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Tuesday, April :f Tuesday,
Heart transplant pioneer
impatient with progress
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — Heart surgeon
Denton A. Cooley said Monday
he’s growing impatient with the
slow progress being made with ar
tificial heart transplants, a field he
pioneered with the first such oper
ation 25 years ago.
“I’m pleased with it (the
progress),’ said Cooley, 75. ‘But
I’m still rather impatient that it
hasn’t been more rapid. I would
like to see some of these problems
solved during my professional life
time, not wait until after the turn
of the century.”
It was April 4, 1969, when
Cooley and his associates at the
Texas Heart Institute implanted a
totally artificial heart into the chest
of Haskell Karp, a 47-year-old
printing estimator from Skokie, Ill.
Karp lived for three days on the
device and then received a human
heart transplant. He died a day lat
er when infection and tissue rejec
tion set in.
At the time, it was predicted by
Cooley’s cardiac team that
100,000 of the devices would be
used by 1 980, not as bridge
mechanisms, but as replacements
for human hearts entirely.
Twenty-five years later, better
prototypes and spinoff devices
have been developed, but no pa
tient has been sustained by them
for very long. Dr. Robert Jarvik im
planted his artificial heart in Seattle
dentist Barney Clark at the Univer
sity of Utah on Dec. 2, 1982.
The heart, driven by an air
pump the size of a washing ma
chine, kept Clark alive for 112
days and boosted hopes for a new
era of treatment, but the technolo-
y stalled by the end of the
ecade.
The Jarvik heart had been in
tended as a permanent replace
ment, but the Federal Drug Ad
ministration changed its stance af
ter four other patients developed
complications and died.
It authorized the device only as
a bridge.
From 1985 through 1991, the
hearts were implanted in 187 pa
tients awaiting transplant, and 5 6
of those patients survived a year.
Six panhandle colleges join forces
Schools unite to give students better services, save money
The Associated Press
GOODWELL, Okla. — Six col
leges in the panhandles of Okla
homa and Texas have joined forces
to form a higher education consor
tium aimed at giving students bet
ter services and saving money.
“You look at the map and you
can easily see that the Texas Pan
handle and the Oklahoma Pan
handle are really isolated,” said
Mark E. Workman, director of
computer information at Frank
Phillips College in Borger, Texas.
“Why, we think of Panhandle
State as a member of our group
rather than closely affiliated with
Oklahoma State University,’’
Workman said.
“We’re right out here with
them. We need to be one happy
family,” says Panhandle State pres
ident Ron Meek.
Panhandle State University in
Goodwell has joined with five
Texas colleges to form the new
Higher Education Consortium of
Texas and Oklahoma.
In addition to Frank Phillips,
the Texas colleges are West Texas
A&M University in Canyon,
Clarendon College; Amarillo Col
lege and Texas State Technical
College in Amarillo.
Panhandle State is part of the
Oklahoma Agricultural and Me
chanical College system that has
the same board of regents as Ok
lahoma State.
The agreement for the consor
tium was reached in February after
administrators and faculty from the
six colleges studied the need for it
for about a year. The consortium
members met last week.
T.H.E. Consortium, as it is
called, allows the six institutions to
pool resources and cut down on
course duplication, Workman said.
He said the schools will work
to minimize problems that stu
dents might encounter when
transferring from one institution
to another or transferring from
one program to another. The con
sortium has an articulation and
transfer committee.
Four of the schools are junior
colleges. Panhandle State and
West Texas A&M are four-year
universities.
A proposed “two-plus-two’’
program would allow students
to take freshman and sophomore
classes at a junior college and
then finish a baccalaureate de
gree at Panhandle State or West
Texas A&M.
Panhandle State encourages
transfers in the areas of business,
computer sciences and industrial
arts.
“We need to concentrate on
our specialities and eliminate turf
considerations,” Meek said.
He insists that the six schools
were made for a cooperative spirit.
“You drive around this area
and you discover quickly that
there s a commonality out here,”
he said. “We have the same value
systems, the same economic base,
the same cultural ties, the same
pioneer spirit.
Secretar
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sion, is a former lobbyist(:
city of Dallas and wasi
member to former U.S
Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas.
He is the second blackj
to be secretary of state. Tk
was a woman, Myra McDi
who was named by forme
Mark White.
Both Kirk and Richai:
who appointed him to sir
John Hannah, who was®
federal judge — notedhisp
had a strong commitment
and voting rights. His faite]
Andrew Kirk, has died; hisrj
er, Willie Mae Kirk, shared;
with Richards, lawmaker
other Kirk family memben
her son’s swearing-in.
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rights laws that his par
worked very hardtop;
Richards said. "And theres:
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ing to do a very good job
because his momma vvouli
have it any other way.”
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