Loma Linda University - Priorities Yearbook (Loma Linda, CA)

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approved plans for the Newton Evans Foundation, an independent corporation run by alumni and men of the General Conference. The Foundation will establish a private patient clinic on the new campus in Alham- bra. lt will assist in training graduate physicians and contribute financial support to the College of Medical Evangelists. The President of the Board is Frederick Griggs, an educator who has spent his life in administration of denominational enterprises. Percy T. Magan, M.D., President Emeritus, has since l9l6 given aggressive leadership to the advancement of the school. Until ill health forced his retirement he worked continually to raise the quality of the school and has strengthened the position of the school with the medical profession. Walter E. Macpherson, M.D., followed Dr. Magan in the presidency. He holds the respect of medical men and students as clinician, teacher, and philosopher. He faces the duty of steering the school through the travail attending the expansion now beginning. G. S. Luther The Seventh-day Adventist denomination is not wealthy and, in general, does not have a wealthy constituency. Financially it has no business sponsoring a medical school. For physician training is very expen- sive and cannot possibly be paid for by the student. In fact, at CME, in spite of one of the highest tuition rates in the country, the student pays less than half his training cost. In the past the General Conference of Seventh-day Aclventists has contributed heavily to the School. The profits from the White Memorial Hospital and the Loma Linda Sanitarium and Hospital which the school owns have been one mainstay. The Loma Linda Foun- dation, a corporation formed to handle annuities, trust agreements, and other gifts, has contributed about a million dollars to the school during the last decade. Mr. Glenn Luther, comptroller of the College, and Mr. Otis A. Hudson, treasurer of the College and manager of the Loma Linda Foundation, have the responsibility of building a financial structure that Otis A. Hudson will pace the school as it expands physically and med- ically and attempts by more aggressive research to contribute to the world something of significance. lt is difficult to choose from among a large and loyal host men and women to mention publicly as aiding the march of CME. The desire to make the book rep- resentative has been the rule most frequently used. As you read further, realize that between each line and behind each picture are many others who with unselfishness and devotion have macle possible the march of CME. Carla Ermshar and Hazel McNemar of the accounting department

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Of joyous days ye bring the blissful visioizg The dear, familiar ploimtoms rise again. -GOETHE A M 71 ff?'i .,f Anatomy Building a church for the,.townspeople and workers. The sides of the hill are green with shrubs and lawn. Near the base of the hill, overreached by towering eucalypti, is Kate Lindsay Hall, home for the nursing students. Across the road from the hill is a large quadrangle of academic buildings. A good deal of taste has been used in the arrangement of the campus. The buildings are all modern and well-equipped. One is tempted to suspect God of favoritism, for the Loma Linda campus is unusually lovely, and the buildings new. The unmarried student lives in Daniells Hall, a large dormitory completed during the early part of the war. He is fortunate, for his room is spacious and planned for convenient living. The student with a family has a different problem before him, for hous- ing is at a premium, often just not attainable, and in general not too satisfactory once possessed. The College of Medical Evangelists was founded at Loma Linda. It was hoped that the necessary clinical experience for the student might be provided at the San Bernardino County Hospital. Facilities here did 1: x. Pathology Building not prove adequate, however, and in 1914, with much trepidation and after much soul-searching, a dis- pensary was opened in an old store building near the Boyle Heights district of Los Angeles. Since that time the College has been in two divisions. At Loma Linda the medic studies the basic medical sciences. It has been customary to refer to the Loma Linda division as the farm. There is nothing derogatory in the term, rather nostalgia. For, while the medic looks forward to the city and enioys the clinical aspects of his training, he finds city life harried and misses the beautiful surroundings and the peaceful, quiet days of his soiourn at Loma-Linda. When the premedical student gets his acceptance he is likely to feel pretty cocky. Humility somehow isn't natural. For the first time in his life he has been suc- cessful in competition for a major prize. There aren't enough medical schools to train all 'who apply, and if the student is thoughtful he probably is unable to find in himself any superior virtue that will explain why he was chosen in preference to another. 15