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Stephens College President Patsy Sampson is enjoying an extended honeymoon period. 8t, hMonjh" n
Problem solver
Stephens' president tackles new job's challenges
By Pam Reynolds
Mlssourian staff writer
On a rainy Saturday afternoon,
Patsy Sampson is dallying about the
house. The roof is leaking.
She acknowledges the problem,
but she is adept at both handling it
and hiding it. Not a puddle or a pot
mars the expanse of beige carpet in
her living room The house is tran-quil.
That is Sampson's style. Ease and
poise characterize not only the way
she handles household problems but
the wayshe handles her job.
She takes it in stride.
It is this fact about Sampson, Ste-phens
College president, that has
made so many people at Stephens
admire her so much. They describe
her as low- ke- y, easy- goin- g, empa- theti- c.
She is, they say, the kind of
person who doesn't cower should a
crisis arise and the kind of person
who can eat barbecued chicken with-out
worrying about the mess
She is a soft- spok- en woman Her
voice has almost a childish quality.
Yet behind the quiet voice lies a res-onance
bom of a strong mind. She
has will and determination, qualities
that led the 51- year-- old to take mo-torcycle
lessons in the fall of 1982, to
climb the faces of craggy rocks and
cliffs in the summer of 1983 and, also
in the summer of 1983, to move from
a comfortable position as dean of hb--
eral arts at Drake University to Ste-phens.
" I wasn't sure I really wanted the
job at first," she recalls " I wasn't
really interested in leaving Drake,
but I became intrigued by what I
learned of Stephens. I didn't actively
pursue the job, but I was nominated
by two independent people I don't
even know whothey are "
Stephens has been her latest chal-lenge,
but not necessarily her big-gest
At the age of 27, Sampson met
her first challenge, nd perhaps her
most difficult She was a divorced
mother of two toddlers and an in-fant,
living in Oklahoma and work-ing
as a secretary in an oil company
" I read a book by Sigmund Freud
called ' Group Analysis of the Ego,'
and I was so moved by that book,"
says Sampson " I didn't have any
idea you could look at such everyday
things and get such grand ideas with
them. I decided that night I would be
a psychologist I stayed up all
night"
Sampson worked out a babysit-ting
trade with a friend while they
attended classes at the University of
Oklahoma, organizing their hours so
that someone would always have
charge of the children. Four years
later, she left the university with her
bachelor's degree.
She then attended Cornell Umver--
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Cable company awaits
city franchise decision
By Julie Wright
Mlssourian staff writer
Why would a cable company with
only 1,000 subscribers want to chal-lenge
a division of Wesungbouse7
John Beatty, president of Boone
County Cable, says the answer is as
simple as picking up the phone.
" We had so many Columbians
calling to request our service," be
says, that it only seemed logical to
tap the Colombia market
" We saw en opportunity and we
took it," explains Steve Cream, local
manager for Boone County Cable.
" We live in Columbia, we know what
is gong on I have Group W ca-ble
at home."
Boone County Cable made its
move to enter the city's cable busi-ness
last September, but saw little
progress toward receiving a fran-chise
until the company began circu-lating
an initiative petition on Jan.
26. The City Council's cable tele-vision
subcommission since ben has
prepared a resolution that would
give Boom County Cable a franchise
identical to Group Ws The council
may consider the resolution Monday
night.
I
Last week, however, city counsel-or
Dave Evans said that be, Boone
County Cable and the cable subcom-mittee
chairman, Councilman Pat
Barnes, had reached a compromise
that wfll be discussed at the pre- coun- cfl
dinner Monday. The compro-mise
would change the city's cable
regulations and would delete the pro-vision
requiring cable -- companies to
wire areas in which there are SO po-tential
subscribers per mile. That
provision, Boone County Cable says,
makes it impossible for the company
to compete in Columbia.
