hospitals in Tennessee and Alabama, and nurses' training, the Army took him, and way back. After working at Lawrence- is now located in Fayetteville, Tenn. he was overseas 37 months. He came burg eleven years, she went to California Gertrude Scheible '43, St. Louis, went back to Madison, spent six months in the and was a charge nurse at Campbell on to the University of Missouri and pharmacy under George Cothren. He Sanitarium in Belmont for twenty-four worked on her degree. She was on the went to Tallahassee, Florida to work in years. She had very poor eyesight, and nursing staff at the Shriners' Hospital Forsythe Memorial Hospital. Guy Wil- moved to Half Moon Bay, Calif., where for Crippled Children eight years. Urged liamson had asked him to come for three she recently had a marvelous operation to go back into Public Health, she stayed months, and he stayed three years. He on her eyes and received a donated with Public Health eight years, took a decided to come back to Madison, finished cornea, which restored much of her year in residence, and spent one year in college in 1947, and anesthesia in 1952 sight. Miss Sorenson concluded by saying a college in St. Louis. ShChlid a desire (in Mr. Bowen's second class). r He she would never be able to repay her to give a year of volunteer work and had worked at Hinsdale a short time, arid at debt to Madison. an opportunity to go to Germany and Hialeah eight years. He is now at Zoetta (Nichols) Hauser '28, Lodi, work in the Doxner Mission, where she Greeneville, Tenn. with William Cush- Calif., came to Madison in 1924, and took started an infirmary. She has done spe- man '55, doing anesthesia at three hos- the nurses' course. She worked in the cial teaching for the St. Louis Board of pitals. Forrest's wife, Margaret (N '45) Vegetarian Cafeteria in Nashville. She Education. is a sister of Dr. Lelon Bull, who married has been on the nursing staff of the old John R. Spencer '43 graduated from Lois McCurry '49. Son Steve, a graduate Wichita (Kansas) Sanitarium, Porter, the nursing course at Madison in 1943, of Madison Academy, is now married and Glendale and the White, and at one time and got his M.D. at Loma Linda in 1953. works in the accounting department at was school nurse at WWC. More recently He went into the Army and served in Takoma Hospital, Greeneville. she has been working in a nursing home Italy. He is now a physician at Burtons- Godfrey and Gladys Duran ('55 & '56) in Lodi, Calif., where she lives. Her ville, Md., in the D.C. area, and is the are both at Kettering Memorial Hospital, husband, Jacob Hauser, a nurseryman, doctor who answers questions under Dayton, Ohio. He is emergency room died in 1965. "The Family Physician" in Life and supervisor. She is director of nursing Alumni Scholarship Awards Health. He was accompanied by his Aunt service. At this 16 million dollar, 400 Bertha and Uncle Ray at Homecoming. bed hospital, 188 nurses are employed, The alumni scholarship was presented during "Again I want to say how happy I am and 90-100 patients a day are admitted. the afternoon meeting to Teresa Carris. a Madison that I got my start at Madison," said "Kettering is a tribute to SDA nursing." Academy graduate this year, who will begin the Dr. Spencer. Mrs. Duran stated. "It was a gift from A.D. nursing course this fall at SMC. Teresa's Elfa Edmister '43 graduated from the the Ketterings, who were deeply im- mother. Dorothy Carris, is a Medical Records nursing course in 1943, and again in 1944 pressed with the dedication and work of graduate of 1964. and is a secretary in Dr. H. F. with a B.S. She worked with Dr. Lester our hospitals." The Durans.love Madison Evans' office. Littell at the Cumberland Heights Clinic, and are regular attendants at Home- Sometime ago the alumni board voted to give a Coalmont, Tenn. She got her Master's at coming. scholarship to a student in a self-supporting Emory University in 1963, and is now institution. The following note was received from Godfrey teaching Public Health Nursing at SMC. and Gladys Duran after they returned to Ketter- A scholarship of $100 was awarded to Roby Ann "I find teaching very rewarding," she ing: "Mr. Duran and I both want to express to Sherman, who has completed the A.D. Nursing said. you our sincerest appreciation for all your hard Course on the Madison Campus. and will soon work. loyal spirit. and dedication to the Madison be going back to Yerba Buena Hospital in Chiapas, Lucille Tolles '43 and her husband, Alumni. You have done much to pull the alumni Grant '42 spent most of the time since together and to deepen school loyalties, and I Mexico, as a teacher in nursing classes. leaving Madison in nursing home work fear too often we tend to take you for granted. Scholarship funds have come largely through in Massachusetts. They took over the We were pleased with all we saw at Madison and memorial gifts from alumni members and friends Middleboro Sanitarium in Massachusetts enjoyed Homecoming so much. Madison holds of Madison. most of whom memorialized names such dear and tender memories for us. Thanks so of relatives and friends. We invite our readers from Captain and Mrs. Hirst, parents many times for making our alumni have greater of Roby Hirst Sherman, who had just meaning to each other and to the dear old to contribute to the fund. Such gifts are income graduated from the A.D. Nursing Course school." tax deductible. September, 1968 Page 3 Wilderness Survival by William V. Campbell, and discussion were asked to share in the cost with the of future plans. Refreshments were fur- Layman Foundation, Laymen's Exten- Elder and Mrs. Jack Darnall have been nished by two past presidents, Edythe sion League, and Druillard Trust in greatly interested in wilderness survival Cothren '47 and Bernard Bowen '56 and erecting the m e m o r i a 1. Donations for some years, and have been conduct- Mrs. Bowen '50. through the M.C.A.A. are tax deductible. ing survival seminars. They have pro- Ballots were passed around, and the duced a color movie designed to promote following slate of officers and board Introducing New M.C.A.A. Officers getting out and enjoying the wilderness, members were elected for 1968-9: Vera Our new president. Miss Vera Jensen '46, has and giving valuable instruction on how Jensen '46, president; Otis Detamore '58, been teaching in Stratton Elementary School in to