On September 12, 2018, An Artist Rendering of the Loma Linda University Health VISION 2020, The Campaign for a Whole Tomorrow, Featuring the North Elevation of the Adult Tower, Was Erected on the Anderson Street Sound Wall

The featured image for this post is of the steel skeleton of the Loma Linda University Campus Transformation Project (LLUCTP).

By September 12, 2018, the iconic Loma Linda University Medical Center, was fading further in the background with each floor added to the new structures. It was on this day, around 8:00 AM, a journeyman leaned a ladder, an artist rendering of the completed north elevation against the sound wall facing Anderson Street. By 10:30 AM, the rendering had been mounted just south of the east gate. The rendering is still a fixture on the sound wall, which has been shortened in recent weeks as the project draws nearer to completion.

After mounting and cleaning the artist rendering, the young man stepped down from the ladder, and looked up at his handy work. I would like to think that he was admiring a structure that would one day be.

As of August 17, 2020, the artist rendering is still mounted on the sound wall, albeit a shortened wall. Soon the sound wall will give way to a different temporary fence and landscaping.

Dennis E. Park, MA

After graduate school Dennis accepted a position at Loma Linda University. He worked there for 42 years in the areas of administration and financial management, also teaching accounting and management to dietetic students at the School of Public Health. Through the years Dennis has chronicled the growth of the campus, including the construction of the Drayson Center and the Centennial Complex and the razing of Gentry Gym. He is the author of "The Mound City Chronicles: A Pictorial History of Loma Linda University, A Health Sciences Institution 1905 - 2005." dEp 09.30.2016 🔨

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