Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 234, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 31, 1988 Page: 4 of 60
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LIFESTYLES
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treasurer’s report. The Yard of the second vice president; Cheryl Klut-
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TYPES OF WORK PERFORMED
Lifestyles Policy
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make summer plans
Eight years later, Texas woman
strives to mend life shattered by
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We guarantee the quality of work. Our em-
ployes are fully insured. Supervisors are
furnished.
simply, “That’s a crock,” but
stresses that she can’t take full
credit for the strides she has
made. “My parents have been
wonderful,” she said. “The whole
family — and it took the whole
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Kelli Lynn Kuykendall
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Sue Sutton; David, Karla, Chris and
Bryce Bennett; Jeff, Stephanie and
Beth Richardson, Sammy and Ke-
lleen Nichols.
Kelli’s grandparents are Robert
and Sandra Nichols, Kenneth (Ott)
and June Kuykendall. Great-
grandparents are Mayo and Ka-
thryn Peterson, R.S. (Bo) and
Mamie Nichols, all of Gainesville.
family, being there with me, their
support.”
Sometimes when she is around
people who are thinking about
WE BID ON JOBS LARGE ANDSMALL.
WE WILL WORK AT YOUR PLACE OR OURS.
CALENDAR POLICY
Items for calendar should
be submitted at least two
days prior to the event. The
organization’s name and the
time, and place of the meet-
ing will be listed.
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Sale prices on regularly priced merchandise effective
through Saturday June 4,1988
"My parents ha ve been wonderful..
The whole family—and it took the whole
family, being there with me, their support...."
—Judy Farris
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Bundling
Building wood products
Lawn maintenance
House cleaning
Odd jobs
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JOE WALTER
WORKSHOP
610 West Broadway
665-1071
in the GMH conference room.
Thursday
■ Soroptimist Friendship House:
arts and crafts, 10 a.m.; table
games, 1-4:30 p.m.
■ X-Rails meets at K-Bob’s Steak
House at 6 p.m.
Judy Farris, 29. eyes the cue ball like she did before an
automobile accident eight years ago almost ended her life.
Farris has made a remarkable — although not complete —
recovery after being in a coma for several months.
Peer pressure dilemma
Camp Fire offers course for coping
“I m Peer Proof,” is a self-reliance course taught nation-wide to chil-
dren in fourth through sixth grades.
The overall purpose of the course is to build the self-reliance of children
who are involved in both positive and negative peer relationships. The
course teaches assertiveness skills as a means of building positive friend-
ships and resisting negative peer pressure.
Peer pressure begins as soon as children begin to move beyond the
family to establish friendship groups. By the time children start school,
they have experienced forms of peer pressure.
Some school-age children want so desperately to be accepted by others
and to have friends that they say “yes” when they really want to say “no.”
These children are confused and intimidated by the manipulative be-
havior of other children. All children want friends. Many children try to
buy friends, and others are too shy to express their own feelings and ideas
for fear of rejection. Friends are essential to positive development during
school, yet many children lack skills that cultivate friendships, such as
showing interest in another person, making another person feel comfort-
able, or accepting and giving compliments.
Learning to cope with peer pressure is a major source of stress for young
people today. Cooke County Camp Fire has recognized this problem in
Cooke County and wants to help.
Camp Fire will offer the national program, “I’m Peer Proof,” free of
charge to youth in fourth through sixth grades beginning in mid June. The
classes will be limited to 10 youth, with courses offered throughout the
summer.
Call or come by the Camp Fire office and sign up now.
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Tuesday
■ TOPS meets in the Cooke
County Courthouse, 6 p.m.
■ Band Boosters general meet-
ing, 7:30 p.m. in the high school
band room.
Wednesday
■ Overeaters Anonymous, 7 p.m.
By BETTY MARTIN
Orange Leader
ORANGE — At 22, Judy Farris
was smart, pretty, popular and
leading a charmed life.
A top-level college student
already beginning a lucrative ca-
reer in accounting, she had her
own car, apartment and enough
varied talent to feel at home as a
pianist at weddings or behind the
driving end of a pool cue.
