VOL. 89 NO.1 
Dr. Robert Bowes Battles Lymphoma 
Robert R. (Bob) Bowes, who grew up at Madison and 
finished academy here in 1962, has had to face up to a 
more-than-a frog in his throat. 
A recent breathing difficulty turned out to be a Mantle 
Cell Lymphoma based in a tonsil and growing down his 
throat. 
He says the treatment does eliminate but not destroy it. 
A stem cell transplant could be a possible cure, but he 
has to live with it for now and appreciates the support 
of all his friends. 
"I am thankful to be otherwise healthy," he says, "but I 
have had a tracheotomy or a hole drilled into my neck 
so I can breathe below my vocal cords should a tumor 
flare up. That amounts to an air line to my lungs below 
my Adam's apple." 
Bob has six months of treatment ahead of him, in 
hospitalization for three-to-five days at a stretch. 
"I hope to wipe it out, but the thing is presently 
incurable," he says. "Serious research on it has been 
done for the past ten years, and we'll hope some of the 
new protocols will be more effective." 
His treatments will be at Riverside Hospital in Southern 
California, and he is presently staying near there at the 
home of his younger sister Liz Dickinson. Send cards 
and letters to him at 9578 Slope Dr, Cherry Valley, CA, 
82223 
Madison Survey to Become Part of 
Adventist His tory 
During its active years and beyond, the Madison people 
have told their story through the Madison Survey, 
which started publication in 1919. A partial index is in 
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the alumni office at Madison. 
Now, preparations are being made to place the Madison 
Survey on the World Wide Web. 
The General Conference department of Archives and 
Statistics has agreed to digitize all the Surveys, so they 
can be made available for research. 
"This means you will be able to put in any word 
combination and search for them on your own personal 
computers," says Brian Traxler, director of the E.A. 
Sutherland Education Foundation (EASEA) and who 
has arranged for this to be done. 
Traxler has a complete set of bound copies of the 
Survey at the Layman Foundation going through the 
end of 1963, though it looks like the last two issues of 
that year may not have been published. 
He found all but five bound copies at the Layman 
Foundation and uncovered two missing Surveys. 
The General Conference archives had most of them 
already on file. 
"Doing this does not involve a huge amount of time if 
we have all the issues," says Bert Haloviak, director of 
Archives and Statistics at the General Conference. 
"We plan to make them all searchable for word and 
name and put them with all our magazines and 
periodicals on the web site. We are also working on 
digitizing all union papers and historical books." 
Traxler wants as complete a set as possible before 
sending them on for digitizing and is missing the 
following five Surveys from the 1920s. 
(Continued on next page} 
Center for Adventrst Research 
A'1arews U.,rversity 
Berrier Sprrngs Mrchigan 
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Year 
No. 
Date 
1921 
32 
August 10 
1921 
33 
August 17 
1925 
4 
January 21 
1928 
20 
May 16 or 23 
1928 
32 
August 22 
1963 
11,12 
Should you have one of these Surveys, contact 
Brian Traxler at P.O. Box 495, Collegedale, TN 37315 
or call him at (423)-396-4545. 
To see Adventist magazines and historical documents 
currently word and name searchable, go to the Internet 
and look up www.adventistarchives.org. 
The Recovery of Lida Scott at Madison 
By Albert Dittes 
When the wealthy and prominent Lida Funk Scott first 
made contact with the Madison pioneers in 1914, she was 
recovering from the loss ofher daughter. She found in the 
work of Madison the answer to her deepest spiritual and 
emotional needs, and ultimately invested her personal 
fortune as well as personal life in the work of Madison. 
Recently discovered letters indicate she was down 
emotionally and wrote to her husband, Robert Scott, back 
in New Jersey detailing the recovery process at the 
Madison Rural Sanitarium. Mr. Scott saved these letters 
written between 1916 and 1920 in a file with a title page 
saying, "Does a man ever understand a woman?" 
I found these letters in a collection ofhistoricalletters left 
by the late Roger Goodge at Little Creek Nursing Home. 
In the first letter, written on May 14, 1916, she describes 
the Madison Rural Sanitarium as an "interesting place." 
She called Dr. E. A. Sutherland, "a recognized leading 
educator in the South ... Dr. Claxton, U.S. Commissioner 
of Education, ( under Presidents William Howard Taft, 
Woodrow Wilson and Warren G, Harding) has been after 
hin for several years to describe his methods used here at 
the educational conventions, but he did not see his way 
clear until this year at Knoxville. Dr. Claxton is 
encouraging other institutions to model after this." 
