The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1983 Page: 2 of 16
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Two nursing graduates will
receive a $200 merit award for
academic achievement today.
Dr. Hector Gonzalez, nursing
chairman, will present the
awards at 7 p.m. before the
monthly staff meeting in Room
208 of the nursing education
building.
Anna Marie Torres and
Denise McBride will each
receive a Humana Award from
Humana Inc., a national
managing corporation for
nursing.
“We received a $10,000
scholarship fund from
Humana, and we put it into a
savings account, and the in-
terest drawn on the account is
what we award,” Jean Soren-
son, scholarship committee
chairman, said.
The scholarships are given
every fall and spring to
graduating students, she said.
“Students must maintain a
3.0 GPA and be a graduating
sophomore to be eligible for
the award,” Sorenson said.
Interested applicants should
apply through the financial-aid
office, she said.e
Looking for a piece of the
rock? Perhaps one up to 1
billion years old?
If so, Dr. Robert Garza, acting
dean for extended services and
a geology and geography pro-
fessor, invites you to join him
and other students Saturday as
they explore the central
mineral region of Texas.
Students will have an oppor-
tunity to view rocks from the
Cretaceous Period and the
Precambrian Era as they travel
north to Marble Falls and then
west to Kingsland and
Fredericksburg.
Besides offering an excellent
chance for rock collecting, the
trip, which is open to all
students, will allow par-
ticipants to see both Enchanted
Rock and Balanced Rock, Garza
said.
The group will meet at 7 a.m.
in the parking lot between the
nursing and chemistry-geology
buildings and return at 7:30
p.m. Students must provide
their own transportation and
are encouraged to pack a
lunch, Garza said.e
Feeling a bit under the
weather?
You might want to visit the
health fair from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. Thursday in the second
floor lobby of Moody Learning
Center.
“Health Fair—Take-a-Health
Break” is coordinated and co-
sponsored by the student
health office and the physical
education department.
Representatives from 20 dif-
ferent health agencies will have
information booths set up to
answer students’ questions and
provide general information
about their service, nursing
director Jo Ann Murillo said.
“The purpose of the health
fair is to encourage students to
raise their health level con-
sciousness with emphasis on
self-responsibility, regular exer-
cise, nutrition and stress
management,” Murillo said.
Among the health services
that will participate are the
American Heart Association,
the Emergency Medical Service
and the Mental Health
Association.
“We held a mini health fair
last semester and it turned out
really well, so this time we
decided to do it in a big way,”
Murillo said.e
as a big issue in the current debate.
In early March, the American
Council on Education commented
that the position of the higher educa-
tion community is to ensure the ap-
plicant complies with the law by
signing the Statement of Educational
Purpose and that any other verifica-
tion should be handled by the
Full-time students enrolled in
school here are eligible for day
care for their children at the
SAC/Gonzalez Child Develop-
ment Center, the center’s direc-
tor said Monday.
The spaces at the center are
on a priority basis, Ruth Miller
said. •
Irma Dee Everts, library pro-
fessor, will attend a Texas
Library Association state meet
Friday-Sunday at the Conven-
tion Center Arena.
As chairman for the academic
public relations committee, she
will head the public relations
for academic libraries table.
“I will talk about public rela-
tions (for libraries), talking
about the different types of
things we do (here) like library
instruction, online searching
(with computers), exhibits and
The continuing education
division will offer a program
this summer for 9-14-year-olds
called College for Kids.
Karyne Jones, program
developer, said the program,
the first of its kind here, will
expose the youth to instruction
in one of four areas.
The four areas covered by the
program are science,
theater/communication, com-
puter and general. Some
departments here that will pro-
vide instruction will be
chemistry, English, history,
mathematics, computer science
and theater and
communication.
A combination of college and
high school instructors will
teach the classes.
Two summer sessions will be
held with a maximum of 250
students per session. The first
runs from June 13-30 and the
second from July 11-29.
“At the end of each session,
evaluations will be given by
both teachers and students.
Hopefully, they will tell us how
to improve the program in the
future,” Jones said. •
the Library Hour, which is a
radio program that I host,”
Everts said. •
was like a festival,” she said.
“It was a time of poetry—Elizabeth
Doner said.
