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Alumni Association, School of Medicine of Loma Linda University October-December 2011 

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Contents 

Features 

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News 

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A Life Well Lived 

A look at the work of Dr. Heath Rowsell ’54 

Todd Westra Takes Charge 

Dr. Todd Westra ’96 manages operations at the 

new Ontario Vineyard Medical Center 

Scheer Memorial Hospital 

Celebrating 50 years of service in Nepal 

New Executive Director 

School of Medicine News 

Alumni Activities 

In Memoriam 

Regulars 

Editorial 

The President’s Page 

The Dean’s Page 

They Walked These Halls 

Placement Ads 

On the cover: A Nepali woman with her granddaughter. 

Photo by Bartosz Hadyniak. 

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The Alumni Association staff, from left: Lory Sanchez 

(seated), Janelle Michaelis, A.T. Tuot, Nicole Batten, Carolyn 

Wieder, and Michelle Ellison. 

Editorial 

This fall has been a season of change 

at the Alumni Association. Dr. 

Henry K. Yeo ’68 has retired as editor 

of the Alumni Journal after 21 years (1990 

to 2011). Dr. Donna Carlson ’69 will be 

stepping into the editor position 

beginning in January. We appreciate her 

willingness to serve in this way, and we 

are confident she will do an outstanding 

job. We deeply appreciate Henry’s many 

years of service. His tireless efforts to tell 

the stories of our alumni will never be 

forgotten. 

We are saddened to announce that 

executive director, Dennis Park ’07- 

hon, and finance manager, Karen Sutton, have also retired. Dennis served the Alumni Association 

for 22 years (1989 to 1994 as director of development, and 1994 to 2011 as executive director). 

Karen served for 27 years (1984 to 2011). Dennis’ work with the Alumni Journal and the Alumni 

Association speaks for itself. His story-telling abilities, his genuine concern for the alumni and the 

School of Medicine, and his commitment to the Association’s mission has been appreciated beyond 

measure. The Alumni Association will be forever grateful to Dennis for his service. Karen too will 

be missed. Her attention to details and care for the alumni were some of her strongest assets. Both 

students and alumni alike will miss her. We wish both Dennis and Karen well in their retirement. 

Stepping into their positions are Nicole Batten, M.A. as executive director and Michelle Ellison as 

bookkeeper. We warmly welcome them and invite alumni to drop by and get acquainted. 

You will also notice in this issue that we have given the Alumni Journal a new look. We appreciate 

the creativity of Janelle Michaelis as our Alumni Journal layout editor. Janelle has worked for the 

Alumni Association since 2006 in publications and media. 

We are also excited to tell you about some enhancements to our website that enable us to serve 

you better, including new self-service options and a special “Members Only” section that is accessed 

by a secure log-in. Beginning this month all members will be able to access a searchable online 

alumni directory, as well as create their own online profile and network with other alumni via our 

website. In addition, each class will have its own page to create an online community. Members will 

also be able to register for APC, renew memberships, make donations and view their past giving 

history online. To receive your secure user name and password, email alumni@llusmaa.org. 

The success of this magazine continues to depend on the feedback from our alumni and friends. 

Please share your comments, news and story ideas with us by emailing alumnijournal@llusmaa.org 

or mailing 11245 Anderson St., Suite 200, Loma Linda, CA 92354. You can also submit comments 

on our website at www.llusmaa.org. We look forward to a wonderful year in 2012 and thank you for 

your continued support! 

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Executive Director Retires 

Long-time Alumni Association executive 

director Dennis E. Park ’07-hon retired on 

September 30, 2011. Park served the Alumni 

Association for 22 years, 17 as its executive 

director. 

Park stated that, “promoting and fostering 

the goals and objectives of the Alumni 

Association has been the most rewarding 

experience of my working career. Serving 

the School of Medicine students, alumni and 

faculty with my fellow colleagues has been a joy 

beyond all measure. ... Over the years, I have 

endeavored to give my best to the Association 

and its related entities and I am proud of 

what our team (officers, board members, 

committees, and staff alike) has accomplished. 

Also, I want to emphasize that I will forever be 

grateful to the Alumni Association for having 

given me the opportunity to be a part of its 

rich and storied history. Without question, I 

have been blessed!” 

Park will continue to write for the Alumni 

Journal. 

Longest-serving executive director Dennis E. Park 

’07-hon retired on September 30. He served the 

Alumni Association for 22 years, 17 as executive 

director. 

New Executive Director 

Incoming executive director Nicole Batten started 

at the Alumni Association in October. She most 

recently served as Director of Alumni and Parent 

Relations at Walla Walla University. 

Alumni Association Hires 

Executive Director 

The Alumni Association’s search committee 

is pleased to report that they have asked 

Nicole M. Batten, MA, to serve as the Alumni 

Association’s executive director. Batten comes 

to Loma Linda from Walla Walla University, 

where she has been the Director of Alumni 

and Parent Relations for the last two years. 

She is a 1999 communications graduate from 

WWU and has a master’s degree in public 

relations from Webster University. Batten has 

enhanced the image of other organizations she 

worked for and raised thousands of dollars for 

their campaigns and projects. She is married to 

Stephen Batten and has two sons, Joshua and 

Seth. 


From the President 

Recently I had the privilege of 

hearing Dr. Roger Hadley ’74, 

School of Medicine dean, give the 

School of Medicine report. I pleased 

to hear about our students’ significant 

educational accomplishments and the 

significant opportunities available to 

them for mission service. 

Our Alumni Association is also 

very supportive of students that have 

an interest in foreign mission service. 

Because of the generosity of our 

alumni, the Alumni Association is able 

to contribute funds to those students who need to travel to serve overseas. We 

know that as these students become acquainted with the tremendous needs 

of the people they meet in mission service, they will develop a sympathy for 

them that will last a lifetime. Like Dr. Livingstone, when they see the suffering 

millions in the “regions beyond,” their lives will be focused and changed forever. 

Gary R. Barker ’80-B 

Alumni Association president 

>> 

The Alumni Association not only supports our medical students in 

mission service, it assists the alumni too. Through the Mission Fund 

initiative, the Alumni Association provides assistance to alumni who want to 

donate to overseas mission hospitals and schools and other short-term mission 

projects while receiving a U.S. tax deduction. This service is free to all alumni. 

Please help us continue the Mission Fund initiative by making a tax-deductible 

donation to the Alumni Association today. Last year we helped facilitate more 

than $700,000 in foreign mission donations. 

The Alumni Journal 

Editor 

(vacant) 

Managing Editor 

Nicole Batten 

Layout Editor/Assistant Editor 

Janelle Michaelis 

Consulting Editor 

Dennis E. Park ’07-hon 

Advertising 

Lory Sanchez 

Circulation 

A.T. Tuot 

Alumni Association Officers 

President 

Gary R. Barker ’80-B 

President-elect 

Mickey N. Ask ’79-A 

VP of Student Affairs 

Gina J. Mohr ’96 

VP of Religious Affairs 

Luther Jonathan Bryant ’98 

Chief Financial Officer 

Roland Zimmermann, Jr. ’66 

Asst. Financial Officer 

P. Basil Vassantachart ’79-B 

Secretary 

Mark E. Reeves ’92 

Past President 

Philip H. Reiswig ’61 

Web Master 

Rodney E. Willard ’56 

Alumni Association Staff 


Nicole Batten 

Bookkeeper 

Michelle Ellison 

Media Manager 

Janelle Michaelis 

Secretary/Ads Manager 

Lory Sanchez 

Records Manager 

A.T. Tuot 

Event & Student Affairs Manager 

Carolyn Wieder 

The Alumni Journal is published by 

the Alumni Association, School of 

Medicine of Loma Linda University, 

11245 Anderson Street, Suite 200, 

Loma Linda, CA 92354. Phone: 

909.558.4633. Fax: 909.558.4638. 

Email: alumnijournal@llusmaa.org. 

