Alumni find each other in Vancouver Alumni in the Vancouver, BC area joined Dr. and Mrs. Charles J. Goodacre for dinner in March at the Pan Pacific Hotel. The event was held during the AADS meeting, with dental and dental hygiene alumni enjoying presentations by Dean Goodacre and Fred Kasischke, assistant dean for admissions, service learning and spiritual nurture. Pictured are Wendell K. Danielson, SD'59, William Heisler, SD'59, C. Ross Montgomery, SD'59, and Kenneth Scott, SD'58.   A montage of pediatric dentistry patients was presented to Mrs. Clare Hutto, president of the Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation, by J. Todd Milledge, SD'88, PG'95, assistant professor and chair of pediatric dentistry, (left), and John Peterson, Jr., SD'70, MS'78, professor and director of advanced education in pediatric dentistry, at a special luncheon honoring the Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation for their support of the new Pediatric Dentistry Clinic which is under construction. The carved wooden box held by Mrs. Hutto was presented by Charles J. Goodacre, SD'71, MSD, dean of the School of Dentistry.   Hutto-Patterson Foundation gift completed The Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation presented a check for $50,000 to the School of Dentistry on March 31, completing their grant of $250,000 for the new Pediatric Dentistry Clinic. Mrs. Clare Hutto, president of the Foundation, was guest of honor at a luncheon hosted by LLU President B. Lyn Behrens, MBBS, and Charles J. Goodacre, SD'71, MSD, dean of the School of Dentistry. Other special guests were Richard Dougherty, foundation trustee, and Noni Patchett, LLU Councilor. Todd Milledge, SD'88, PG'95, chair of pediatric dentistry, and John Peterson, Jr., SD'70, MS'78, director of advanced education in pediatric dentistry, gave an update on the new facility and presented a special gift to Mrs. Hutto. Also attending the luncheon were Carolyn Cales and Albin Grohar from the Office of Advancement, Barbara Bostwick, director of development for the School of Dentistry, and pediatric dentistry faculty members Shahnaz Bonyanpoor, DMD, assistant professor, Mervin Ellstrom, SD'75A, assistant professor, and Rick Penman II, SD'95, assistant professor. Ready, set, construct! by Christy K. Robinson The contract has been signed, the job trailer is up, and we're getting moving," says Ron Secor, MBA, associate dean for financial administration of the School of Dentistry. "Jim Redfield [director of Dental Maintenance] is working daily with the project. I've been working with him on the administrative end of this," says Mr. Secor.   February, 1999   McCarthy Construction, of Newport Beach, has contracted to build the new expansion to Prince Hall for $2,858,237. Additional costs are involved, however, such as design, financing, and construction administrative costs. Major donors to the project are the Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation, the Loma Linda University Dental Group, Inc., the School of Dentistry Anesthesia Faculty, the Friends of Wilfred A. Nation, and the Weingart Foundation. The expansion will house the enlarged Pediatric Dentistry Clinic and the Surgery Center for Dentistry. A new student laboratory will be located on the ground floor, and the second-floor main clinic will contain 36 new operatories.   June 1, 1999   Ground was broken for the new addition in February 1998, during the Alumni-Student Convention. Palm trees were removed, the parking attendant building was moved to the south end of the dental patient parking lot, and fencing was set up. On the interior, the former student lab, which had been used for storage, is now cleared out and ready to meet its destiny. Construction has begun in earnest, with trucks coming and going, concrete being torn up and poured back down, the sounds of hammers, drills, power tools, and heavy machinery filling the air, dust covering the nearby cars, and the day by day progress of plumbing and electrical fixtures being installed. Metal girders are framed up, and right now, things seem to be moving at a rapid pace. As the saying goes, "If you build it they will come." University | Medical_Center | LLU&MC_home | Search | Employment | News_&_events | Academics | Our_mission | Admissions | Registration | Research | Alumni | Student_resources All contents copyright © 2001 Loma Linda University. All rights reserved. Revised February 28, 2001 Send comments and questions to webmaster@univ.llu.edu  URL: http://www.llu.edu