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Most people at some time in their
lives wonder about their origins and
roots. They ask their grandparents
about the old country, their parents
about their childhoods, or perhaps
they pay a geneologist to trace their
family tree. A person’s history is an
interesting curiosity and, more im-
portantly, part of his identity.
People who are adopted have this
same curiosity about their historical
and biological roots. While some
adoptees wish to have background
information about themselves and
knowledge of why they were
adopted, others wish to meet, talk
with and perhaps have a relation-
ship with their birthparents.
Approximately 225 search and
support groups throughout the
country assist adoptees in their
search for their birthparents.
The Triadoption Library, an adop-
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of the government,” he said.
Diana Perez, basic grant specialist,
said the rules also would require the
applicant to submit to the school a
copy of his registration acknowledg-
ment letter from the Selective Service
System.
“At this time asking for documen-
tation is optional, and we are not
asking for documentation yet,” she
said.
Roland Carrillo, director of student
financial aid, said, “Our role will be
to require proof that the student has
registered with selective service as
soon as we get word from
Washington. It could occur within
the next month or so.”
The Selective Service System
already has indicated it is not
prepared to supply documents to the
flood of students who would request
them, Hernandez remarked.
“Is it the responsibility of the
educational institution to gather pro-
of that the student has actually
registered?” Perez sees this question
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ter and Peter Rabbit,” she said.
Everts gathered many items from
fellow faculty members and
students for the display.
Included in the display are pic-
tures of the palace where Victoria liv-
ed in Kensington. These shots were
taken by Everts when she visited
London recently.
Other photographs were con-
tributed by Leonard Ziegler, Liz Gar-
za and Silvia Rivas.
Graphics for the display were by
Carol Perez and typesetting was by
Victor Mata.
Dorothy Langmore Photographic
Studios of San Antonio contributed
some of the pictures of Queen Vic-
toria, calligraphy writing for the
Robert Browning poetry exhibit was
done by Donna Marcrum and pic-
ture frames were supplied by Karen
Crowther.
Everts plans to put together
another display next week. This
time, India is the subject. •
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Aside from the natural curiosity
and the lack of identity the adoptee
feels, there is also the desire for
medical and genetic information.
Some medical information can be
easily obtained by adoptees from
adoption agencies, but this informa-
tion is often incomplete.
In “Search: A Handbook for
Adoptees and Birthparents,” the
author, Jayne Askin, relates an ac-
count given by an adoptee who was
told by his adoption agency that one
of his grandparents died of cancer.
“Apparently unknown to the agen-
cy were the additional facts which I
have determined since meeting my
natural parents and their families,
that two more of my four grand-
parents died of cancer and that two
of my great-grandparents had died
of cancer.
“With that family history now in
my possession, I am in a position to
avoid carcinogens.... This
demonstrated to me how inadequate
it would have been for me to have
Males who are at least 18 years old
and born after Dec. 31,1959, seeking
student financial aid here may need
to prove they have registered for the
military draft.
Richard Hernandez, financial aid
counselor, said a recent law barring
student financial aid from people
who refuse to register for the draft
has been challenged by students in
Minnesota.
A federal judge there granted a
temporary injunction against
government implementation of the
new law, which is to take effect July
1.
“The government is appealing the
court decision,” Hernandez said.
Hernandez explained the propos-
ed rules implementing the new law
would require the applicant to sign
a statement of registration com-
pliance certifying his eligibility for
* Title IV money.
* _ “The majority of schools are ask-
* ing for documentation already in
; case the final court ruling is in favor
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! Four free workshops are
scheduled for next week by
‘ Women’s Opportunity
[Workshops and Homemakers’
J Education Employment Re-
i entry program of the continu-
ing education division here.
* A six-hour class in conflict
^management is scheduled from
J9 a.m. to noon Monday and
^Wednesday in Room 110 of the
■ continuing education center,
J1517 N. Main Ave.
Self-image, a workshop deal-
ing with attitudes, choices and
fself-talk is planned from 12:30
|p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday,
£ Wednesday and Friday at the
^United Methodist Student
■ Center, 102 Belknap Place.
[ The HER program will offer a
»six-hour course in stress
| management from 9 a.m. to
[noon Tuesday and Thursday in
[Room 108 of the continuing
education center, 1517 N. Main
Ave.
Judy Kovacs Long, WOW in-
structor, will lead all three
classes.