Web site: www.llusmaa.org. Printed by 

Color Press, Walla Walla, Wash. 

School of Medicine newS 

Accreditation updates 

The School of Medicine receives favorable accreditation reports 

The School of Medicine received accreditation with commendation from the Accreditation 

Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) for their continuing medical education 

program. Because of the commendation honor, the accreditation will last for six years, twice as 

long as regular accreditation. The School of Medicine also received accreditation from the Western 

Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), as did the seven other Loma Linda University schools. 

More information is available on the Loma Linda University Web site at www.llu.edu/news and in 

the September 30, 2011, issue of Today. 

Family medicine department receives grants 

Family Medicine gets funding for patient-focused training 

The Department of Family Medicine received two grants amounting to nearly $2 million. Both 

are federal grants. One will produce approximately $235,000 a year in funds for five years and 

the other $160,000 a year for five years. Each grant will help train students and residents for work 

in more patient-focused health care environments, helping to create an overall better experience 

for patients. Dr. Jamie Osborn ’93 will be principal investigator for the first grant, and Dr. John 

Testerman ’80-B will be principal investigator for the second grant. More information is available 

in the September 30, 2011, issue of Today which can be found at www.llu.edu/news. 

Catching up to Alzheimer’s 

School of Medicine researchers make a promising finding 

Members of a four-person group of researchers from both Loma 

Linda University School of Medicine and George Mason University 

in Fairfax, Va., have made a potential-filled discovery. They found a series 

of biomarkers that they believe will lead to a method for diagnosing 

Alzheimer’s disease earlier, before it has done any irreparable damage. 

More information is available on the Loma Linda University Web site at 

www.llu.edu/news. 

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From Puerto Rico to LLU 

Students from San Juan Bautista join LLUSM 

When San Juan Bautista medical school in Cagus, 

Puerto Rico, lost its accreditation from the Liaison 

Committee on Medical Education (LCME), approximately 

80 students turned to Loma Linda University School of 

Medicine to complete their medical education. Of the 80 

requests, 20 students were interviewed in person. Of those, 

two seniors and nine juniors have been accepted into the 

program and are now on campus. The five faculty members 

who traveled to Puerto Rico to interview the students were 

pleased with the students’ willingness to serve and their 

drive to be good doctors. The School of Medicine has 

received transfer students from closed medical schools two 

other times: once in 1920 from the University of Southern 

California and once in 1989 from Oral Roberts University. 

The new students with Roger Hadley ’74, School of Medicine dean 

(left), and Daisy De Leon, Phd, assistant to the dean for diversity 

(right). More students (not pictured) arrived on campus in November. 


notable faculty 

Michael E. de Vera, MD 

De Vera attended medical school 

at UCLA, graduating in 1991. He 

completed a residency in general 

surgery and two multi-organ transplant 

fellowships. Currently, he is head of 

the transplant division for Loma Linda 

University’s Department of Surgery. 

Carlos A. Garberoglio, MD 

Garberoglio graduated from Colegio 

Dante Alighieri in Rosario, Argentina. He 

completed an internship, residencies 

and fellowships in general surgery and 

a fellowship in surgical oncology. He 

works as head of the Surgical Oncology 

Division and Chair for Loma Linda 

University’s Department of Surgery. 

Anatol Manaenko, PhD 

Manaenko studied at the University of 

Leipzig in Germany, where he received 

his PhD in pharmacology in 2002. He 

did two fellowships, one in neurology 

and one in physiology. Currently, he 

is an assistant research professor for 

Loma Linda University’s Department of 

Basic Sciences. 

Gulnara Racakauskas, MD 

Racakauskas graduated in 1986 with 

her MD from Kaunas University of 

Medicine in Lithuania. She finished two 

nephrology fellowships and a residency 

in internal medicine. She is an assistant 

professor in Loma Linda University’s 

Department of Medicine. 

From the Dean 

In early October, I received email notification that one 

of the 135 Liaison Committee on Medical Education 

(LCME)-accredited medical schools, San Juan Bautista 

Medical School (SJBSOM) in Puerto Rico, had abruptly lost 

its accreditation status. 

Although the guidelines regulating transfers between 

medical schools are quite strict, the LCME has been 

supportive of student transfers under extraordinary 

circumstances such as these. A quick assessment by the 

administrative deans of LLUSM determined that we had 

the capacity to take up to ten juniors and ten seniors. 

On very short notice, a five-member team of faculty 

flew to Puerto Rico to interview the students, and by 

November 7, a little over four weeks after SJBSOM lost its 

accreditation, 15 of the students were enrolled in medical school at Loma Linda University. 

On our campus, the indelible sense of mission to help those in need was palpable. Staff 

worked late to overcome the inevitable obstacles of identifying, processing and, eventually, providing 

assistance to incoming students as they made the move to a new school more than 3,000 miles away. 

During this time of rapid transition, the leaders of the American Association of Medical 

Colleges (AAMC) sent the School of Medicine the following statement: “The AAMC expresses 

their appreciation for the assistance Loma Linda University School of Medicine is providing to these 

students-in-need and is pleased that LLUSM has remained consistent to their mission focus and is 

setting an example for all other schools.” 

The Good Samaritan sculpture located in the heart of our campus reminds us of the calling 

to offer assistance to those in need. If you have the opportunity to meet any of our newest students, 

you too will be blessed by their presence and overwhelming gratitude. 

H. Roger Hadley ’74 

School of Medicine dean 


A Life 

Well Lived 

by Henry K. Yeo ’68 

A 

life well lived is not without adversity. It 

is a life of integrity, purpose, and loyalty. 

It is the fulfillment of God-given potential. Dr. 

Heath Rowsell ’54 lived such a life. 

He was born in Loxton, South Australia, to 

Thomas and Edith Mary in 1923. Rowsell was 

their second of three children, born between two 

sisters. The family had roots in both the Methodist 

and Anglican Churches, but in the latter half of 

the 1920s they attended a series of meetings held 

by Pastor E.E. Roenfelt from Avondale, becoming 

his first converts and the first family from this 

effort to join the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 

Experiencing difficulties with their newfound 

beliefs about the Sabbath, Rowsell’s father 

sold his shoe shop and bought a fruit orchard in 

Victoria. 

Young Rowsell, then 12 years old, dropped 

out of school after eighth grade to manage the 

family’s orchard full time. At 16, he was baptized 

into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This 

was a life-changing experience as he absorbed 

missionary reports and began to lay plans for a 

career in medical missionary service far beyond 

the fruit orchard. His single-minded focus would 

eventually carry him through some 34 years of 

continuous service, providing much-needed 

medical care for populations in Rangoon, Burma; 

Karachi, Pakistan; Bandung, Indonesia; and 

Penang, Malaysia. After internship and residency, 

he never engaged in medical practice in the United 

States or in his native Australia. 

Rowsell’s mother encouraged him to pursue 

higher education, assuring him that he had the 

ability to achieve his goals. When he was 18, he 

enrolled in a correspondence course, getting up at 

4 a.m. to study before putting in a full day’s work 

in the orchard. He finished the five years of the 

secondary school curriculum in three years. 

The footpath through a village in Bandung, 

Indonesia, a country where Rowsell served for 15 

years. Photo by Dhani Kuswendha. 

At the height of World War II, Rowsell 

felt that it was his patriotic duty to support and 

contribute what he could to the war effort. So 

when he was 21, he joined the Royal Australian 

Air Force, working in medical clinics. 

Dr. Heath Rowsell ’54 and his wife, Reba Rowsell. 

In 1945 he moved into the scientific section 

where, among other things, he studied scrub 

typhus (a common soldier’s plague at this time) 

in various Pacific islands. When the Armistice 

was announced, his research section was ordered 

to Port Moresby, New Guinea. On the day of 

departure, his wing commander ordered Rowsell 

out of the line and told him that he was not 

going. Rowsell’s disappointment was short-lived. 