She mentions a Mrs. McConnelley. "She seems to be a 
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well known artist in America, but I am not up on these 
things," she said. "She painted the tapestry for the walls 
of the sanitarium at Battle Creek, doing her work in a 
wheelchair and directing the workers in doing the 
decorations as she wheeled around." 
Her brother had offered to take her away if she didn't like 
Madison, but Mrs McConnelley replied she had found 
"one of the more charming spots she had ever been and 
would not think of leaving it." 
"You see," Lida Scott went on, "it is a small one story 
building rambling over a lot of ground, there being plenty 
of room, with a wide veranda opening onto which are all 
the rooms and the patients are lying around on cots living 
out of doors all the time." 
She herself stayed at the school. 
"Dr. Claxton praises all this work most highly, and has 
published some government leaflets describing the 
principles on which they operate, " she wrote: "Both he 
and his wife are heartily in sympathy with the methods 
pursued and the results obtained. Everywhere these 
schools are established, they say, uplifts the whole 
community. People adopt more sanitary ways of living, 
education is more appreciated, and property increases, 
doubles, quadruples in value, and the health and 
happiness of all is promoted." 
In a later letter, she mentioned that Mrs. Claxton had 
recovered from a nervous breakdown at Madison. 
"I should go on a rest cure for two or three weeks at 
least," she wrote to him on September 14, 1916. "So I am 
put to bed at the sanitarium and am lying out under the 
trees all the day long for three days now, and oh, it feels 
good. I had no idea I was so worn out until I began to 
relax. I have high blood pressure, as high as is safe, 
probably due to exhaustion." 
She felt good about being at Madison and looked forward 
to three months of warm weather so she could be out of 
doors. 
"I am getting better, but will need a long rest as I am very 
easily exhausted," she wrote to him on September 22. 
Two weeks later, she reported having a strong body but 
"a complete breakdown of her nervous system, including 
congestion of the brain. I have suffered much from 
exhaustion and every little effort ... brings the fire back 
into my brain. They will not even yet allow me to have 
much company, and they never talk longer than about five 
minutes and leave ... They want me to have no 
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responsibility whatever. I am getting along nicely, very 
nicely, but any little exertion gives me a setback." 
She reported improvement by October and decided not to 
ask for the services of a specialist at the suggestion of her 
husband. A probable distant relative named Funk"from 
the same Pennsylvania stock as we are" was also a 
patient at Madison. 
In November, she wrote a few lines "while waiting for 
Joe Sutherland to come with his pony to take me out for 
a drive." 
"I feel better when I stay in bed a larger part of the day," 
she wrote. "The least excitement sets my head in a whirl, 
but I am getting better though I am finding by experience 
that nothing helps like a great deal of rest." 
She first mentioned selling her house in New Jersey for 
a possible $30,000. (with $5,000 then the equivalent to 
$100,000 now, that would be a $600,000 house). She 
planned to remain at Madison for awhile longer "as this 
is the best place to be free from care." Just writing this 
letter "Brings the blood to my head." 
On November 13, 1916, she described Dr. Sutherland as 
"setting a nervous person a beautiful example. He is 
always reminding you of something in nature that 
illustrates his meaning. For example, there was a squirrel 
in the act of coming down the trunk of a tree, but on 
seeing us, he stopped perfectly still and watched us for a 
long while. Dr. S. pointed to him and said, "That nerve." 
Lida Scott's name was apparently legion, for she 
reported many other people there in a similar condition. 
Not knowing how to help them, Nashville doctors, sent 
these patients to Madison. First they seem to get 
worse," she wrote. Then they would start to recuperate 
and start enjoying life once more. She reported going 
through "trying menopause period. Where the health of 
so many women is wrecked for the remainder of their 
days." 
Dr. Sutherland advised her to remain there for another 
two or three months. "I have not been permitted to 
attend meetings, nor receive visitors for days at a time. 
This gives me a chance for complete relaxation." 
She described her condition as not being a nervous 
breakdown but an accumulation of weariness." 
By December 10, she started feeling better and enjoyed 
reading a biography of John Oberlin, who had lived 
1 00 years before in the mountains in Alsace (Eastern 
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France). She described what he did there as "so similar 
to this work that the parallel is striking." 
She was by then anxious to return home. 
The set of letters has nothing for the year of 1917, but 
other correspondence indicates that Lida Scott had 
started making large donations that year to the 
struggling College of Medical Evangelists in Southern 
California and was forming a close friendship with Dr. 
Percy T. Magan, dean of the developing Los Angeles 
campus. 
