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STATS HI.'. TCniC'iL SOCIETY 1012 LOARY UaC CSL'JKSI. l, MO. 65211 ' ' Masters ail wet A man on his way ' Inn' Page 8B ivi i ui i iuui oc oo udi ii icod idiiO) rctyc i o WBiBiBHifflBBBfcMllaBfilHafflBBHHBBHIBIBHWMBMIMHWBMiK 75th Year No. 178 Good Morning! It's Sunday, April 10, 1983 6 Sections 64 Pages 50 Cents With donation, Blind man sees again By Cathy Seabaugh Mlssourlan staff writer For 4V4 years, 22- year-- old Robert Hammond lived through something he refers to as " absolutely horrible." May 28, 1978, the Blackwater, Mo., resident was at work in Nelson, Mo., loading tanks of anhydrous ammonia a chemical whose fumes alone are dan-gerous to the eye when a hose burst and sprayed his eyes. Hammond was rushed to the hospital in Marshall, Mo. That same day his family took him to University Hosp-ital's opthalmology clinic to see if physi-cians there could help turn. Hammond was blinded in both eyes. " Two years later, when the doctor de-cided his corneas were not going to im-prove on their own, Hammond was told about cornea transplantation. The doc-tor told him as soon as the surface ves-sels of the eyes were under control, and a cornea was available, Hammond would be given the chance to see again. " At one tune, I started giving up hope," Hammond says. " It had been so long, I started thinking maybe they couldn't do anything to help." His three brothers and sister " hauled him around" for four years and told him it would get better, that things would work out. Hammond was put on a waiting list at the lions Eye Tissue Bank in Columbia in December. His doctor said Ham-mond would have to wait about three months for his donation. But Hammond was lucky. He needed a comea without scratches, and most corneas that the eye bank receives have minor scratches. So he was moved to the top of the list On the Tuesday before Christmas 1982, Hammond had an appointment with his doctor, who told him to check in again on Wednesday. He did, and there wasno word on a cornea. Thursday he got a call at work from his doctor, who told him to get to Co- - lumbia immediately a cornea was waiting. With the help of the La Grange, Mo., Lions Club, Hammond was able to get to Columbia from where he was loading grain one of the few things he could do with his impaired sight in the northeast part of the state. Three Lions Club members drove Hammond the 120 miles to University Hospital. That night, the doctor explained the surgery. It would involve taking a " sharp cookie cutter and cutting off the diseased portion of the cornea," the doctor said. Then, a slightly bigger coo-kie cutter is used to cut a graft off the donated cornea. The graft is then sewn on the eye with about two dozen stitches. Hammond's chances for success were slim since injuries such as his are the worst kind to treat. The doctor told him there was a very good chance the graft would turn cloudy. Although he was nervous about the surgery, Hammond says," I didn't think twice about the possible dangers. My vision wasn't much anyway, so I didn't have muchto lose." The next day, Christinas Eve, Ham-mond underwent a two- ho- ur operation. He received the unscratched comea of a 28- year-- old woman who had died Dec. 22. He could see three times better out of the eye that had been operated on which now has 2030 vision just hours after the surgery. Hammond can return to a near nor-mal life in about a month, when he'll try to get his driver's license back and re-turn to work. Because a corneal trans-plant isn't as resistant to wear and tear as the original equipment, Hammond must be careful not to get what his doc-tor calls a " fist blow," which could knock the graft loose and blind nun again. Hammond is following the doctor's orders " right down to the tee," he says. " I don't want to lose what I have com-- , Ted Wood After undergoing a cornea operation last December, Robert Ham-mond has regained vision in his left eye. If his left eye continues to heal, another cornea transplant will be performed on his damaged right eye within the year. Hammond lost his sight three years ago in an industrial accident. ingback." Hammond must wait six months to a year for the first transplant to heal and to see if his eye rejects the transplant. If all goes well, the transplant on the other eye can be done. Getting his eyesight back in one eye at Christmas was a wonderful gift Hammond says, " I hope I get the same I thing next year " I Hickman seniors vie for honors By W. Kevin Armstrong Mlssourlan stall writer Hickman High School senior An-thony Chang has wanted to be a doc-tor for as long as he can remember. Sometime this week he's hoping to hear from Harvard University to see if he has been accepted. " I don't remember ever wanting to be anything else," says 17- year-- old Chang. " When I was