The “Rumah Sakit Advent,” the Adventist hospital in Bandung, Indonesia. 

The eleven men in his unit who landed in New 

Guinea were ambushed and killed by stragglers 

of the defeated Japanese army. 

At demobilization later that year, the armed 

forces vocational program informed Rowsell 

that he was best suited for chicken farming. He 

enrolled, however, in night school to prepare for 

his high school matriculation exam. 

In the British educational system, the 

matriculation exam was a standard bar assessing 

every candidate’s performance and potential. 

Passing was key to better opportunities after high 

school and achieving good grades was paramount 

for higher education in universities. Rowsell’s 

grades landed him a coveted place in the University 

of Melbourne School of Medicine in 1947. 

Several months into his medical studies, 

however, Rowsell encountered increasing conflicts 

with his Sabbath observance. A.W. Peterson, MV 

Secretary of the Australasian Division of Seventh- 

day Adventists, suggested that Rowsell switch 

his studies to Adventist institutions of higher 

learning. He arranged for Rowsell to attend Walla 

Walla University for his undergraduate work, and 

then finish his medical studies at Loma Linda 

University School of Medicine. 

When his United States student visa was 

granted, Rowsell discontinued medical school in 

Melbourne and headed for Walla Walla University. 

He arrived at the Walla Walla Regional Airport in 

May of 1948 after a 48-hour journey, swathed 

in woolens and a long coat. Although it was 

simmering summer in Eastern Washington, it 

was winter in Melbourne. He spent two years on 

a work-study program at Walla Walla University, 

learning medicine, washing dishes and doing 

chores in the campus cafeteria. 

Walla Walla University was a good time in his 

life. He met Dr. Frank Chung ’54, another premedical 

student who had been born in Sydney, 

Australia (but grew up in Hong Kong). They 

became friends and arranged to room together in 

Sittner Hall dormitory. 

Rowsell also met Reba Bassham, a young lady 

from Colorado studying elementary education 

and office management. She couldn’t understand 

his accent at first, but they became friends based 

on their temperament and common interests in, 

among other things, the campus literature band. 

They were married on June 14, 1951, in College 

Place, Wash. (with Chung as best man), beginning 

what would turn out to be a 60-year partnership. 

Rowsell interviewed with medical school 

recruiter Dr. E. Harold Shryock ’34 and began 

medical school at Loma Linda University in 1950 

(again rooming with Chung before Rowsell got 

married). Medical school blurred by with intensive 

study and work (he cleaned hospital operating 

suites) and the arrival of his daughter Heather in 

1952 and son Dr. Thomas Rowsell ’79-B the 

following year. Rowsell’s proud parents traveled 

from Australia to visit the growing family and 

attend the graduation ceremonies. 

Rowsell completed his internship at 

Washington Sanitarium and Hospital in 

Washington, D.C., with classmates Drs. Carl 

Houmann ’54, Glen Reynolds ’54, Trygve 

Opsahl ’54, and Robert Rigsby ’54. 

While there, he became acquainted with Dr. 

Theodore R. Flaiz ’38. Their interest in medicine 

and mission service and their many discussions 

regarding the multiple hurdles (especially 

finances) that a potential missionary would have 

to face, eventually led to the Deferred Missions 

Appointment Program now offered by the 

General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. 

Rowsell completed general surgery training 

at the University of New York Upstate Medical 

Center, Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital, and 

Orange County General Hospital. His second son, 

Edward ’94, PhD, was born in Glendale in 1958. 

From 1959 to 1962, while completing his general 

surgery program and beginning a thoracic surgery 

residency at Orange County General Hospital, 

Rowsell did all the research and laboratory work 

required to perform the first open heart surgery 

in Orange County. His third son, Timothy, joined 

the family in 1961 while they were living in Santa 

Ana. 

The Rowsell family in Rangoon, Burma, from the left to right: Timothy, 

Heath, Heather, Thomas, Reba, and Edward. 

In early 1962, the Rowsells accepted a fiveyear 

posting to the Karachi Adventist Hospital 

in Pakistan. Shortly before leaving, however, the 

family was diverted to Rangoon, Burma, where 

Rowsell became medical director and surgeon 

of the Rangoon Adventist Hospital. There he 


The hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. 

worked briefly with Drs. Robert H. Dunn ’43 

and Rudy Haak ’49. 

They arrived in Burma while the country was 

undergoing political changes. Work and living 

conditions were not easy. Rowsell became infected 

with amoebic dysentery, an illness (along with the 

typhoid fever he would later contract in Pakistan) 

that would recur multiple times during the rest 

of his long years of mission service. In 1965, 

Rangoon Adventist Hospital was nationalized 

and the Rowsells had to leave Burma. 

The plan then was to finish out their original 

five-year assignment in Karachi, Pakistan. 

However, hostilities ignited between Pakistan and 

India and the Rowsells went to work in Singapore. 

In Singapore, Rowsell worked briefly at Youngberg 

Memorial Hospital. When hostilities settled down 

in Pakistan in early 1966, the Rowsells returned 

to Karachi where Rowsell worked as medical 

director and surgeon at the Adventist hospital 

until late 1967. 

He took a brief rest from mission service 

in 1968 for a residency in thoracic surgery at 

Presbyterian-St. Luke’s, Rush University Medical 

Center in Chicago. Then it was back to Southeast 

Asia, to a new posting at the Bandung Adventist 

Hospital in Indonesia. 

There was little time to savor the exquisite 

beauty of this exotic land. Rowsell plunged into 

his work and soon, as his wife recalls, “was married 

to the hospital.” He seldom came home before 

making rounds with all three of the day’s nursing 

shifts to make sure potential problems were 

covered. At one time he and his nurses managed 

eighty inpatients on the wards. There was also 

the challenge of having to renew their passport 

visas annually. They had to leave the country at 

one time until the paperwork was processed (they 

worked briefly at Hadjaai Adventist Hospital in 

Thailand for this period). Finally, after fifteen 

years, they were informed that their visas would 

not be renewed, and the Far Eastern Division of 

Seventh-day Adventists posted them to Penang, 

Malaysia. 

Of all their fields of labor, the Rowsells 

considered this assignment the “icing on the cake.” 

They integrated quickly into the hospital staff and 

the church and local community. Rowsell served 

as chief surgeon and vice president for medical 

affairs at the Penang Adventist Hospital. At one 

point in the early 1990s he worked with Drs. 

Jeffrey S. Hardesty ’80-B, Danny S. Oh ’74, 

and David A. Skau ’79-B. 

While in Penang, Rowsell became caught in 

a rainstorm and was almost struck by a bolt of 

lightning. The lightning destroyed two trees a 

few feet from Rowsell and caused him residual 

deafness for several months to come. He was sure 

his guardian angel worked overtime that day. 

Rowsell retired in 1996, at the age of 73. But 

after he returned to the United States, he accepted 

a three-month volunteer position at Andrews 

Memorial Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica. 

After that, he finally fully retired in Loma 

Linda, where he and his wife purchased their first 

home. 

In October of 1996, while in the crosswalk 

at Anderson and Prospect in Loma Linda, the 

Rowsells were struck by a vehicle. After two 

months of rehabilitation, they both healed from 

multiple major fractures. 

Life in Loma Linda was a drastic change from 

incessant hospital and clinic calls and emergency 

surgeries of mission life. Now there was time to 

renew the many friendships they had struck up 

over the years. Free time was spent maintaining 

gardens and avidly reading surgical journals to 

keep up with current scientific developments. 

Rowsell was a regular participant in the Annual 

Postgraduate Convention (APC), put on by the 

Alumni Association each spring. Rowsell also 

spent plenty of time visiting his children and 

grandchildren. 

Rowsell’s early life and responsibilities greatly 

contributed to what he would become. He 

surmounted great odds to achieve his goals. Even 

though his early education was unconventional, 

he would eventually obtain qualifications in 

general and thoracic surgery, before spending his 

entire medical career in overseas mission service. 

