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journal2001 (Volume 22, Number 1)

T H E A D V E N T I S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L M E D I C A L S O C I E T Y

U N D E RT H EA U S P I C E SO FT H EA L U M N IA S S O C I AT I O N ,S C H O O LO FM E D I C I N EO FL O M AL I N D AU N I V E R S I T Y

2 • AIMS JOURNAL • 2001 (Vol. 22 No. 1)

The Se venth Mi l l e n n i u m : Time for MMW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Alumni and missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Into all the world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0

The story of Ol i ve Sa n t e e - Smith, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3

Romania health work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4

Update on Et h i o p i a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6

Remembering Dunbar W. Smith, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9

Dunbar W. Smith, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2

A dream come tru e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4

News notes from around the world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6

AIMS life members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2

Openings for physicians/dentists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4

Goals of AIMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5

p a rts of their professional careers to helping themedical program of the Se venth-day Ad ve n t i s tc h u rch outside of the No rth American Di v i s i o n .It is located on the wall next to the entrance tothe student lounge. For those of you who visitLoma Linda, please take time to look over thehonor list of graduates.

It is for this reason that the editorial board ofthe AIMS Jo u rn a l decided to dedicate this issueto re p o rts of our health work in all parts of theworld led by LLUSM graduates.

I direct you specifically to the lead art i c l e ,written by the late Carrol S. Small, MD, aboutalumni in missions from Loma Linda Un i ve r s i t y.

In this issue we also remember with sadnessthe death of one of our long-time staff membersof the Ad ventist International Medical So c i e t y.Dunbar Smith, MD, has been on the board ofAIMS for most of the past 20 years. He died onhis 90th birt h d a y. It was my privilege to helpo r g a n i ze and arrange the program for his memo-rial service, which was held on the campus ofLoma Linda Un i ve r s i t y. I salute the memory ofDunbar Smith, veteran medical missionary whos e rved in India, Africa, the Far East, as well asNo rth America.

After reading this editorial, we hope that yo u rmind has been clarified as to the mission objec-

t i ves of the Ad ve n t i s tInternational Me d i c a lSo c i e t y.

— Don Roth, Ed i t o rGe n e ral Confere n c eRe p re s e n t a t i ve ,L LU Ca m p u s

This edition of the JOURNAL is dedicatede xc l u s i vely to the worldwide mission program ofthe Se venth-day Ad ventist denomination.

The mission outreach of the denominations t a rted during the early days of our pioneers. Ou rfirst overseas missionary was John Ne v i n sA n d rews who was sent to Eu rope to give thegospel message. Upon his return, he became pre s-ident of the General Conference and was instru-mental in encouraging the gospel pro g r a mt h roughout the world field.

Loma Linda Un i versity was started with thespecific objective to be the training ground formedical missionaries which would go to all part sof the world. Even though we don’t have as manyphysicians going overseas as we did in the past,Loma Linda Un i versity still has an influence inthe training of young people from all parts of theworld in the medical field.

Near the A-level entrance to the Loma LindaUn i versity Medical Center is a plaque honoringgraduates of the School of Medicine who haves e rved in overseas mission service. It is an impre s-s i ve list of men and women who have dedicated

C O N T E N T S

E D I T O R I A L

About the cove r : Ol i ve Sa n t e e - Smith, MD, the first CMEg raduate to go to an overseas mission station, is pictured with herhusband and daughter (see story on page 13). Bottom photodepicts the intro d u c t o ry plaque honoring CME/LLU School ofMedicine graduates who have served in overseas mission fieldssince 1914 for a period of one year or more. The plaque isd i s p l a yed at Loma Linda Un i versity Medical Ce n t e r.

AIMS JOURNAL • 2001 (Vol. 22 No. 1) • 3

Changing our cal-endar for a newone, not only

beginning a new ye a rand a new century, but awhole new millennium,is a once in a lifetimeexperience, at least infinite earthly time as wek n ow it.

This is an appro p r i-ate time to take a hardlook at the past and pre s-ent of the medical mis-s i o n a ry work (MMW) .They are the best pre d i c-tors of the possibilities for the future—to enableus to plan accord i n g l y.

God has blessed the MMW. T h e re is noquestion about it and we thank Him for that.T h e re are many successful stories, many ofthem existing today, for us to emulate, enjoy i n gall the media attention, and all of us know themve ry we l l .

We may also learn just as much or moref rom the fiascos and blunders committed in theless than 200-year history of the MMW. It ish a rd to believe the variety of mistakes that ledto the demise of so many old and yo u n gMMW institutions, as well as the abortion ofother institutions in the gestational state.

Just as difficult to believe many times, is the

reticence to tolerate lay par-ticipation in organizingenterprises, or contributionsto official church pro j e c t s ,in some parts of the world.Sometimes—in some places— t h e re is ove rt exclusion ofindividuals and groups withideas differing with those ofthe administrators.

An analysis of the factsin cases like the Battle Cre e kSanitarium (non-churc howned and remote) to

Shady Grove (churc h - ow n e dand current) may shed light. It

is apparent, howe ve r, that we have to changeour paradigms and re m ove the taboo and secre-cy shroud thrown over certain aspects of ourh i s t o ry because they may be embarrassing tothe memory of our beloved pioneers; there f o re ,we keep propagating misconceptions ande r ro r s .

John Paul apologized for the Ho l yInquisition. Are n’t we going to do so for lessere r ro r s ?

The instructions for MMW:• First board meeting of the MMW. A ve ry

s h o rt agenda. Jesus tells the 12 apostles to:1 . Preach the Kingdom of the Lord2 . Heal the sick

TH E SE V E N T H MI L L E N N I U M:

TI M E F O R M M W ?

Please turn to page 33

El oy Schulz, MD, pre s i d e n t


The early alumni heeded this com-mand. Their exploits, up to the classof ’22, are chronicled in Chapter 5

(The First Hu n d red). The present chapter willt h e re f o re deal more with the classes of 1923and onward .

Up to World War II, the great non-Christian areas of the world we re easy for for-eigners to enter, so missionary physicians we ren u m e rous. Mo re ove r, the great mission landsof Africa, China, India and the Far East we remainly rural, and had few well-trained indige-nous medical practitioners, so competitionagainst the foreign missionary was scant. Su c hmissionaries could practice without fear ofi n t e rf e rence from local governments, andsince their triumphs usually outweighed theirmistakes, they we re the admired and laudedbenefactors of their communities. Eve nthough many of them we re not board - c e rt i-fied, they coped we l l .

The 1940s changed all that. During thefighting years missionaries went to theirhomelands, except for the unfortunate oneswho we re confined in prison camps in enemyt e r r i t o ry. After the armistices, these missionar-ies flooded back, but the climate in their mis-sion fields had changed. A new independencepermeated the formerly docile populations,and increasing numbers of locally trainedphysicians competed, often with great success,against the foreign missionaries. Mo re ove r, the“mission field” nations we re enacting re s t r i c-t i ve laws, creating difficulty in securing prac-

tice permits. Hence, going as a missionary wasno longer merely possessing a medical degre eand buying a ship ticket.

Not only did the new political climatesi n t e rf e re with mission appointments, but thed e g ree of knowledge and skill demanded off o reigners in the “t h i rd world” incre a s e ds h a r p l y. Mo re ove r, potential missionaryphysicians began to inform their clergy-dom-inated appointing committees that they couldnot in all good conscience cheat the “heathen”unless they had three to four years of re s i d e n-cy to sharpen their skills. This circ u m s t a n c esharply reduced the pool of appointees formission posts.

To the dismay of mission-field administra-tors, not only did mission doctors demandbetter education, also they requested va s t l yi m p roved hospital facilities. No longer couldt h i rty ancient white-enameled iron beds, 30bedside tables, and 30 bedpans be considere dadequate for a modern hospital ward .Radiologic equipment of increasing sophisti-cation, and costing twenty times as much asp revious models, was now requested by med-ical staff members of mission hospitals.Surgeons no longer wished to undertake criti-cal operations without access to electro l y t edeterminations and angiograms, etc.

The above litany of costly changes in mis-sion hospital styles threatened the ve ry exis-tence of many mission hospitals, and many ofthem did expire. Mission administrators lack-ing modern medical orientation could not

A L U M N I A N D M I S S I O N S‘Go ye into all the world’

Adapted from an article by the late Carrol S. Small ’34 and Elsa Lonergan which appeare din Diamond Memories 1909-1984


understand the increasing difficulty of re c ru i t-ing new mission medicos, considering themapathetic or spiritually deficient. Howe ve r, thereluctance to accept mission positions oftensimply reflected tender consciences re c o i l i n gf rom rendering inferior-quality service to eve nthe poorest of their primitive patients.

It must be conceded that many physiciansdid accept appointments, feeling that eve nthough they had less technical training thanthe ideal, God would compensate for theirdeficiencies and save their patients from disas-t e r. After all, who else was available in deve l-oping areas; who could “do it better?”Whether these generous-spirited missionarieswe re full of faith or of presumption, is a mat-ter of opinion, and will never be totally decid-ed. All honor to those who do it either way.

The mounting nationalism in missionnations made the import of medical supplies andequipment slow, costly, and sometimes impossi-ble, presenting another frustrating obstacle toove rw o rked and under-supplied doctors.

To the mission president, concerned aboutshrinking budget, mounting prices, and thef rustrations of neglected new mission openings,it must seem absurd to invest a major share ofhis annual appropriations in improving a hos-pital whose staff seemingly demand always“m o re.” We pay tribute to these clergymen whos t retch eve ry nerve to meet all the needs clam-oring for attention, and do it graciously.

But what of the missionary doctors whodid go? They entered fields where oftentimeslocal apathy or even hostility impededp ro g ress, and they usually succeeded in win-ning the good-will of their communities.

Let us look now at some of the great mis-sion are a s .

A f r i c aThe ten million square miles of this gre a t

continent we re once termed “d a rkest,” and inthe day of Livingstone perhaps the term wasjustified. In 1984 there is a great awakening,but medical needs persist.

To name names in the chronicle of serv i c ere n d e red by College of Medical Eva n g e l i s t s /Loma Linda Un i versity alumni is perilous.Someone will notice that his son was negli-gently omitted! But the pathfinders must notgo unmentioned.