WOW will present the hidden
job market from 9 a.m. to noon
Tuesday in Room 110 of the
continuing education center.
Susan Nelson, job developer,
will teach the class.
To register for all four classes,
call WOW at 733-2648.9
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April 8, 1983
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CAMPUS NEWS
what is in the adop- psychologist at Queens College, said
in an interview with the New York
Times that an unfair stigma has
be&T-attached to adoptees who go
“I believe that much of the men-
Doner said some adoptees feel a
genuine concern for their
birthparents.
_____________________________ “A lot of adoptees feel a need to let
questions about their past. Many their birthparents know that, their
tive parents, and there is also the explained.
fear of rejection by the birthparents, She said it is a great relief for
which is basically unfounded,” adoptees when they finally find their
“Once they complete the search,
thparents we get in touch with are what we see is that they feel a sense
happy to be contacted.” of wholeness—they feel complete.
Dr. William Reynolds, a Doner said.e
tion research and referral organiza-
tion, recently studied 22 of thesfe
groups and found that over a three-
month period, 7,234 adoptees
sought assistance from these 22
groups. Rounding this number out
to a year and figuring in the other
203 groups, figures indicate that
nearly 300,000 adoptees at least re-
quested information about the
search process.
Why do so many adoptees feel the
need to search for their
birthparents?
Pat Doner, coordinator of Adoption
Awareness Center, a component of
Lutheran Social Services of Texas in
San Antonio, said lack of self-
identity is uppermost in the sear-
cher’s mind.
“ ‘Who do I look like?’ is the key
question in adopted children,”
Doner said in an interview. “The
adopted child wonders who he looks
like in physical terms, and there is
also the question of why adoption
was the course taken.
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Souvenir Christmas cards from
1902, books from authors of the time ing, Charles Dickens and Beatrix Pol-
and pictures of a legendary queen
were all part of a recent Victorian Era
exhibit on the second floor lobby of
Moody Learning Center.
Two display cases, one in the
center of the lobby and one on the
left side of the walkway entering the
library, featured articles of that era
as part of the Victorian Arts Festival.
Irma Dee Everts, librarian who
designs the displays, said there were
gay times during the reign of Queen
Victoria.
“It was really a Victorian festival.
It was the time when Victoria
’ ascended the throne at age 15 and
Department of Education or the people were wondering what kind of
Selective Service System. leader she’d be.
The March 16 issue of the Chroni- “During her reign, transportation,
cle of Higher Education reported that science, music, art, industry—all of
the six anonymous students who these things—came into being. It
have challenged the law have not was like a festival,” she said,
registered for the draft but intend to “It was a time of poetry—Elizabeth
apply for financial aid in the coming Browning. That was when she wrote
academic year. • the poem “How Do I Love Thee?” It
relied solely on
tion agency’s files....”
Doner noted women are more in-
clined to search for their bir-
thparents than men. “Basically a through the search process,
majority of people who come “I believe that much of the men-
through our agency are women in tai health profession still thinks of
their late 20s or early 30s,” she said, searching as a symptom of
She suggested a reason for this something wrong, and that kind of
might be the experience of thinking has set back the whole field
childbirth increases a woman’s for a long time and wrongly influenc-
desire to find her natural parents. ed a lot of adoptees and their
Not all adopted children, of course, parents,” Reynolds said.
search for their birthparents.
“Some adopted children, of course,
search for their birthparents.
“Some adopted children never ask
feel they should protect their adop- life has turned out all right,” she
She said it is a great relief for
Adoptees have help in search for birthparents
“Adoption is a very emotional, per-
sonal and intense experience when
that need (to search) comes out. The
adopted child feels as if he doesn’t
have any roots—that he doesn’t
belong. What people don’t unders-
tand is that there is a tremendous
void there,” Doner said.
The book “Dear Birthmother,” co-
written by Kathy Silber, director of
the local Lutheran Social Services
agency, discusses the dilemmas that
the adoptees the agency works with
face.
“These are not unhappy adoptees
running away from home and their
nonunderstanding parents. These
are adoptees who talk easily about
contented childhoods and close
family relationships. Yet they re-
count numerous, unanswered ques-
tions about their biological identity.
They report recurrent dreams about
their “abandonment.” They even
have distorted fantasies and
daydreams about their
birthparents.”
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