Centennial timeline: 1960s

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1960

February 24 - CME receives WASC accreditation.

June 10 - Occupation therapy program is given initial approval by AMA.

June 13 - CME's master's program in nursing receives accreditation.

July 22 - CME team removes bullet from man's heart?first time heart-lung machine used for this purpose.

September 25 - Second Kate Lindsay Hall opens.

1961

July 1 - CME becomes Loma Linda University.

September 7 - Dental hygiene program approved by ADA.

1962

March 30 - OT program approved by AMA's Council on Medical Education.

April 26 - Medical records administration curriculum authorized.

April 26 - The School of Dietetics becomes the School of Nutrition and Dietetics.

September 26 - LLU board votes to unify campus at Loma Linda.

December 4 - Ground broken for Graduate School building.

1963

April 29 - First open heart surgery team leaves for Pakistan.

June 27 - Trustees ratify School of Medicine affiliation with Riverside County General Hospital.

August 9 - Vice president Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Overseas Heart Surgery Team.

September 3 - University SCOPE begins publication.

December 1 - Medical record administration program begins.

1964

June 7 - Ground is broken for LLUMC.

August 25 - Clinical pastoral education program is authorized.

September 1 - School of Public Health is organized.

November 16 - Ground is broken for biochemistry building on LL campus.

1965

February 22 - First annual President's convocation is held.

May 25 - Trustees vote to expand LLUMC to 11 stories from 9.

June 6 - First woman graduates from School of Dentistry.

August 6 - HEW awards $129,217 to dentistry to set up and operate oral health service at Monument Valley.

1966

January 25 - Completion of the east tower marks structural completion of new hospital.

July 1 - School of Health Related Professions is organized.

September 27 - Ground is broken for Dale Gentry Gymnasium.

October 1 - Monument Valley Dental Clinic begins operation.

October 30 - First meeting of Public Health Association of Seventh-day Adventists is held.

1967

February 8 - The Division of Public Health becomes the 15th School of Public Health in the nation, and the 6th professional school on the Loma Linda campus.

April 17 - First kidney transplant performed at Loma Linda University Hospital.

April 23 - Constituency approves LLU/La Sierra College merger.

June 23 - School of Public Health receives full accreditation.

July 1 - The School of Public Health begins instruction.

July 1 - LSC becomes College of Arts and Sciences of LLU.

July 9 - LLUH is first occupied.

July 10 - The first baby is born in the new University Hospital.

October 17 - Original Loma Linda Sanitarium is razed.

November 1 - First open-heart surgery is performed by LLU team in Greece.

1968

March 7 - The Dale Gentry Auditorium and Gymnasium opens.

February 8 - School of Nutrition and Dietetics becomes the department of nutrition and dietetics.

March 31 - LLUH is dedicated.

August 5 - School of Dentistry announces new two-year dental assisting program.

1969

January 26 - Nichol Hall opens.

January 28 - Second hospital is renamed Francis D. Nichol Hall.

February 16 - Dedication of LLUH meditation chapel is held.

October 26 - Helipad opened at LLUH.

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