little I used to look through the medical encyclo-pedia we had at home and ( was in-trigued) bythose big, long words." Melissa Parisi, another Hickman senior, is pursuing similar goals. She had childhood dreams of becoming an astronomer, but has since brought those hopes down to earth a bit and wants to become a genetic engineer. " Dad ( a microbiology professor at the University School of Medicine) got me involved with the sciences and I've always wanted to become a doctor," says Miss Parisi. She has been accepted at the Uni-versity. Most high school seniors who do well in school might receive a paren-tal pat on the back or a spot on the principal's honor roll, but Miss Pari- sl- ' s and Chang's academic achieve-ments are being recognized by Pres-ident Reagan. They are two of only 1,100 students nationwide who can boast of that honor. They're reluctant to do so, however. " This is kind of embarassing," says 17- year-- old Chang. " I don't really like to talk about myself like this.". He would rather let his accom-plishments do the talking. Chang has maintained a 10.2 grade point average ( Hickman uses an 11.0 scale) through his four years of high school, plays on the Kewpies' junior varsity tennis team, is a member of the Key Club, Biology Club, National I . xq-- lAVHlBfliHBiEBDiBBBflflfiBH9tt&' MiHb'vi. BBSBB9EHBHDBHEB9flBBn Qv Anthony Chang and Melissa Parisi are nominees for presidential scholarships "' Honor andFrench Honor societies. Miss Parisi is a member of the bi-ology and Trireme clubs, the Nation-al Honor and French Honor socie-ties, participates in debate tournaments, plays on the volleyball team and has maintained a perfect 11.0 grade point average through it all. Winners receive a medallion, a trip to Washington, D. C., where they meet with congressmen, Supreme Court justices, scientists and others, and a f1,000 scholarship. Nominees are selected on the basis of their scores on the ACT and SAT college entrance exams and infor-mation on the student profiles that accompany the tests. i The commission initially selects 1,- 1- 00 nominees. Through a more in- de- pth profile and essay competition, the field is narrowed to 141 finalists. Miss Parisi and Chang are com-peting for two of those spots. " There are so many forms to fill out," Miss Pansi says. " I'll be glad when I don't have to answer any more questions." Welcome T troop' Shuttle arrives safely EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE. Calif tUPI) - The space shuttle Challenger swooped to a picture- perfe- ct landing Saturday and capped a magnificent maiden mis-sion that should help NASA get off four more flights this year. Astronauts Paul Weitz, Karol Bobko, Story Musgrae and Donald Peterson flew America's second space freighter from a 165- mile- hi- gh orbit to a smooth touch-down on the runway used by the shuttle Columbia twice last year. The black and white winged ship eased to a smooth touchdown at 1.54 pm EST " Welcome home, F troop," said astronaut Roy Bridges in mission control. " Prepare to dismount." An estimated 72,000 " birdwatchers" braved sand whipped by gusty winds and cheered the landing from viewing areas in the Mojave Desert Challenger's crewmen spent five days, 24 minutes aloft and put 2 million miles on the new spaceplane Their $ 266 million mission proved the Challenger plagued by pre-punch problems that delayed its blastoff for 2 1z months is a spaceworthy addition to the nation's growing shut-tle fleet The big tracking and radio relay satellite the left be-hind in orbit is expected to reach its planned 22,300- mile- hi- gh stationary parking spot within a month, despite the trouble with a rocket tug that placed it in the wrong orbit And the cargo bay spacewalk conducted by Musgrave and Peterson Thursday pavpd the way for " more ambi-tious space repair and maintenance missions in the fu-ture. Challenger is scheduled to be returned to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday to begin preparations for launch again in early June with a crew of five in-cluding Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into orbit. The new shuttle originally was to have flown in late Jan-uary But a series of frustrating engine leaks forced a string of delays that lasted 2 months and jeopardized the whole shuttle schedule for the rest of the y ear. Officials said before Monday's flawless blastoff that a largely trouble- fre- e flight would be needed to give them a chance to get the program back on schedule Any prob-lems requiring significant modifications would have set back the revised schedule " From what we've seen so far, the flight anomalies have been very minimal," said Richard Smith, director of Kennedy Space Center Campus leaders skeptical that plans are the cure- a- ll By Major Garrett Missourian staff writer Though many University system