A rthur Kretchmar ’20 was our first gradu-ate to ve n t u re to Africa, immediately after hisM.D. degree was obtained. Arthur Huse ’27f o l l owed in 1927.

In d i aC M E ’s first re p re s e n t a t i ve in India was

Ol i ve (Santee) Smith ’15, who served the cus-t o m a ry seve n - year term and returned to theUSA (see story about Dr. Sa n t e e - Smith onpage 13). Adrian Clark ’21 spent many ye a r sin South India. Arthur Coyne ’18 started theGi f f a rd Mission Hospital at Nuzvid in the hothumidity of eastern Andhra Pr a d e s h .

Au s t r a l i aWhile Australia has been anything but a

d e p r i ved area, it has seen a few CME alumniin the Sydney Sanitarium and in a few smallerinstitutions privately owned by alumni such asGeorge Boyd ’32.

The Far EastThe term “Far East” might better be “Ne a r

West.” It begins with Ko rea and Ho k k a i d oand includes Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Ho n gKong, Vietnam, Kampuchea (Cambodia),T h a i l a n d , Malaysia, the Philippines, Si n g a-p o re, Burma, Laos and In d o n e s i a .

The first re c o rd in General Confere n c efiles of a CME alumnus appointed to missions e rvice in the Far East is Irving Feldkamp ’18,


who sailed on Ja n u a ry 1, 1920. Ten monthslater J. Earl Garner ’19 landed in Si n g a p o rebut soon shifted to Penang. In late 1923 H.Ellet Scoles ’19 arrived in Ko rea, followed byC. A. Haysmer ’20, also to Ko rea.

C h i n aAd ventist medical service to China began

about 1900. The famous Ha r ry Mi l l e r, AmericanMedical Mi s s i o n a ry College 1902, and his wifeand classmate, Ma u d eThompson Mi l l e r,m oved to Chinasoon after their grad-uation and we re soonassimilated into theChinese community.Their service (at leastDr. Ha r ry’s) lasted forabout 60 years, withsome interru p t i o n s .The result of their efforts was a chain of missionhospitals from Shanghai to Lanchow, support e dand often built by grateful affluent Chinese.Many of the alumni of the emerging CME serve din some of these hospitals.

The first CME man to fill a mission postin China was Donald Da ve n p o rt ’15, followe dsoon by He r b e rt and Ethel James ’17 and theirclassmate Leslie Butka ’16.

South AmericaThe large Latin area below the Pa n a m a

Canal has seen 36 alumni in mission posts. Fi r s tmentioned in the General Conference tabula-tion is H. E. Herman ’20, stationed inArgentina, where he became ill, and more ove rwas not permitted to practice until he hadrepeated the medical course in that country. M.Be r n a rd Graybill ’24 followed, working in Pe ru .John Lipke ’25 s e rved in Brazil, and He r s e lButka ’17 in Bolivia.

Mexico and Central AmericaThe great Latin area between the Rio

Grande and the Panama Canal has beens e rved by thirt y - t h ree alumni as official long-term mission appointees, but by a host of oth-ers for shorter times as will be seen below.

The procession began with Ralph Sm i t h’16 who was appointed to Mexico in 1919.After returning to California, he made manys h o rt forays back below the bord e r. His heartremained in Mexico and he was one of the fewto achieve and a qualified license to practicemedicine in that country. Iner Sh e l d - R i t c h i e’15, while never sent by the church, mademany extended medical mission journeys intoMexico, and was instrumental in starting the“ Hospital y Sa n a t o r i o” at Mo n t e m o re l o s .

The Caribbean are aHa rold Leland ’23 was on the staff of a

small hospital in Cuba in the mid-20s but lit-tle information is available now about thatve n t u re .

The Andrews Memorial Hospital atKingston, Jamaica began in the mid-40s withC l i f f o rd Anderson ’42 as medical dire c t o r.Other staff members through the years haveincluded Ma rtin Hoehn ’47, Wi n s t o nWilliams ’44-B, Ro b e rt Steele ’51, and manyothers. The Andrews Memorial has hadunusual difficulties. The physical plant deteri-orated, budget was scarce, re c ruitment wasp recarious, and the recent ruling marx i s tregime, the hospital was nationalized, and didnot there by improve. Now the enterprise isbeing re v i ve d .

Other hospitals in the Caribbean are ai n c l u d e :

1 ) The SDA hospital at Cu r a c a o ,Netherland Antilles. This one has had a stre a mof short-term alumni appointees, includingveterans George Nelson ’24, Joseph Jo h a n n e s

Dr. Ha r ry Mi l l e r


’29, Ernest Pohle ’36, and at least nine others.2 ) Po rt - o f - Spain Ad ventist Hospital, in

Trinidad, where staff have included T h o r aHow a rd ’63, Clarence Ing ’31, and fourt e e no t h e r s .

3 ) Bella Vista Hospital at Ma y a g u ez ,Pu e rto Rico, where many alumni have part i c i-pated. William C. Dunscombe, AMMC 1906began medical work in Pu e rto Rico “way backwhen,” and his son Colby has followed in hissteps. In addition to the Dunscombes, Do n a l dand Mabel Page, both of ’36, Kenneth Fi s h e r’40, and the tireless Clarence Donaldson ’44-B,h a ve served long years. Others have numbere dat least 27.

The Middle EastThe so-called Bible lands have seen ve ry

f ew Christian missionaries but our alumnih a ve done what they could. In 1945 Jo h nKarmy ’43 moved to fabled Baghdad alongwith Joseph Saaty ’42. Howe ve r, they we rep receded by Arsen Arzoo ’22, who was re t u r n-ing to his native Persia. Arzoo served with themost meager of facilities in a primitive are a .

L a t e r, the hospital in Baghdad was serve dby Ge n e v i e ve Joy - Ubbink ’37, by Mi l e n aSi m e c k ove ’51, by William Wagner ’44-B, byKern Pihl ’47, by Paul Yingling ’38, by E. C.Frank ’47, and by Do rothy Turner ’56.

If the Middle East is stretched to includeL i bya, we may include here the service inBenghazi of William Wagner ’44-B, J. Pa u lMunsey ’54, Ro b e rt Johnson ’61, CliffordLudington ’53-A, Eugene Hildebrand ’53-B,Dean Dietrich ’65, Roy S. Cornell ’46, who wasmade quadriplegic by polio during this term ofs e rvice, George Benson ’53-B, Joseph Jo h a n n e s’29, Ha rold Sheffield ’62, Clarence Schilt ’39,Maher Bishai ’52, and Ha rold Reiner ’54.

Money is not all or even the major part, ofalumni religious functions. The thousands of

spiritual interv i ews in offices, of Bible studiesin offices and homes, the millions of pieces ofreligious literature made available each year inthe waiting rooms of alumni, all make up ani m p re s s i ve total of influence.

But as great as all the above ove rt “m i s s i o n-a ry” endeavors are, there looms the massive“unconscious influence” of thousands ofupright temperate, honest, compassionatephysician alumni, who may not make them o re conspicuous gestures, but neve rt h e l e s s ,s e rve their communities with integrity andf i d e l i t y, always influencing patients and theirfamilies in the right dire c t i o n .

Only eternity will re veal the beneficialeffect of thousands of loyal hard - w o rk i n galumni on their collective millions of patientsand acquaintances.

Alumni, we salute yo u !

School of Public He a l t hWhile not an official “m i s s i o n” body, the

L LU School of Public Health has beeni n vo l ved in educating many mission people allt h rough its existence.

The School had its beginning with theorganization in 1948 of the School ofTropical Medicine and Pre ve n t i ve Me d i c i n e .Later re o r g a n i zed in 1961 as the Division ofPublic Health and Tropical Medicine, theschool began to offer master’s pro g r a m st h rough the LLU Graduate School.Establishment of the School of Pu b l i cHealth was authorized in 1964, and planswe re made for faculty and facilities to meetthe re q u i rements of the Committee onProfessional Education of the AmericanPublic Health Association. In 1967 theSchool of Nutrition and Dietetics (whichhad been organized in 1922 as the School ofDietetics) became a department of theSchool of Public Health.


An off-campus MPH degree pro g r a md e veloped in the early 1970’s as a result ofi n q u i ry from professionals within the SDAorganization who desired pre ve n t i ve medicineconcepts to enhance their professional serv i c-es. In the fall of 1973 the School of He a l t hp resented a pilot program in Alberta, Canada.An average of 25 students from the prairiep rovinces pursued course work. By 1978, 18students we re granted the MPH degre e .

The success of the off-campus degree pro-gram in Alberta gave impetus to beginning asecond degree program. In 1975 the No rt hPacific Union Conference of SDA’s co-spon-s o red a program serving Washington, Ore g o n ,Idaho and Montana. An average of 60 stu-dents attended the courses offered and in thefall of 1979, 52 we re granted the MPHd e g ree. The off-campus degree program hascontinued to grow in the number of centersand students.

The School of Health then began to plan

for similar programs in other areas of theworld, including the Inter-American Di v i s i o n ,with a master’s degree program designed tomeet the needs in that area. Then followe dp rograms in the Philippines, Pakistan, andAfrica, opening a door of opportunity to eagerindividuals awaiting such education.

The Inter-American program was offere dat four centers, two in Spanish, one in En g l i s h ,and one in Fre n c h .

By October 22, 1983, in the In t e r -American Division, 101 individuals had com-pleted all of the master’s degree re q u i re m e n t s .

Re c e n t l y, with the co-sponsorship ofunions or conferences throughout the world,the Office of Extended Programs was institut-ed for the purpose of making health conceptsa vailable to individuals who are unable toarrange for time to pursue full-time academicand professional study pro g r a m s .

The School of Health was accredited bythe American Public Health Association in

On Ma rch 19, 2000, 61 students from 20 countries began the first session of the Loma Li n d aUn i versity masters of public health degree pro g ram at the Un i versity of Ea s t e rn Africa Ba ra t o n .


June, 1967, and has maintained continuousa c c reditation since then. It is a member of theAssociation of Schools of Public He a l t h .