Boone County Cable was estab-lished
in July 1981 by Columbia law-yers
Larry Woods, Carl Sapp, Scott
Orr and electronic engineer Andy
Anderson. The three lawyers, along
with Beatty, had been involved in
the cable busmess- sinc- e 1966. Beatty
owned and managed the Sedalia ca-ble
system twice during the 1970s.
The goal of the company in its in-fancy
was to serve homes in north--
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Space shuttle
delays launch
of 2nd satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla ( UPI)
Numerous chunks of space debns
trailing Challenger around the Earth
appear to be all that is left of the $ 75
million Western Union satellite
launched Friday by the shuttle as-tronauts,
project officials said Satur-day
Some of the Air Force's most pow-erful
radar units located ' two large
and many smaller objects," some
drifting as close as about 30 miles to
the shuttle The location of the de-bris
was further proof that Westar 6
failed to climb to its proper orbit af-ter
launch Friday
A spokesman for the North Ameri-can
Aerospace Defense Command
said none oE the orbiting pieces
posed any threat to the shuttle and ' astronaut. Vance Brand, Robert
' iHoofGlbson, Bruce McCamBess,
RonftlaMcNalr and Robert Stewart.
Flight director Randy Stone said
there was a possibility the crew
might be asked to maneuver the
shuttle closer to confirm that the or-biting
objects were the remains of
Westar 6 Jfe said, however, that the
shuttle probably wouldn't have
enough fuel to conduct such an un-precedented
orbital inspection.
The astronauts were told to delay
at least until Sunday the launch of an
identical communications satellite
for Indonesia Mission controllers
said the eight- da- y flight could be ex-tended
another day if a further post-ponement
was necessary
The astronauts were told at 4 20
pm CST that project officials
wouldn't let them know until Sunday
morning whether the Indonesia sa-tellite
would be launched Sunday or
be delayed until Monday
Stone said there also was a possi-bility
the Indonesian satellite man-agers
might decide to have the shut-tle
bring their spacecraft back to
Earth, rather than risk deployment
with the same system that apparent-ly
failed on Westar E
The astronauts took advantage of
the delay to spend more time on ex-periments
and then inspected the
spacesuits that McCandless and
Stewart will wear on next week's
free- flyin- g spacewalks
The shuttle was 9 8 miles behind
and 7 1 miles above Westar when the
satellite's orbit- raisin- g rocket was to
have fired Fnday. The ship's win-dows,
however, were pointed away
deliberately to avoid exhaust con-tamination,
and the astronauts could
not see what happened.
Engineers were trying to solve the
mystery of what went wrong with
the 21 foot- lon- g Westar, which was
insured for approximately $ 100 mil-lion,
before the spacemen launch the
Indonesian satellite known as Pala- p- a
Bill Zegler, Western Union's mis-sion
manager, speculated that Wes-tar
6 could have spun out of control
like a flaming pinwheel when the sa-tellite's
solid propellant rocket mo-tor
fired or the rocket could have ex-ploded
Until the debris is identified, how-ever,
there is always a chance the
satellite could stall be close to its
planned orbit and might be salvage-able,
ne said.
He sad attempts to contact fbe- sa- teDltetadbeenunsuce- ssful.
Westars. deployment from the
shuttle appeared normal, but engi-neers
were unable to confirm that
the satellite's rocket motor fired
properly The $ 8 million rocket,
called a payload assist module, was
supposed to have pushed the satellite
toward an orbit 22,300 miles high
The Palapa also depends on such a
rocket to reach the nght spot in
space Four similar satellites using
identical rockets have been success-fully
launched from the shuttle and
are now in proper stationary orbits.
