THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1979
Page 3
campus & city
handicapped girl finds joy in riding
By CHERYL CESSNA
Battalion Reporter
y helped her onto the horse,
Jfer smile spread a little wider.
■ inda Alford, born with spinal
1^ horseback riding is a new-
? fcida, 17, was one of the partici-
nts in the Special Students Riding
R)l, a joint project of the Texas
fs growtli [ ,L University Horseman's Asso-
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dren to ride.
“She loves it, said Mae Alford,
Linda’s mother. “She already told
her daddy that he had to get her a
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Focus section.
story in today’s
horse, and she told her granddaddy
he could keep it.”
Alford, of Bryan, said Linda has
ridden once before.
“She’s always said, T want to ride a
horse,’ but everyone said, ‘Oh, no.
elta Zeta plans
ggie Fall Fest’
By DEBBIE NELSON
Battalion Stafl
sages on sticks, 1(X) kegs of
nd a crowd of people — sound
Wurstfest? Transfer it to College
km, have it sponsored by the
Zeta sorority, and it’s the
Aggie Fall Fest.
| Fall Fest is a benefit, with all
jeds going to the Bryan Home
Severely Mentally Retarded,
|ty member Melissa Mueller.
Fall Fest will be held Satur-
the Brazos County Pavilion on
Road from 8 p.m. to midnight,
‘the admission price of $4 for men
$3 for women, the sorority will
ily all the beer or soft drinks,
sic will be provided by Peggy
s and her band, who play ev-
ling from country-western to
t, Mueller said.
|ssy Whigam, coordinator of the
planned it as a “mini Wur-
t. Mueller said.
[sides beer, sausage and kiss-me
ns, the sorority is also holding a
pig-calling contest, with a large bot
tle of liquor as the prize.
Sorority president Kathy Crouch
said she is unsure of how much
money will be collected for the char
ity, since ticket sales won’t be final
until Saturday. Tickets may be
obtained from sorority members or
by calling the Delta Zeta apartment,
696-0765.
To reduce expenses, sorority
members are making buttons for the
benefit and several companies are
giving discounts on their products.
A local beer distributor also
helped Delta Zeta set up the adver
tising for the event, Crouch said.
The sorority chose the Bryan
Home for the Severely Mentally Re
tarded as the charity because several
sorority members are education ma
jors who work with the children at
the home.
The money donated will be used
in any way for care of the children
and to maintain the home, Crouch
said.
est may predict
holesterol levels
mi
A blood test for children to iden-
a tendency for high cholesterol
ils in later years may result from
pes at Texas A&M University,
J veterinary pathologist Dr.
Ries Womack.
Womack is trying to determine
&h individuals are more likely to
ve cholesterol problems by inves
ting genes that produce en-
ps, although the findings might
be used in the future to combat
oeer and birth defects.
|fyou put 100 people on the same
a small percentage will develop
|esterol-related diseases,” he
• The key, then, must lie in the
|cgenetic makeup.”
Ithough still in the future, a
ical test to help humans find out
early in life if they are prone to high
cholesterol levels in the blood may
be one result, said Womack.
Originally funded by Organized
Research, a special appropriation
established by the Texas Legislature
to foster research of benefit to all
Texans, phases of Womack’s work
have now drawn support from the
National Foundation of the March of
Dimes.
Among these genes that produce
enzymes, Womack has mapped how
the order of the genes’ position re
lated to the order in which enzymes
appeared, looking toward bioche
mically detecting birth defects in the
embryo before the defect becomes
visible.
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you might fall, you might hurt your
self. ’
“But the summer before last she
went to Camp Fun and Frolics in
Bryan and they put her on a horse.
She came home all excited, saying, T
got to do something I always wanted
to do.”
Alford said Linda, who attends
Bryan High School, isn’t afraid of
injury.
“As far as falling or anything like
that, anyone can fall off a horse. And
I think this might help her coordina
tion and balance, because right now
she doesn’t balance very well.”
Stretching muscles that aren’t
used to being stretched is the only
problem, Alford said.
“The only thing is, she gets sore,
but anyone will get sore. She doesn’t
move around like any of us do. She
gets therapy, but she doesn’t get that
kind of therapy. When we told her
therapist about it he said, ‘Great!’ He
told her she should do some stretch
ing excercises, like sitting on a cot
with one leg on one side and the
other on the other side, spread out, a
little bit each day.”
Alford said she’s thankful that Lin
da, who uses a wheelchair but can
walk with crutches, isn’t more hand
icapped than she is.
“It’s a miracle she’s as well off as
she is, because she had a shunt in her
head to keep the fluid from building
up in her brain. That goes along with
spinal bifida.
“When Linda was born, they said
if she lived, she might be paralyzed
from the waist down, and not have a
mind. So Linda is real well off. Our
doctor always told us the worst. So
then when she could move, we said,
‘Oh wow!’ and when she turned
over, ‘Wow, she can turn over! ”
She said thinking about what
could have been makes Linda’s
handicap easier to bear.
“People look at her and think,
‘Oh, she’s in such bad shape,’ but if
you know that this is so much better
off than what we thought she would
be, then it doesn’t seem so bad.”
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