live there in summer and winter. The vice-president; Duane Brown '64, treas- Madison since 1953. She has worked on the Darnalls believe in learning by doing. urer; Florence F. Jasperson, '47, assis- campus during summers in the college and hos- In their seminars they go out and live tant treasurer; Mable H. Towery (hon- pital offices. and also has taken classes at Pea- largely off the land, gathering and eat- orary), executive secretary and cus- body, working on her Ed.D. She has given valuable ing edible wild plants, building and todian; Katherine Marshall '37, Frances help on the M.C.A.A. board in various capacities living in primitive shelters, practicing Winters '61, and Edith Johnson '58, as- since 1965. mountain rescue, and related activities. sistant secretaries; Paul Blankenship '58, Vice-president for the current year is Otis In light of the above, the program com- Edythe Cothren, '47, Bernard Bowen' 56, Detamore. who finished nurses' training at Madi- mittee asked Elder Darnall, director of William V. Campbell '53; and Gene Sel- son in 1958 and came back in 1967 to begin survival seminars for the Kentucky- lars '61, board members. anesthesia. His wife is the former Marion Russell Tennessee Conference, to speak and show and they have three children. Prior to returning his film at Homecoming. Treasurer's Report for 1967 to Madison the Detamores operated the 85-bed "Let's go survivaling," Elder Darnall William V. Campbell gave the treas- Duff Nursing Home at Dunn Loring, Va., and challenged the audience. "It's fun now urer's report. At the end of 1967 we before that Otis was assistant supervisor of the and may save your life later." He pro- had $221.63 in our checking account at Psychiatric ward at the University of Virginia ceeded by lecture and film to catch the First American Bank, for operating Hospital in Charlottesville. Va. attention of his listeners. Those who at- expenses. We had $200.70 in our savings Duane Brown. an accountant with Knight and tend the seminars and study the manual account at the same bank, which was Davidson, is our new treasurer. He took account- learn how to recognize and use edible being held as memorial scholarship ing classes at Madison 1961-4, and has been wild plants, how to move the injured, funds. Operating expenses paid out dur- attending U.T. Extension School at night, work- signal for help, build fires, etc. Culti- ing the year 1967: MADISON SURVEY ing on his C.P.A. After that he plans to start vated plants are only a small part of the & ALUMNI NEWS, $896.81; clerical on a course in law. His wife Lona (Pownall) is 2,000 edible plants. The speaker told help, $714.00; Homecoming Expense, a graduate of Madison Academy, 1968. how to identify edible greens, poisonous $300; telephone ($15 a month), $180; Katherine (Beck) Marshall '37 is one of the and edible mushrooms and berries. "All flowers, $38; supplies, $22.16. Total new assistant secretaries. She took Dietetics at blue and black berries are edible," he $2,150.57. Madison and was in charge of the san kitchen said, "but leave white berries alone. Dr. Gant Speaks to Alumni at Madison in 1937, and later in charge of the Some red are good." . . . school cafeteria at Pine Forest Academy. After "Outdoor living and nature study have Dr. and Mrs. Julian Gant, honor mem- that she assisted her husband in evangelistic and become very popular in the world today. bers of the M.C. alumni, were present pastoral work at various places, conducting cook- As in many things, we Adventists are a for the business meeting, and he was ing schools and demonstrations. From 1960-1 she little late in promoting this program of invited to speak. The Gants have several was food director at Madison College cafeteria, learning to live in the wilderness. . . . thousand acres of land on the Cumber- and is now a diet aide in the Madison Hospital What will happen in the days ahead? land Plateau in Tennessee. For some diet kitchen. The next sign will be the Sunday laws— time Dr. Gant has had a dream to start One of our new assistant secretaries, Frances a sign to leave the cities for the smaller a work or an institution on the college Winters, received her B.S. degree in elementary towns. The cities are a dangerous place level to train lay members. Our laity education at Madison College in 1961. and her to live in. It is ten times harder today should be trained so they can be mis- Master's degree at M.T.S.U. in Murfreesboro in to raise children in the cities. If Dr. sionaries in their community, and support 1964. where she graduated as an honor student. Sutherland were here today, he'd be themselves by making use of their skills She has taught in public schools in Tennessee for tempted to say, 'I told you to get out of and professions. This training should twenty-seven years, and is starting her ninth the cities.' If anyone hasn't got the mes- also prepare them to get out of the large year as a teacher in the Greenbrier Elementary sage, he must be blind and deaf and cities. He feels that something should School this fall. During the summer and on dumb. Now is a good time to get out. be done to carry out the basic principles weekends she works on the nursing staff at There will be Sunday laws that later will upon which Madison was established— Madison Hospital. She is a member of T.E.A., have more teeth. We will have to move the dignity of labor; importance of the M.T.E.A., P.T.A. and holds life membership in out farther and farther, then to secluded soil and proper cultivation; importance the N.E.A. She is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, places among the mountains. We should of our bodies as temples of God; making a national honor society in education. Mrs. learn how to make a garden and grow our lives a testimony to the character of Winters has two sons—Tony, a teacher in West our own food. The Lord has given us God. The original Madison concept still Nashville Junior High School, and James, a time to learn true survival." lives in the hearts of many men and chemist for Armour Fertilizer Chemical Co., VESPERS. The vesper service con- women. Atlanta, Ga. Both sons are married. Her husband, sisted of organ music by Frances Dittes, THE MADISON SURVEY and alumni G. C. Winters, is an employee of Elk Valley a violin solo by her brother David, and office invites those with similar views, Truck