"I cannot tell you how pleased I was today to receive 
your long and very interesting letter of February 8t" 
he wrote to her at Montclair, N.J., on February 15, 
1917. "I had become quite worried about you, but am 
so thankful to know that you are much better and still 
keeping up your treatments and rest hours. This is 
splendid." 
She was back at the Madison Rural Sanitarium on 
March 17, 1918. "We are in a little cottage of three 
rooms with private toilets," she reported to her 
husband, The doctor finds my blood pressure has gone 
up to 170 and wants me to remain here and remain as 
free from responsibility as possible. So I cannot tell 
when I shall leave. The weather is so charming that as 
far as that is concerned I could not find better farther 
south. I had no idea it could be so pleasant in March." 
She told him about the largest powder plant in the 
world under construction about a mile from campus 
across the Cumberland river in Old Hickory. 
Explosives made there were to supply the U.S. Army 
then fighting World War 1 in France. 
Proper diet and rest had brought her blood pressure 
slightly down to155 by April18, so she still kept quiet. 
She described a prominent Baptist minister and the 
sister-law to Dr. Claxton along with some others like 
them as "people of note and culture." 
The next letter was written early in 1919 and described 
a fire destroying the cottage next door to hers. It 
dislocated 15 people, and fellow residents took up 
collections to aid them. She said little about herself, 
perhaps indicating that healing was on its way. She 
mentioned an offer for her house in a May 22, 1919, 
letter. By July of that year, she was getting ready to 
move to Madison and sent a list of articles for him to 
sent to her there. 
She moved into her house on campus that summer, and 
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seemed well by her June 27, 1930 letter. She reported 
being busy and was writing under the letterhead of 
Nashville Agricultural Normal Institute and Madison 
Rural Sanitarium. She assumed her husband had 
enjoyed a trip to Europe and had made final 
arrangements to sell her Montclair, N.J. house. She 
finished that transaction by July 25, 1920, according to 
a letter written on that date, and she was arranging to 
dispose of her parents furniture. 
Madison had cured her. "I am greatly enjoying my 
experiences and work down here and would not think 
of leaving it," she wrote. "Of course I have become a 
fixture here by this time and every day of my life I am 
thankful to have a work I can do for humanity at this 
place. I suppose you will greatly enjoy your work 
again." 
With that this series of letters ends. Lida Scott spent the 
next 25 years of her life promoting the work of 
Madison, and died there in 1945. Robert Scott died at 
the Madison Sanitarium a year later. 
An Alumni Mission Trip 
Jim and Judy Culpepper spent two weeks in El 
Salvador during February doing painting and 
renovating work at an Adventist-owned orphanage 
about 40 miles from the capitol city of San Salvador. 
Jim says that 95 children live at the orphanage 
organized into a group homes with house parents. He 
and Judy sponsor a teenage girl named Stephanie in the 
1Oth grade of an 11 grade system. Many of the young 
people there go on to an Adventist college in Costa 
Rica. 
The Culpeppers took their fifth trip to Central America 
with two other couples from Grand Junction, Colorado, 
and plan to continue doing so every two years. 
FROM HERE AND THERE 
Arizona:Charlotte Hunt Alger, N '41, sent these 
words, "Madison Survey, To whom it may concern. 
First of all I am sorry to hear of Bob Sutherland's 
physical problem. Jesus is still the great physician Bob. 
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I have enjoyed the Madison Survey over the years and I 
spent a lot of hours in the library that has been tom 
down. I was in the class of '41 and in our senior year 
Mrs. Scott had a party for us. Now that was 67 years 
ago. I also worked a year in the Health Cafeteria in 
Nashville as hot cook in 1937. Mrs. Scott sponsored the 
cafeteria and Mr. and Mrs Walen were in charge. 
I am now 92 'ii years of age and have renal failure. I am 
moving again and you may remove my name from the 
mailing list because after I am gone there will be no one 
to discontinue the Survey. 
Madison was a wonderful blessing to so many poor 
kids who otherwise would not have received an 
education of which I was one of them. I felt sad when 
the school closed. I can still remember the good 
soyburgers we used to make at Pop Mathews house on 
Saturday nights. Lots of good memories of Madison." 
California: Toshi Hirabayashi, BS '39, sent dues and 
extra with this note, "We're living in Burlingame, Calif. 
now with our son Dean and his wife Debby. He's a 
doctor and Debby is a physical therapist. They take 
excellent care of us. I'm 93 years old and my good wife 
is 92. We're both healthy and happy. I have wonderful 
memories of student life at Madison College. Madison 
ways have influenced my life. I appreciate Madison's 
student work program which permitted me to obtain a 
college education. I also appreciate the many good 
friends that I met at Madison. Aloha Toshi." 
