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University Press » Friday, November 5,1999 • Page 2
OP briefs
Kinch to speak on Bullock
Texas journalist Sam Kinch will present a lecture on “Bob Bullock: The
Man and the Myth” Wednesday at Lamar University, Louise Wood, media
specialist, said.
The program will begin at 10:10 a. m. in the Spindletop Room on the
eighth floor of. the Gray Library. Kinch is being brought to campus by the uni-
versity lecture series. The program Is free to the public.
For more information, call 880-8415.
Holocaust activist to speak in Houston
The Holocaust Museum Houston will present Comelis Sujik on Nov. 16,
Julie Lambert, marketing and public relations director, said.
The program will be held at the museum, 5401 Caroline St., from 7 p.m.
until 8:30 p.m., she said.
Sujik is the international director of the Ann Frank Center USA and pro-
prietor of the missing page's of Ann Frank’s Diary.
The event is free for museum members, $5 for non-members, $3.50 for
students and senior citizens.
Call (713) 942-8000 for reservations and for more information.
Lutcher to stage ‘1776’
The Lutcher Theater presents “1776” on Nov. 19, Sandra Villadsen,
spokesperson, said.
The drama begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Lutcher Theater, 707 West Main,
Orange. It deals with the birth of our nation in story and §ong.
Tickets are $27.50, $ 35, and $39.
For more information, call 800-828-5535.
MWH museum sets Christmas events
The McFaddin-Ward House will conduct Christmas events In December,
Matthew White, administrator, said.
An open house will be held on Dec. 5, from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. This year
there will be a display of historic party fashions from the 1900 to 1950 period.
On Dec. 19, junior interpreters will present “Christmas Brilliant and
Beautiful,” which will feature games, craft-making, stories and songs from 1
p.m. until 4 p.m. Visitors will have an opportunity to tour the house.
Both events are free to the public.
Call 832-1906 for additional information.
Church to host celebration dinner
| The St. Mark's Episcopal Church will host a celebration dinner for church
members on Thursday, Janet Walker, spokesperson, said.
The function begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Gilbert Center, St. Mark’s
Church, 680 Calder. It will include a video presentation on parish ministries
and entertainment by the choir.
For reservations and more information, call 832-3405
Lamarissimo! to present concert
Lamarissimo! concert series presents Lamar University faculty artists on
a double bill with the Lamar Chamber Orchestra at 8 p.m. Thursday, Louise
Wood, public relations coordinator, said.
The concert will be conducted by Kurt Gilman in the Julie Rogers
Theatre, located ©n the comer of Pearl and Forsythe streets in downtown
Beaumont. It will feature the orchestra’s performance of Mozart’s “A Little
Night Music," and faculty members in vocal and instrumental ensemble per-
formances. The event is sponsored byJMarket Basket Stores and Jason’s
Deli.
Season tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students and include the
four concerts remaining in the 1990-2000 series, presented by the Lamar
University department of music, theatre and dance. Lamar students are
admitted free.
For more information, call 880-8144.’
Non-credit programs to offer courses
Lamar University continuing education will offer -business-related semi-
nars and classes in November and ■ December, Kim Moncla, office
spokesperson, said.
Class for Intermediate Microsoft Word will be held today from 8 a.m. until
5 p.m. Tuition is $105.
Class for Medication Aide Update will be held today from 9 a.m. until 5
p.m. Tuition is $40.
Classes for Intermediate Microsoft Excel will begin Saturday and will con-
tinue through Nov. 20 from 9 a.m. until noon. Tuition is $105.
Classes for Remediation will begin Monday and will continue through
Dec. 6 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Classes will be held on Mondays and
Wednesdays. Tuition is $105.
Classes for Money Management will begin Monday and will continue
through Nov. 15 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Tuition is $29.
Class for Non-Profit Special Events Planning will be held on Tuesday
from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. Tuition is $60.
Class for Networking Essentials begins Thursday. Tuition is $1,085.
Call 880-2233 for more information on additional courses being offered.
For more information, call (212) 490-7777.
Deadline for submitting announcements for UPbriefs is noon of
the day one week prior to publication. Announcements are run
as space allows — no exceptions. Press release forms are
available for organization reporters in the UP office, 200 Setzer
Student Center. Information may be sent to University Press,
P.O. Box 10055, Beaumont 77710 or by fax to 880-8735.
Briefs compiled by Kuntal Kotnis, UP staff writer
Nurses may have more influence than doctors
Looking for the best way to talk about organ donation
CLEVELAND (AP) —
When it comes to talking to fami-
lies about organ donation, nurses
are better than doctors, timing is
critical and health care workers’
attitudes make a huge difference,
new research finds.
The conclusions are drawn
from the largest and most compre-
hensive look at the sons and
daughters, mothers and fathers,
husbands and wives who must
decide, in a moment of utter grief,
whether they will donate their
loved one’s organs to patients
awaiting transplants. ’
About half of families say yes,
and half say no. Researchers in
Cleveland and in Pittsburgh set
out to find what makes the differ-
ence.
“It has the same psychology of
sales. If someone is negative and
they say, ‘You don’t really want to
do it, do you?’ they’re probably
going to look at you and say,
‘Absolutely not,”’ said Laura A.
Siminoff of Case Western Reserve
University’s medical school. She
conducted the study with Dr.
Robert Arnold of the University
of Pittsburgh.
Siminoff and Arnold were
presenting their results Monday to
about 55 transplant coordinators,
doctors, nurses, bioethists, donor
families and other experts from
around the country. Organizers
hope the group will develop a
model for approaching families
that can be tested in a scientifical-
ly rigorous national study.
“I believe there is answer out
there and we have to keep search-
ing to find what works,” ’ said
Debbie May-Johnson, executive-
director of LifeBanc, the organ
bank in Cleveland, who is attend-
ing the conference.
Last year, organ donation
increased for the first time in
years, edging up to about 5,500
donors. Still, 4,300 people died
while awaiting a transplant, and
more than 66,000 patients now are
waiting for a donor organ.
This week’s conference is one
of several efforts to boost dona-
tion amid a bitter fight in
Washington over how to allocate
donated .organs...
The Department of Health
and Human Services wants more
organs for the sickest patients, no
matter where they live, while
many transplant surgeons defend
the current system, which is based
largely on geography.
But both sides want to
increase donation.
“Everybody agrees that
increasing the supply of organs is
the way you can save more lives,”
HHS spokesman Campbell Gar-
dett said.
Last month, HHS awarded
$5.3 million to groups experiment-
ing with new approaches to
increasing donation. Also, the
national transplant network is
studying the personalities and
techniques of the most successful
transplant coordinators — the
people who approach families —
to see if there are traits that can be
used in hiring or training.
In Cleveland, researchers
hope to push the debate forward.
The new study found that
doctors were the most likely to
approach families about donation,*
but the least successful.
Siminoff speculated that this
may be because doctors are too
busy to talk patiently and careful-
ly about donation.
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