A big thank you to all who participated in last Thursday’s launch of our weekly trivia challenge. The correct family name for the biting flies named after LLU faculty is, as many of you guessed, Ceratopogonidae.
The first three people to correctly answer this question were Brijie Elhazin, Nancy Blaire, and Michael Almanzor. The winners should send an e-mail to pr@llu.edu to claim their prize.
Today’s question takes us back to the absolute beginning of Loma Linda University Health. If you can fill in the blank, e-mail your answer to pr@llu.edu. The first three to correctly answer the question will be rewarded with a small but totally neat prize.
The early dreamers of Loma Linda University Health purchased the property for $40,000 (down from an original asking price of $110,000) with a $1,000 down payment personally secured by Adventist minister John Burden. When the date of the next scheduled payment of $_______ arrived, not even a single dollar was in possession to meet it. Church leaders held an emergency meeting, and before long there wasn’t a dry eye in the room; a check for that exact amount arrived in the morning’s mail from an unknown donor in New Jersey.