A I M SAmong our alumni a new group was

o r g a n i zed in 1967 known as AIMS—Ad ventist International Medical So c i e t y.Leaders in AIMS have included Carl Ba u e r’61, Ralph Harris ’60-aff, Richard Ha rt ’70,W. Paul Dysinger ’55, and others. The pur-pose of AIMS is fraternity and mutual aidamong Ad ventist medical personnel of allnations. AIMS is now affiliated with theAlumni Association as its international arm.T h rough its efforts, aid has been given tomany overseas mission posts.

L I G AA significant force for medical serv i c e

“ b e l ow the bord e r” is LIGA. This organiza-tion, originally known as “Liga Pa n a m e r i c a n aMèdico, Educacional, y Tr a b a j a d o res So c i a l e s , ”

was formed by a group of CME/LLU a l u m n iintent on helping the poor of Mexico withoutm o n e t a ry pay.

Ac t i ve in LIGA have been Clarence Ne l s o n’18, Iner S. Ritchie ’15, Iner W. Ritchie ’41,Ralph Smith ’16, Gerald Miller ’57 and manyothers. While not involving official Ge n e r a lC o n f e rence appointments, these vo l u n t e e r sh a ve served well on week-end and va c a t i o nerrands at their own expense.

S I M SThe students of LLUSM under the spon-

sorship of Ralph Harris ’60-aff and other fac-u l t y, organized SIMS—Students for In t e r-national Mission Se rvice. This group hass p o n s o red and encouraged senior medical stu-dents taking three-month elective periods inf o reign mission hospitals. These elective stintsoften prompt the students to accept futurelong-term mission appointments, and even ifnot, they provide beneficial insights into for-eign cultures and needs.

Gre g o ry Mims, MD, spent times with the SIMS organization while attending Loma Li n d aUn i versity as a School of Medicine student.


Ed i t o r’s note: The lateCa r rol Small ’34 prov i d e dinsight into the unselfishs e rvice of medical missions.An historical perspectivewhich is re l e vant to all whoa re concerned for their fel-l ow man. Used by perm i s-sion from SCO PE, Oc t o-b e r - De c e m b e r, 1991.

In His parting mes-sage to His disciples,Jesus commanded,

“ Go ye into all theworld, and preach thegospel to every creature.”That goal was largely met in 30 years.

To help Christ’s modern disciples obey thesame command, Loma Linda Un i versity wasfounded. At the urgent request of Se ve n t h - d a yAd ventist church leader Ellen White andt h rough the unwavering faith of John Bu rd e nand his colleagues, a beginning was made in1905 in the 64-room hotel at Loma Linda,renamed “Loma Linda Sa n i t a r i u m . ”Comparing that tremulous beginning withthe Un i versity today, we can only echo, “W h a thath God wro u g h t ! ”

To go into all the world, 20th centuryChristians needed education. No sooner hadLoma Linda Sanitarium accepted patientsthan Mrs. White urged establishment of aschool for Christian health attendants ande d u c a t o r s .

Ac c o rd i n g l y, in Ja n u a ry, 1906, a School of

Nursing opened, ands e ven nurses graduated in1907. Even during theirstudent days they consid-e red “all the world” toinclude San Be r n a rd i n o ,Redlands, and other near-by locales.

Many small gro u p stook religious books andfomentation cloths intolocal homes and tre a t e dboth soul and bodies.C i t i zens of the area we rea s s u red that these re l i-gious entre p reneurs fro m“the hill” we re practical,

useful public service servants. The School ofNursing has graduated over 5,000 nurses sincet h e n .

Mrs. White kept urging more education—b e yond what could be offered in a pure l ynursing curriculum. T h e re f o re, with Jo h nBu rden as manager of the Sanitarium, G. K.Abbott, MD, as medical dire c t o r, and Ju l i aWhite, MD, as director of the School ofNursing, the Loma Linda College ofEvangelists was instituted.

The first day of school saw the few teach-ers solemnly assembled, the college dulyd e c l a red in session, but no students pre s e n t .Howe ve r, within three months, several yo u n gChristians had developed enough faith to fur-nish a student body of about 35 to begin a rig-o rous pro g r a m .

The newly formed College of Eva n g e l i s t s

I N TO A L L T H E W O R L Dby Ca r rol S. Small ’34, editor emeritus

Ca r rol S. Small, MD


e m p h a s i zed training health educators to workwith SDA ministers in evangelistic “e f f o rt s . ”This college offered a thre e - year course, but itsdiploma had no weight with any health-re l a t-ed licensing body.

Although it graduated a large number ofhealth teachers well trained in diet, Bi b l eteaching, and hyd ro t h e r a p y, these devo u tgraduates (they had to be devout, or theywould never have entered the sacrificiallifestyle demanded of “medical eva n g e l i s t s” inthose days) made ve ry valuable colleagues tom i n i s t e r s .

While the Loma Linda School of Nu r s i n gand the College of Evangelists we re pro d u c i n ghealth educators, Ellen White promoted alarger vision. She now urged the Loma Lindag roup to begin training physicians.

Wow! What a challenge!The challenge was met and the first med-

ical class matriculated in 1909. When the dis-cussion arose about the purpose of this newmedical school, Mrs. White pre s c r i b e d“gospel, medical, missionary evangelists,” andthe name became College of Me d i c a lEvangelists, a title carried with honors until1961, when the name was changed to LomaLinda Un i ve r s i t y.

Exact data are lacking on nursing graduatesand their mission activities, but knowing thef requency of physician-nurse marriagesamong CME alumni, one can safely pre d i c tthat accompanying the hundreds of medicalalumni who occupied foreign mission postswe re some hundreds of nurse spouses.

The first medical graduates of CMEm a rched in June 1914. By 1921 a total of 102had re c e i ved their degrees and entered fore i g ns e rvice or its equiva l e n t .

First to go was Ro b e rt Hall ’14, who set uppractice in Alaska (later in Oregon), where hesaw five of his neighbors join the local

Ad ventist church in the first five ye a r s .Next we re his classmates Fred and Lavina

He rzer ’14, who went to the Philippines withthe U.S. Public Health Se rvice. They we resoon followed by Donald Da ve n p o rt ’15, whoset up a mission hospital in China. CharlesHarrison ’15 served 30 years in Australia at theSydney Sanitarium as a surgeon and medicald i re c t o r.

In 1924 all 12 members of the Class of ’15we re in denominational employ—half ofthem in foreign lands. Of the 102 School ofMedicine alumni through 1921, 28 serve doverseas. The other 74 we re active in spiritualand health education in their homeland.

As staff members of Ad ventist sanitariumsand hospitals, as teachers at CME, as genero u smembers of local churches, as strong sustain-ers of Christian schools, and as honest, sober-minded citizens of their towns and their pro-fession, the alumni of CME/LLUSM havebeen true philanthropists—missionaries forC h r i s t .

C M E / L LU S M has graduated 6,900 physi-cians, 680 of whom have occupied missionpositions for one year or more. Over 6,000SM alumni remained as “home” missionaries.They have built schools, churches, and col-leges. They too we re—and are — m i s s i o n a r i e s .

Se ven of our alumni have served the SDAc h u rch as medical secretaries at the Ge n e r a lC o n f e rence: Ha rold M. Walton ’28, T h e o d o reFlaiz ’38, Ralph Waddell ’36, Samuel De s h a y’59, Me rvyn Ha rdinge ’42, G. Go rd o nHadley ’44-B, and now Albert Whiting ’58.In addition, many have held comparable postsin division and union confere n c e s .

Still another group of medical missionarieshas served as missionary teachers. Two schoolsin particular have been benefited: ChristianMedical College (CMC) at Ve l l o re in So u t hIndia, and Kasturba Medical College (KMC)


through the years, eight faculty members forterms of up to five years.

These “m i s s i o n a ry” teachers have prov i d e da much-appreciated service to CMC, whereabout sixty Ad ventist medical graduates havefilled positions at the chain of Ad ventist hos-pitals throughout India. The graduates fro mKMC are also accepting their places in thisland of great need.

Those who have gone to Ve l l o re andManipal are part of our “m i s s i o n s” heritage.The influences exe rted will never die.

at Manipal, 400 miles farther we s t .Adventist mission hospitals in India need

a constant supply of physicians, dentists, andnurses. It is better to educate them in theirhomeland than to send them abroad. Soleaders of the Southern Asia Division ofSDA approached the administration ofCMC and KMC asking them to acceptAdventist students from India. In exchangeit was agreed to re c ruit we l l - q u a l i f i e dAd ventist faculty for these schools.Ac c o rd i n g l y, Loma Linda has loaned,

Loma Linda Un i versity has a 20-year partnership with Kasturba Medical College located inManipal, India. As part of an agreement between Loma Linda Un i versity and Kasturba, Se ve n t h -day Ad ventist students who are admitted into their health-related pro g rams are excused from classes

and examinations that may take place on the Sa b b a t h .


The first CME graduate to go to an ove r-seas mission station was not a man but awoman. Her name was Ol i ve Sa n t e e -

Smith ’15. She was the daughter of El d e rC l a rence Santee (the first president of theSouthern California Conference of SDA andlong-time CME Bible teacher).

She and her sister, Orpha L. Santee, graduat-ed in CME’s second graduating class—the classof 1915.

CME then existed for one purpose: to trainChristian physicians to practice medicine with aphilosophy and lifestyle consistent with the com-mission to preach the gospel to all the world. Allother objectives we re held to be self-serv i n g .

Dr. Ol i ve felt a compunction to go ove r s e a sbut when she graduated, World War I was rag-ing and travel on the high seas was dangerous. Sofor a time she was an employee of her almam a t e r. Her husband, a nurse, was employed byLoma Linda Sanitarium and Ho s p i t a l .

As sounds of peace began, the Smiths madeplans to leave, arriving in Calcutta, India, in Se p-tember 1918, some two months beforeArmistice Da y. Their first assignment was inC h u k a rkana, in the Pu n j a b, about 35 miles we s tof Lahore (now in Pakistan).

Dr. Ol i ve was assigned to care for the womenand children of the medical facility. Sh o rtly afterher arrival Dr. V. L. Mann, the hospital dire c t o r,left on furlough and she was placed in charge ofthe entire facility.