Lines, Nashville. meditations by Elder Herbert Broeckel, those who would like to see such a plan developed, to write the alumni office, pastor of the Bordeaux Church. Our age New Gymnasium Underway is an age of crisis, he stated. The times expressing your opinion and telling in The new gymnasium is underway after a we have preached about are here. Signs what way you could help, and what you setback in time due to necessary revision of plans. of the end are swiftly fulfilling. would be willing to do. Footings and pillars have been poured. Ernest Saturday Night Program "A storm is coming, relentless in its Anderson, Building Trades teacher, is construction Wallace Blair '50 acted as chairman of fury," Dr. Gant said. "Some day the superintendent, and his class is working on the preachers can't preach, and the pub- the Saturday night meeting. Elder 0. L. building as a part of their classwork. lishers can't publish. We need a training Heinrich, P.R. director of the Southern 18 L.P.N.'s get Pins and Caps Union, presented "A New Sound in the school to train in all levels. If our pro- fessional and business men could get Eighteen students of Practical Nursing have South," a three-projector multiscreen completed their training at Madison Hospital. spectacular portraying the rapid growth together and crystalize and coordinate, something could be done in a short time." The course was directed by Vocational Education of Adventist work in the South. The in Metro Schools and financed by the Manpower South is perhaps the fastest growing Founders' Memorial Act. All 18 were pinned by Miss Naomi Gowan, area in the U.S. today. The three pro- A founders' memorial is to be erected director of nursing service, Madison Hospital. The jectors were synchronized with taped on the Madison campus in honor of Dr. 17 women in the class were capped by Thelma narration and background music. E. A. Sutherland and the other founders Pitt '62. their instructor. There was one young OFFICERS ELECTED. After the pic- who came to Madison in 1904 and man in the class, Bill Sherman. The ceremony tures, a goodly number of alumni mem- pioneered the establishment of an edu- took place in the Sutherland Memorial Chapel bers gathered in Williams Hall for elec- cational and medical institution that was Sept. 19, 1968. Elder E. L. Marley gave the tion of new officers, treasurer's report destined to become great. The alumni address. Page 4 Madison Survey & Alumni News Reminders to Alumni and Friends Alumni and friends of Madison, remember to send dues ($3 annual or $50 life). and SURVEY donations to the alumni office. (Note the date ALUMNI NEWS by your name on back. which indicates when you paid last or changed address.) 1920 five years. Because of failing health Also we remind our readers to remember our Helen Krum Brown (N '20) retired in she had to discontinue her heavy teach- Memorial Scholarship Fund ; the founders memo- 1967 and moved from Takoma Park, Md., ing program, and went to Laurelbrook rial to be erected; and the "unit" we have chosen to Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada. as a semi-patient, where she does some to help this year—Yerba Buena Hospital, where She and her husband, Herbert, are living tutoring and assists in the care of the the needs are many. All dues and donations should near their daughter, Dorinda. little children on the campus. She has be sent through the Madison College Alumni 1927 them help gather fruits and vegetables, Assoc. (M.C.A.A.). and are income tax deduc- Alberta Yates Randolph, wife of Dr. and tries to teach them that work is a tible. C. E. Randolph (Premed. '28), was happy blessing. • Please send a copy of your duplicated Christ- that for the first time since she gradu- 1933 mas letter. pictures, and announcements to the ated from the nurses' course in 1927, Mrs. Nell Maddox (N '32) writes from alumni office. she was able to attend a reunion at Miami Springs, Fla., giving some news Madison. She was visiting relatives in of a member of husband Theo's class of Cross Plains, Tenn., where they have 1933—Thelma Campbell Barnett. She Preschool Moves Across Street started building their retirement home. wrote: "This little woman was the Mrs. A. W. Spalding started the Home Demon- They have one daughter, Beverly Ann smallest member of the class and a very stration School when she and Professor Spalding Cutler. Dr. Randolph has been an associ- pretty one. When my husband and I, came to Madison in 1942 after he retired. At ate secretary of the General Conference along with William Sandborn and his first she started with very little equipment. Then Medical Department since 1958. The wife, Helen, went to Illinois to work as they needed more, money came in for wagons. Randolphs have been located in Loma together in 1933, they asked Thelma to wheelbarrows, tables. chairs. a piano. and other Linda since 1964, where he is recruiting go along too, and a James Barnett, equipment. It was carried on first in one room in doctors for our missionary hospitals. whom she later married. Thelma Barnett the Demonstration Building. They had on hand Jeanette Sego, formerly head of is still a tiny woman—weighs about about $1.200 which had been donated for a new women's hydro at Madison, wrote some eighty pounds. She has been in the building. (SURVEY, 3/15/51, pp.1-3) time ago: "Please find Commencement hospital five times this year. Any letter After operating in the comfortable building next Exercises Announcement for 1929 or remembrance, especially from her to the "Dem" building since the early thirties, requested in the SURVEY. I graduated classmates, would no doubt be appreci- the little folk and their directors had to move from high school at Madison in 1929. I ated. Her address is 430 Royal Way, across the street in September to the former retired from nursing in 1963. I nursed Bakersfield, Calif. 