He did not seek the spotlight and was seldom at 

the center of gatherings, but his presence was 

apparent whenever there was a task to be done, 

whether it be study, planning, problem-solving, or 

patient care. Nursing staff members who worked 

closely with him over the years said that although 

he was naturally reticent, he was always focused 

and firmly in charge. 

Rowsell was named as one of the honored 

alumni in 1990 by the Alumni Association. He 

also received high respect from his colleagues and 

the people who entrusted themselves to his care 

and with whom he had shared the knowledge of 

the Savior he loved. 

Dr. Heath Rowsell passed away from his life 

well lived at his home in Loma Linda on June 26 th , 

2011. 

Rowsell with the Bandung hospital staff in Indonesia. 


The Ontario Vineyard Medical Center in Ontario, Calif. Photo courtesy of Patricia Daden. 

Dr. Todd A. Westra ’96 in charge of 

operations at new hospital 


The new Ontario Vineyard Medical Center 

in Ontario, Calif., opened on November 1, 

2011, operated under the umbrella of the Kaiser 

Foundation Hospital and Medical Center in 

Fontana, Calif. 

The hospital, a 386,000-square-foot, 224bed 

facility, is an addition to the existing medical 

campus, which already features medical offices 

for primary care (family practice, pediatrics, and 

internal medicine) and a SurgiCenter. Now 24hour 

emergency care and pharmacy services will 

be available. There will be more than 20 specialty 

services provided by some 60 physicians. The 

campus design includes a seven-story parking 

structure and a healing garden for visitors. On 

Wednesday mornings, the campus hosts a farmers 

market. The hospital will operate on virtual checkin 

kiosks and electronic medical records. Free Wi- 

Fi will be provided for patients and visitors. 

Dr. Todd A. Westra ’96 is the physician in 

charge of the Ontario campus operations. His 

title will officially be “Assistant Medical Director, 

Fontana Kaiser-Permanente,” until Ontario 

becomes its own area. 

Westra is a native southern Californian, whose 

father, Syros, is a retired school psychologist, and 

mother, Janice, is a retired school teacher. They 

are lifelong members of the Christian Reformed 

Church and have always been interested in their 

children obtaining a Christian education. Westra 

and his siblings (Brent, Sheila, and Allison) attended 

Ontario Christian School. Westra obtained degrees 

from California State University/Fullerton (a BA 

in psychology) and Fuller Theological Seminary 

(a MA in psychology). 

Along the way Westra realized that he wanted 

his life work to involve people and relationships. 

He began to focus on a career in medical practice. 

He applied to Loma Linda University School 

of Medicine knowing that it had a decidedly 

Christian environment and that some members 

of his church had previously graduated from it. 

His brother and other family members had also 

received care at Loma Linda University Medical 

Center. 

Westra says, “One of my greatest joys was 

attending medical school at LLU. I sincerely 

appreciated every day I spent on campus and in 

my clinical rotations. I feel that my academic and 

clinical preparation was superb. My professors 

and attending doctors modeled a respect for 

people and patients to a level I am sure would 

not have been matched at other institutions. And 

I will always remember [Dr. Harvey A. Elder’s 

’57] moving lectures on human relationships 

and real patient care. I still think about them and 

continue to be influenced by his concepts as I go 

about my work.” 

By graduation in 1996, Westra had been 

nominated for membership in the Alpha Omega 

Alpha Honor Medical Society. His family practice 

residency was completed in 1999 at Kaiser 

Foundation Hospital in Fontana. Although 

an attending physician told Westra that family 

medicine would not be challenging enough, 

Dr. Todd A. Westra ’96, Alumni Journal Editor 

Dr. Henry K. Yeo ’68 and Michael Moreno, MD, 

pose next to “The Magic Bus.” 

Dr. Todd A. Westra ’96 

Westra believes that family medicine gives him the 

best connection to his patients. 

He joined the family practice staff of Kaiser 

Permanente in Fontana in 1999 and was chief of 

the medical group’s 10-physician Ontario clinic, 

forerunner to the present complex, from 2004- 

2005. 

Westra enjoys time with his wife, Joan 

(a nurse) and daughters Allux and Tori. He 

also enjoys cooking, landscaping and physical 

exercise. He continues to be involved in the 

Christian Reformed Church. He is a church elder 

and volunteers time as a physician for Ontario 

Christian School’s football team. 

Dr. Todd Westra ’96 fondly remembers 

spending several weeks in the summer 

of 1999 doing hospice house calls with 

Henry Yeo ’68 and resident Michael Moreno, 

MD. He particularly recalls what he called 

“The Magic Bus,” a Plymouth van which ran 

on a little 4-cylinder engine, had racked up 

350,000 miles, had no air conditioning and 

had a jammed passenger door that could 

only be opened from the inside. A patient, 

upon seeing the van, once asked what “that 

hearse” was doing in his driveway. 


Scheer 

Memorial 

Hospital 

Celebrating 50 years of 

service in Nepal 

Daily Miracles 

by Lincoln Morikone 

“S 

Sir! Bus accident!” I gulp and take a 

deep breath. 

“How many people?” 

“Over 100!” My stomach tightens and my 

heart races. 

It’s Sabbath. We are just concluding a 

beautiful Sabbath afternoon piano/violin 

concert. It’s been a most beautiful Sabbath. 

What a jolt. 

Lacking the time to properly express 

appreciation to the musicians, I rush to the 

emergency room. Villagers are dragging bare 

mattresses into the courtyard where rescuers 

hurriedly place the injured. Even though the 

courtyard is filled, there are not 

The Himalayas. Scheer Memorial Hospital is located in Banepa, 

Kavre District, Nepal. Photos on pages 18-25 courtesy 

of Lincoln Morikone. Photo on page 26 courtesy of Dr. Luke 

Balding ’11. Photo on page 27 by Günay Mutlu.

enough mattresses, so two people are placed on 

one. 

This is going to be a bad Saturday night. We 

were looking forward to a quiet dinner after the 

concert. 

Word spreads faster than a wildfire throughout 

the surrounding villages. Chaos ensues as people 

force their way through our lightly manned 

gates while security tries to control the crowd 

in the emergency room, anxious to see if any 

of their kin or friends are in there. Crowds in 

unacceptable numbers are starting to impede 

the staff desperately trying to assess the worst 

cases. Gurneys, wheelchairs and mattresses are 

slowly being moved along in a line for the x-ray 

department. Tempers flare as people try to get 

in front of each other, much like the road traffic 

does throughout the country. In fact, that is likely 

a reason that the bus slid off the mountainside 

road. That, and the fact that unusually heavy rains 


softened the sides of the gravel roads this year. 

Staff members both on- and off-campus 

have been alerted and are on site now, doing 

all they can to help. Even non-medical concert 

attendees lend their help, and we acknowledge 

them appreciatively with nods of our heads. 

Several passengers have died already. 

The next morning, we visit the site and are 

amazed that more did not die. The entire rescue 

was done by hand carrying the bus passengers 

500 feet up a steep hill. I chose not to walk down, 

as it was too wet to be safe. I wonder how the few 

village cars were available to run back and forth 

over the narrow, dark, steep, slick, muddy, potholed 

road to help. No consideration was given 

to the extent and type of the injuries. Drivers 

just knew to get the bus passengers to Scheer 

Memorial Hospital as quickly as possible. 

This scenario plays out so often that it 

doesn’t bring much attention in the national news 

anymore. It is just another overloaded dilapidated 

bus careening off a hillside. Life goes on (or 

doesn’t) here in Nepal. 

Scheer Memorial Hospital has served this 

country and community well for the past 50 years. 

Since my wife, Drusi, and I have been here, I have 

never had a boring day. When we arrived in 2007, 

Wes Lutz and Dr. Richard A. Rentfro, Jr. ’72 

met us at the airport. Rentfro said, “You will see 

miracles daily.” He was right. We have seen many 

impossible situations take a dramatic turn toward 

resolution through wisdom beyond our ken. 