Her husband, Frank, assisted in the clinicand hospital in addition to supervising the con-s t ruction of some of the buildings—many ofwhich stand to this day. To visit the sick in the

s u r rounding villages Frank would transport hiswife, seated on the handlebars of his bicycle. T h et e m p e r a t u re often rose above 100 degre e s .Despite cork helmets and strips of red flanneld own the spine (according to the protocol of theBritish Army and Na v y, and mission policy) theove rw o rk and heat we re too much for Dr. Ol i ve .Her health broke under the strain.

Friends in Loma Linda, hearing of her plight,sent money to the Smiths to purchase a horse andtonga. The Smiths could now ride in the shadeand conserve their energy. It wasn’t long before thea d vantages of this new mode of transport a t i o np o s i t i vely affected her health. Howe ve r, when themission president heard of this, he informed themthat such a luxury was not permitted for mission-aries. While the Smiths we re on leave the missionp resident sold the horse and rig!

Again, the ove rw o rk and extreme heat inwhich the Smiths we re forced to travel took theirtoll and Dr. Ol i ve’s health deteriorated. In 1920the Smiths we re transferred to beautifulBa n g a l o re, South India. In this higher eleva t i o n ,at a semi-hill station and health re s o rt, Dr. Ol i veregained her strength and served with distinctionfor three more ye a r s .

Dr. Smith wrote a poem shortly after arrivingat Chukarkana. The last verse re a d s :

“ So from week to week we gather,Glad to know we have a partIn the work of God for mort a l sThat are dear to His great heart . ”

Dr. Ol i ve and her husband re t i red andm oved to a house on Prospect Avenue in LomaLinda, California, where they lived until herdeath on April 28, 1946.

The story of Olive Santee-Smith, MDThe first CME graduate to go to an overseas mission station

Adapted from an article by the late Dunbar Smith ’50.

Adapted from an article by Dunbar Smith ’50



In August, 2000, a medical conve n t i o nwas held in Cernica where our seminaryis located in Romania. Physicians and

nurses in the past have met separately onalternate years but now will be meeting ye a r-ly together. Dr. Gily Ionescu, the Un i o nhealth dire c t o r, organizes these events. Tw oyears ago 120 physicians attended out of atotal of 317 Ad ventist physicians inRomania. At that time I had the opport u n i-ty to speak for 15 hours on nutrition.Donald Hall, doctor of public health, pre s i-dent of We l l So u rce in Clackamas, Ore g o n ,also lectured at those meetings.

One physician presented how he organize dhis own private practice and is doing we l l .This is unique in a country of socialized med-icine. Another physician in conjunction withthe He a rt Institute has done a study on thelipids of vegetarians compared to non-ve g e t a r-ians. The laboratory director thought thephysician has mislabelled the groups of bloodspecimens because the vegetarians had leve l swhich we re so much better. He was sure itshould be the other way around. This physi-cian has also shown that in Romania a diet ofplant foods would provide more nutrients forthe dollar than a meat-based diet. He, himself,

R O M A N I A H E A LT H W O R Kby John A. Scharffenberg, MD

Grand opening ceremonies for the Herghelia Health Center located in Romania, took place onAugust 27, 1996. The 32-bed facility is located on nearly 50 acres of land.


returned from being quite ove rweight to nor-mal weight as a result of the change in his diet.

The union conference has established aclinic in Bu c h a rest on the ground floor of alarge building. Loma Linda Un i versity hassupplied a binocular microscope for themwhich was necessary in order to open their lab-o r a t o ry in this facility. At the top floor of thisbuilding is the voice of Hope Ad ventist radiostation. A physician does a talk show eve rySabbath from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.

Gily Ionescu produced a CD-rom contain-ing all the important materials for health edu-cation in English and in Romanian which wassold out quickly at the convention for $5.00e a c h .

All the workers who we re present fro mHerghelia Health Center we re intro d u c e d .The Health Center is breaking even financial-ly and can accept 32 persons for each session.They are completely booked up for the nexts e veral months. One session each year a gro u pattends from Ge r m a n y.

The health center was started by Dr.Nicolae Dan approximately six years ago. In1999 a school of health evangelism wasopened. English and computers are taught forthe first six months and then nutrition, anato-my and physiology, hyd rotherapy and mas-sage, how to give health talks, health eva n g e l-ism, etc., are taught in English the second sixmonths. T h e re we re 16 in the class this schoolyear where I taught for five weeks a course inp re ve n t i ve nutrition. Eight we re fro mRomania, one Ukraine, one Russian (a Ph Dm i c robiologist), one Lithuania, one Bu l g a r i a ,and four from Hu n g a ry. The chair of theb o a rd has offered to pay half of the first ye a r’ss a l a ry for any conference who hires theseyoung people. The students in this school arec o n ve rted young people. A number of themh a ve just been baptized within the past two

years. The four of them from Hu n g a ry we rei n vo l ved in a vegetarian club which then helde vangelistic meetings and organized a newc h u rch. Ni n e t y - f i ve percent of the members inthis new church are vegetarians. The school inHerghelia is in great need of a good LCD pro-j e c t o r.

Dr. Dan was invited to write up the dietaryguidelines for reducing heart disease risk thatwill be used nationally.

Romania has a self-supporting nursingschool. This school re c e i ves no subsidy fro mthe Union Conference although it pro d u c e smany more graduates than the T h e o l o g i c a lSe m i n a ry.

Tu b e rculosis is the second greatest publichealth disease problem in Romania. The Gy p s i e sp a rticularly are a problem in this situation. T h ecases are found ve ry late among this gro u p.Iodine deficiency occurs as noted by urine testsof the newborn where at least one in eight iss e ve rely deficient but in the town of Cluj thatwas studied one in three was deficient. Io d i ze dsalt must be used and at least one-third of a tea-spoon should be consumed each day. Vi t a m i nB-12 is not available but would have to bei m p o rted to fortify total ve g e t a r i a n s’ soy milk.

In Budapest, Hu n g a ry, there are goodlibraries with most all the medical and nutri-tional journals that we have in the Un i t e dStates. One can access Medline easily and thelibrarian showed us the CD-roms containingthe full articles of what we we re only able toget abstracts on from Me d l i n e .

Many in the past have supported thehealth center in Herghelia. They are deserv i n gof our support because of the excellent pro-gram they are conducting which is alre a d yresulting in persons joining the Church. Su c ha center is the first of its kind in Romania andhas gained the attention of the health leadersof the country.


The Se p t e m b e r - December 1999 issueof the Al u m n i J O U R N A L p rovided ac o m p re h e n s i ve and fascinating histo-

ry of our medical work in Ethiopia. Ma n yg reat missionaries of the past developed fourd i f f e rent hospitals which served the peoplefor many years. After 17 years of Communistrule, ending in 1991, only Gimbie Ad ve n t i s tHospital in the western highlands, re m a i n e dunder church contro l .

In early 1997, Gimbie re c e i ved a letterf rom the local government that it must meeta number of necessary standards or it wouldbe shut down. This threatened closure wastaken seriously by theEthiopian Union, asGimbie was our lasthealth work in the coun-t ry. Yet they simply didnot have the means ore x p e rtise to adequatelyre s p o n d .

A request for assis-tance was sent to theGeneral Conference, andsubsequently on to LomaLinda Un i versity with aplea for help. Our neworganization at LLU ,called Ad ventist He a l t hInternational (AHI), wasasked to take on this chal-lenge as one of its firstpilot projects. After a pre-l i m i n a ry site visit in

September 1997, Ad ventist He a l t hIn t e r n a t i o n a l - Ethiopia was formed to under-take the difficult task of rescuing Gi m b i eAd ventist Hospital and re e s t a b l i s h i n gAd ventist health work in Ethiopia. This newcorporation included three corporate mem-bers—Loma Linda Un i ve r s i t y, the EasternAfrican Division and the Ethiopian Union. Anine member board was selected includingfaculty from LLU School of Public He a l t hand selected others from the U.S. andEthiopia. As I write, I am on my way homef rom our latest board meeting in Addis Ab a b aon Ma rch 23, and would like to u p d a t e

U P D AT E O N E T H I O P I Aby Richard H. Ha rt ’70, MD, DrPHDean, LLU School of Public He a l t hC h a n c e l l o r, Loma Linda Un i ve r s i t y

Students from Loma Linda Un i versity participated in a project to helpexpand Gimbie Ad ventist Hospital in 1998.


AIMS Jo u rn a l readers on the pro g ress that isbeing made.

When AHI started in Gimbie in 1998,not only was the physical plant greatly ru nd own and without even minimum supplies,the morale of the staff was extremely low.The ones left had faced so many years off rustrations and disappointments, they haddifficulty believing that anything couldi m p rove. Even worse, they had come toexpect eve rything to be done for them fro mthe outside, adopting an attitude of completedependence on foreign aid and leadership.Even more discouraging in some ways wasthe frequent pessimism of former missionar-ies who had followed Ethiopian churc hactivities and we re doubtful that anythingcould be accomplished. The national SDAc h u rch itself was embroiled in a painful splitamong the members and was essentiallyb a n k rupt. All they could offer was morals u p p o rt and the interdivision budgetsassigned to Gimbie. It was clearly one of themost difficult situations I had seen in all myinternational invo l vement through the ye a r sand a rather challenging beginning for AHI.We also had a similar crisis at Da v i sMemorial Hospital in Guyana that AHI hadbeen asked to work on. We could only say,“ L e t’s not be afraid to tackle some of thetoughest ones, and if we surv i ve it will be eas-ier from here . ”

First, plans for a new hospital buildingwe re developed for Gimbie. The originals t ru c t u res we re built by the Italians in the1940s and we re inadequate for the 200,000local and two million regional populationn ow utilizing the hospital. After initialfundraising, a 28-member team from LomaLinda, including primarily SIMS students,spent two weeks there in Ma rch 1998, tobegin construction. A Dutch team had

a l ready arrived and the foundation was dugfor the new building while extensive timewas spent with the staff trying to re s t a rt ateam spirit and service concept. Se veral vo l-unteer builders, starting with Mu n ro eMo rf o rd, and then led primarily by Ge n eWi t zel, gradually made pro g ress on a thre e -s t o ry, 21,000 square foot building.Movement on this new stru c t u re has beens l ow, due to intermittent volunteers and dif-ficulty raising adequate funds, but the sec-ond floor slab is now ready to be poure d .Donations of necessary medical equipmenta re waiting for the building to be completed,and the threatened closure by the gove r n-ment has been re m oved. Local church lead-ers are delighted to see pro g ress but are underconsiderable political pre s s u re on va r i o u sissues. They have honored their commit-ment to only work through their positionson the AHI-Ethiopia board, and let this newmanagement system deal with all personneland financial issues. The magic of e-mail isn ow available at Gimbie and has gre a t l yassisted us in dealing with the many difficultsituations we have faced as the corporates t ru c t u re has gradually changed.