93301. Druiliard Trust building. This house was occupied my sister until her death in 1965. Now 1934 by Bessie DeGraw Sutherland until her death in I am enjoying her home that she left On June 9, Dr. J. Wayne McFarland 1965. Reason for the move was given as the me, and am doing what missionary work (Premed. '34) appeared on TV station necessity to find a place for the Home Economics I can." WHIO's "Call the. Doctor" program in Department. which lost its home when the Science 1928 Dayton, Ohio, with two physicians from Building burned. The old preschool building is Oscar L. Pembroke (Cooking and Cafe Kettering Memorial Hospital. Following being remodeled and will be ready about Novem- '28) is bakery chief at Grand Ledge this, he spoke at the alumni banquet held ber 1. Academy in Michigan. He wrote: "I left at the hospital for Five-Day Plan Madison in 1928 and lived in North graduates who have stopped smoking. Elementary School Report Dakota for a few years, then to Honolulu Dr. McFarland is a specialist in physical Madison Church Elementary School has an for over two years. I came back to the medicine and rehabilitation and an in- enrollment of 162. and the following teachers; States for a short time, then to Europe structor at Jefferson Medical College, Mrs. Elsie Tetz. grade one; Phyllis Bryant. grade for over two years during World War Philadelphia. He is co-originator of the two; Dorothy Mathews, who, after teaching else- II. Soon after returning to the States Five-Day Plan. where for ten years, returns to teach grade three; in 1945, I was discharged. My first 1936 Vesta Lester, who. with the longest continuous civilian job was Food Service Director Irene (Kominsky) Ams (N '36) is record (nine years). remains to teach grade four; at M.C. I married a lovely girl, Addie working as team leader on the Medical Anna Adams. grade five; Mrs. Iris Landa. grade Marie Allen, who was working in the Ward at Florida S-H. She says: "I am six ; Morris Wilson, grade seven ; and Daniel accounting office at the time. We have enjoying my work immensely. Have been Ballew. grade eight, and principal. a daughter 18, and a son 16." here since 1955. My husband also works Mr. Ballew came to Madison from Laguna 1929 at the hospital in the Housekeeping Beach. Calif.. to be administrator of the new 97- Emmet V. Ayers, M.D., former student Department. We have two daughters, unit nursing home (Heritage House) to be built 1928-9, sends in his donation to the Marilyn and Dione. I enjoy the SURVEY near Madison Hospital on the corner of Sani- SURVEY from Charles City, Iowa, so much, and look forward to it. I really tarium Drive and Larkin Spring Road. He has where he is in general surgery practice. enjoyed my days at Madison." been a teacher and at one time was a public He also operates two extended care 1938 relations officer at LLU, He and his wife have facilities, 85- and 75-bed, has a farm, Frank Judson (Agr. '38), head of the both been administrators of hospitals in California. and is starting a shopping center. He department of agriculture at San Pasqual writes: "As students, Drs. John and Academy, Escondido, California, writes Cyrus Kendall plastered the new sani- Classes of 40-50 Years Ago in the Pacific Union Recorder about the tarium [old "ad" building] in 1929, and agriculture program at S.P.A. During It was Jeanette Sego, a member of I painted it. The time spent at Madison 1966 and 1967, students employed in the the first class at Madison to have a represented the most happy years of agriculture department earned $38,318 formal graduation (1927), who called school. I was privileged to know Dr. to assist in the cost of a Christian edu- our attention last year that it was forty Sutherland and the other pioneers of the cation. The total income to agriculture years since her nursing class had gradu- work. I would like to attend homecoming, during the fiscal year ending June 30, ated. In light of this, it was decided to but have planned a family trip to Europe 1967, was $288,831. Profits showed an honor the graduates and "finishers" of for the summer." operation gain in agriculture of $12,815 all classes of forty and more years ago. 1931 for the calendar years of 1966 and 1967. We made extracts from these replies Most of her life Mrs. Bessie Baker has This profit was used for general school received in the alumni office, also some been teaching. After teaching church operation and assisted in providing a letters to Ruby Wade Jensen (N '27), school for a time, she married, and in better program at San Pasqual. Mr. who agreed to write some of her class- 1928 she and her husband came to Judson has been on the faculty of mates. We are sorry that so many news Madison, she to teach and her husband Madison College twice in the agriculture items and letters from these Honor to attend the academy. Mr. Baker died program. He has been closely associated Classes had to be omitted this time, for in 1934. After that she taught in Wis- with agriculture all his life, has studied lack of space, but we plan to include consin, in the mountain schools of North at two state universities, and is well them in the next SURVEY. Carolina, and then at Little Creek for qualified to evaluate farm programs. September, 1968 Page 5 and Mr. Kohler is working as a shipping pital. On Sep. 1, 1968, he and two 1939 physicians left Washington, D.C. for Elder and Mrs. Herbert Hewitt ('39 clery in the food factory. They have five children. Biafra, East Nigeria, Africa, at the and '41) have accepted a call to the request of the General Conference and Southeast Asia Union of the Far Eastern Clifford S. Tonsberg sends his news- the Red Cross. He is shown in a group Division. They visited Madison July 6, letter from Sabanilla, Mexico, where he picture on the back page of the Review then spent a month at Andrews Uni- has been busy establishing a new clinic of Sep. 19, 1968, just before departure. versity, taking an orientation course, in Northeast Chiapas. He planted over called World Institute of Missions, four hundred pineapple, a hundred ba- 1959 before sailing for Singapore, where he nana, and twenty grafted orange trees, Ronald and Beverly (Hegstad) Botts- will be educational and MV secretary. and was clearing land for ten avacado ford spent part of their three-month In the past few years, Elder Hewitt has plants. He was looking forward to furlough visiting their parents in Ridge- been principal of Collegedale Academy. additional help from Mr. and Mrs. P. H. top and Madison this summer. Ronald is Their daughter, Carol (Mrs. Sleeth) is Shigley—he to do gardening, bookkeep- now a full-time evangelist and minis- a graduate nurse from LLU and is ing, and radio technician's work, she to terial secretary in the Minas Mission, presently working at Kettering, Ohio, do nursing. Brazil, South America. as a surgical supervisor. Son Fred is 1953 Louise Linderman