Page 4/The BattalionTThursday, February 2, 1984
Baby named for dead mother
United Press International
FORT WORTH — The
family of fire victim Brenda
Smith made plans Wednesday to
bury her and her son, and the
woman’s namesake — a daugh
ter delivered from her near
lifeless body — slowly gained
strength in a hospital.
Dr. John Jeffers, who per
formed the emergency Caesa
rean Monday morning at
Arlington Memorial Hospital,
said Mrs. Smith was brought in
with no heartbeat and third-
degree burns all over her body
except for the sole of one foot.
“I knew the baby was going to
die if I didn’t do something and
that if I was going to do it I had
to do it that second,” said Jeffers,
calling the decision to deliver the
infant the most difficult of his
life.
Vernon Smith, who saved his
1-year-old daughter Darla from
the blaze that destroyed their
suburban Arlington apartment
and killed his wife and 3-year-
old son Bryan, decided Tuesday
to name his newborn daughter
Brenda Renee in honor of his
late wife.
Mrs. Smith, 24, had picked
the name Tanya if her third
child turned out to be a girl. She
was due to give birth in early
February.
Brenda Renee, weakened by
lack of oxygen when her mother
stopped breathing, was in critic
al condition Wednesday at John
Peter Smith Hospital but offi
cials said she was breathing on
her own and slowly improving.
Graveside services for Mrs.
Smith and her son, who were to
be buried in the same casket,
were scheduled for 2 p.m.
Thursday at Laurel Land
Memorial Park in Fort Worth, a
spokesman of Guardian Funeral
Home said.
Jeffers, who said Brenda Re
nee was born weighing 6
pounds, 7 ounces, said he hoped
he never had to work under such
circumstances again as a physi
cian.
‘‘Nobody in that emergency
room who worked to save that
woman and her baby will ever be
the same,” he said. “I hope to
Hannah her husband didn’t see
her long in that condition and
I’m glad he didn’t have to see her
suffer long.”
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Geoscience annex
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By SONDRA HOS
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Staff writer
Some of the departments
in the College of Geosciences
will move from the past to the
present in the next couple of
months when they occupy the
new $4 million addition to
their present building.
The college has been
cramped and crowded in the
Halbouty Geosciences Build
ing, which was built in 1932.
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laboratories, ample office
space, and a faculty lounge.
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the older structure will be
shelled out and completely re
in odeled, Christopher
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culty member said. Mathew
son is user coordinator for the
new building.
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architecture will remain the
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Vice President Walter Mondale
enjoyed the best day so far of his
presidential campaign Wednes
day, picking up the endorse
ment of the nation’s most pow
erful Democrat, House Speaker
Thomas O’Neill.
At the same time the House
Democratic Caucus ratified the
selection of the first 164 dele
gates to the Democratic National
Convention and about half of
them were in the Mondale
column.
The delegates actually were
selected last week, but they
could not be named officially
until Feb. 1.
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Democratic nomination, told a
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