officials believe long- rang- e planning will propel the system toward statewide academic supremacy and national prominence, on the Colum-bia campus some are skeptical. For Provost Ronald Bunn and some deans here, hope for future ac-complishments rests in channeling more state and pnvate contributions toward the University. " I don't think their approach will solve all our problems," Bunn says of the long- rang- e planning process begun nine months ago by the Uni-versity Board of Curators. Out of that effort is to come a system of academic priorities. Bunn says the curators' planning process, and its results, shouldn't be considered a cure- al- l. At best, that process only will offer a rough framework for each campus to fol-low, he says Though such a framework will be vital to the system's future, so is at-tracting money for new faculty and resources, he says. Some campus deans agree. " State funding is the key," says Bea Litherland, dean of the College of Home Economics. " Without it we all suffer." That college narrowly escaped the budget ax during last spring's reallocations Most deans agree that to fortify their programs, increased funding for faculty salaries, equipment and research is a must All those areas, they say, have seen little growth since 1980. They point to an almost $ 25 million reduction in state appropriations, which was caused by state revenue shortfalls, as the biggest obstacle to improving programs The financial burden the cuts caused nominal and infrequent faculty salary in-creases, use of pnvate contributions to pay for routine expenses and leav-ing staff vacancies unfilled all frustrated recruitment, research and faculty retention attempts, they say So even with an effective planning process, which they say will be long in implementation, more money is the common denominator to solving the University's complex education equation Perhaps ironically, Shaila Aery, commissioner of the state Coordinat-ing Board for Higher Education, said last month that a planning proc-ess and increased state funding are irrevocably bed. In a speech debv- - See DEANS, Page 8A 2 p. m. ' The Winslow Boy," Ste-phens College Assembly Hall, $ 3 50 public. $ 2 50 students 7 30 pm Varsity band concert Hickman High School Auditorium ' 8 p. m University Singers, Fine Arts Recital Hall tt Inside Business .7- 8- B Classified 5- 6- B Opinion 4A People 1-- 3C Record 7A Sports 1 4B
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Item.Transcript | STATS HI.'. TCniC'iL SOCIETY 1012 LOARY UaC CSL'JKSI. l, MO. 65211 ' ' Masters ail wet A man on his way ' Inn' Page 8B ivi i ui i iuui oc oo udi ii icod idiiO) rctyc i o WBiBiBHifflBBBfcMllaBfilHafflBBHHBBHIBIBHWMBMIMHWBMiK 75th Year No. 178 Good Morning! It's Sunday, April 10, 1983 6 Sections 64 Pages 50 Cents With donation, Blind man sees again By Cathy Seabaugh Mlssourlan staff writer For 4V4 years, 22- year-- old Robert Hammond lived through something he refers to as " absolutely horrible." May 28, 1978, the Blackwater, Mo., resident was at work in Nelson, Mo., loading tanks of anhydrous ammonia a chemical whose fumes alone are dan-gerous to the eye when a hose burst and sprayed his eyes. Hammond was rushed to the hospital in Marshall, Mo. That same day his family took him to University Hosp-ital's opthalmology clinic to see if physi-cians there could help turn. Hammond was blinded in both eyes. " Two years later, when the doctor de-cided his corneas were not going to im-prove on their own, Hammond was told about cornea transplantation. The doc-tor told him as soon as the surface ves-sels of the eyes were under control, and a cornea was available, Hammond would be given the chance to see again. " At one tune, I started giving up hope," Hammond says. " It had been so long, I started thinking maybe they couldn't do anything to help." His three brothers and sister " hauled him around" for four years and told him it would get better, that things would work out. Hammond was put on a waiting list at the lions Eye Tissue Bank in Columbia in December. His doctor said Ham-mond would have to wait about three months for his donation. But Hammond was lucky. He needed a comea without scratches, and most corneas that the eye bank receives have minor scratches. So he was moved to the top of the list On the Tuesday before Christmas 1982, Hammond had an appointment with his doctor, who told him to check in again on Wednesday. He did, and there wasno word on a cornea. Thursday he got a call at work from his doctor, who told him to get to Co- - lumbia immediately a cornea was waiting. With the help of the La Grange, Mo., Lions Club, Hammond was able to get to Columbia from where he was loading grain one of the few things he could do with his impaired sight in the northeast part of the state. Three Lions Club members drove Hammond the 