Prayer has been the key and always will be. 

Loma Linda University’s students, graduates, 

staff and family members have given us much 

through our 50-plus years of existence. We are 

grateful to Dr. Stanley Sturges ’55 and his 

wife, Raylene, the first Seventh-day Adventist 

missionaries in Nepal, who began what quickly 

became a respected hospital that continues to 

faithfully and competently serve its community. 

From the “mustard seed” they planted many have 

come to rejoice in the Lord. 

We continue to put our reliance and 

An Overview 


Scheer Memorial Hospital opened in 1960, making 

the 50th anniversary 2010. This report on the 50th anniversary celebration was postponed, however, because 

of the worldwide activities of the 59th annual Seventhday 

Adventist General Conference sessions in 2010. The 

following material about Scheer Memorial Hospital is 

adapted from their Web site. Additional research is thanks 

to Karen Porter at the General Conference Representative’s 

office in Loma Linda. 

A faith-filled institution, Scheer Memorial’s 

motto is “We Treat, God Cures.” The hospital’s 

mission is to provide the best quality health care 

services and promote a healthy lifestyle with 

compassion and consideration for the patients 

Dr. Aaron Sartin ’07 attends to one of the many bus accident 

victims strewn about in the courtyard of Scheer Memorial 

Hospital as they are brought in from the accident in 

the hills. 

confidence on our Lord and His power. “We are 

laborers together with God.” 1 Corinthians 3:9. 

and their families, and by so doing, continue the 

healing ministry of Jesus Christ. 

With only one physician per 5,000 people, 

Nepal is a country in need of quality health care 

as well as health education. Scheer Memorial 

Hospital, positioned to serve both rural and urban 

populations, is working to fulfill this mission and 

duty. By 2012, Scheer Memorial Hospital plans 

to be the most effective community health care 

provider in Nepal, supported by state-of-the-art 

diagnostics. 

Scheer Memorial Hospital has come a long 

way since its start. In the late 1950s, when Nepal 

opened its doors to the outside world, Dr. Stanley 

Sturges and his wife, Raylene, and their children 

were the first Seventh-day Adventist medical 

missionaries to Nepal. 


Sturges was born in 1929 at the Songa Mission 

in the Congo, Africa. He was named one of the 

ten “Nation’s Outstanding Young Men for 1961” 

by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce for 

pioneering medical missionary work in the once 

“closed” Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. Growing 

up on a mission station (his father was J. Hubert 

Sturges ’20) he developed skills in mechanics, 

repair and construction, and a lifelong interest in 

sports. 

At the start of their work in Nepal, the Sturges 

family asked King Mahendra where they could be 

used the most, and they were sent to the village of 

Banepa, 16 miles east of Kathmandu. When they 

arrived in 1957, Banepa, the usual last outpost for 

expeditions to Mt. Everest, was a town with no 

One of the village girls 

shows off her goatcatching 

skills. 

qualified physician. It offered the Sturges family 

no place to live and no church support structure. 

The Sturges family accepted the offer of a local 

elder to live in his home, where they stayed for 

two years. The Nepali elder’s grandson would later 

be the assistant mayor of Banepa and a strong 

supporter of the mission hospital. 

Sturges began with a small one-man clinic, 

caring for the immediate and urgent medical needs 

of the community. An indispensable partner in 

his work was his wife, Raylene, a 1953 graduate 

of the Loma Linda University School of Nursing, 

who skillfully bridged gender differences in the 

local culture. 

Another indispensable name in the Scheer 

Memorial story is that of New Jersey construction 

engineer Clifford C. Scheer who, as a memorial to 

his parents Charles and Carolyn Scheer, donated 

most of the money needed to build the hospital. 

Other funding for equipment, room furnishings, 

and medical supply necessities came from the 

Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere 

(CARE), a humanitarian organization fighting 

global poverty, and the Seventh-day Adventist 

Church. The townspeople helped as well, with 

various petitions on Sturges’ behalf to the local 

government, as well as with donations of their 

own funds to buy land on a hill and build a clinic 

and a hospital. Scheer Memorial Hospital was 

finished in 1960 and has been in continuous 

operation to the present. 

Since those modest early years, and with the 

continued volunteer and financial assistance of the 

Seventh-day Adventist Church, Scheer Memorial 

Hospital has evolved into a three-story facility 

licensed for 150 beds that provide a full range of 

outpatient and inpatient services. Also available 

are 24-hour emergency room and ambulance, 

and physiotherapy services. Diagnostic studies 

available include x-ray, ultrasound, medical lab, 

and ECG. Weekly outreach clinics add to the 

scope of rural community health care. And 

professional medical teams run annual free health 

camps at Scheer Memorial. 

The hospital hasn’t stopped at medical 

services, and now also hosts internationally 

qualified educational programs and awareness 

events. 

In 2002 an elementary school was opened for 

Committed Physicians 

by Carlyle Welch ’65 

Minimal, inauspicious, and potentially 

contentious might describe the beginnings 

of Scheer Memorial Hospital. It started with 

Stanley and Raylene Sturges, a Christian physician 

and nurse couple who journeyed to a proudly 

Scheer Memorial Hospital from across the rice fields. 

the children of the hospital staff. Here the children 

learn English from English-speaking teachers, 

and are exposed to a Christian environment. The 

goal is to develop skills that will prepare them to 

be future leaders of Nepal. 

Since 2004, thanks to generous donations 

from the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 

Finland, and a grant from the Finnish Ministry 

of Foreign Affairs, the school now has seven 

classrooms, a large gymnasium, and some 80 

students from preschool through grade five. The 

Australian Adventist Sanitarium also donated and 

constructed a model playground for the school. 

In 2005, Scheer Memorial College of Nursing 

was opened with 15 students working to earn 

their Bachelor of Science in nursing. There are 

currently 74 students enrolled in the program. 

The teaching staff is among the best in Nepal. 

Scheer Memorial continues to serve Nepal, 

and plans to do so for another 50 years. 

professed Hindu state. They were dedicated, welltrained 

and language capable, but what could they 

expect from a society centuries deep in Hinduism 

and determined to ward off Christianity? The 

Sturges family could only guess as they entered 

the foreign community, offering friendship and 

health care to the small town of Banepa, Nepal, 

in 1957. 


One thing they knew was that God’s love and 

friendship could surmount the most formidable 

barriers. So, despite the inborn suspicions of the 

closely knit community, the skill, compassion and 

friendliness of this foreign couple triumphed. 

Their dream, almost three years in the making, 

was born on a hill in Nepal with the inauguration 

of a small hospital on May 19, 1960. 

The hospital’s initiation ceremony was 

graced by the prime minister of the country, the 

honorable Bisweshower Prasad Koirala. While 

his presence showed his enthusiasm and support 

for the hspital, no one was as pleased as the 

citizens of Banepa who rejoiced and applauded. 

The future of the hospital was uncertain, as were 

politics in Nepal. The day after the ceremony, the 

prime minister was jailed in a coup. 

As Sturges looks back at his years in Nepal, 

he remembers grappling with political turmoil and 

contentions over the water source for the hospital. 

But despite the trouble, the hospital survived 

because of its committed staff members. 

Alumni Journal contributor Lincoln Morikone, administrator 

at Scheer Memorial Hospital, with a mountain village girl. 

The girl is now attending Scheer Memorial’s campus grade 

school. 

Sturges was not the only major contributor to 

the start of the hospital. His in-laws, the Duncans, 

raised money for the first x-ray machine and for 

the water system. His brother, Dr. Keith Sturges 

’59, and his wife, Alice, also brought their skills 

to the hospital, further developing the surgical 

department and maternity wing. They gave seven 

years to Sheer Memorial Hospital. 

Others followed the work of the Sturges 

family, including, Drs. Richard I. Clark ’56, 

Thomas N. Mullen ’72 and John B. Oliver 

’42, followed by Sherry Read ’74. Read served 

three times and became permanently attached 

to Nepal when she married Prachesh Shrestha. 