“I was foot-loose and fancy-
free,” she said, “with my whole
life in front of me. ”
But on Halloween night in 1981,
it took only a few seconds and one
drunken driver to turn talented
promise to tragedy.
Ms. Farris doesn’t remember
the auto accident or the Jaws of
Life that cut her from the car.
Nor does she remember the three
months of intensive care and.
neurosurgery that followed.
Ms. Farris was in a coma for
several months.
“They’ve told me, since then,
what happened that night,” Ms.
Farris said.
She was a passenger in a car,
on her way to a Halloween party.
Her roommate, the driver, had
stopped to make a left-hand turn
when a large van smashed into
the car from the rear, spinning
Ms. Farris’ side of the car into the
direct path of an on-coming ve-
hicle.
Ms. Farris’ mother remem-
bers clearly, however. “I’d just
gone to bed when the phone
rang,” Betty Farris said. “The
nurse said that Judy was at the
hospital and she’d been hurt. I
asked if it was serious, and she
said she didn’t know. Of course,
when I saw her — she was still as
death.”
Mrs. Farris asked the Depart-
ment of Public Safety officer how
such a thing had happened to her
daughter. “He told me the man in
the van was very, very drunk. ”
Neither of the two occupants in
the van were hurt at all. Both
were in their late 30s and had
started drinking before noon in
Port Arthur. The last tavern they
had visited was on Green Avenue
in Orange, shortly before the ac-
cident at 8:30p.m.
The van’s driver registered a
.18 blood-alcohol level.
Ms. Farris’s collar bones were
broken, her pelvis was crushed _
and she suffered an injury to her
brain.
ordering another drink before
setting begind the wheel of a car,
“they look at me and say‘uh-uh. ’ ”
Ms. Farris is now an active
supporter of the Mothers Against
Drunk Driving organization. In
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an article for “Cardinalview,”
the 1987 edition of Lamar
University-Orange’s journal of
the arts, Ms. Farris wrote: “I
was worth the price he ultimately
had to pay? I know it wasn’t worth
the price I had to pay. ”
At 29, Ms. Farris is still smart
and still pretty. And, with the de-
parture of fair-weathered com-
panions, she is highly popular
with her family and her close
friends.
But there’s a big difference
from the Judy Farris of eight
years ago.
“I know I’ve grown older, but
I’ve matured, too,” she said. “I
think sometimes that when my
head got knocked around, it
knocked everything into the right
place.”
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teddy bears. Thirty friends and re-
latives watched Kelli open gifts and
were served cake and ice cream.
Attending were her parents and
brother Kolby; Nana and Poppy
Nichols; uncle Shane Nichols;
great-grandparents Peterson;
great-grandparents Nichols; Laure
and Kimberly Kuykendall; Mark
and Deanna Reeves; Shirley and
Jason James; Trice, Preston and
Tanner Henry; Susie, Darrell, Jen-
nifer and Candy Comer; Phil,
Patsy, Bianca and Warren
Christie; Patti Tucker; Jimmy and
Janie Wagner.