California: Daniel Y. Loh, MD, S '50-'55, sent dues 
and extra with this terse message, "Enjoyed reading the 
Madison Survey." 
California: Juanita Standish McGann, sent the 
following message: We always enjoy reading the 
Madison Survey, we were saddened this time, however, 
to read of Bob Sutherland's health problem. He and 
Stella have been such faithful supporters of the office. 
. .. Wm. R. Gosse, My husband of 56 years, expired in 
1998. In 2002, I remarried, and my name now is 
McGann ... 
In the most recent issue, Oct.-Dec. 2007, I believe there 
is some incorrect information. In the article by Jim 
Culpepper, entitled "The Rocks of The Madison 
College Campus". The pillars with the inscription 
"Madison College-1904", were built later and 
apparently were of limestone. The stone buildings of 
the campus, however, were built of the more durable, 
field stones which, also was very prevalent on the 
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acreage. As I understand it, limestone is flat, softer, 
more apt to break. 
I was born at Madison in 1923, and my father, H. E. 
Standish, was the builder of all the stone buildings on 
the campus. Prior to that, he connected the original 
wooden cottages of the Sanitarium. 
Florida: Jack Anes. '57 and Lois Northcutt, MR '57, 
sent dues and extra to help and this note, "Dear Bob 
and Staff, Thanks to all for the work you do, Bob, we 
hope and pray your health has improved. Jack and I 
stay very busy in our retirement (?)! We are members 
of the Forest Lake Church of over 3,000 members. 
Three TV programs each week for Hope TV also a 
radio program and we are preparing for Net 2008 with 
Mark Finley in the fall. 
We have a minimum of 5 services each Sabbath and 
two prayer meetings. Jack conducts one. I'm assistant 
to the Senior Pastor Derek Morris and the Church 
Administrator. Praise God for His blessings. 
Our work is on a volunteer basis. Jack also runs one of 
the cameras for the TV program." 
Florida: Eloise Y. Jackson, S '42, sent the following, 
"Here are the rocks of Madison College campus. Nice 
article. Dear Stella, Enclosed are pictures I copied from 
George's album. Do you want pictures of students? I 
have Evelyn Beeler, Mary Irby Weeks, Jack weeks, 
Minnie Albarian etc. 
The picture of the P. T. Magan house is interesting. 
Also have pictures of some faculty and EAS. 
See pictures on page 7 
Tennessee: Elfa Lillie Edmister, BSN '44, sent this 
note, "Enclosed are dues and a little more. I so 
appreciate the Survey going. I enjoy it so much. 
I wan to send a card to Doyle Martin re. Genevieve's 
death. She was one of my first roommates at Madison 
years ago. Would you kindly forward this as I don't 
have his address. Thank you so much. 
I am 87 and live in an apartment in my daughter's 
home. I'm not to well but God is good." 
Maryland: Harry,BS '57 and Joyce Mayden, BS '55, 
sent dues with this message, "Greetings to the Madison 
College Alumni Association office! 
Enclosed are our dues plus that I'm sure you will put to 
good use. We are both keeping busy in our retirement. 
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Harry is currently serving as interim pastor at a small 
church about thirty-five miles away from us. There 
have been challenges but things seem to have smoothed 
out for now. We hope that we can be helpful to that 
congregation. 
Joyce still plays the organ nearly every week and also 
plays quite regularly at a church on Sundays. We are 
still doing some choir work at our home church and 
enjoy that. 
Blessings on you folks who help keep the Madison 
spirit alive." 
Missouri: Gertrude Scheible, BSN '43, sent dues and 
wrote, "Dear Madison Friends, I am ever so grateful for 
my Nurses training at Madison Hospital (1940-45). 
Almost 99 years (6/8/1909). I thank God for a clear 
mind and health to care for myself and help at church. 
May God's blessing of loving care be with you all now 
and always." 
North Carolina: Elsie Gibbons Worthen, MCA '55, 
sent dues and a note. "I graduated from the Academy in 
1955. I took the LPN course in Nebraska in 1974. After 
working in Renal Dialysis, OB/GYN, Medical and 
Public Health I retired in 2005. 
After living near Chicago, in Nebraska, Indiana and 
Kansas City, I finally put down permanent roots in 
North Carolina. 
I have four children, eight grandchildren and one great-
grandchild. 
Thanks for the News Letter. 
