Chad Ordelheide, and his wife Shoshanna, DH’03, have been on Guam for six years. Presently, scuba diving and photographing the reefs’ small wonders are the popular spare time adventures, and “if you didn’t get a picture of it … you didn’t see it.” Of course easy access travel to Asia, Australia, Japan, and Philippines is an added bonus.ĭr. Life on Guam, though considerably modernized from the 1968 days, continues to offer a slower paced island lifestyle that the current families enjoy. The current Parker/Ordelheide Guam teams recently gave birth to baby girls, Zoe and Ashlyn respectively (now one-year olds) thus the occasion for the photo op with the grandparents seen on this page. Ordelheide is retired in Oakdale, California. Ordelheide worked with Ken Pierson, SD’71, and Les Bergstrom, SD’72. After practicing a few years in the states, the Ordelheides accepted a call to the dental clinic in Blantyre, Malawi, Africa. Ordelheide’s classmate, Virgil Erlandson, also SD’68, joined him. The Hong Kong practice boomed, and soon Dr. Wayne McFarland and family came to Guam, where he could educate his children at the local academy. The Ordelheides worked on Guam for four years and then in a “free agent” exchange of dentists, the O’s went to Hong Kong Seventh-day Adventist Hospital Dental Clinic and Dr. He and Bonnie now reside in Yucaipa, California. Parker has been very active in sponsoring and participating with students on their service learning missionary trips.
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Returning to California, he taught at Loma Linda University School of Dentistry for 18 years before continuing his present full time dental practice in Calimesa, California. Parker practiced in Guam for five years and then taught at the Medical College of Georgia for four years. Shortly after the dental department moved, the cramped medical portion of the clinic was also able to move to an adjacent new building on some thirteen acres of land.ĭr. Over the years it has evolved and it now has five hygiene and eight dental operatories. With six operatories, additional dentists worked various shifts to maximize its use. Although they sat next to each other in the dental school lab for four years, and then lived on Guam as neighbors for several years, they could never explore Guam together on Sundays, because one of them was always working.įortunately, the SDA Clinic stuck to its word, and opened its doors to a new state-of-the-art facility in 1970. “Looking back,” they say, “it was amazing that we were able to function in our small quarters,” but they were “promised” a new clinic soon, so worked a split schedule and kept the doors open six days a week.
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Parker and Ordelheide opened their door for business, they had plenty of patients, plus an instant waiting list which hung over their heads for the next four-plus years. military presence, but when the P&O team arrived, its 50,000 civilians had two dentists, and one of them was the acting governor of the island. Wiley’s name, as he helped establish many clinics and shared his skills around the world. Wiley Young acquired and installed some antique dental equipment in the two oversize closets he used as his operatories.
The dental department of the Guam SDA Clinic began in 1966, when Dr. The Parker and Ordelheide families, now three generations strong, reunite in Guam (L to R): Chad Ordelheide, SD’04, with Ashlyn, Shoshanna Ordelheide, DH’03, Franklin Ordelheide, SD’68, Sharon Ordelheide, University of Guam SN’69, Richard Parker, SD’68, Bonnie Parker, LSU’66, Scott Parker, SD’08, and Erika Parker, LLUSM’04, holding Zoe.
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