Strickland (Anes. working at Loma Linda and taking John William Read '53 received his '59) writes: "Jean Hassenpflug and I Inhalation Therapy. doctor's degree in education from Noith are working as anesthetists in the 1943 Texas State University in August. The County Memorial Hospital in Ardmore, For news of the Honor Class of '43, topic of his dissertation was "An Inves- Okla. We enjoy working together. Ruth see "Alumni in Action," page 3, and tigation of the Relationship of Selected Schwab and her husband are at the Mayben Heslip's letter, page 7. Some Variables to Sightsinging Ability." Pre- Ardmore Adventist Hospital and also items had to be held over to next time. viously he earned a Master of Music do work for doctors at Memorial. We have not heard from several mem- degree from the University of Texas. Dr. "Both boys attended Ozark last year. bers, and invite them to write in. Read has been a member of the faculty Daughter Rolinda graduated from Ozark Academy and is headed for SUC in 1944 at Southwestern Union College, Keene, Texas, for the past six years. Keene this fall. How we wish Madison Ruth McElheney Viel (Diet. '44) wrote College was still in operation." a series of articles in Life and Health Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Zollinger '53 have (July, August, 1968) on "History of returned to Laurelbrook, where he is 1960 Spices." Mrs. Viel is now a therapeutic principal for the school year. Helen Leitsinger Fujita (N and BS is a nursing supervisor in a hospital dietitian at Kettering Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Lela Moak is a regular subscriber '60) Before Kettering she was in the same in California. She and Harry and their to the SURVEY. She is working as an two boys live in Culver City. work at Washington S-H and at Branson LPN at West Hall, and received part Memorial Hospital in Canada. of her training at Madison in 1952-3. Nadine Myrick Aubrey (BS in N '60) worked for the Red Cross Bloodmobile 1945 1954 Tessie (Jackson) Durichek (N '45) is after graduation. She is now charge R. V. Karnatz, D.O. (Lab. '54), a nurse on Surgery Wing at Madison head nurse at Greer's Nursing Home in graduate of K.C. College of Osteopathy Goodlettsville. She has been working Hospital. and Surgery, now has a clinic in Peoria, 1961 there for six years. Before that she was Ariz. He and his wife, Lorna Mae, have Rose Walden (P.T. '61) was married with the Red Cross Bloodmobile in three children: Virgil is a freshman at last year to Emmett C. Couch and re- Nashville for a year. Husband Joseph LLU Dental School; Robert attends cently sent us an announcement of the Is a piano technician. Daughter Mary is Thunderbird Academy; and Teresa is in birth of Wendy Dianne. She and her starting the nurses' course at Branson Glendale Junior Academy. Hospital in Canada this fall. family are living in Richmond, Va. 1955 Her sister, Toni Walden (M.R. '64), Juliette Minner took her prenursing Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kohler visited at was married on April 10, 1960, to at Madison, but transferred to Florida Madison a few months ago. Mrs. Kohler Roderick K. Leake. Toni is workings at S-H, where she received her R.N. in (Josephine Fralick '55) was in a wheel- McGuire VA Hospital, Richmond, Va. 1948. She worked on the nursing staff at chair at the time, having lost one leg as Evelyn Thomas is an LPN, working the White for 12 years, and has been the result of diabetes. She taught school as medicine nurse on 3 East (Medical head nurse on Medical 3 East since 1962. part of the term at Poplar Bluff, Mo. Floor) at Madison Hospital. Her husband, Wendell, took part of the Mr. Kohler returned for Homecoming a 1964 printing course at Madison, and is now little later, and his wife went to visit Grace (Custard) Ware (N '64) and employed in the press room of the her mother, Mrs. Anna Yeoman (sister little son Eric were campus visitors in Southern Publishing Association. The of Dr. E. A. Sutherland) in Lawrence, June. Grace lives in Chicago, where she Minners have one son, Ronnie. Kan. has been working in the emergency room 1947 1957 at Michael Reese Hospital. Husband Mr. and Mrs. James K. Herman '47 Stewart Crook '57, who has been con- Willie is security officer in the same are teaching in the church school at nected with the Musk Department at hospital. Gentry, Ark. Son James, Jr., has been SMC since 1964, is how principal of Lt. jg. Stephen Marlow (N '64) was attending AU and is now a ministerial Jefferson Academy in Texas. He did transferred from the U.S. Naval Hos- intern in Baton Rouge, La. graduate study at Peabody and the pital in Memphis to the U.S. Naval 1948 University of Illinois, and received his Hospital in Guam, February 1968. He Helen (York) Gilmore (Att.N. '48) is Master's at U.T. in 1962. Formerly he writes that he is working at the Asan an LPN working at F.R.E.H. (Foun- was boys' dean at M.C. one year, chair- Naval Hospital Annex in Guam. It is dation for the Rehabilitation of the man of the music department at Mt. located on the beach three miles from Emotionally Handicapped) in Madison. Pisgah Academy and at Shenandoah the main hospital, and two miles from She says she is enjoying her work, as Valley Academy. At SMC he was in- the capital, Agana. Guam he describes she feels that there is opportunity to structor of voice, Minister of Music for as an island of "indescribable Veauty" help others and do missionary work with the Collegedale church, and director of with many water falls. He sings in the the patients. Helen's husband, Bert, the Encomium Singers (a 26-member, Protestant choir at the Naval Hospital, former student, is assistant engineer at all male chorus), which he founded in plays piano for the primary division in the Madison Foods factory. 