PageMO Winston-Salem Chronicle Thursday, January 7, 1988
Funding cut for sickle-cell anemia programs
By The Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Doctors work
ing w'ith Georgia's sickle-cell ane
mia patients plan to ask the state
for money to keep open clinics in
six south Georgia cities and contin
ue a statewide newborn-testing
program.
The clinics and the testing pro
gram arc among the Medical Col
lege of Georgia's sickle-cell ane
mia programs threatened by a
March 31 loss of an annual
S800,000 grant from the National
Institutes of Health.
program of sickle-cell anemia, as
well as the newborn-testing pro
gram and the outreach clinics in
Brunswick, Waycross, Valdosta,
Savannah, Albany and Dublin.
About 3,000 Georgians _ all
blacks _ suffer from sickle-cell
anemia, an inherited abnormality
in the oxygen-carrying component
of blood. The patients' red bkxKl
cells become warped and brittle
and may lodge in small blood ves
sels, causing severe pain, strokes
or damage to the spleen and other
organs. There is no cure and 3 per
cent of sufferers die from the dis
ease.
“I am looking for various other
ways to continue supporting the
program," said Dr. Titus Huisman,
founder and director of the col
lege’s Sickle-Cell Center. "Other
wise, the .services will fade away."
The grant supports the state’s
only comprehensive basic research
Huisman said he is planning to
submit new grant applications to
the National Institutes of Health by
Feb. 1 for money to support the
college's basic research programs.
He said he would ask the state
for money to continue running the
Penny Hill receives master's degree
Penny Lynette Hill, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie E. Hill of
Winston-Salem, received her mas-
• ter of arts degree in English at the
Ohio State University in Colum
bus, Ohio on Dec. II.
; Dr. Henry Ponder, president of
' Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn.
delivered the commencement
address.
Hill completed a thesis enti-
• tied "The Relationships Between
' Black Folk English and Characteri
zations In Alice Walker’s Prose
Fiction" in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the master's
degree.
Hill received her bachelor of
arts degree in 1986 from Bennett
; 'Faith Journey' to bring musical
' memory of King to Winston-Salem
"Faith Journey; A Musical
Memory of Martin" will crown the
activities of Winston-Salem State
>-University'sNational Martin Luther
King Holiday Celebration. AFRI
Productions of New York will
" bring the musical to the Kenneth
’ R. Williams Auditorium on Thurs-
day, Jan. 21 at8 p.m.
"Faith Journey" is a musical
theater documentary that fuses
- choreographed movement, choral
^ speaking, dramatic episodes, mov-
ing melodies, and haunting har-
^ monies to skillfully blend a
momentous movement on Ameri-
:4 can life. The message is in the
Tr music, which serves as the spine of
♦•'this theater piece.
; Young passes law examiners board
Winston-Salem native, Bar
bara L. Young was recently passed
the Pennsylvania Board of Law
. Examiners test.
Young was listed among
r 2,325 successful applicants who
- took the exam in July, 1987. Attor-
; ncy Young is currently employed
as a member of the law firm Post
, and Schell of Philadelphia. Her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Don
nie) L. Young reside in Winston-
Salem.
A 1987 graduate of Wake For
est University School of Law,
Young distinguished herself during
her collegiate and graduate studies
at that institution. While at Wake
Forest she was regularly identified
as an academic achiever and win
ner of several school competitions.
During the 1986-87 school
term Young served as Chief Justice
of the Wake Forest Mott Court.
Prior to that honor, she was also
declared winner of the Order of the
Barrister competition. In her first
year of student eligibility she was
During the fall of 1985 Young
was a quarter -finalist in the Stan
ley Moot Court exercises. She
placed third in the national Freder
ick Douglass Moot Court Team
competition in the spring of 1986.
Other significant experiences
which contributed to Young's
development include her summer
internships with Human Services
Department of Winston-Salem; the
Forsyth County Experiment in
Self-Reliance: and the Attorney
General’s Office, North Carolina
Department of Justice. In 1984 she
was a special student at the Lon
don School of Economics,
V The Early Childhood Center at
•* Winston-Salem State University
will sfionsor a seminar offering 10
person. Licensed child care profes-
sional.s will serve as consultants for
the seminar.
clock hours of training in early
childhood education.
The seminar sessions will be
held from 7 to 9 p.m. Jan. 12, 19
an 26 and Feb. 2 and 9 in the
Anderson Center at WSSU.
The registration fee is $25 per
Interested persons may pre-
register by mailing appropriate fee
and the names of all participants to
WSSU, Early Childhood Center,
PO. Box 13297, Winston-Salem,
27110.
Registration will also be held
from 4 to 6 p.m. Jan. 11.
satellite clinics and to fund the
newborn-testing program.
The National Institutes of Health
first awarded the grant in 1972 to
Huisman, who started the program
after he came to the state from the
Netherlands in the 1950s. The
grant was used to support research
into a variety of blood abnomiali-
tics. In addition, the program edu
cates public-health nurses, high
school students and others about
sickle-cell anemia.
The program's south Georgia
clinics are operated by two physi
cians, who care for about 1,000
impoverished sickle-cell anemia
patients.
"What we hope to do is get this
program funded by the state,
which seems to be a reasonable
thing to do," said Dr. Virgil McKie,
a pediatric blood specialist who
donates lime five days each month
to treat patients at the clinics.
The state has not supported the
Medical College of Georgia's pro
grams, although it allots $1.16 mil
lion for sickle-cell disease pro
grams, including $550,000 for the
sickle-cell clinic at Grady Memo
rial Hospital in Atlanta and
$40,0(K) each for clinics in Way-
cross and Savannah.
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"We’re real concerned,” said
Ginger Floyd, director of the
Human Resources Department's
family services division. "If we
can't augment those funds, we'll
have to cut services to kids."
"We’ve got to find another way
of funding it," said Dr. Jim Eck-
man, director of Grady's sickle-cell
clinic. "That is an invaluable
research and service facility for the
state. They are al.so doing lots of
research into basic hematology and
outreach. This was a complete sur
prise to me. It's a critical loss.”
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first place winner the Moot Court
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