Last week’s question was about an organization separate from Loma Linda University but with a historically shared vision of dental missions. The organization was formed with the intent of creating a Seventh-day Adventist dental school. To identify the organization was last week’s trivia challenge.
From among those who correctly answered the National Association of Seventh-day Adventist Dentists — also known as NASDAD — were chosen random winners Linda Harty, Amanda L. Perry and Eun-Hwi Cho. Please email pr@llu.edu to claim your prize, which must be picked up within 60 days.
The College of Medical Evangelists — as Loma Linda University was known back then — had also been dreaming of starting a dental school for many years.
The dreamed-of idea became a reality with the opening of Loma Linda University School of Dentistry in autumn 1953. Tasked to serve as the first dean was M. Webster Prince, DDS, who was one of the founders of NASDAD (which still has an office in the School of Dentistry).
For its first two years, the school didn’t have a building of its own. But on Sept. 18, 1955, the College of Medical Evangelists dedicated a new building for the school, where it is still housed today. After Prince’s death in 1969, the building was named for him.
Speaking about the building, Godfrey T. Anderson, president of the College of Medical Evangelists from 1954–1967, said “From [the day of dedication] on, the School of Dentistry building, with its active group of faculty and students, has been a campus landmark to which we direct visitors with pride and satisfaction.”
Still a landmark today, Prince Hall is one of the buildings surrounding the south campus mall. Directly across the mall is Loma Linda University Church.
Today’s trivia question is a two-parter: What was the date of the first Sabbath that church members spent in this building, and up until then, where had the church been meeting?
Email the answer to pr@llu.edu by midnight Tuesday, March 3, for a chance to win. One answer per person.