Thursday, March 20, 2003 TODAY
School of Medicine news
- New associate dean named for basic science faculty
- Pacific Press publishes book about LLU alumnus
- Innerweave: The Wholeness Story
New associate dean named for basic science faculty
Lawrence C. Sowers, PhD, professor and chair, department of biochemistry and
microbiology, School of Medicine, has been appointed associate dean for basic
science faculty for the School of Medicine, according to Roger H. Hadley, MD,
dean, School of Medicine.
Dr. Sowers earned his bachelor’s degree from Earlham College, Richmond,
Indiana, in 1978, and his doctor of philosophy degree in 1983 from Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina.
His one-year fellowship in the department of medicine at Harvard Medical School
was followed by three years as a research associate in the molecular biology
division of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and a two-year
fellowship at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Sowers has been a member of the School of Medicine faculty since 1996. Initially
his position was that of adjunct associate professor, since he was, at the time,
professor of the City of Hope National Medical Center.
Since January, 2001, he has been chair and professor of the department of biochemistry
and microbiology at Loma Linda University. In the two years since he assumed
the responsibilities of chair, Dr. Sowers has contributed to the growth and success
of many young faculty in the basic sciences and establishes several research
groups.
" His ability as a mentor and his commitment to facilitate the academic
careers of those with whom he works, qualify him for the additional responsibilities
he now assumes as associate dean for basic science faculty," Dr. Hadley
says.
Dr. Sowers and his wife, Diana, have two sons, Jimmy and Mark.
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Pacific Press publishes book about LLU alumnus
A new book telling the story of George H. Rue, MD, a 1938 graduate
of the School of Medicine, has been published by Pacific Press Publishing
Association, Nampa,
Idaho.
The book, titled Though Bombs May Fall, is authored by Penny Young Sook Kim,
Richard A. Schaefer, and Charles Mill. The book tells the story of Dr. Rue and
his wife who sacrificed all they had for God.
A special vespers, banquet, and autograph-signing event for the new book will
be held Saturday, March 29, at 4:30 p.m. at the Loma Linda Korean Seventh-day
Adventist Church, 12408 South Mount Vernon Avenue, Grand Terrace.
Leaving behind a lucrative medical practice in the United States, Dr. Rue had
been welcomed to a tiny clinic with no running water or electricity. He had since
created respectable hospitals and a reputable school of nursing. He treated anyone
in need—from a homeless patient in a cave to South Korean president Syngman
Rhee in the presidential palace.
When he eventually returned to Seoul after World War II, he found his hospital
damaged but still standing. In what had been one of the most modern and well-equipped
hospitals in Seoul, were found only four towels and a pair of surgeon’s
gloves. When he returned following the invasion by North Korea, he found that
70 percent of Seoul had been leveled. But his hospital still stood, thanks to
a high-ranking North Korean army officer who had been a patient there, who held
Dr. Rue in high esteem. The officer ordered that the hospital be spared.
Special guest at the banquet will be Grace Rue, "mother" to more
than 1,000 orphans, many of them Korean/Americans.
Cost for the dinner is $20 per person and includes one book per family. Proceeds
and royalty will go to the George H. Rue, MD, Scholarship fund at Loma Linda
University.
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Innerweave:The Wholeness Story
Those who actively, yet usually gingerly, pursue the experience called "spiritual
formation” are often in search of yet another discipline which
might be helpful and fruitful in the great pursuit. James Martineau (d.
1900) offers this
approach:
" Go into silence, strip yourself of all pretense, and selfishness, and sensuality,
and sluggishness of soul; Lift off thought after thought, passion after passion
till you reach the inmost depth of all; Remember how short a time you were not
at all; how short a time and your will not be here; Open your window and look
out upon a night, how still its breath, how solemn its march—It will be
strange if you do not feel the Eternal Presence as close upon your soul as the
breeze upon your brow; It will be further strange if you do not think or say
'O
Lord art thou ever near as this, and I have not known thee?'
" Strange if the true proportions and the genuine spirit of life do not open
on your heart with infinite clearness and show you the littleness of your temptations
and the grandeur of your trust. You will be ashamed to have found weariness in
toil so light, and tears where there was no trial to the brave.
" You will discover with astonishment how small the dust that has blinded you,
and from a height of a quiet and holy love look down with incredulous sorrow
on the jealousies and fears and irritations that have vexed your life. A mighty
wind of resolution will set in strong upon you and freshen the whole atmosphere
of your soul, sweeping down before it the light flakes of difficulty, till they
vanish like snow upon the sea.
" You are imprisoned no more in a small compartment of time, but belong to an
eternity
which is now and here…at one with God.”
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