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April 23:
The Muslim Students
Association wil be hosting the
ISLAM 101 Series: Pillars of
Islam at 7 p.m. in Rudder 302.
Free pizza! For more informa
tion, you can visit
http://msa.tamu.edu or contact
Mohammad Munawar 979-
268-0883.
this Wednesday. Show times
are: 5:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8:30
p.m. in Koldus 110. Admission
is free.
A&M will be held at 7:
in Rudder Auditorium.
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April 24:
President Gates will host a
reception honoring Dr.
Southerland at the Stark Galleries
from 3-5 p.m.
April 26: The second
APDA 5K run and walk-a-thon
will begin on Tom Chandler
Drive located near the south
side of Texas A&M’s Reed
Arena.
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The Hillel Foundation’s
Aggie Friends of Israel will
present the film “Relentless:
The Struggle for Peace in Israel
The Hispanic President’s
Council will be having a barbe
cue fund-raiser at Rudder
Fountain, 3-6 p.m.
April 27: The first dance
concert of the Dance Program
in the Department of Health
and Kinesiology at Texas
April 28: Dennis Haste
Speaker of the House, <
present the William Wa:
Cameron Forum on
Affairs at the George
Presidential Library Center
11 a.m.
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
America's oldest person
dies from pneumonia
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The nation's oldest
person, a 113-year-old woman who wit
nessed the aftermath of the great San
Francisco earthquake, enjoyed junk food and
lived alone until she turned 102, has died.
Mary Dorothy Christian died Sunday at
the Creekside Care Center in San Pablo,
where she had lived since 1992. She had
come down with a cold that turned into
pneumonia, said nurse Ester Aballa.
"She would be 114 in two months, and
she kept saying she wanted to make it,"
Aballa said. "I guess it was just her time."
The Gerontology Research Group identi
fied Christian as the oldest living American
in November following the death of Mary
Parr of Florida, who also was 113. The title
brought Christian a brief celebrity that she
enjoyed, according to relatives.
Born June 12, 1889, in Taunton, Mass.,
Christian moved with her family to San
Pablo. She was a teenager working at an
East Bay chocolate factory when she
watched flames engulf San Francisco fol
lowing the 1906 earthquake.
She married in 1907 and had two sons,
whom she outlived. Following a divorce in
1922, she worked several jobs, including
elevator operator and department store
saleswoman, before retiring in 1971.
Relatives said Christian lived alone until
she turned 102 and refused to be taken in
by family members. She indulged cravings
for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Hostess
Twinkies as long as she was able, they said.
A niece, Marge Parks, said Christian was
sometimes confused about the times'
her whereabouts, but nearly
remembered relatives' birthdays as
anniversaries.
Christian is survived by two great
children, two great-great-grandchikfe
and several nieces and nephews.
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26 days after Christian, according tof
UCLA School of Medicine, a member
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The oldest living American man, 112f!
old Fred Hale, lives in New York.
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the Gerontology Research Group
Kamato Hongo of Japan, who is 115.Hi
oldest person on record was Jeaitf
Calment, a French woman who was 12
when she died in 1997.
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