1966. Sabbath school, and has been teaching a 1952 1958 class this summer. Walter Kohler and his family have Carlos Quevedo (Lab '58) is a lab Stephen says John Bryant is in moved to Madison from Bridgeport, technician at Florida Sanitarium and Naples, Italy. Jim and Darlene Wagner Conn., where he and his wife were Hospital. His wife, Rachel Campbell, is and still in Japan; Elpidio Laurel should teaching church school. Mr. Kohler a former student of M.C. The Quevedos be out of the service now. graduated in 1952 from Madison (ac- have two boys. Howard Pallett (Anes. '64) is an counting and engineering). Mrs. Kohler Terry Brown (N '58) is on a three- anesthetist at Walker Memorial Hos- (Myrtis Campbell), a former student, is month leave of absence as head nurse in pital, Avon Park, Florida. He and his working as an LPN at Madison Hospital, the emergency room at Madison Hos- wife have two children. Page 6 Madison Survey & Alumni News 1967 Letters Jerry Hill (I.T. '67), wife Evelyn Elsie Peterson Brownsberger (N '18), Reiber (R.N. Hinsdale), and little Sher- Lakeland. Ga. rie Lynn are now located at Decatur. Dr. and Mrs. John Brownsberger had given us Ala., where Jerry is head of the inhala- a little hope that they would attend Homecoming. tion therapy department. but later wrote telling why they couldn't come. Perla G. Cayabyab (Anes. '67) an- Sometime ago Mrs. Brownsberger (N '18) remi- swered a call to be a nurse anesthetist nisced on bygone days at Madison as follows: at Youngberg Memorial Hospital, but "I finished the scheduled course of study in the was unable to get to Singapore because Madison nurses' course of long ago, in the year she could not get her visa. She writes: 1918. During those earlier days there was no "At present I'm located at a small mis- formal graduation. I don't believe we were even sion hospital, Cagayan Valley S-H in given diplomas, and the matter of taking State the Philippines. I do anesthesia pri- Board was never mentioned. I waited to take it marily, but help on the floor when there until the spring of 1921. as we were planning is no surgery." to go to Loma Linda. where John and his brother. Sidney. were planning to study medicine. I Weddings thought I should have State Board in case I wanted to nurse out there. I did not work as a • Carol Ann Schneider and Edson A. nurse, then, however. but acted as Doctor Magan's Left to right: Bernard Bowen, Mrs. W. F. Knight were married at Ridgetop, Tenn., Rocke. Mrs. Laura Rimmer. Dollie Bowen (taken secretary for a few years. then as registrar of the June 16, 1968. Eddie is a son of Kenneth at 1968 Homecoming). Mrs. Rimmer came to Los Angeles division. and Viola Knight ('48 and '45). Madison in 1915. and still lives on campus. Mrs. "There are not too many left of our class of W. F. Rocke and her husband (deceased) came • Cheryl E. Marley and Gordon L. to Madison about 60 years ago. They spent about 1918 at Madison. I suppose. According to the Retzer were married in the Boulevard 50 years here. He was farm manager. builder. SURVEY. 1968 will mark our 50th anniversary of and purchasing agent. Mrs. Rocke is now 93 the class of 1918, also the 50th anniversary of the Church June 16, 1968. The bride is a and living in Madison with Elmer and Clara Bush. daughter of Elder and Mrs. E. L. founding and naming of the MADISON SURVEY. Marley '42, and the groom is a son of Blanche Noble (Beakley). Marguerite Coffin (Mrs. Elder and Mrs. Fernon Retzer of the a course in hospital administration at the Uni- Lew Wallace). and I were responsible for naming General Conference Sabbath School De- versity of Alabama Medical Center. the paper. Miss DeGraw wanted to call it the partment. • Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wainer. former purchas- "Re-View," but we finally got her to accept our • ing agent at Madison Hospital. accepted a call proposition to name it THE MADISON SURVEY. Janice Lee Thomson, daughter of to Pewee Valley S-H. where he is associate ad- Mrs. Doris T. Thomson (B.S. '57), and "John and I were recently looking over a log ministrator of the hospital, and she is director of a trip made by his sister Ethel (Dr. Ethel Eugene K. Wedel, son of Mr. and Mrs. of nurses. Bob has been serving as purchasing Fred Wedel, were married July 29 in Brownsberger) in October. 1918. taking their department head at the hospital since 1962. Mrs. younger brother, Sidney. to Madison to attend Farmersburg, Indiana. Both Janice and Walper was for a time O.B. instructor in nursing Gene are graduates of Madison Academy. school there. They drove an old Ford and spent education. three days on the way from Asheville to Madison They will make their home in California, • where he is a lab technician at the Neil Tompkins, personnel director at Madison (about 360 miles). The roads were almost "White." Janice finished her B.S. in Hospital for three years, is now field representa- impassable. We were amused to read in the record Nursing at SMC in 1966, and has been tive of the American Hospital Association for that at one place in Tennessee where they stopped an instructor in Nursing Education Michigan, with headquarters in Lansing. Mich. to get gas, there was a notation 'A horse kicked there. Mrs. Tompkins has been serving as clerk of the the front fender.' Gas was probably a bit cheaper campus church and secretary to the pastor. than today, but never did they buy more than • Robert Stoker (Anes. '63) and Vicki • Mrs. Jean Oliphant. director of Madison Hos- four gallons at a time—usually only two gallons." Tetz were married in the Boulevard pital Volunteer Auxiliary, has moved to Berrien (It is interesting to note that Prof. Sidney Church this summer. Springs, Mich., where her husband. Dr. C. A. Brownsberger. father of three graduates of Madi- • Steve M. Yoshimura (MCA), son of Oliphant. book editor of SPA. has 'been called to son who became doctors—Ethel '14, John '15, and Sam and Sumi Yoshimura ('41 and '59), be associate professor of Journalism at AU. Sidney '21—was the first president of Battle and Patricia C. Han were married in the • W. A. Sowers, principal of Madison Academy Creek College, and a former faculty member of Madison.) Vallejo Drive Church, Glendale, Calif., for the past two years. is now principal of August 4, 1968. Patricia is an R.N. from Georgia-Cumberland Academy. Mabyn Heslip Gillen '43 Glendale Adventist Hospital. Steve will • Mrs. Richard Dilts. former dean of girls at Mabyn Heslip "Hessie" McKinney (now Mrs. Earl Gillen) sent be taking lab at G.A.H. Madison Academy. is now dean of women at a big "Hello" to her classmates • Linda Sue Vanderboss married Joe Southwestern Union College. of '43: "I wish I could be there to see you S. Chandler, Jr. on June 20, 1968 in the • Elder and Mrs. Ray Hartlein accepted a call to folks and re-live some of 'the good ole days at Boulevard Church. Linda is a graduate Takoma Academy in the D.C. area, where Elder Madison.' Here's hoping the reunion is a