Unable to attend but sending best
wishes were Mamaw and PawPaw
Kuykendall; uncle Jeff Nichols;
Penny and Ryan Smith; Travis and
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Lmdsay Young Homemakers met EXcavation SlIdes council was discussed. Brown, treasurer; Linda Newman,
M att P-m; m tne home ° - . — - • Retha Bond and Gloria Estes parliamentarian; Gloria Estes, re-
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t nimowrbnndasunrmann, negoy non He showed eniqee of Creative Award for the Artistic Div- part of hostess, and everyone
LuElla Fuhrmann, Donna Hess, nesday noon. He Snowed Sudes or Noiop;, w^a^ In +L. LmloL c91ane
Pam Hoberer Annette Huddleston his hobby of archaeology. Martin ision and Marjorie Kaden won the brought salads. -
ram nooerer, Annette Huaaieston, -miy -nd friends are ex Sweepstake having the most blue The next meeting will be in Sep-
Sarah Huddleston, Peggy Ka- and ms iamily and trends are ex- ribbons in the Artistic Division in tember
snarek Michelle Nen Kathleen cavating on a site in northwest -.o 1 -ne A-us-.c .—Son•n -envent
sparex, cnene eu, Maun-een Co, Cunti where he has found the Horticulture Division, Dorothy
Schroeder, JoAnn Schumacher and -ooKe county wnere ne nas Iound RoL1, In +L, Sanetl’c Re+L‛
Diane Sicking the remains of an Indian village dat- Bohis won the Sweepstakes, Retha
The graduating senior girls were ingfrom700tol500A.D. Bond the Horticulture Excellance
ine 8auuau8 senior giris were Intrdceq by the Rev Top Fd and Lennie Shobe, the Award of
honored at the meeting. Games introduced oy me heV: joe —d Merit
were played before the meal to in- Goolsbee, co-chairman of the pro- —5
troduce everyone. Kathleen gram with S.D. Glenn, Martin is the The new slate of officers was in-
Schroder presided at the following son Rotarian Ernest Martin. stalled by Lennie Shobe, who told
meeting. Minutes and treasurer’s The meeting opened with singing about the flower, which is used in
report were given. The group dis- led by Ralph Courtney and prayer the Bible as a figure of speech. Each
cussed plans for summer activities by Mat Mathews. Dr.Pervaiz officer was given a plant for each of
with a swim party and shopping day Rahman presided. Arley Daurity
in July. The Community Calendars reminded CHEW Crew I to work
were finished and ready to take to Saturday delivering meals to shut-
the printers. They will be ready for ins. Jim Zachary reported on the
sale in July. painting of the Leonard Park Pav-
New officeres were elected for the ilion.
year. They are: Pam Hoberer, Visitors included Wayne Lucas of
president; Sarah Huddleston, vice Arlington, Hubert Mathews of Las
president; Michelle Neu, Cruces, N.M. and Charles Uselton,
secretary-treasurer and Donna city.
Hess, scrap book chairman. c-panC+I~,IW
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Kelli Lynn Kuykendall, daughter |
of Rickey and Shari Kuykendall, |
celebrated her third birthday on |
May 8 at the home of her great- l . . —
grandparents, Mayo and Kathryn I «I
Peterson. Kelli’s actual birthday isA
May 11. . A,n
The party theme was crayons and
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A jury of six decided the van’s
driver, who had no liability in-
surance, was guilty of a mis-
demeanor, fined him $500 and
gave him a probated sentence.
“It’s the little things that make
me angry,” said Ms. Farris. “I
took piano lessons for eight
years. I could play. Now I can’t. ”
More than seven years later,
Ms. Farris says she is not bitter.
She smiles, showing the bump on
her skull where “they drilled a
whole in my head” to release
brain fluid and awaken her from
thecoma.
She remembers her parents be-
ing with her in the Houston hos-
pital, where they had uprooted
their lives to stay close by during
the better part of 1982.
She remembers the doctors
and nurses, for whom she has
special affection, who tried to
teach her to walk and talk again.
She remembers her wheel-
chair, and later, her cane, before
taking her first unaided step in
December 1983, and the gradual
return of her motor skills —
enough to beat her mother at
computer games.
Sometimes, though, in a dream
Ms. Farris remembers bright
headlights shining in a rear-view
mirror and a crash of screaming
metal. “I guess I couldn’t really
remember that,” she said. “I
don’t know.”
Today, Ms. Farris walks as
haltingly as a bridesmaid, but
she walks unaided. Her speech is
slow, but clear. She cannot
whistle, sit Indian-style or water
ski, but she has signed up for a
few classes at Lamar
University-Orange and hopes to
re-enter the job market soon.
Her doctor has said that she’s
gone about as far as she can go in
recovery. Ms. Farris says
The next meeting will be held at Linda Newman called the meet- their positions. New officers are:
Leal’s Restaurant in Whitesboro on ing to order, Cindy Brown read the Retha Bond, president; Dee Fisk,
Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. Secret pals from minutes and Dee Fisk gave the first vice president; Juanita Leach,
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The door prize was won by Joyce 3-3--
Bengfort. There were 20 members The Garden Study Club met May
and eight guests present. 17 in the home of Linda Newman.
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