Even more gratifying than the buildingp ro g ress has been the development of a news t a f f. After utilization of short-term vo l u n-teers, the regular staff started arriving inNovember 1999. First was Darla Lee, withgraduate degrees in both public health andnursing. She is serving as matron and is facedwith the daunting task of reestablishing ade-quate nursing standards in the institution.Then Ken Rose ’88 arrived. He is trained inboth surgery and management, most re c e n t-ly working in Penang, and is now serving asmedical dire c t o r. Sh o rtly after the arrival ofKen and his family in December 1999, Ni c kWalters ’89 and family came. Along with two


Ethiopian doctors, Dr. Desalygn, an ob-gynspecialist, and Dr. Zenith, a generalist, ourmedical needs are now cove red. A number ofs h o rt-term volunteers continue to assist anda team from Po rtland was recently there, ledby Erling Oksenholt, MD. We made themistake of re p o rting on national news of thist e a m’s visit and the first morning they hadover 1,000 patients waiting from all acro s sthe country !

While there are still many challenges, notleast among them raising the final $100,000needed to complete the new building, themorale at Gimbie has significantly improve d .De veloping long-term leadership, establish-ing local pride in providing quality care, put-ting together careful financial managementsystems, assuring adequate supplies of medi-cines and other items, are all part of eve ryd a y’s struggles.

The general difficulties in the countryh a ve impacted all health care services, cer-tainly including the government, which isgratified that Gimbie has surv i ved and iss t a rting to thrive .

At our last board meeting, we agreed toexpand AHI leadership to the fourteen clin-ics operated by the church throughout thec o u n t ry. We are seeking grant support fro ms e veral sources to upgrade their physical facil-ities and will start managing them through aphased-in plan over the next two ye a r s .Ad d i t i o n a l l y, AHI-Ethiopia has been askedby the World Bank and the Et h i o p i a nMi n i s t ry of Health to develop an onchocer-ciasis control program for western Et h i o p i a .Me rck and SmithKline have offered fre eIvermectin and Albendazole to the world fort reating this cause of elephantiasis and rive rblindness which is pre valent in many deve l-oping countries. David Dyjack and LarryThomas ’74 from our faculty are leading out

in this effort, which is primarily funded bythe World Bank and coordinated by APOC(African Program for On c h o c e rc i a s i sC o n t rol). Our invo l vement with this muchneeded initiative will expand our influenceand start down an estimated 14-year strategyto eradicate this serious problem. One pillonce a year controls this disease amonghumans. This allows time for the vectors togradually lose their infectivity.

The needs in Ethiopia are nearly ove r-whelming. Our beginning efforts thro u g hAHI are greatly appreciated by the peopleand are receiving national attention. Afterour board meetings, we we re invited to visitwith the president of the country who hadrecently stayed at Gimbie while opening ah yd roelectric plant in that area. He expre s s e dhis appreciation to AHI and Loma LindaUn i versity for the pro g ress that has beenmade.

T h e re is much more to do, and our plansinclude developing several training pro-grams. While at his office in Haile Se l a s s i e’sbeautiful old palace, we asked if we couldvisit the original SDA hospital on the palaceg rounds. He graciously obliged and we we reable to tour this solid stru c t u re where ourhealth work began back in the 1920s andw h e re Clyde Bergman ’54 grew up as hisf a t h e r, George Bergman ’24, treated both theroyal family and the local people. The build-ing is now being used as administrativeoffices, but is well maintained and surro u n d-ed by beautiful gro u n d s .

Those who have committed years of serv-ice to Ethiopia can be proud of the incre a s-ing church health work in the country. Weencourage your prayers, donations and offersof service as we seek to complete this majort u r n a round at Gimbie and thro u g h o u tEthiopia.


Dunbar W. Smith ,MD, died Tu e s d a y,October 17, 2000,

at the Redlands CommunityHospital, exactly 90 ye a r safter he was born. Ha v i n gsuccessfully come thro u g hemergency surgery for a ru p-t u red spleen, he was gettingalong fairly well and wasalmost ready to go home,but suddenly deve l o p e dcomplications and passeda w a y.

Dr. Smith was bornduring a seve re Mi d we s ts n owstorm on October 17, 1910, on the secondfloor of the John Dunbar house in Du n b a r,Nebraska. His father was Clarence Du n b a rSmith, who had married Marie Christine Ed e nin December of 1909. Dunbar was the firstbornof four brothers and one sister, the eldest grand-son of Ma ry Dunbar Smith, and the secondgrandson of John and Johanna Ed e n .

Dr. Sm i t h’s re c o rd of service for the Se ve n t h -day Ad ventist denomination is enviable. Hes e rved as minister, clinical physician, and healthadministrator in four different world divisions,and was a solid supporter of the worldwide workfor the church. At the time of his death, he wasauthor of six books. He served on the boards ofthe Alumni Association of the School ofMedicine of Loma Linda Un i ve r s i t y, theAd ventist International Medical So c i e t y(AIMS), also here in Loma Linda, the Em e r a l d

Health and Ed u c a t i o nFoundation, and theL e p rosy Board .

Dr. Sm i t h’s pare n t sbecame Se venth-day Ad-ventists in 1882. At onetime, the Se ve n t h - d a yAd ventist church in Du n-b a r, Nebraska, was thelargest church in thedenomination west of theMissouri Rive r. This wasthe same church thatyoung Dunbar attended inhis youth. The family laterm oved to Kimball County,

w h e re he attended school.In 1925, the Smith family moved to New

Yo rk City where Du n b a r’s father had takene m p l oyment. The big city was drastically differ-ent from their Nebraska home in the town ofDu n b a r. The conference president at that timewas Carlyle B. Haynes, and the pastor of thec h u rch in Manhattan was L. K. Dickson. Bothof these men later became members of theGeneral Conference staff.

Young Dunbar enrolled in the Greater NewYo rk Academy which was located in Up p e rManhattan at that time. Both Dunbar andEden we re baptized in the old Temple Churc hof Manhattan in New Yo rk City. After a year atthe former Southern Junior College, Du n b a rdecided to go west to attend the So u t h e r nCalifornia Junior College which is now LaSierra Un i ve r s i t y.

R e m e m b e r i n g

D U N B A R W. SMITH, MD


He graduated from the junior college in1932. Later on, he decided to go to San Diego totake the nurses’ course, graduating from theParadise Valley Sanitarium and Hospital in 1935.

During this time, he met Kathryn, his futurewife. They we re in each other’s company for along time before they decided to get married.On May 2, 1935, they joined their lives togeth-er in the Riverside Church, with Earl Ha c k m a np residing, who at that time was president of theSoutheastern California Conference. The Sm i t h shoneymooned in a cabin at Lake Arrow h e a d .

Dr. Smith was employed by the conference asa pastor on July 1, 1935. His first assignmentwas to pastor the El Cajon and Lemon Grovec h u rches. As an intern pastor of two churc h e s(with no perks except a modest automobilea l l owance), his salary was $16 a week.

It was while pastoring in this conference thathe re c e i ved a call to do evangelistic work in In d i aas an overseas missionary. The family left theUnited States on May 9, 1939, with their firstson, We s l e y, who was only three weeks old.

Dr. Smith was called to mission service inIndia as an evangelist to English-speaking peopleof the Southern Asia Division. The Ge n e r a lC o n f e rence provided a special budget of$10,000 for him to carry out this work. Arrivingone week before World War II b roke out, heheld his first three-month campaign in Po o n a ,India. At that time, Poona was headquarters forthe division.

As a result of Dr. Sm i t h’s first series, five peo-ple we re baptized. He was disappointed withthese results, but was told that some missionarieshad been in India for a lifetime and had baptize dnone. During that same time, he also served asthe acting pastor of the Poona churc h .

He was later transferred to the island ofCeylon (now called Sri Lanka) where he heldt h ree campaigns. The first was in the ColomboTown Hall. He also served as pastor of the

Colombo church. The second campaign was atthe Colpetty church, and the third was atNu g e o d a .

Dr. Smith built a tabernacle with his co-w o rkers that could be moved from place toplace. The group attempted another series ofmeetings at Nugeoda, but we re not ve ry success-ful. They also tried to go to Ba n g a l o re andB o m b a y, but could not get permits for this.

The Division president, Elder Low ry, wro t ethe following summary of Du n b a r’s work in theAd ventist Re v i e w:

“ Dunbar Smith baptized 100 people inC o l o m b o. This is a new day. We never saw thisin the Southern Asia Division before . ”

To d a y, in the year 2001, people are beingb a p t i zed by the thousands in the Southern AsiaDivision. In fact, this is, at present, the fastest-g rowing division in the world field.

Because of the war, all Americans we re, at ac e rtain point, ord e red to return home. Mrs.Smith and baby Wesley left Colombo on a fast,n ew fre i g h t e r. They saw ships going down andan enemy sub resting on the surface one night.This was during the height of submarine sink-ings during the war.

After another period of time, Dr. Smith wasalso ord e red to return home. He left Bombay ina troop ship with over 300 other missionaries.On the way home, they we re attacked by a sub-marine, but fortunately surv i ve d .

Reaching the United States, Dr. Smith wasassigned to the Omaha, Nebraska church. It wasduring this time that he had difficulty with hisvoice. After a great deal of treatment, his physi-cian indicated that he must not utter a word fora year in order to heal. This effectively ended hisc a reer as preacher of the gospel.

Dr. Smith enrolled at La Sierra College andcompleted the premedical course. He thene n t e red Loma Linda Un i versity (then known asthe College of Medical Evangelists) and graduat-


ed in 1950, after which he returned to theSouthern Asia Division as a physician.