big of Madison Academy, and is employed Hartlein is head of the Bible Department and success and that you have a good time together. at Madison Hospital. Joe is a graduate Mrs. Hartlein is librarian. They formerly held I think I'm lucky for I have seen Alvada and of Highland Academy, and finished his similar positions at Madison Academy. Vergie a few times since leaving Madison and so X-ray course at Madison Hospital Jan. • Frank Robinson. former dean of men at Madi- have heard about other classmates from them. 1, 1969. son Academy, is now assistant dean of men at "Here is a brief summary of what I have • Maggie Faye King (N '62 and Dale C.U.C. been doing since leaving my job with Dr. Joe L. Brumagin were married August 11, • After fourteen years at Madison as student Sutherland in 1960. Yes. I am still nursing: spent 1968, in the Boulevard Church. The and worker. Efrain Pineiro and his family have one and a half years as nursery supervisor at couple are living in Takoma Park, Md., moved to Orlando. Mr. Pineiro who has been head St. Francis Hospital in Escanaba, Mich., one year as night supervisor at a hospital in Mil- where Faye is working in the coronary of the school maintenance department at Madison care unit at Washington S-H. for several years, is assistant maintenance super- waukee. Wis., five years as O.B. supervisor in intendent in Florida S-H. Mrs. Pineiro has been Niles. Mich.. and nine years here in Mason. Mich.. working as a nurse technician at Madison Hos- as O.B. supervisor. I've seen a lot of babies "Great Advent Movement" pital. Son Efraly attends Forest Lake Academy. come and go. and still enjoy my work. I keep • real busy and enjoy my work. I am on the • Dr. Howard Seely. former head of Physical Elmer Fast. a student and worker at Madison disaster and social committees of the hospital. Medicine and Rehabilitation at Madison Hospital for a number of years, accepted a call to High- and for six years was Primary leader at the has connected with the University of Utah, where land Hospital at Portland, where he has charge Lansing church, and the past two years one of he is a teacher of PM&R. of the laundry. His wife works part time in the the Sabbath school secretaries. hospital. While at Madison. Elmer was at different • Mrs. Patricia Gillit, coordinator of the A.D. times associated With the homes rental depart.. "My husband Glen (McKinney) was killed in Nursing program for the first two years on the ment, the fire department as chief, head custodian. 1964 as the result of a car accident. I remarried Madison Campus, has moved to Loma Linda night watchman. campus policeman, bus and truck September 29, 1967. to Earl Gillen, who attended where she is an instructor of Medical-Surgical in driver. and security officer. Madison College in 1941. He works in the physics the B.S. program in nursing at LLU. department at Michigan State U. in Lansing. On • Mrs. Gladys Morrison, former director of our honeymoon we visited Madison in Oct., 1967. • Wayne Hayes ('62) controller of Madison Hos- food service at M-A.. is now doing same work and toured the campus. I had mixed feelings—one pital is now in Birmingham where he is taking at Highland Academy. of sadness when noting nearly all the old part of September, 1968 Page 7 student. While at Madison he had a contract to the sanitarium was gone. then a feeling of pride. when "the southbound train from Louisville to make the cement blocks for the Druillard Library noting the progress that has been made down New Orleans left us standing on the track at building. He married Lora Mae Nivison in 1936. through the years. Vicksburg. Miss. . . . My wife stood there alone He was a technician at Mountain Sanitarium for "My daughter Glenda (now Mrs. Herbert Rau) a long way from the Indiana home we had left a time and then administrator of the County is an LPN from Hinsdale S-H and is employed to become self-supporting medical missionaires in Hospital at Newberry, S.C. at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing. the South." Because of the flooding of the Mis- When war appeared upon the horizon, Donald "Well. Classmates. I still say that we who sissippi River, the Hansens' plans to go to New took officer training at Camp Grant, Ill., and graduated from Madison received some of the best Orleans were changed. and Nashville became the became adjutant in the Army Air Corp Training training this world could provide. I've always center of their operations for a number of years. Center, Chicago. During the war he was in charge been grateful to God for a Christian education. There they opened the first treatment rooms of of Camp Beach Hospital in Chicago, then was May we always be faithful so we may share in the denomination. moved to Salt Lake City as expert on medical that great reunion in heaven one day." The Madison school and allied activities oc- cupy several chapters, which include an account records, thence to Europe to an evacuation hos- pital in Italy, where he served two years. He Chapter Meetings of a number of its units. It was L. A. Hansen who drove Mrs. White out to the Ferguson farm returned home in 1945 as Major Van Meter. He Mrs. Esther Craw writes that the served in veterans' hospitals in Atlanta, Rich- Southern California Chapter met August in a buggy when Professors Sutherland and Megan finally consented to meet her there. mond. and Memphis. Later as lieutenant-colonel 1 at a park in Pomona. Dr. H. E. he directed 23 V.A. hospitals on the West Coast. Heidinger from our hospital in Addis In Elder Hansen's 1967 Christmas message last year he made this very significant statement: "We His wife, Lora Mae, died in 1960. The Van Ababa, Ethiopia, was the speaker. He Meters had two sons. Grant and Don, who survive, and his wife (Elizabeth Stuyvesant) have come to a time when it is dangerous to be also his second wife, Carmela. were on furlough visiting her parents, alive unless we are kept by the overruling power the Paul Stuyvesants of Loma Linda. and protection of God." LEROY N. NIVISON Dr. and Mrs. Glen Bowes of Claremont, The book is indexed, so that it can be used L. N. Nivison was born in Adrian, Mich., and Calif., were asked to serve as president easily as a reference book. The price of the died April 10, 1968, at the age of 81 at Win- and secretary for the coming year. book is $5.95. chester, Tenn. Because of his interest