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Tuesday, April 19, 1983/The Battalion/Page 5 Local businessmen by Cheryl Burke Battalion Reporter fieri Love, chairman and lief executive of'Texas Com- lerce Bancshares, has been amed the 1983 Texas Busi- ess Executive of the Year by College of Business Admi- istration at Texas A&M. ^nLovewill be presented with leaward and will present a hon the f uture of bank- ig in an awards ceremony iiday. The presentations will eginat 10 a.m. in 102 Acade- and Agency Building. The award is presented I year in recognition of outstanding achievement and service by a business execu tive. Love graduated from the University of Texas in 1947 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He was a director and president of Houston’s River Oaks Bank and Trust and then joined Texas Commerce in 1967. He was named chairman and chief executive of Texas Commerce Bancshares in 1972. He presently serves on the board of directors of Cox Communications Inc., the El Paso Co., Hughes Tool Co., Pan American World Airways Inc., Proler International Corp. and Texas Commerce Bank in Austin. Previous recipients of the Texas Business Executive of the Year award have included John Blocker, former Texas A&M regent and chairman and chief executive of Blocker Energy Corp.; T.J. Barlow, chairman and chief executive of Anderson, Clayton and Co.; and Durwood Chalker, chairman and chief executive of Central and Southwest Corp. ’reservation of liberty topic If author Faulk’s talk today ic Info spart of National Library ilt, Texas author John Hen- nilk will speak on “How to re the Blessings of Liberty” p.m. today in 204C Sterling Vans Library. The radio and television per- ality will discuss how to pre- e liberty. A reception will owthe speech in 204B Evans rary. Admission is free, aulk, born and raised in Au- , graduated from the Uni- captid sky of Texas. After teaching is incoi re ^ or a f ew years, he signed error '° a radio show for CBS — “ tagged him as being the Will Rogers. )allas heriff tabilized aod seni ; of relid United Press International noresidi 1ALLAS — Dallas County in Garli iriff Don Byrd will remain •rethaai pitalized from injuries he re- aublein ted in a weekend automobile a Gift idem, authorities said today. Authorities said Byrd lost ticandu itrol of his car while driving jnonelilne from a party at about totherafdf a.m. Sunday in the Dallas thatopf IUr b of University Park. Telepli Authorities said Byrd ran into ’BaM standard while fumbling a mobile phone handset he i dropped. A spokesman for the sheriffs A partment said Byrd, who suf- s ed a deep cut on the chin, 1 >ken ribs and a concussion, -» I sin stable condition Monday XI Presbyterian Hospital. Faulk entered a bleak period in his life when an organization called Aware, Inc. blacklisted him as “pink” — having senti ment for the Communist Party. Soon after the blacklisting, his professional contracts be came scarce. Faulk sued the organization for libel, won the case and was awarded $3.5 million. His bat tles and trials inspired him to write “Fear on Trial,” which la ter became a CBS television John Henry Faulk SPECIAL NOTICE 1st SUMMER SESSION OPTIONAL BOARD PLAN Students, on campus, off campus, and graduate, may dine on a meal plan during the 1st Summer Session at TAMU. Students selecting the 7-day plan may dine three meals each day, except Sunday evening: those selecting the 5-day plan may dine three meals each day, Monday through Friday. Meals will be served in Commons. Fees are payable to the Controller of Ac counts, Fiscal Office, Coke Building. Notice dates: Commons will be open for cash business on Registration day, May 30. Meal plans will begin on the first day of class, May 31. Fees for each plan are as follows: 7 Day $195.00 May 31 through July 1 5 Day $176.00 and Plus Tax July 5 and 6 Meal plan validation will begin at 7:30 a.m., May 31, in the Commons Lobby. Fee slips will be required. than i d his reaMi 1 homei The? for ivas sod frs.Zed e honstJ i out of i : said 1 nttosta! t all." wnite mts will identitiii es or (< r reside! 1 iril 16, i reside!' il 16, r residri iril TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYMPHONIC BAND - membership by audition each September - instrumentation set for 75 - activities include concerts and a spring trip - rehearsals twice a week - open to all students Begun in 1973, the Symphonic Band offers students at Texas A&M University the opportunity to play their instruments with others from across Texas and the nation. Rehearsing twice weekly, Tuesday and Thursday, from 12:30-1:45 p.m., the band allows students to play in a group while concentrating on their major field of study, if you would like to audition, block the above time out at registration by listing SYMB 500. For additional information write or call Bill J. Dean Director Symphonic Band E. V. Adams Band Bldg. College Station, Texas 77843 Parents win $119 million in childbirth malpractice United Press International HOUSTON — The parents of a brain-damaged girl, 2, Mon day won a $119 million out-of- court settlement from the hos pital where the child, who may never walk or talk, was injured at birth. Their lawyer called it the largest individual malpractice award in history. Pasadena Bayshore Hospital, one of Hospital Corp. of Amer ica’s 357 facilities nationwide, agreed to pay auto parts store manager Ronnie D. Ferris, 32, and wife Linda, 28, of suburban Pasadena $4.25 million in 30 days, monthly payments the first year of $7,000 escalating each year that Andrea Ferris lives. If Andrea lives a full life ex pectancy of 77 years, as doctors have predicted she will, the award will total $119.2 million. The case was to have gone to trial Monday. Plaintiffs’ lawyer Richard Mitthof said Monday doctors determined Andrea suffered se vere brain damage before and during delivery because of ox ygen deprivation. The lawsuit alleged gross negligence on the part of a doctor, nurses and hos pital administrators. Mitthof said Andrea was deli vered by Caesarian section but, because of a doctor’s mishand ling of the case, doctors waited too long to surgically rescue the child from distress inside the mother’s womb. “In all probability she will never talk, never walk, never have normal control over her bowel and bladder, never feed herself, (never) provide any care for herself,” the lawsuit said. State District Judge Charles L. Price’s court approved the settlement. Pasadena Bayshore nurses said in sworn depositions that attending obstetrician Dr. Michael T. Brody, a former staff doctor, failed to respond to their repeated summons for help during Ferris’ difficult labor early on July 7, 1980. Hospital administrators said they were informed months prior to Andrea’s birth that Brody often failed to respond to the nurses, often acted erratical ly, failed to scrub before births, fell asleep during post-delivery surgery, and generally en dangered patients lives. Hospital Administrator Dr. Donald L. Francis said in deposi tions taken by Mitthof and on file at the Harris Count court house that he had received in formation prior to Andrea’s birth that Brody was taking De- xedrine and Valium regularly. Brody is no longer on Pasade na Bayshore Hospital’s staff. He maintains a private practice in Houston. Defendants in the case were Pasadena Bayshore Hospital Inc., staff obstetric-pediatric di rector Dr. Saul Soffar, 58, of Houston, and nurses Coleen Truly, 44, of Seabrook, Ellen Coon, 27, of Hull, and Dianne Shriver, 36, of Houston. Plaintiffs alleged the nurses DEBBY’S Beauty Salon 704 N. Rosemary 846-6364 failed to call another physician when Brody did not respond. Truly said Brody failed to attend women in labor “too many times to count” and often was “screwed to the ceiling” when he did come. Plaintiffs’ petition said Soffar, hospital administrator Dr. Donald L. Francis and hospital board member Dr. H.L. 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