Western Union officials said then- tot- al
investment in Westar 6 was be-tween
$ 75 million and $ 80 million, in-cluding
costs of the satellite, launch,
the payload assist module, insurance
and a penalty the company had to
pay for canceling a contract to have
the satellite launched by the Euro-pean
Space Agency's Anane rocket
Westar 6 was to be the third ad-vanced
Western Union communica-tions
satellite in orbit and the first of
that series to be earned aloft by the
shuttle Earlier Westars were boost-ed
into orbit by Delta rockets, which
the shuttle was designed to replace
Palapa, the Indonesian satellite, is
similar in design to Westar S and is
to be a link in a communications sa-tellite
system designed to unify Indo-nesia,
the world's largest archipela-go
The system relays television, tele-phone
and data transmissions over a
wide area of Southeast Asia, includ-ing
the islands of Sumatra, Java,
Bah, Singapore, Malaysia and Thai-land,
and reaches as far as the Phil-ippines
The death of a 4- year-
- old boy
By Carlos A. Briceno
Mlssourian staff writer
Shortly after bis birth, Daryn
Wilson was diagnosed as having
leukemia. For three years, he and
bis mother, Nancy, traveled regu-larly
from their modest, ranch- styl- e
home in a rural subdivision
near Moberly to the University
Hospital for treatment They often
stayed overnight in one of the
apartments maintained for that
purpose by the CandTelighters or-ganization.
The cancer went into remission
last year. In December, Daryn was
one of three boys chosen to appear
in a fund- raisi- ng broadcast for the
CandJelighters on Channel 13
The Wilsons returned to Univer-sity
Hospital Jan 9, this tune for
Daryn to undergo- - surgery to cor-rect
his undescended testicles The
surgical procedure is considered
safe and simple. The mortality rate
is described by experts as being
' infirutesimally low." The hospital
did not keep Daryn overnight He
and his mother went back to the fa--
i
' It was unexpected I couldn't believe it'
miliar Candlehghters apartment
There, on the morning of Jan 10,
Daryn Wilson died
His death resulted, according to
Medical Examiner Jay Dix, from
" internal bleeding resulting from a
complication of the surgery " Dix
said he plans no investigation be-yond
the autopsy because he has no
indication that Daryn's deathi in-volved
any wrongdoing. He added,
" I don't think there was medical
malpractice."
Little more is known publicly
about the circumstances of the
death. Dix said his final report will
not be finished for four to six
weeks An internal review commit-tee
is studying the case for the hos-pital.
Neither result is likely to be
made public. The Wilsons have
lured a lawyer, Thomas R. Oswald
of KjrksvQle, to investigate
The operation, which is called an
orchiopexy, is " usually an easy op-eration
to perform with an infini-tesimal
mortality rate," said
James E Bumgarner, the senior
physician at Urology Consultants,
3401 Berrywood Drive
" Any risk involved from this
type of surgery is usually from the
anesthetic, but not from the opera-tion,"
he said
When told that a 4- year-
- old boy
had died from an internal hem-orrhage
after such an operation, he
replied, " I have been m business
for 30 years, and I have never
heard of one death "
Gilbert Ross, a staff surgeon at
the University Hospital, agreed
that the mortality rate from an or-chiopexy
is " infintfesimally low,
mcrediblylow."
The National Center for Health
Statistics in Washington does not
record mortality rates for orchio-pexy.
The center's figures show
only that in 1982 there were 32,000
of the operations performed in this
country Ross estimated that 40 to
50 are performed each year in Co-lumbia
As safe and as common as it is,
the operation requires hospitahza- -
l
tion, Bumgarner said " I personal-ly
feel all patients should stay over-night"'
It is " more than an appendix op-eration
but less than a gall bladder
operation, both of which require
hospitalization."
Usually, he said, " patients that
undergo this type of surgery should
be kept in the hospital up to a week
Only if it's extremely easy to bring
down the testicles should the pa-tient
be released sooner."
Ross said that " depending on the
complexity of the operation, the pa-tient
can go home that evening, but
in many cases that's impractical
since the child may experience dis-comfort
and the parents may not
be able to help."
Donald Silver, head of surgery at
the University Hospital, could not
be reached for comment despite
numerous attempts The hospital
would not release the name of the
surgeon who performed the opera--
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