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1HEOLMJRA TULBERT CROWNING ...Michelle Crowder Crowder, Gaddy Capture “Miss YMCA” Contest By Cynthia Bell Post Staff Writer The Seventh Annual Miss McCrorey Branch YMCA was recently held at the “Y” on Beatties Ford Road The dis tinguish Kenneth Golden was Master of the Ceremony. This Year 19 young lovelies competed in the two titled contest In the Queen Division, Michelle Crowder captured the title by raising the most money. Renee' Maxwell and Tracy Moore-were first and second runner ups, respective ly Monica Evette Gaddy will reign this year as winner in the Princess Division. Ami House was first runner up and Charlette Simpson was second runner up Other dedicated, hard-working contestants were: Leisha Colston, Rose mary Fortune, Leight Jack son, bhelia Jackson, Sherrie Jackson, Michelle McCoy, Ni chole Oliphant, Cathy Rober son, Cathleen Robinson, Co sine Taylor, Florence Walker, Pricilla Windley, and Sari Wither. All of the contestants parti cipated in a fashion show sponsored by Richway Stores of Charlotte. Outfits ranged from evening wear to swim wear and each contestant add ed a bit of spice to their particular outfit. The melodic voice of Maria Johnson chimmed out “You Light Up My Life" to wrap up the gala evening of festivities. Congratulations are in or der to all of these young ladies, especially winners. Funds that they raised will go toward sponsoring deserving youths to camp and for mem bership. Mercy Hospital Plans Annual Ball — The Board of Directors and the Auxiliary of Mercy Hospi tal will sponsor the First Annual Mercy Ball on Satur day, January 21 at the Radis son Plaza Hotel. Letters of invitation from the Mercy Ball Committee, headed by board member and Rexham marketing executive John V. Shea, were sent last week to friends of the hospital, medical staff, and auxiliary. The Ball is expected to draw over 300 people. The black tie dinner-dance is not a fund-raising event. Says Shea, “This is just the appropriate event for Char lotte citizens to become more involved and support this com munity, non-profit hospital.” Other members of the Mer cy Ball Committee are: Bre vard S. Myers, chairman of the board; Edward J. Dowd, Jr. - arrangements; Dr. Fre derick Taylor - special guests & recreation; Dr. E. Reed Gaskin - publicity; Mrs. Rita G. Taylor and Mrs. Barbara Perriello - tickets._ Read the Charlotte Post Study Of Expectant Dads If Dad Experiences Classic Sympton, Beware! UNC-G News Bureau Special To The Post GREENSBORO-With all the classic symptoms of food cravings, backaches, fatique and irritability, there could be only one diagnosis -- the hus band is expecting Don't laugh Dr. Ora Strick land Davis, an assistant pro fessor of nursing at the Uni versity of North Carolina at Greensboro, has found that a husband's involvement with his wife's pregnancy goes far beyond the initial conception of the baby. "Most expectant fathers ex perience one and usually more to the symptoms and mood changes that their wives un dergo during the course of a pregnancy," she said. Dr. Davis, who received her Ph.D. in child development and family relations at UNC-G last August, explored this far reaching concept in her dis sertation entitled, "Moods and Symptoms of Expectant Fat hers During the Course of Pregnancy " She surveyed 91 expectant fathers in Greensboro and Guilford County and found that most of the men at some point during the pregnancy reported at least one of the symptoms of pregnancy. "The most commonly re ported symptoms were food cravings, backaches, fatique, increased appetite, irritabili ty, restlessness, weight gain, difficulty sleeping, indigestion and heartburn, nausea and even vomiting in the early stages," Dr. Davis stated. The faculty member said she got interested in the ex pectant father’s experinces during pregnancy when she was serving as a nurse in the maternity ward of Harlem Hospital Medical Center in New York "Many of the women there told me that their husbands were experiencing the same physical symptoms and mood changes that they were going through," Dr Davis recalled. "After that I took a keen interest in the expectant fa ther and I discovered that the medical profession has tended to leave out the father in the childbearing process. "As far as I could deter mine, my study of expectant fathers using statistical analy sis is the only one of its kind in the U.S.," she said. Dr. Davis explaind that the symptoms experienced by the expectant father are known as the "Couvade Syndrome.” Couvade is a French word meaning to brood or hatch and was practiced widely as a part of childbearing by primitive cultures. "As a practice, it was a way that the expectant father took part in the childbearing pro cess,” she explained. "For instance, an expectant father would not eat meat during his wife's pregnancy. He would go to bed when his wife began her labor pains and go through the motions of giving birth. "They believed that the en ergy given off by the husband in the practice of Couvade increased the wife's ability to give birth." Dr Davis ex plained. Of the 91 expectant fathers surveyed in the project, the black, working class man ex perienced more symptoms and mood changes during the course of the pregnancy than the w hite, middle class father to-be Also, those expectant fa thers in unplanned pregnan cies exhibited more symptoms and mood changes than the expectant father in a planned pregnancy. \ “I expected that the unplan ned pregnancy would cause more stress and less personal satisfaction than the planned pregnancy," Dr. Davis com mented. "Working class ex pectant fathers in unplanned pregnancies also showed sig nificantly higher anxiety and depression as pregnancy pro gressed than middle-class ex pectant fathers in unplanned pregnancies.” Dr. Davis said that each of the expectant fathers were questioned about their satis faction with their situation in regard to their house or apart ment. firyinces, relationship with the wife, wife’s health, sexual adjustment, involve ment in household tasks and relationship with the couple's parents. "The most marked differ ence related to change in personal satisfaction was the sexual adjustment as preg nancy advanced," she found. "Expectant fathers with prior experience showed less over all satisfaction with their per sonal situation than the inex perienced men, which was probably due to additional stress.” The social breakdown of Dr. Davis' findings shows that middle class expectant fa thers in managerial, profes sional or skilled-labor work experienced the least number of symptoms and were most satisfied with their personal situation. Working class expectant fa thers in semi-skilled and un skilled labor positions were less satisfied and experienced more symptoms, according to the study. , "As anxiety, depression and hostility increased so did the symptoms," Dr. Davis point ed out. "And as personal satisfaction decreased, the symptoms experienced by the expectant father increased " "There is a wide range of variation to the way men respond to their wives' preg nancy,” she commented. Pre-Christmas I bargains! 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