Ohio: Raymond G., BS '61 and Grace Campbell, '59, 
sent extra and dues and wrote, "To our friends at 
Madison, We just received our Madison Survey 
yesterday. Thanks for the reminder envelope. I will do 
this while it is fresh on my mind. So many things 
happening I don't know if I am going or coming. Sorry 
we are losing Bob and Stella. I never met Bob while we 
were at Madison. I met Dr. E. A. two times. He died the 
summer we enrolled. He was a great man. Continue the 
work with the Survey." 
Texas: Maureen Drake Watson, BSN '60, writes, 
"Hello from Texas, Sorry I've been remiss about my 
dues, hope this will help. I enjoy the Survey so much 
and pictures of those I went to school with. 
I am going to try to go to homecoming in '09. I see 
where some of my friends may be there. 
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And by the way I am a complete believer in juicing and 
no chemo and radiation. Bless you in your fight. I had 
mine and won. God is good. 
God Bless the Madison Heritage." 
RESTING UNTIL THE RESURRECTION 
Clark, Fannie Lois, L VN '4 7, expired at the age of 93, 
February 26, 2008 of pneumonia in Calhoun, Georgia. 
Following graduation from the L VN training she 
worked at Madison Hospital (TCMC) until1976. At 
retirement she volunteered at the hospital and the 
Adventist Community Services. Five and a half years 
ago she moved to an assisted living 
facility in Calhoun, Georgia. 
Culpepper, M. Elton, Age 90, 
passed away March 7, 2008 in 
Huntsville, Ala. He was a member 
of the Huntsville First Seventh-day 
Church and a WW II veteran. 
Preceded in death by his wife, 
Fannie Lois Clark Doris and all his siblings. He is 
survived by daughter Carole Rutter 
and son Ron Culpepper. Moving to Nashville in the 
mid 1940s he and 
Doris were invited 
by his brother Lester 
and wife Linda 
Culpepper to attend 
an evangelistic 
meeting held by 
Stanley Harris. They 
joined the 
Fatherland Street 
" 
Elton and Lester Culpepper 
SDA church. Having problems at work regarding 
Sabbaths, Elton, joined the Colporteur work. Success 
led to responsibilities in leadership in the 
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Kentucky-Tennessee Conference, Florida Conference 
and Associate in the Southern. His children attended 
Madison, the family living in the area. He looked 
forward to getting his copy of the Madison Survey. 
Peek, Norman Eugene, 72, a former executive 
secretary of the Layman Foundation, died at his home 
in Ooltewah, Tenn, February 25, 2008, after a year 
long battle with cancer. 
He was born November 15, 1935, in Tigertown, Texas, 
to Eugene and Winnie Peek. His family moved to Little 
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Creek Academy in 1951. His mother served as Food 
Service Director there for many years. After graduating 
from Little Creek Academy, he earned a Bachelor's 
degree from Southern Missionary College, Collegedale, 
Tenn., and a doctorate in chemistry from the University 
of Tennessee at Knoxville. 
He taught chemistry at Southern Missionary College 
(now Southern Adventist University) from1963-1970, 
and then worked in the audio-visual department of the 
college and served as manager of the Collegedale 
Airport as well as directed the Layman Foundation. 
At his death he was a member of the Seventh-day 
Adventist church in Harrison, Tenn. His memorial 
service was held in the Ooltewah SDA church. 
Surviving are his parents of Monterey, Tenn.; his wife 
Ava Sunderland Peek of Ooltewah, Tenn. a son, Daniel 
Peek, an engineer for 3ABN, of Benton, Ill; a daughter, 
Charlene Ponder of Cumming, Ga.; his sister, Mary 
Peek Kurzynske of Madison, Tenn.; a brother, Leon 
Peek, of Fairfax, Va.; and two grandchildren. 
Perkins, Christine, N '58, Age 72, expired December 
21, 2007 near Booneville, Ark. Chris and her sister, 
Joan attended Madison College from 1954 to 1958, 
graduating from the School of Nursing. She received 
her BSN from Southern University and her Masters 
degree from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. She 
served as Director of the School of Nursing at Southern 
University several years and later as the Director of the 
School of Nursing at Kettering, Ohio. She is survived 
by two sisters, Joan Roach and Patsy Franklin; three 
brothers, Leslie, Preston and Waymon Perkins. 
She was truly a remarkable person and is missed by her 
large family and a multitude of friends. 
Lynd, Homer R., S '39-'41 He had not been well for 
several years. He kept having TIA's an each time he lost 
some ability to walk. He had been wheelchair bound for 
over a year. On November lOth he had a massive 
stroke. He never recovered and passed 
away on Thanksgiving morning 
November 23,2007. 
We have been living in Maryland with 
our daughter and her husband. He 
needed so much care that I could not 
give him. We do miss him but know 
someday soon we will see him again. 
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