Kristy Borowik, Jennifer DeWitt, and Karen Schiller—congratulations. You are the random winners of last week’s trivia question about what new courts the Drayson Center added in 2003. The answer? Beach volleyball. Please e-mail pr@llu.edu to claim your prize, which must be picked up within 60 days.
From sports, we turn to the serious topic of wartime.
In 1926, as a gesture of cooperation and preparedness with the U.S. government, the College of Medical Evangelists—as LLU was then known—organized the 47th General Hospital of the U.S. Army Medical Corps. In peacetime, this existed primarily on paper.
But in 1943, the hospital was activated in Modesto, California, with 1920 alumnus Ben E. Grant, MD, serving as commandant. The majority of the officers were Seventh-day Adventists—about 60 of them being LLU graduates—along with many of the nurses, who were led by first lieutenant Wealthy E. Lindsay, a 1935 graduate of LLU’s nursing program.
The next year, the S.S. West Point transported the hospital to the South Pacific. Where specifically was it sent? If you know the answer, e-mail it to pr@llu.edu by midnight Tuesday, March 11, for the chance to win.