The couple moved to Montemorelos, Mexico, 

(where Shrestha earned his medical degree), then 

returned to Nepal for five more years of service. 

One of the dominant health care professionals 

at the hospital during the 1980s and 1990s was 

Dr. Leonardo Vigna from Argentina. Vigna had 

a reputation for serving with vigor. One of the 

other physicians insisted that Vigna knew where 

every brick was, and that perhaps every brick also 

knew where Vigna was. His strong personality 

will be remembered in different ways by the staff 

of that time, but his relentless energy and broad 

scope of surgical services were especially evident. 

He introduced endoscopy services. He started the 

laparoscopic gall bladder surgery. He oversaw the 

development of the current operating room area. 

He supervised building of a four-story housing 

unit for local staff. Vigna’s reputation soon spread 

well beyond the Banepa valley. 

Other physicians who served include Dr. 

Harold Mangold, an orthopedist from Argentina; 

Dr. Reuben Urrejola, a general surgeon from 

Chile, and his wife, an oncologist; Dr. Ramon 

Diaz, from Paraguay (the first fully trained 

anesthesiologist) and his wife, Graciela (the first 

fully trained obstetrician/gynecologist); and Dr. 

Nestor Hein, a family physician from Argentina. 

Read and Shrestha were also here during much 

of this time. There were also a number of “short 

termers” coming to help when the regulars went 

on annual leaves. 

One of the “short termers,” Dr. Ira E. 

Bailie ’52, eventually became a “long termer” and 

continues to be involved by periodically sending 

supplies, especially for the operating room. Bailie 

came in 1979 as a relief doctor and returned in 

1992. In 1997 he became surgeon and director for 

three years. In recognition of his tireless efforts, 

the top floor of the final wing of the hospital was 

named for him. 

The 1980s and 1990s involved Nepal getting 

acquainted with Scheer Memorial Hospital, while 

the first decade of the 21 st century involves Scheer 

Memorial Hospital reaching out to Nepal. 

Administrative leadership is in the hands of 

non-physicians. Rafael Garcia served as the first 

administrator, followed by Roy Kline, followed 

by current administrator Lincoln Morikone. 

The hospital now offers weekly mobile clinics 

that bring basic health services to several district 

villages. Specialty services from Australia, Japan, 

Hong Kong, the Netherlands and the United 

States bring help for indigent villagers in specialties 

not commonly available: burn wound contracture 

surgery, cleft lip/palate repair, uterine prolapse 

and inner ear repair. 

In addition, the hospital has expanded with a 

physical therapy department supervised by Yvonne 

Gray. The emergency room was also updated, and 

a successful and nationally recognized tobacco 

cessation education program was initiated and 

continues today under the supervision of Sundar 

Thapa. The hospital has also established a 

connection with the Rotarians of Germany, who 

arrange for short-term physician replacement 

when our staff goes on annual leave. 

Physician staffing in 2000 started with Read 

and Shrestha in family practice and Rentfro 

in orthopedics. Drs. Prameed and Lavonna 

Johnson, an orthopedist and an obstetrician/ 

gynecologist, respectively, followed. Dr. Miguel 

Razon, a family practice specialist, served along 

Alumni Journal contributor Carlyle Welch ’65 (left) tends to 

a bus accident victim. It is not unusual for 50-60 patients 

to be brought in at one time. 

with his wife, who served as nursing director. Dr. 

Jemuel Fraz served in internal medicine with his 

wife, a pediatrician, and Dr. Ernaline Maranan, 

an obstetrician/gynecolgist. Dr. Silas Gomes and 

Dr. Victor Canalas serve as surgeons. In 2007, Dr. 

Bellosilla, a family practice physician, and his wife, 

Elma, transferred from Africa. Then, in 2008, Dr. 

Fernando Cardona arrived to further develop the 

pediatric department. 

Today Scheer Memorial Hospital continues to 

recieve support from around the world with fulltime 

physicians from the Philippines, Puerto Rico, 

Paraguay, and Nepal as well as North America. 

The current staff includes Cardona, Bellosillo, 

Diaz, and Drs. Aaron and Sally Sartin ’07, who 

specialize in family medicine. 

Challenges still remain great, and the financial 

capacity to meet them limited, but the hospital 

will continue for another 50 years because of its 

many committed physicians. 

For more information, visit our Web site at 

www.scheermemorialhospital.org, or email us at 

infoscheer@gmail.com. 


Alumni Journal contributor Luke Balding ’11 examines a 

patient. 

My Mission Elective 

by Luke Balding ’11 

My senior mission elective took place at 

Scheer Memorial Hospital in the town of Banepa, 

which is about 26 kilometers east of Kathmandu, 

Nepal. During the elective I was assigned to 

a different specialty each week: pediatrics, 

obstetrics/gynecology, internal medicine, and 

general surgery. While the experience was not as 

hands-on as I had hoped, I learned a lot, especially 

on my internal medicine week. 

The Nepali internist, Dr. Vivek, was truly 

a remarkable physician and excellent teacher. 

There are many alcoholics in the Banepa region, 


and Vivek is the one who manages the patients 

with alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis. I had the 

opportunity to interview and examine patients 

who had liver disease, including jaundice, 

hepatomegaly, and ascites with fluid wave. 

Another clinic experience I will not forget is 

just after an elderly man came in for a follow-up 

examination. Vivek knew the diagnosis and asked 

me for my opinion. The patient had a hoarse 

voice, and he smelled like cigarette smoke. With 

those two pieces of information, I volunteered 

what I thought: pancoast tumor, which is cancer 

in the upper lung. I was correct. Vivek then went 

on to tell me that the patient did not know he had 

cancer, and that his health care team did not plan 

to tell him. Unfortunately, other than symptomatic 

treatment, there was nothing that could be done 

for him. 

During the elective, I also saw many patients 

who came in with issues that are rarely seen in 

the United States: typhoid fever, amoebiasis, and 

organophosphate poisoning. There were multiple 

patients with organophosphate poisoning. They 

were usually women who ingested the poison 

after having some type of dispute with their 

husbands. Because organophosphate pesticides 

are easily accessible, self-poisoning is a popular 

form of suicide. What is more concerning is that 

the poisoning has become common due to the 

lack of proper tools for conflict resolution and 

coping. This is an area where education could 

make a positive impact. 

Overall, I’m happy I got to go to Nepal and 

experience this new culture and learn about the 

way the medical system works in this part of the 

world. There are many moments that I will never 

forget, and the rotation inspired me to remain 

a well-rounded physician. If I do not limit my 

knowledge to my own specialty I would be able to 

make a greater impact if I were to ever go out in 

the mission field. 

Thank you to the Alumni Association for 

your support. 


Mailing address: 

P.O. Box 88 

Kathmandu, Nepal 

Phone: 977 (11) 661-111, 661-112 

Fax: 977 (11) 661-711 

Email: infoscheer@gmail.com 

Web site: www.scheermemorial hospital.org 

Administrator: Lincoln Morikone 

Chief Medical Officer: Dr. Fernando Cardona 

Services Provided: 

Dentistry, emergency medicine, general medicine, 

general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, 

pediatrics, physiotherapy, urology 

Number of patient beds: 150 

The facility includes: 

General medical and surgical inpatient care, fully 

equipped operating theater, intensive care unit, 

24-hour emergency department and ambulance 

service, outpatient clinic, field clinics, school of 

nursing 

About Nepal: 

Total area: 54,363 square miles 

Population: 28,951,852 (2010 estimate) 

Life expectancy: 65.8 years 

Capital (2003 estimate): Kathmandu 1,203,100 

(metro area), 729,000 (city proper) 

Monetary unit: Nepalese rupee 

Nepal is a landlocked country approximately the size of Arkansas. It is bordered by Tibet to the north 

and India to the south. The northern section of the country, where Scheer Memorial Hospital is located, 

merges into the Himalayas, a range which includes Mount Everest. Photo by Günay Mutlu.