Dr. Smith joined his bro t h e r, Dr. Eden, whowas medical director in Rangoon, Burma. Inaddition to his work as a physician, Dr. Sm i t halso served as the pastor of the Rangoon churc h .After one ye a r, he then went to Surat, and hisb ro t h e r, Eden, went to Simla, In d i a .

Dr. Smith returned to the United States in1956, and was asked to head the Battle Cre e kSanitarium in Michigan. He later helped openthe Bates Memorial Hospital. Un f o rt u n a t e l y,New Yo rk’s gove r n o r, Nelson Ro c k e f e l l e r,claimed right of eminent domain and thentook the pro p e rt y, resulting in the loss of thei n s t i t u t i o n .

Dr. Smith then took the public healthcourse at Columbia Un i versity and later serve das deputy commissioner of health for Na s s a uCounty until he was called to be the medicald i rector for the Trans-Africa Division.

He served for six years as the health dire c t o rfor that division and then was transferred tos e rve as medical director of the Far EasternDivision, where he served until his re t i re m e n tin 1980. Dr. Sm i t h’s career included 40 years ofdenominational service. Of these, 20 years we rein overseas service, and nine of these years we respent in In d i a .

Even after re t i rement, Dr. Smith vo l u n t e e re dfor relief service. He went to Africa three timesand also served for a time at the Andrew sMemorial Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica. InAfrica, Dr. and Mrs. Smith spent three monthseach at the Mu g o n e ro Hospital in Rwanda, theKenya Hospital in Botswana, the MwamiHospital in Zambia, and the Maluti Hospital inL e s o t h o.

With the exception of the Andrew sMemorial Hospital in Jamaica, Dr. and Mrs.Smith knew the institutions ve ry well, havingvisited them many times during the time Dr.

Smith served as the medical director of theTrans-Africa Di v i s i o n .

In re t i rement, Dr. Smith became ve ry inter-ested in Se venth-day Ad ventist work in Ire l a n d .Since he was Scotch-Irish, he took an interest inthe activities of a man he met at the Calimesac h u rch where he was a member.

Pastor B.R. Sp e a r, also re t i red, had gone toEngland to see his home country, and then toIreland, his wife’s ancestral home.

Elder and Mrs. Spear we re inspired to forma philanthropic organization called theEmerald Health and Education Fo u n d a t i o nwhose primary object was to reach the peopleof Ireland through the health message and edu-cational are a s .

He served on the Board of the Em e r a l dFoundation as member, vice-president, andp resident, and was a faithful member until thetime of his death. Dr. Smith was always inter-ested in doing all he could to help the people ofIreland, and visited the country five times.

During this period, the Em e r a l dFoundation financed the building of six re p re-s e n t a t i ve churches and purchased the pro p e rt yon which are situated three schools.Corporations are set up in Ireland to holdp ro p e rties in the are a .

Dr. Smith leaves to mourn his wife,K a t h ryn; two sons: We s l e y, now re t i red and liv-ing in the Chicago area; and John, who is alsok n own as Bud, a plastic surgeon in Chicago;f i ve grandchildren and one gre a t - g r a n d c h i l dwho is living with her parents in England; twob rothers: Eden, of Redlands, California; andJe r ry, of Boulder, Colorado; one sister, Ma ryMunce of Boise, Id a h o.

Dr. Smith also leaves to mourn manyfriends and acquaintances made in Africa,India, the Far East, the east coast of the Un i t e dStates, and here in the Loma Linda area of theUnited States. He will be greatly missed.


It is as though a precious icon is missingand, as yet, we have not been able tocomprehend the loss. Our lives have

touched through the years, sometimesunknowingly and at other times with thegood sparks of a rich Christian fellowship.In the dimsy past both our families severedtheir roots in Scot-land and settled alongthe banks of the St.Lawrence River.

I first met theSmith family in 1940t h rough Du n b a r’sbrother, Jerry. He wasmy classmate in theClass of 1944-B, andmore than classmate,he was our class pres-ident through eachyear of our stay inLoma Linda and theWhite. Later I metJohn and Eden andDunbar Smith.

In the later part of1973 I re c e i ved arequest (really my traveling orders) to pro-ceed to the Trans-Africa Division to assistin an evaluation of the medical work inthat field. Dunbar Smith was the MedicalDi rector for the Trans-Africa Di v i s i o n .Considerate and gracious as we all knowDunbar to be, he wrote and said that if wecould afford to pay for my wife’s plane fareto Africa, there would be transportation for

her in the field. It was our privilege to visitpractically every Adventist medical institu-tion in East and South Africa. Dunbar andKathryn, Kathleen and I traveled togetherfor two months. Roy Foster was our skillfulpilot for three thousand miles or more inthe No rthern part of the field. Kathry n’s sister,

Ma r g a ret joined us inSa l i s b u ry and we trav-eled another thre ethousand miles orm o re through So u t h-ern Africa in theSm i t h’s Chevrolet. Irecall evaluating eachhospital thro u g h o u tthe field. We deve l-oped standards appro-priate for the situationwith final grades ofcommendable, satis-f a c t o ry, and unsatisfac-t o ry. One hospitalp roved commendable,one satisfactory, theremainder unsatisfac-t o ry. It was so sad to

witness our dedicated workers striving to meetthe critical medical needs of their communi-ties with worn-out institutions. The reality ofthe situation was met with marked improve-ment, especially as money began to flow fro mg overnmental sources. It was so rew a rding tovisit our medical work in the far South and tosee and experience the skillful blend of medi-cine and ministry as practiced by our

D U N B A R W. SMITH, MDWilliam J. Wa g n e r, MD

Dunbar Smith at his 50th annive r s a ry classreunion at Loma Linda Un i versity in Ma rc h

2 0 0 0 .


our lives. And more than that, that Godhas a definite plan for His church. It is nota hidden plan but plain for all to under-stand.

Dunbar continued his ministry as a boardmember and project developer of theAd ventist International Medical So c i e t y.T h rough the past several years he has faithful-ly given his experience to this internationalg ro u p. He has also been a supporter and ad i rector of the Emerald Foundation, a gro u pseeking to support our church in Ire l a n d .

God called Dunbar, with Kathryn byhis side, to the medical ministry of theSeventh-day Adventist Church. He wasfaithful to that call and now rests in thelove and peace of our Lord and Savior,Jesus Christ.

Ad ventist medical workers there .Dunbar had a Go d - g i ven talent for

blending the past with a practical applica-tion to the present and an optimistic visionof the future. He possessed memory banksof the writings of Ellen White and couldrecall just the appropriate counsel to meetthe present situation.

C i rcumstances change but humannature is such that words recorded in thepast are still appropriate, especially thosewords inspired by God’s Holy Spirit. Hislife was blessed with complete certainty ofhis own ministry and the special messagee n t rusted to our church that mankindmight be prepared for Christ’s soon com-ing. His life witnessed to the fact that Godwas good and that he had a plan for each of

D r. Smith pruning roses in his gard e n . Ga rdening was one of his favorite re c reational activities.


The culmination of a dream come tru eo c c u r red November 27, 2000 atScheer Memorial Hospital of

Se venth-day Ad ventists, with the inaugura-tion of a new wing and the celebration of 40years of medical service to the people ofNepal.

The hospital opened its doors under thed i rection of Stanley Sturges, MD, in 1950.On my first relief assignment to re l i e ve Dr.John Ol i ver in 1979, the hospital hadn’tchanged much. It was still around 25 bedswith one operating room, two wards, and asmall one-room operating clinic. At thattime, I worked with Dr. Sh e r ry Re a d - Crow( n ow Sh restha). In 1992, I returned to cove r

t h ree months for Leonard Vigna, MD, andd i s c ove red that in the 80s, the hospital hadenlarged and added more beds, two largerand one small operating room, administra-tion offices and clinics, and a small emer-gency room. The building was now in theshape of a “u” with central patio. It was offi-cially listed as 58 beds, but in actual count,70 we re squeezed in, with an old army“MASH” tent erected on the patio contain-ing 20 additional beds for ove rf l ow. This wasespecially needed during the monsoon sea-son, when gastroenteritis, typhoid, andcholera we re pre va l e n t .

In July of 1997, we answe red a call fortwo months while the General Confere n c e

A Dream Come Tr u eby Ira Bailey ’52

Ira Bailie, MD, stands before the inaugural plaque at Sheer Memorial Hospital in Ne p a l .


tion for this was done under the superv i s i o nof ADRA. In Ma rch of 2000, the donorreturned, funding the completion of theinpatient floor, and walling and roofing thet h i rd floor under our superv i s i o n .

The project was completed with the helpof four groups of Australian Rotarians. T h e yb rought electrical supplies, and perf o r m e dv i rtually all of the electrical wiring and instal-lation, as well as much of the plumbing andcabinet making for the lab. Maranatha vo l-unteers (two groups) and ADRA Ge r m a n ydid brick-laying, cabinets, and shelving forboth the maternity unit and central supply.

Rotarian Mike Keckler of J.M. Ke c k l e rMedical Company, Oakdale, California,donated an obstetrics delive ry table, ac e s e a re a n - s e c t i o n / d e l i ve ry table, Ha n n a u l u xsurgical lights, monitors, beds and other sup-plies through the Modesto Ro t a ry Fo u n d a-t i o n .

The dream to expand had come tof ruition November 20, 2000, through thehelp of generous individuals donating funds,equipment, and time to improve the qualityof care offered to the people of Nepal.

looked for a surgeon to replace Dr. Vi g n a ,who had left for personal reasons. T h e i rs e a rch for such a replacement was unsuccess-ful, and so we accepted a call—or rathero f f e red—to stay for two years. In actuality,we stayed for three years total. The pre v i o u sadministration had been dreaming and pro-jecting expansion of the hospital. The newadministration, comprised of Rafael Ga rc i aas administrator, and me as medical dire c t o r,carried this same dream, and continuedplanning. Some funds became available fro mDivision Ingathering and ADRA Ne t h e r-lands, and we drew plans for a modulard e velopment, beginning with labor andd e l i ve ry off the end of the u-shaped building.This would also contain an operating ro o mand central supply.

