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Alcohol abuse may
stunt girls’ growth
By Anita Arnold
Reporter
Alcohol abuse may have serious
consequences for a child’s physical
and sexual development, Texas
A&M researchers say.
Research at A&M indicates that
alcohol consumption at an early age
interferes with several hormones
that control a girls’ growth into and
through puberty.
A&M’s College of Veterinary
Medicine is conducting the study for
the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism.
Alcohol abuse by children is a sig-
niFicant problem because more than
185,000 children have used hard li
quor once a week by age 10, Dr. W.
Les Dees, an A&M endrocrinologist,
said.
In 1985, 100,000 children ages
10-11 were drunk at least once a
week, he said.
Dees said these children are at a
dangerous risk if results on the ef
fect of alcohol in laboratory animals
is comparable to that in humans.
“It is possible the child may have
minor to major problems, depend
ing on how much alcohol is abused,”
Dees said.
Experiments on female rats at the
same stage of development as chil
dren aged 11-14 found that feeding
the rats alcohol reduced the level of
growth hormone in the animals’
blood.
This hormone is responsible for
overall physical and reproductive or
gan development.
Dees said levels of other impor
tant hormones involved in physical
and sexual development also were
affected by alcohol.
Luteinizing-releasing hormone,
which stimulates the pituitary gland
to release luteinizing hormone, was
below normal levels in the alcohol
consuming rats.
Follicle-stimulating hormone,
which acts with the growth hormone
to allow the ovaries to mature, also
was found in low amounts.
The rats that were given alcohol
were smaller than the normally fed
rats, and development of the ovaries
was delayed.
“There’s no question that it does
depress levels of growth hormone,
most likely by an action at a specific
location in the brain, Dees said.
“And it looks like, because of the de
crease in growth hormone, there is a
delay in maturation olovaries.”
In human females a delay in de
velopment of the ovaries delays en
try into puberty and reproductive
maturity.
Dees said the next step will involve
studies with young primates.
University receives
oldest A&M diplomas
By Joe Segovia
Reporter
Two Texas A&M diplomas, in
cluding one of the first awarded for
four full years of attendance at the
University, have undergone a restor
ation process and are on display at
the Clayton Williams Alumni Cen
ter.
The diplomas, one from 1879 and
one from 1880, are the oldest A&M
has in its possession.
During May commencement
exercises, Jennifer and Rachel Pade-
ras, on behalf of their grandmother,
Mrs. Theodore Paderas from Beau
mont, presented the diplomas of
their great-great-grandfather, Louis
John Kopke, to Texas A&M.
Kopke, who lived in Beaumont,
received his first diploma in 1879 for
mathematics and German.
Charles Schultz, University ar
chivist, said the diploma wasn’t actu
ally a symbol of actual graduation.
In 1879, A&M offered four types
of degrees. The type Kopke received
was only for completing all the
courses offered in mathematics and
German, he said.
“I think 1880 was probably the
first year A&M had true graduates,”
Schultz said.
Kopke and fellow classmate Wil
liam Brown became the first stu
dents to spend the full four years at
A&M, Schultz said. Kopke received
his second degree in civil engi
neering in 1880.
The diplomas, turned over to the
Archives Division of the Sterling C.
Evans Library last fall, were taken to
a paper conservator for cleaning,
E reservation and restoration. After
eing stored in the Paderas’ garage
for many years, the diplomas had
become brittle — one was in three
pieces.
The first step in the cleaning
process was to test the ink on the
document, Schultz said, to make
sure that the ink wouldn’t run or dis
appear. The diplomas were later
soaked in a series of chemical baths
to remove dirt, insect stains and any
other blemishes caused from mois
ture and mildew, he said.
The diplomas then had to be flat
tened and dried. They were then
matted using acid neutral paper and
a special paste, he said.
“For formal presentation, they
were framed with a thin sheet of
Plexiglass inside the glass of the fra
me,” he said. “It (Plexiglass) filters
out the ultraviolet rays of the sun
and flourescent lights, which cause
the discoloration and brittleness of
paper.
Although the Paderas’ were aware
they possessed the diplomas, it was a
neighbor who urged them to contact
the University, Schultz said.
“It’s always rather interesting to
acquire material that relates to the
University and its students from the
past,” Shultz said.
After display in the Clayton Wil
liams Alumni Center, the Archives
Division of the Evans Library will
house the diplomas where they will
be available for study and future dis-
play.
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