1940s 

Dr. Pierce 

Jones 

Moore, 

Jr. ’44-B 

received the 

Order of the 

Long Leaf 

Pine award. It is among the most 

prestigious awards presented by 

the Governor of North Carolina, 

presented to individuals who have 

a proven record of extraordinary 

service to their communities. 

Moore has dedicated over 50 years 

of outstanding medical service 

to the Asheville, Hendersonville, 

and Fletcher areas. On October 

27, Moore was also the first 

recipient of Park Ridge Health’s 

“PJ Moore, Jr., MD, and 

Arthur Pearson, MD, Award 

of Excellence” in recognition 

of their more that 50 years of 

outstanding community medical 

service to the Hendersonville, 

and Fletcher areas. The late Dr. 

Arthur A. Pearson was a member 

of Class of 1937. 

.................................................. 

1960s 

Dr. James M. Slater ’63 received 

a $2,799,999.00 grant from the 

Alumni Activities 

Radiological 

Society 

of North 

American 

for a project 

called 

“Cooperative 

Research in Proton Space 

Radiation.” The project will help 

in research and development of 

equipment used to observe the 

biologic effect radiation has on 

people and equipment. The grant 

was given as of February 1, 2011. 

Slater is known as a pioneer and 

leader in proton research. 

.................................................. 

1970s 

Dr. William 

H. McGhee 

’72 recently 

received 

an award 

from the 

government 

of Pakistan for his help after the 

2005 earthquake and the 2010 

floods. Both tragedies took the 

lives of tens of thousands of 

people and affected millions. Since 

McGhee had lived and worked 

in that area for 14 years, he was 

qualified to go over with a trauma 

team from Loma Linda University. 

As a psychiatry specialist, McGhee 

advised rescue workers and other 

members of the relief effort on 

the difference between victims 

suffering the expected mental and 

emotional trauma, and those who 

might need further assistance. 

McGhee works in psychiatry at 

the Loma Linda University School 

of Medicine. 

.................................................. 

1980s 

Dr. Ronald 

Jaecks ’81 

is currently 

practicing 

as a general 

surgeon 

at Salem 

Hospital, Salem, Ore., and is 

Chief of Surgery for the Salem 

Division of Kaiser Permanente. 

Recently, he was installed as 

the president of the Oregon 

Chapter of the American 

College of Surgeons. Jaecks 

had just completed a two-year 

term as president-elect. He 

has represented the Oregon 

Chapter by lobbying legislators 

in Washington, D.C., concerning 

health care reform. The Oregon 

Chapter of the American 

College of Surgeons newsletter 

stated that he has excelled in 

advanced laparoscopy including 

laparoscopic colon resections, 

hernia repairs, anti-reflux surgery 

and single port surgery. Jaecks 

commented on his two-year term 

by stating that “it is a high honor 

to serve my profession in this 

way and to be entrusted with the 

presidential responsibilities.” 

.................................................. 

1990s 

Dr. James 

L. Gulley 

’95 has been 

selected to 

receive a 

Presidential 

Early 

Career Award for Scientists and 

Engineers (PECASE). This is 

the highest honor bestowed by 

the United States government 

on science and engineering 

professionals in the early stages of 

their independent research careers. 

Gulley, who entered the tenure 

track at the National Institutes 

of Health in 2010, was recently 

tenured based on his leadership 

in the field of immunology for 

cancer. He has brought a vaccine 

developed in the Laboratory of 

Tumor Immunology and Biology 

within the National Cancer 

Institute to its first human trials, 

initially through preliminary 

efficacy studies and now into a 

definitive phase 3 clinical trial. 

The randomized phase 2 study 

suggested a 44% reduction in the 

risk of death compared with the 

placebo. Gulley has also proposed 

a new paradigm to explain the 

delayed clinical benefit seen with 

immune therapies as a class. 

Gulley lives with his wife, Trenise, 

and two children in Takoma Park, 

Md., and is active in the Sligo 

Seventh-day Adventist Church. 

“Without my training at LLU,” 

Gulley says, “I would not be 

where I am today.” 

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2000s 

Dr. David 

M. Hadley 

’05 has 

become an 

assistant 

professor at 

the Loma 

Linda University Department of 

Urology. Hadley completed an 

internship in general surgery in 

Salt Lake City, at the University 

of Utah. He also completed a 

residency in urology at the same 

institution. His fellowship was 

at the University of Colorado 

in Aurora, Colo. He has been 

awarded the Audio-Visual Award 

by the American Urologic 

Association (2005) and the 

Resident Scholarship Award by 

the International Volunteers in 

Urology (2008) for work he did in 

Vietnam. 

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1940s 

Dr. Robert 

Melville 

Andrews ’42 

was born on 

December 

14, 1917, in 

Chungking, 

China. After medical school, he 

served in the Army and did several 

stints of locum-tenems. He 

eventually moved to Los Angeles 

to practice general medicine at 

the White Memorial Hospital. He 

retired in 1990 and lived in the 

Loma Linda area. He is survived 

by his sisters, Elizabeth Hill and 

D. Jeanne Andrews-Willumson, 

a brother, Edward Andrews, and 

five nephews and three nieces. 

Dr. Helen 

L. Popoway- 

Holiak ’47 

passed away 

on June 

6, 2011. 

She was 

born on October 16, 1922, in 

Harbin, China. She specialized 

in anesthesiology, then was 

trained by the California State 

Department of Social Services 

as a Medi-Cal consultant, and 

she worked reviewing requests 

for prior authorizations until her 

In Memoriam 

retirement from medical practice 

in 1979. Popoway-Holiak and her 

husband thoroughly enjoyed living 

the country lifestyle in Orangevale 

near Folsom, Calif. 

.................................................. 

1950s 

Dr. Calvin 

Arthur 

Olson ’51 

passed away 

on August 

3, 2011, 

in Sonora, 

Calif., at the age of 85. He was 

born in India, and spent several 

years in the mission field before 

he began working at the Sonora 

Medical Group in 1971. He retired 

in 1998. He is survived by his wife 

Alyse Olson; his children Eric and 

wife Marti Olson, Karen Johnson, 

Robert and wife Michelle Olson, 

Bill Olson and partner Ray 

Toney, and Donna Olson; and 

numerous grandchildren, nieces 

and nephews. 

Dr. Findlay 

Ewing 

Russell ’51, 

known for 

his research 

in toxicology 

and 

toxinology, passed away on 

August 21, 2011, in Phoenix. He 

was 91. He was one of the first to 

use polyvalent crotalid antivenom 

for snakebite envenomation. He 

worked at USC for more than 30 

years as a professor . His survivors 

include his children Christa 

Russell Cessaro and her husband 

Robert, Sharon Russell Boyle and 

her husband Chuck, Robin Rusell 

and her husband Paul Home, 

Connie Lane and her husband 

Larry and Mark Russell and his 

wife Dana. 

Dr. Heath 

Rowsell ’54 

was born 

in Loxton, 

South 

Australia, and 

passed away 

on June 26, 2011. He was interred 

on June 30, 2011, in Colton, 

Calif. Rowsell’s medical career 

was devoted to the mission field 

until his retirement in 1996. His 

survivors include his wife, Reba,, 

his daughter, Heather Smith and 

her husband, Kenneth; his sons, 

Dr. Edward Rowsell ’95 and his 

wife, Beverly; and Timothy; his 

sisters Elva Fietz and Margaret 

Watts; and two grandsons. His 

son, Dr. Thomas Rowsell ’79-B, 

predeceased him in 1989. 