In Ma rch of 1999, we re c e i ved a visitf rom folks who work through Ma r a n a t h a .They re v i ewed our plans and offered to fundthe construction of a re i n f o rced concre t e“s h e l l” to close off our u-shaped building.This would make the entire stru c t u re a hol-l ow square and we could then use our fundsto fill in the maternity unit. The constru c-

D r. and Mrs. Bailie stand in front of the new wing at Sheer Memorial Ho s p i t a l .


NEWS NOTESFROM AROUND THE

About 600 re g i s t rants attended the first South American Ad ventist Health Congress held in LaPlata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, last Se p t e m b e r. Simultaneous sessions for medicine, psyc h o l o gy, and

nursing health-care professionals we re held.

AIMS president El oy Schulz, MD, presents the AIMS Global Se rvice Aw a rd to Pe d ro Ta b u e n c a ,MD. Ap p reciation certificates we re presented to Jhonny de la Cruz, MD (left background), and Lu i s

Ga rcia, MD (not pictured), organizers of the eve n t .


A I M S Global meeting. The Ad ve n t i s tInternational Medical Society held a globalmeeting in To ronto, Canada, on July 5, 2000,in conjunction with the 57th Ge n e r a lC o n f e rence of Se venth-day Ad ventist session.During the AIMS meeting, A I M S Jo u rn a l e d i-tor Don Roth and AIMS president El oySchulz, MD, interv i ewed prominent Ad-ventists about their activities in medical worka round the world. Those interv i ewed includedMilton Afonso, from the Golden Cross healthinsurance in Brazil; James Cr a w f o rd, DDS,about global dental clinics; Samuel De Sh a y,MD, about a large medical compound on anisland of Lake Victoria in Africa; Os c a rGi o rdano, about a self-supporting chain ofhospitals and private clinics affiliated with theAd ventist church; Allan Ha n d y s i d e s ,MBChB, director of health ministries of theGeneral Conference of Se venth-day Ad-ventists, about the world-wide Ad ve n t i s thealth work; Richard H. Ha rt , MD, Dr PH ,dean, School of Public Health at Loma LindaUn i ve r s t i y, about Ad ventist He a l t hInternational; Ro b e rt Hopkins, MD, aboutophthalmology projects in Mexico; Pe d roTabuenca, MD; dean of the School ofMedicine, River Plate Ad ventist Un i ve r s i t y,En t re Rios, Argentina, about the medicalw o rk in South America; and Thomas J. Zi rk l e ,MD, special assistant to the president at LomaLinda Un i versity Ad ventist Health SciencesC e n t e r, about the medical work in Asia andA f r i c a .

James Cr a w f o rd visits As i a . Du r i n gNovember 2000, James Cr a w f o rd, DDS,attended the China Ministries Ad vance meet-ings held by the China Union Mission inHong Kong. While there, he visited theSe venth-day Ad ventist dental clinics at Ho n gKong, Tsuen Wan, Phuket, Penang, and

Pakistan. In Hong Kong, Dr. Ed w a rd Ko andDr. Ro c k f o rd Zee staff our clinic. Both aregraduates of Loma Linda Un i versity School ofDe n t i s t ry. This continues to be a modern andsuccessful clinic with a good reputation in thec i t y. Dr. Ko has many interesting insightsre g a rding his return to his homeland. He hastwo sons who now attend Pacific Un i o nCollege in Angwin, California. The Ts u e nWan Ad ventist Dental Clinic is directed byMo n t ree Huang, DDS, a hard - w o rking, dedi-cated gentleman who graduated from LomaLinda Un i ve r s i t y’s IDP program in 1987. T h i sclinic began as a satellite of the Hong Ko n gclinic and the staff works hard to provide theneeded service in the community. The Ph u k e tAd ventist Dental Clinic operates four operato-ries within the hospital. The director is Na n t j eTwijnstra, DDS, an orthodontist who is anamazing missionary lady (see separate storyunder “News No t e s”). In Penang, He n gKhoo, DDS, is hoping to begin a re n ova t i o np rogram that would improve their conditions.Samuel Ye ow Tee, DDS, recently arrived fro mLoma Linda Un i versity School of De n t i s t ryf rom the class of 2000. Raphiel Ba s h i r, DDS,is the only dentist in our clinic in Karachi,Pakistan, and he is doing a ve ry nice job underrather difficult circumstances. The hospitalneeds upgrading, but Dr. Bashir is in goodspirits, and working hard. He is starting atraining program for dental assistants andhygienists for the first time in the history ofthe hospital. Victor Gill, DDS, from Pe s h a w a rwas visiting Karachi during this time. T h ew o rk in Peshawar is something to be proud of.Dr. Gill provides a successful outreach pro-gram in that community.

Mission dentists studying at Loma LindaUn i ve r s i t y. Lala Khankichi, DDS, is makingmany friends as she continues her clinical


studies in the six-month advanced re s t o r a t i vep rogram at Loma Linda Un i versity School ofDe n t i s t ry. She will returned to Mo s c ow inMa rch, 2001. Karla Guerra, DDS, who hasbeen serving in Bangladesh, and Ma r i a n aOttoni, DDS, from the Bl a n t y re, Ma l a w iSe venth-day Ad ventist Clinc, will join the six-month program at that time. Ge r a rdo To l e d o ,DDS, is currently studying in the depart m e n tof religion at Loma Linda Un i ve r s i t y. He pre-viously operated the dental clinic at Dh a k a ,Bangladesh, and then did relief dentistry inBl a n t y re, East Africa, and Antigua, We s tIndies. He plans to combine clinical counsel-ing with his dental skills to further serve in theL o rd’s work .

Mo s c ow : Ted, DDS, and Phyllis Flaiz are cur-rently serving in the Mo s c ow Ad ve n t i s tHealth Center to help Charles Prow a n t ,DDS, who recently took up his position asdental clinic dire c t o r. They are hoping to findanother volunteer relief dentist when Dr. Fl a i zhas to return home in Ap r i l .

A f r i c a - Indian Oc e a n : Congratulations toMonita Bu rtch on her appointment as Di re c t o rof Health Ministries for the Central AfricaUnion Mission. She has served the Ya o u n d eSe venth-day Ad ventist Dental Clinic with herhusband, Dr. Pe r ry Bu rtch, since 1989. Let’skeep them in our prayers as they serve in thisexpanded phase of mission serv i c e .

Phuket, T h a i l a n d : Congratulations toNantje Twijnstra, DDS, director of the Ph u k e tAd ventist Hospital Dental Clinic, on becom-ing a Life Member of the National Associationof Se venth-day Ad ventist Dentists (NAS-DAD). This designation re p resents 25 years ofNASDAD membership. Howe ve r, Dr.Twijnstra has dedicated most of her life to mis-

sion dentistry. In 1950, she established a mis-sion dental clinic in Medan, Indonesia, whereshe served for 14 years. Dr. James Cr a w f o rdcalled her to work in the Bangkok Se ve n t h -day Ad ventist Clinic in 1965. He re p o rts thatit was an honor for him to present her with alife member key during his recent visit to theSouthern Asia-Pacific Division. Even thoughshe is an octogenarian, she continues to prac-tice orthodontics re g u l a r l y. In addition to hero rthodontic practice, Dr. Tw i j n s t r a’s ministryhas included making a home and prov i d i n ge l e m e n t a ry education for more than 80 chil-d ren over the past 20 years. She also teachespiano and continues her hobby of re s t o r i n gold Bibles. We wish her Go d’s continued bless-ings in her untiring work .

Hong Kong: Ed w a rd Ko, DDS, re c e n t l ya r r i ved to take up his duties as director of theHong Kong Ad ventist Dental Clinic. He give sthanks to God for the encouragement ofVirgil Erlandson, DDS, who advised him toobtain a Hong Kong license soon after gradu-ation so that he would be in a position toreplace him in Hong Kong this ye a r. Afterpracticing in Bakersfield, California, for 14years, he was able to sell his practice to anoth-er Loma Linda Un i versity graduate and re t u r nto the place of his birth and serve the dentalneeds of his people.

Antigua: Dr. and Mrs. Gu s t a vo Slekis re c e n t-ly took over the direction of the Se ve n t h - d a yAd ventist Dental Clinic in Antigua, We s tIndies. We have learned that they depart e dwithin days of their wedding and arrived onthe island of Antigua with the task of findinghousing, and of re-opening the dental clinicthat had recently been operated by theirfriend, Ge r a rdo To l e d o. We wish them successand happiness in their new life together.


St. Vincent: Dr. and Mrs. Bill Palmer will beon volunteer service to complete the installa-tion of the equipment at the St. Vi n c e n tSe venth-day Ad ventist Clinic, and will re -open the dental practice while the search ismade for a permanent dentist.

Ha r a re, Zi m b a bwe : Da ve Wilkinson, DDS, theo rthodontist in Ha r a re, is anxious for a re p l a c e-ment to be found for him anytime between now

and 2003. This is a good location, with an exc e l-lent reputation. This is a busy practice with alarge, comfortable house with a pool, and theg rounds are full of exotic flowers and fru i t .

Some helpful Web sites for you: T h eGeneral Conference Health De p a rtment has aweb site that lists all mission dental clinicsalong with available e-mail addre s s e s :< w w w. h e a l t h 2 0 - 2 0 . o r g > .

All of the simultaneous sessions of the first South American Ad ventist Health Congress we re we l lattended by the delegates.



A I M S p resident El oy Schulz, MD, interviews Au s t ral Union president Ca rlos Ma yer about plansand the future of the medical work in Argentina and presents him with an issue of the AIMS

Jo u rn a l .

The first Mexican national and ninth southern union AIMS meeting was held in Mexico City inNovember 2000. For the first time, the CME hours had university sponsorship with official cre d i t .Speakers from Loma Linda Un i versity included Sofia Pu e rt o, PhD, School of Nursing; and El oy

Schulz, MD, School of Medicine. Also presenting was Daniel Salica, MD, professor of medicine atthe Un i versidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ar g e n t i n a .


The speakers at the Asociación Médica Ad ventista de Colombia take time out following a session tomeet for a group photogra p h .

Attendees at the Asociación Médica Ad ventista de Colombia fellowship following their meeting heldin Bogotá, Colombia, April 28 to May 1, 2000.


