1940s
Wilfred W. Eastman, Sr. (SM'40) from Yreka, California, is retired, and he and his wife, Mary, live on 20 acres next to their son and daughter-in-law, and their family. They have 14 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Mrs. Eastman writes, "Dr. Eastman still plays tennis, and was an instrument-rated pilot. He also made me take flying lessons."
While he was in medical school, the Eastmans lived near White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles for two years, and then Dr. Eastman interned in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
He then enlisted in the U.S. Army. "During the next five-and-a-half years," Mrs. Eastman remembers, "Wilfred was stationed in Philadelphia, was head of an Induction Station in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was with the Third Service Command in Baltimore, organized a 2,000-bed reconditioning Hospital at Ft. Story, Virginia, and was finally sent on a troop ship which went back and forth to the South Pacific.
"...He had always wanted to become an American Board Surgeon," writes Ms. Eastman, "and so he did, under the training of the doctors of George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. [He] later taught at the University until his practice became so large that he had to stop.
"He was working both in Washington, D.C., and Maryland, but ended up doing most of his work in Washington suburbs. It was at that time that he became a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons.
"Dr. Eastman was president of the local Loma Linda University and Columbia Union College alumni associations, president of the Rotary Club in our area, and chief of staff of Washington Adventist Hospital three times.
"We have three children, Nancy Ann Marter, Sally Jo Walther (both married to physicians), and a son, Wilfred Walter Eastman, Jr. (SM'77B), an orthopaedic surgeon. We adopted twin daughters, Lana Lee Plum, and Tana Plauger, who are both married to PhDs in the computer and nuclear physics fields."
The Eastmans are world travelers, and have spent time in many countries where he donated time performing surgery--including Borneo, Singapore, and Thailand. "I studied art at the Gallery of Fine Arts," writes Mrs. Eastman, "while my husband performed five surgeries a day on many occasions."
Following an injury to Mrs. Eastman's knees, Dr. Eastman moved at age 70, and started another surgical practice in Fall River Mills, California. "He was so busy that within one-and-one-half years, he called for his partner in Washington, D.C., to come and help. She is still there."
Arnold C. Tait (SM'40) retired in 1988 after practicing for 39 years in Sunnyside, Washington, and three-and-a-half years in Tacoma, Washington, in addition to five years of service in the U.S. Army in North Africa and Italy. "My health is good," writes Dr. Tait, "but my wife, Hazel, is seriously ill with metastatic cancer."
Katherine Erville Allen (SN'41) traveled overseas to Nigeria with her husband, George Allen (SM'42), to open the Ile-Ife Hospital and start the school of nursing there. She writes that she went on to earn a BS in nursing from Pacific Union College in Angwin, California, in 1942; and an MS in maternal child nursing from University of California, San Francisco, in 1971. She then taught in the LLU School of Nursing from 1972 to 1984, and worked at the La Vida Mission in New Mexico, from 1989 to 1993. She is now retired, and is living in Saint Helens, Oregon.
V. Warren Swayze (SM'46) from Muscatine, Iowa, retired in 1995. In that year, he underwent hand surgery. He notes that he is doing well now. He also had a three-vessel coronary bypass in 1995, and a mitral-valve replacement at the same time. "My son, Victor Swayze (SM'79B), is on the medical staff in psychiatry at the University of Iowa. My daughter is executive assistant to B. Lyn Behrens, president of LLU.
"In my professional opinion," notes Dr. Swayze, "I have two wonderful children. May God bless Loma Linda School of Medicine--may it continue to prosper until Jesus comes."
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