Thanks to our many guessers last week—almost all of whom correctly stated that Jerry L. Pettis was the editor-in-chief of the University SCOPE publication when it debuted in 1963. The three random winners are Marilyn Sampson, Michael Wilson Jr., and Vanessa Noriega. E-mail pr@llu.edu to claim your prize.
The hint was: “His/her name is forever memorialized in the City of Loma Linda.” But Mr. Pettis is not the only LLU luminary to have this distinction. The namesake of Hulda Crooks Park was a dietetics alumna of the School of Public Health. She also held posts including assistant dean of nurses and research assistant for Dr. Mervyn Hardinge.
But what really made her well known was the extensive mountaineering career she began at the age of 64, climbing some 100 peaks and earning eight world records for women over the age of 80 before she died in 1997.
And now for this week's question: What was Hulda Crooks' nickname? E-mail the answer to pr@llu.edu by midnight Monday, December 16, for a chance to win.