120 miles to University Hospital. That night, the doctor explained the surgery. It would involve taking a " sharp cookie cutter and cutting off the diseased portion of the cornea," the doctor said. Then, a slightly bigger coo-kie cutter is used to cut a graft off the donated cornea. The graft is then sewn on the eye with about two dozen stitches. Hammond's chances for success were slim since injuries such as his are the worst kind to treat. The doctor told him there was a very good chance the graft would turn cloudy. Although he was nervous about the surgery, Hammond says," I didn't think twice about the possible dangers. My vision wasn't much anyway, so I didn't have muchto lose." The next day, Christinas Eve, Ham-mond underwent a two- ho- ur operation. He received the unscratched comea of a 28- year-- old woman who had died Dec. 22. He could see three times better out of the eye that had been operated on which now has 2030 vision just hours after the surgery. Hammond can return to a near nor-mal life in about a month, when he'll try to get his driver's license back and re-turn to work. Because a corneal trans-plant isn't as resistant to wear and tear as the original equipment, Hammond must be careful not to get what his doc-tor calls a " fist blow," which could knock the graft loose and blind nun again. Hammond is following the doctor's orders " right down to the tee," he says. " I don't want to lose what I have com-- , Ted Wood After undergoing a cornea operation last December, Robert Ham-mond has regained vision in his left eye. If his left eye continues to heal, another cornea transplant will be performed on his damaged right eye within the year. Hammond lost his sight three years ago in an industrial accident. ingback." Hammond must wait six months to a year for the first transplant to heal and to see if his eye rejects the transplant. If all goes well, the transplant on the other eye can be done. Getting his eyesight back in one eye at Christmas was a wonderful gift Hammond says, " I hope I get the same I thing next year " I Hickman seniors vie for honors By W. Kevin Armstrong Mlssourlan stall writer Hickman High School senior An-thony Chang has wanted to be a doc-tor for as long as he can remember. Sometime this week he's hoping to hear from Harvard University to see if he has been accepted. " I don't remember ever wanting to be anything else," says 17- year-- old Chang. " When I was little I used to look through the medical encyclo-pedia we had at home and ( was in-trigued) bythose big, long words." Melissa Parisi, another Hickman senior, is pursuing similar goals. She had childhood dreams of becoming an astronomer, but has since brought those hopes down to earth a bit and wants to become a genetic engineer. " Dad ( a microbiology professor at the University School of Medicine) got me involved with the sciences and I've always wanted to become a doctor," says Miss Parisi. She has been accepted at the Uni-versity. Most high school seniors who do well in school might receive a paren-tal pat on the back or a spot on the principal's honor roll, but Miss Pari- sl- ' s and Chang's academic achieve-ments are being recognized by Pres-ident Reagan. They are two of only 1,100 students nationwide who can boast of that honor. They're reluctant to do so, however. " This is kind of embarassing," says 17- year-- old Chang. " I don't really like to talk about myself like this.". He would rather let his accom-plishments do the talking. Chang has maintained a 10.2 grade point average ( Hickman uses an 11.0 scale) through his four years of high school, plays on the Kewpies' junior varsity tennis team, is a member of the Key Club, Biology Club, National I . xq-- lAVHlBfliHBiEBDiBBBflflfiBH9tt&' MiHb'vi. BBSBB9EHBHDBHEB9flBBn Qv Anthony Chang and Melissa Parisi are nominees for presidential scholarships "' Honor andFrench Honor societies. Miss Parisi is a member of the bi-ology and Trireme clubs, the Nation-al Honor and French Honor socie-ties, participates in debate tournaments, plays on the volleyball team and has maintained a perfect 11.0 grade point average through it all. Winners receive a medallion, a trip to Washington, D. C., where they meet with congressmen, Supreme Court justices, scientists and others, and a f1,000 scholarship. Nominees are selected on the basis of their scores on the ACT and SAT college entrance exams and infor-mation on the student profiles that accompany the tests. i The commission initially selects 1,- 1- 00 nominees. Through a more in- de- pth profile and essay competition, the field is narrowed to 141 finalists. Miss Parisi and Chang are com-peting for two of those spots. " There are so many forms to fill out," Miss Pansi says. " I'll be glad when I don't have to answer any more questions." Welcome T troop' Shuttle arrives safely EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE. Calif tUPI) - The space shuttle Challenger swooped to a picture- perfe- ct landing Saturday and capped a magnificent maiden mis-sion that should help NASA get off four more flights this year. Astronauts Paul Weitz, Karol Bobko, Story Musgrae and Donald Peterson flew America's second space freighter from a 165- mile- hi- gh orbit to a smooth touch-down on the runway used by the shuttle Columbia twice last year. The black and white winged ship eased to a smooth touchdown at 1.54 pm EST " Welcome home, F troop," said astronaut Roy Bridges in mission control. " Prepare to dismount." An estimated 72,000 " birdwatchers" braved sand whipped by gusty winds and cheered the landing from viewing areas in the Mojave Desert Challenger's crewmen spent five days, 24 minutes aloft and put 2 million miles on the new spaceplane Their $ 266 million mission proved the Challenger plagued by pre-punch problems that delayed its blastoff for 2 1z months is a spaceworthy addition to the nation's growing shut-tle fleet The big tracking and radio relay satellite the left be-hind in orbit is expected to reach its planned 22,300- mile- hi- gh stationary parking spot within a month, despite the trouble with a rocket tug that placed it in the wrong orbit And the cargo bay spacewalk conducted by Musgrave and Peterson Thursday pavpd the way for " more ambi-tious space repair and maintenance missions in the fu-ture. Challenger is scheduled to be returned to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday to begin preparations for launch again in early June with a crew of five in-cluding Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into orbit. The new shuttle originally was to have flown in late Jan-uary But a series of frustrating engine leaks forced a string of delays that lasted 2 months and jeopardized the whole shuttle schedule for the rest of the y ear. Officials said before Monday's flawless blastoff that a largely trouble- fre- e flight would be needed to give them a chance to get the program back on schedule Any prob-lems requiring significant modifications would have set back the revised schedule " From what we've seen so far, the flight anomalies have been very minimal," said Richard Smith, director of Kennedy Space Center Campus leaders skeptical that plans are the cure- a- ll By Major Garrett Missourian staff writer Though many University system officials believe long- rang- e planning will propel the system toward statewide academic supremacy and national prominence, on the Colum-bia campus some are skeptical. For Provost Ronald Bunn and some deans here, hope for future ac-complishments rests in channeling more state and pnvate contributions toward the University. " I don't think their approach will solve all our problems," Bunn says of the long- rang- e planning process begun nine months ago by the Uni-versity Board of Curators. Out of that effort is to come a system of academic priorities. Bunn says the curators' planning process, and its results, shouldn't be considered a cure- al- l. At best, that process only will offer a rough framework for each campus to fol-low, he says Though such a framework will be vital to the system's future, so is at-tracting money for new faculty and resources, he says. Some campus deans agree. " State funding is the key," says Bea Litherland, dean of the College of Home Economics. " Without it we all suffer." That college narrowly escaped the budget ax during last spring's reallocations Most deans agree that to fortify their programs, increased funding for faculty salaries, equipment and research is a must All those areas, they say, have seen little growth since 1980. They point to an almost $ 25 million reduction in state appropriations, which was caused by state revenue shortfalls, as the biggest obstacle to improving programs The financial burden the cuts caused nominal and infrequent faculty salary in-creases, use of pnvate contributions to pay for routine expenses and leav-ing staff vacancies unfilled all frustrated recruitment, research and faculty retention attempts, they say So even with an effective planning process, which they say will be long in implementation, more money is the common denominator to solving the University's complex education equation Perhaps ironically, Shaila Aery, commissioner of the state Coordinat-ing Board for Higher Education, said last month that a planning proc-ess and increased state funding are irrevocably bed. In a speech debv- - See DEANS, Page 8A 2 p. m. ' The Winslow Boy," Ste-phens College Assembly Hall, $ 3 50 public. $ 2 50 students 7 30 pm Varsity band concert Hickman High School Auditorium ' 8 p. m University Singers, Fine Arts Recital Hall tt Inside Business .7- 8- B Classified 5- 6- B Opinion 4A People 1-- 3C Record 7A Sports 1 4B |