Dr. Jerrold 

A. Corbett 

’57 passed 

away on April 

17, 2011, 

in Jackson, 

Calif. He 

was 86 years old. He completed 

two internships, one at the White 

Memorial Hospital, and one in 

obstetrics at the Los Angeles 

County General Hospital. Corbett 

had his own practice in Citrus 

Heights, worked as Humboldt 

State College director of student 

health in Arcata, Calif., and was a 

cruise ship physician for “World 

Discover.” He is survived by Joan, 

his wife of 55 years, and their 

children, Jennifer, Jeff and John. 

.................................................. 

1960s 

Dr. Stanley 

A. Rouhe 

’69 passed 

away on June 

25, 2011, due 

to pancreatic 

cancer. He 

was 67. Born on October 4, 1943, 

in Zaire, Africa, Rouhe was a 

neursuregon for 42 years and a 

partner in a medical distribution 

company. He was loved by his 

patients and his peers. He is 

survived by his daughter, Helena 

Louise Rouhe, his brothers, Edgar 

and Richard Rouhe, and his 

sister, Suzanne Nelson. He was 

predeceased by his wife, Anne 

Louise Rouhe, on June 7, 2011. 

.................................................. 

1970s 

Dr. Arlene 

Rae 

Martone- 

Schlisner 

’72 passed 

away on July 

27, 2011, 

at Hamilton Medical Center in 

Dalton, Ga., at the age of 64. 

She was born on June 7, 1947, 

in Hendersonville, N.C. She is 

survived by her husband, Everett 

Schlisner; her sons and daughtersin-law 

James and Amy Hermann; 

Greg Hermann; Grand and 

Laurie Schlisner; Brett and Amy 

Schlisner; her daughters and sonsin-law 

Tammy and Andy Graham; 

Suzanne and Frank Dye; sisters 

and brothers-in-law Linda and Jay 

Gallimore; Brenda and Nelson 

Thoresen; and 12 grandchildren. 

Dr. Bernd 

Walter 

Scheithauer 

’73-A, passed 

away on 

September 

19, 2011, 

in Rochester, Minn., at 65. He 

was born on August 30, 1946, 

in Germany. He completed 

his residency and fellowship 

in surgical pathology and 

neuropathology and worked for 

the Mayo Clinic. He is survived by 

his mother; son, Hans; daughter, 

Monika, and her husband, Joe 

Maxey; and his grandson, Aiden. 

.................................................. 

1980s 

Dr. Juan A. 

Monterroso 

’84 was born 

on August 

5, 1958, in 

Guatemala 

City and 

passed away on October 3, 2010. 

He worked at Poly Clinic Medical 

Center in Bakersfield, Calif., where 

he was a partner and main doctor 

for 23 years. He is survived by 

his mother, Sylvia Altsman, his 

daughter, Christina, his son, Mark, 

and his brothers, Sergio and Luis. 

.................................................. 

2000s 

Dr. John 

Christian 

Gregorius 

’03 passed 

away on June 

19, 2011, 

at the age 

of 33, due to metastatic ocular 

melanoma. He is survived by his 

father, Dr. F. Karl Gregorius 

’67, and mother, Tricia; his sister 

Wendy Gregorius; his brother 

Dr. Theodore K. Gregorius ’00; 

his sister Stephanie Zivanovic; 

and his brother Dr. Stephen F. 

Gregorius ’06. Donations can be 

made in memory of Gregorius at 

the Ocular Melanoma Foundation 

Web site: www.ocularmelanoma. 

org/memorial-john-gregorius. 


They Walked These Halls by Henry K. Yeo ’68 

alumni who influence academia, medicine and the social order 

Dr. Charles J. Aucreman, Jr. ’68 

Charles Joseph Aucreman, Jr. ’68 

Born: 1942, Winchester, Ind. 

During his residency training, Dr. Charles Aucreman 

’68 developed an interest in special procedures—angiography, 

arthrograms and the like. 

Radiology was rapidly evolving from interpreting 

film images to incorporating hands-on patient care. 

While attending courses on mammography conducted 

by world-renowned Dr. Laszlo Tabar in the 

early 1990s, Aucreman was introduced to the thennew 

stereotactic breast biopsy procedure. 

On his return to the United States, Aucreman 

found out that the FDA was in the process of approving 

these biopsy units. He obtained the sixth 

unit that Fisher Imaging manufactured. 

His practice burgeoned, and by 1994 he was 

a primary player in the construction of the Nancy 

Reagan Breast Center in Simi Valley, Calif. His published 

papers put him on the lecture circuit from 

the Navajo reservation to the University of Connecticut 

medical school. 

Aucreman also spends time sailing in different 

parts of the world. He is on the crew of the U.S. 

Sailing Team and placed first in the 1998 World 

Disabled Sailing Championships. 

Dr. Cyril B. Courville ’25 

Cyril Brian Courville ’25 

Born: 1900, Traverse City, Mich. 

Died: 1968, Glendale, Calif. 

At graduation, Dr. Cyril Courville ’25 

achieved the highest scores in the National Board 

Examinations for that year. 

He interrupted his postgraduate studies to 

spend a year at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital studying 

with and assisting legendary neurosurgeon, Dr. 

Harvey Cushing, who then requested that Courville 

stay with him. However, his loyalty was with 

his alma mater and he returned there to teach and 

research. 

During his career as a neurologist/neuropathologist, 

he published some 25 text books and 

over 300 papers. He organized the Los Angeles 

Neurological Society and edited its Bulletin for 30 

years. He also founded the Cajal Laboratory of 

Neuropathology (named after Nobelist Santiago 

Ramon y Cajal) at County/USC Medical Center. 

Another tangible legacy is his extensive collection 

of specimens of neurological trauma (and the 

weapons that caused them) displayed at the Alumni 

Hall of Basic Sciences. 

Dr. Walter Dandy of Johns Hopkins University 

once told his audience that Courville was “the 

world’s greatest neuropathologist.” 

Dr. Edwin H. Krick ’61 

Edwin Harry Krick ’61 

Born: 1935, Takoma Park, Md. 

Dr. Edwin Krick ’61 served in Seventh-day 

Adventist medical work in Japan from 1962–1970. 

He obtained his Japanese medical license in 1963 

after passing written and oral tests in Japanese. 

“It wasn’t bad,” he said, “after you master hiragana 

(phonetics), katakana (italics), and Kanji (some 

1,800 Chinese-based characters).” He worked for 

four years in Tokyo and in 1966 was assigned to 

restart the Kobe Seventh-day Adventist medical 

facilities (originally begun in 1902 by Dr. Sheridan 

Lockwood AMMC ’00). This turned out to be 

a valuable initiation for his future activities in the 

Alumni Association, as president (1979) and board 

of directors member (1973–1980) responsible for 

the construction of the Alumni Center 

He has been on the LLUSM staff in internal 

medicine and public health since 1971. He is board 

certified in rheumatology, allergy/immunology and 

preventive medicine. He was dean of the School 

of Public Health from 1986 to 1990. 

Dr. Vernon L. Nickel ’44-A 

Vernon Lowell Nickel ’44-A 

Born: 1918, Waldheim, Saskatchewan, Canada 

Died: 1993, La Jolla, Calif. 

When Dr. Vernon Nickel ’44-A joined the 

staff of Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Los Angeles 

in 1953, he was faced with an array of patients 

with paralytic poliomyelitis, many of them in 

iron lungs. His goal was then to rehabilitate their 

condition to the maximum and perhaps even get 

them out of their respiratory contraptions. He 

designed his halo device to facilitate upper spinal 

traction and immobilization and improve respiratory 

effort. He also organized innovative services 

for patient rehabilitation involving multiple hospital 

disciplines from surgery to nursing to physical 

therapy to social services. 

When new vaccines practically eradicated polio, 

he turned his attention to rehabilitation of 

spinal trauma, stroke, chronic back pain, decubiti, 

and other injuries applying his many inventions (he 

termed them orthoneering engipedics) and cooperative 

services. 

Among his numerous appointments were: 

Medical Director at Rancho (1964–1970); LL- 

LUSM faculty (1950-1991); and LLUSM orthopedics 

department chair (1969–1975). 


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