Last week we asked you who gave the keynote speech at the Children’s Hospital dedication on November 10, 1993. Before mentioning the winners, thanks for the chuckle to the person who answered Pope John Paul II.
David LeClaire, Moonyeen Zimmerman, and Connie Ganger are the three randomly chosen winners who correctly answered that the speaker was California First Lady Gayle Wilson. E-mail pr@llu.edu for your gift.
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In honor of LLU Health Care’s recent renewal of its contract to provide care for local veterans, our focus this week is Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center, which was named after Loma Linda University Health’s very own Jerry Pettis, former LLUH vice president and assistant professor who later became a U.S. Congressman. As a Congressman, he helped secure the hospital’s placement in Loma Linda to mutually benefit both institutions.
President Richard Nixon, California Governor Ronald Reagan, and Representative Pettis visited the Loma Linda University Health campus on August 21, 1971, to announce the forthcoming veterans hospital.
“I can think of nothing that does more to make friends for America abroad,” President Nixon said, “than that kind of selfless service by people like those from Loma Linda.”
Sweet.
Did you know that Loma Linda University Health donated the land on which the Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center sits? If you know how many acres the donation was, e-mail the answer to pr@llu.edu by midnight Monday, November 18, for a chance to win.