AIMS LIFE MEMBERSAs of Ma rch 31, 2001 AIMS has 139 Life Me m b e r s

Edward C. Allred, MDDonald K. Ashley, MDIra E. Bailie, MDJo Ellen Barnard, MDMarion C. Barnard, MD†Marion C. Barnard, II, MDCarl L. Bauer, MDGeneva K. Beatty, MDB. Lyn Behrens, MBBSGeorge N. Benson, MDRoy V. Berglund, MDFrances Rollin Bland, MDRobert H. Bossert, MDWalter A. Bozak, MD†Allan L. Brandt, MDJerome L. Bray, MDBurton A. Briggs, MDUrs M. Bryner, MDDeWayne F. Butcher, MDGlenn W. Bylsma, MDGeorge P. Cheng, MDThorvald W. Christiansen, MDEverett F. Coleman, MDWilliam A. Craig, MDThuan T. Dang, MDDelbert R. Dick, MD†Herbert L. Domke, MDRichard D. Dunbar, MDGerhardt L. Dybdahl, MDWilliam P. Dysinger, MDGeorge J. Falbisaner, MDEleanor R. Fanselau, MDHarold A. Fanselau, MDRichard A. Flaiz, MDGary K. Frykman, MDDavid K. Fukuda, MDGlenn D. Garbutt, MDMartha June Gardner, MDGerald J. Gelford, MD†Hervey W. Gimbel, MDHoward V. Gimbel, MDRandy H. Gleason, MDAudrey R. Glover, MDAlbert Gordon Goude, MDA. R. GroverRichard S. Guthrie, MDRobert A. Hardesty, MD

Gary Herschel Harding, MDRalph D. Harris, MDLewis H. Hart, MDRichard H. Hart, MD, DrPHHarvey E. Heidinger, MDLeo Herber, MDMarilyn J. Herber, MDRaymond Herber, MDArmando C. Hernandez, MDSteven W. Hildebrand, MDSteven E. Hodgkin, MDGustave H. Hoehn, MD†Russell E. Hoxie, Jr., MDRussell E. Hoxie, Sr., MDIsabel Low Ing, MDCarl Jansen, MDClaran H. Jesse, MDJames A. Jetton, Sr., MDLawrence E. C. Joers, MD†Eleanor S. Johnson, MDHans B. JunebyElton R. Kerr, MDEdwin H. Krick, MDMorley R. Kutzner, MDRaymond L. Larsen, MDFrancis Y. Lau, MDEwald R. Lonser, MDWilliam L. Lubke, MDVernon C. Luthas, MDM. C. Theodore Mackett, MDWalter M. Maier, MDReuben Matiko, MDRaymond L. Mayor, MDWilson C. McArthur, MDJames R. McKinney, MDRobert E. Morris, MDChanceford A. Mounce, MDNeil A. Nedley, MDHarry C. Nelson, MDFrances P. Noecker, MD†Kay K. Ota, MD†Arnold L. Petersen, II, MDChester Pflugrad, MDThaine B. Price, MDNicholas E. Reiber, MDAlbert H. Reiswig, MD†Elwyn L. Rexinger, MD

Sergio R. Riffel, MDAntonion E. Robles, MDRonald E. Rothe, MD†Richard L. Rouhe, MDRalph W. Royer, MDCharles A. Russell, MDElmar P. Sakala, MDDonald W. E. Schafer, MDMarlowe H. Schaffner, MDJudith M. Schnepper, MDEloy E. Schulz, MDWeldon D. Schumacher, MDRonald R. Scott, MDDonald R. Shasky, MDBernard M. Shucavage, MDStephen J. Skahen, MDGordon D. Skeoch, MDCarrol S. Small, MD†Donald A. Smith, MDRobert S. Sochor, MDRobert N. Spady, MDJohn D. Sproed, MDDonald L. Stilson, MDMildred A. R. Stilson, MDHoward O. Stocker, MD†Kennard O. Stoll, MD†Martin Strahan, MBBS, DrPHWilliam C. Swatek, MDGregory M. Taylor, MDW. Holmes Taylor, MDLarry L. Thomas, MDGordon W. Thompson, MDEric Tsao, MDEdgar O. Vyhmeister, MDTheodore E. Wade, MD†William Wagner, MDRichard T. Walden, MD†Michael H. Walter, MDRandall W. Waring, MDJames M. Whitlock, MDGeorge J. Wiesseman, MDGlenn L. Wiltse, MDEveret W. Witzel, MDBryce J. Young, MDDaniel W. Young, MD

† = deceased

Continued from page 3

The AIMS Journal is published by the A d v e n t i s tInternational Medical Society, an organization ofSeventh-day Adventist physicians/health profession-als, and friends, dedicated to the promotion ofAdventist International health efforts. Bulk rate postagepaid at Loma Linda, California. @Copyright A p r i l2001, by the Adventist International Medical Society,Loma Linda, CA 92354 USA. Current circulation:2,500. Website: aims-ministry. o r g .

Executive OfficersPresident:Eloy E. Schulz, MDPresident-elect:G. Gordon Hadley, MDSecretary:George Wiesseman, MDTreasurer/Membership: William Wagner, MDProject Director:James M. Crawford, DDS

Thomas J. Zirkle, MDEloy E. Schulz, MD

Continuing Education:Richard H. Hart, MD, DrPHEloy E. Schulz, MD

Webmaster:Rodney Willard, MDPast President:G. Gordon Hadley, MDExecutive Director:Dennis E. Park

PublicationEditor:Don RothAssociate Editor:Dennis E. ParkContributing Editor: William Wagner, MDInterim Managing Editor:Richard Weismeyer

Contributing EditorsJorge Pamplona-Rogers, MD, SpainZildomar Deucher, MD, BrazilNephtali Valles Castillo, MD, MexicoPatrick Guenin, MD, FranceRonald Noltze, MD, GermanySam Daniyan, MD, NigeriaRicardo G. Salamante, DrHSc, MPH

& Pastor Bien V. Tejano, PhilippinesMilca Schmidt, VenezuelaAdrian Bocaneanu, RomaniaR. J. Butler, AustraliaDr. Edmil D. Marinov, BulgariaDr. Jairo Castaneda, ColombiaBernardo Meza, MD, HondurasGraceila Quispe, ArgentinaIvan Kasminin, MD, RussiaAntonio Solares, MD, Guatemala

AIMS operates in conjunction with the Alumni Asso-ciation,School of Medicine of Loma Linda University,Loma Linda, CA92354 USA.


• Last board meeting presided by Jesus justb e f o re the ascension

Jesus gives to 11 frightened apostles theexact same command—preach and heal.

Healing the sick was not an option. It wasnot if I have time, if I feel like doing it, if itd o e s n’t take any monies from the church, if it isnot dive rting donors from my pet projects, ifmy re l a t i ves and friends can get employ m e n t .Just do it!

If Jesus ministry is a model, healing does nottake second place to preaching. T h e re are morestories of Jesus healing than pre a c h i n g .

Does it work? The populations near healthinstitutions have the highest percentages ofSe venth-day Ad ventists.

The only ministerial work ? “I wish to tellyou that soon there will be no work done inministerial lines but MMW. . . ” Eva n g e l i s m 5 2 3 .

Only for those in health pro f e s s i o n s ? “You willn e ver be ministers after the gospel order till yo us h ow a decided interest in the MMW...” Ib i d.

W h o’s work is it? “I wish to say that theMMW is Go d’s work...” Ib i d .

How many? “The Lord wants eve ry one ofhis ministers to come into line.” Ib i d.

Counsel abounds on instructions for eve ryc o n f e rence president, eve ry minister, eve ryc h u rch, eve ry member, medical students, etc.That includes you and me—many times ove r.

What can we expect? Well, Laodicea isLaodicea. Most are lukewarm. Howe ve r, somea re cold and some are hot. I’d rather be hot.And yo u ?

Look for some exciting news about the workin Eastern Eu rope in the next AIMS Jo u rn a li s s u e .


OPENINGS FOR PHYSICIANS / DENTISTS

The Alumni Association, School of Me d i c i n e

of Loma Linda Un i ve r s i t y, is seeking names of CME/LLU School of

Medicine graduates who passed away while serving in the mission field.

Please send information to the managing editor, Alumni As s o c i a t i o n ,

School of Medicine of Loma Linda Un i ve r s i t y, 11245 Anderson St re e t ,

Suite 200, Loma Linda, Ca l i f o rnia 92354.

From the Se c retariat of the Ge n e ral Conference of SDAFor more information, please call

Elaine A. Ro b i n s o n(301) 680-6666

A n e s t h e s i o l o g i s t Guam SDA Clinic, Gu a mDe n t i s t G we ru SDA Dental Clinic, Gwe ru, Zi m b a bwe

S D A Orthodontic Se rvices, Ha r a re, Zi m b a bweAd ventist Health Center, Lilongwe, Malawi ( relief, August 2001)Lusaka Ad ventist Clinic, Lusaka, Za m b i aA n t a n a n a r i vo SDA Dental Clinic, Ma d a g a s c a rKigali SDA Dental Clinic, Kigali, Rwanda (need re l i e f)Kinshasa SDA Dental Clinic, Kinshasa, Republic of the CongoCarriacou SDA Dental Clinic, Grenada, West In d i e sKarachi Ad ventist Dental Clinic, Karachi, Pakistan (need relief, Ma rch 2002)

De rm a t o l o g i s t Ad ventist Medical Center, Okinawa, Ja p a nFa m i l y / General Pr a c t i c e Guam SDA Clinic, Gu a m

Makele Clinic, Et h i o p i aPalau SDA Clinic, Caroline Is l a n d s

In t e rnal Me d i c i n e S D A Hospital, Il e - Ife, Ni g e r i aO B / G Y N Antillean Ad ventist Hospital, Netherlands Antilles

S D A Hospital, Il e - Ife, Ni g e r i aOp h t h a l m o l o g i s t Glei Ad ventist Eye Hospital, To g o

Guam SDA Clinic, Gu a mOrthopedic Su r g e o n Masanga Leprosy Hospital, Sierra LeonePe d i a t r i c i a n Guam SDA Clinic, Gu a m

S D A Hospital, Il e - Ife, Ni g e r i aSu r g e o n / Medical Di re c t o r S D A Cooper Hospital, Liberia, West Africa

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