in the Potomac Chapter, D.C. Area South, he connected with Madison about 1930. School of Medicine Secretary of the Potomac Chapter, Entering LLU He was a skilled mechanic, and cared for the Entering LLU School of Medicine this fall were Sylvia Maltby '51, reports that a Poto- heating and the plumbing. The year 1937 found Ramona Jopling, daughter of Olga G. Joplin '39, mac Chapter meeting was planned for the Nivisons at Pewee Valley Sanitarium, near of Orlando. Florida ; Anne Grotheer, daughter of September 22 at the home of Mr. and Louisville. After a few years they moved to Mrs. Dorthea Grotheer '64, of Florence, Miss.; and Mrs. Malcolm Lowry in Mitchellville, the Cumberland Plateau, where they became Md. It was to be a picnic potluck supper David Martin (MCA '61). David had been pro- active members of the community group near moted to Army Specialist Five at Walter Reed on the Lowry lawn. Altamont, Tenn. Mrs. Nivison died around 1960. Army Institute of Research in D.C. in May. The chapter executive committee The Nivisons had four children: Ovid, Mark, favors a monthly giving plan by their June Harvey '34, and Lora Mae. All but Lora members (beyond their dues), the TAHLENA ELZA Mae survive, also Mr. Nivison's second wife, the Miss Tahlena Elza was born December 8, 1888, amount to be given to a different self- former Lois Rutherford. supporting unit each year. They voted in Knoxville, Tenn., and died September 15, 1968. to help Yerba Buena Hospital, Chiapas, at Madison. Tenn.. at the age of 79 years. ARLINE M. PEMBROKE Recently we learned of the death of Lt. Com- Mexico, this year, with a project sug- She worked twenty-five years as a cashier in mander Arline M. Pembroke (N '25). Arline's gested by the alumni association officers a large department store in Knoxville. In 1932 she brother, Oscar, wrote that she was retired from in Madison. moved to Madison, where she became associated The chapter leaders hope they can with The Layman Foundation as a bookkeeper. the Navy a few years ago and was living at have an annual meeting at the time of In this position she visited nearly all of our Del Ray Beach, Florida, until her death. She cherry blossom time each year, and self-supporting institutions, helping with the was buried at Saint Jo, Texas, with full military attract out-of-town Madisonites to join bookkeeping in each place. honors July 27, 1967. with them at that time. Though she was totally deaf during the later Arline (N '25) reached the high rank of Lt. All alumni and friends of Madison are years of her life, she was not discouraged by this Commander in the Navy. Another Madison nurse, invited to contribute to these yearly handicap, and served her Lord and church well. Isabelle Miller. of Phoenix, Ariz., has reached the projects, sending gifts to the Madison She retired in 1963 and was a faithful member high rank of Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. College Alumni Assoc., Madison College, of the Madison College Church since 1932. A ELLEN STACEY OLSON Tenn. 37115. Your gift is income tax street that comes into Neeley's Bend Road in Mrs. Russell Olson died July 13, 1968, as the deductible. Madison is named after her—Tahlena Avenue. result of an auto accident near her home at the Services were conducted in Nashville by Elders Laurellirook School, Dayton, Tenn. She taught J. W. Clarke and R. W. Laue at the Cosmopolitan From So Small a Dream school in Japan five years, married Russell D. Funeral Home. In Knoxville services were con- Olson in 1932, and they connected with Laurel- Book Review by Mary Kate Gafford ducted by Leland Straw and Roger Goodge at brook several years ago. They often attended the There has recently come from the press of Rose's Mortuary. Burial was at Lynnhurst Ceme- Southern self-supporting convention at Madison. the Southern Publishing Association a book tery. Miss Elza had no close relatives surviving. Among the survivors besides her husband is her which will be of interest to readers of the There is a second cousin. Albert Brooks in Chat- niece, Mrs. Tedd Snyder. SURVEY It .s a history of the growth of the tanooga, and another second cousin. Mrs. W. W. S.D.A. Church in the South. including the self- Owens in Silver Spring, Md. The latter (Nina JASON ROBERT NOBLE Jason Robert Noble died July 27, 1968, at supporting work. The author, Louis A. Hansen. Owens) was an R.N. She and her husband now 97, may be said to be the original self- Madison Hospital at the age of 76 following more Wallace were at Madison at one time. She helped than a year's confinement. He had suffered a supporting medical missionary. He retired in the treatment rooms in Nashville, and he was in broken neck and paralysis from an automobile Orlando after many years of denominational a construction worker. service. He has covered objectively and well accident. Services were held July 80 at Goodletts- the progress of the work from its smallest be- JEFFREY BRENT ARCHER vAlle. Tenn.. with Dr. Julian C. Gant, his attend- News has been received of the death of Jeffrey ginnings in the South in the year 1897 to the ing physician, officiating. assisted by Robert W. Archer, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Duane present date. Laue, Madison Hospital chaplain. Burial was in Archer (Anes. '62), who was fatally injured in The title of the book is From So Small a Springhill Cemetery. Madison. Dream. It is a record of pioneer providences. in a bicycle-truck accident Aug. 28, 1968. Jeffrey was Mr. Noble lived most of his life in Canada, born at Madison. and is survived by his parents which Elder Hansen tells of his personal experi- except for the twenty years he spent in Massa- ences from the "morning of January 7. 1897" and four sisters. chusetts and New York as a self-employed con- DONALD D. VAN METER tractor and builder. Donald D. Van Meter died May 9, 1968, at Among the survivors are his wife and a Madison Survey & Alumni News Ft. Hood, Texas. He graduated from the academy daughter, Miss Doris E. Noble. former public at Madison in 1932, and continued on as a college relations director of Madison Hospital. Madison, Tennessee 37115 September, 1968 Editor, Mable H. Towery Subscription Price, $1.00 a year Published Quarterly by Madison College Alumni Association Second Class postage paid at Madison, Tenn. 'saawds uaTiaag uoTq:Tng a -r_Too 4;TsJgAiun smo.Tpu tr SOWPf