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I likZR3g ---9 ulik 0 AN 8 The Miami News happening Billie O'Day You may never smg alone again 3 It you're tired of singing alone, why not with others who enjoy reading choral works? The University Civic Chorale offers choral reading sessions on Tuesday nights, including tonight, through July 8 at Broby Rehearsal Hall, the University of Miami I campus. Conductors include Lee Kjelson, Don Oglesby, Brian Busch, Robert Gower and Shirley Neugebauer. Hours are p.m. For more Information about the free sessions, call 284-4162. fTuesday, June 17,1980 iixisiniffamitiffiniamsommommaininart de-0 tt A 111 k) Ntt 1,4 .1.

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Mondays and Wednesdays. The claim is that you'll burn off as many calories as you would if you jogged three miles and you can stay cool it. You don't need to know how to swim. Fee is $25 for 10 clas4es. For more infotmation, call 442-6576.

On the town A He worked '1-A' in the war effort in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He used to complain about the cold and the noise in the ships' hulls. He never knew to complain about the asbestos. 1 A HP wnrkPri 1 A in thp Aint- Pffnrt Soprano Julie Hill presents a graduate voice recital at 8 tonight at Gusman Concert Hall, University of Miami. She'll be assisted by pianist Beverly Norton and by instrumentalists under the direction of Clark McAlister.

Works include those by Vivaldi, Mozart, Berg, Henri Duparand "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" by Samuel Barber. The event is free and open to the public. Asbestos: The latent war wound Back to basics NORMA ACHSEN OROVITZ special to The Miami News lion to that, there were frequent contacts with Asbestos coverings for pipe linings on the arious ships to which I was assigned. My duties as a Tinsmith on si ed of securing hangars and straps to hold the Asbestos covered pipes." I remember, as I got oltter, thinking how lucky my father was to have sat Out the war stateside. tie always had bad chest colds, chronic bronchial attacks.

They would keep hint home. I remember his cough all my growing up years. I remember, too, the "He' wore heavy shoes, gloves, work pants and shirts. White, powdery I remember him being very dirty. There was a white look about him.

I remember he would tie (the clothes) all up together with his shoes. He had a tough time getting his hands and nails clean. He was always meticulous about his hands." From my father's personal medical an occupational history he prepared for his internist: "1941-1943. Worked for Todd Shipyard. Brooklyn, New York, as a Tinsmith.

1 recall one job that lasted two weeks where the Frigidaire Holds on two destroyers were fiberglass insulated and the pipes were Asbestos covered. In addi First came the cough, the clearing of the throat. lie imagined a "film" covering his lungs. He felt like he was "drowning." Then, there were the Xrays, the tests, the tubes to determine a reason for his pleural pain. The medical guestimating began: Tubercular pleurisy? Emphysema? Cancer was at the bottom of the list.

The exploratory surgery: just 90 minutes to sound the death knell. The diagnosis: nausea-provoking words, ugly words and explanations. The prognosis: death could come "in weeks and weeks or months and months." Fourteen weeks later, he died. Please see FATHER, 2B When you think of old-fashioned picnics, you often think of things like pink lemonade and unsophisticated activities like horseshoe pitching. There's no picnic involved and you'll have to furnish your own lemonade, but the City of Miami offers horseshoe pitching from 10 a.m.

to noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at Lummus Park, 404 NW 3rd St. That's the park known mostly for its lawn bowling, but the horseshoe pitchers are gaining a toe hold. Pitching also goes on from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

The events are free and open to the public. For more information, call Tony Whittle, 579-635. Exposure poses certain risks to which all should be alert Here and there My father, Dave Achsen, died a World War II casualty. He was wounded shortly after Pearl Harbor was bombed. He died 31 years later.

There was no schrapnel from front-line duty. There was no dismemberment caused by a land mine. The wounding was subtle. My father worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was a tinsmith, working in the holds of warships.

He died in the line of duty. He worked for the war effort, after all. Ile worked with asbestos. In 1941, my father was a feather salesman. Ile and my mother were married Dec.

6, the night before Pearl Harbor was raped by warplanes. On their honeymoon, they heard that feathers were frozen for war use only. Since he was "I-A," my father went into war-related work. He secured a job at Todd Shipyards in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He used to joke, my mother Pearl remembers, about how he'd gone from a business to a trade.

He used to pray, with the other white-collar workers, that the boys would be safe in the ships they built. He used to complain about the cold and the noise in the ships' hulls. He never knew to complain about the asbestos. My mother recalls: "When he first went to work, he was in the hull of a ship, lining pipes with asbestos fabric. He came home the first night and he couldn't hear.

He was absolutely deaf the reverberations inside the hull of the ship. He worked near (the asbestos). They were lining electrical ducts, anything that tended to burn, they would line for safety with sothelloma which affects the membranes id the body (lung or digestive tract Because of the ubiquitous nature of lit iiitriI, of us are exposed to ashestos at one time or another. Asbestos may occur in buildings as insulation around piping, and as sound-deafening material in ceilings. Asbestos is also found in brake linings.

hair dryers and in other applications There resistame to heat is neo t'n sary. Thus, we are all at risk. Certain our upati OTIS, however, are at greater risk for the development of ashestos-related malignancies due to the intensity as vell as the time of exposure to the material. This is especially true in certain occupations. such as shipbuilding, where the exposure may be high for long periods of time, The potential of asbestos in causing cancer has been clarified over the past 15 years.

The first warning that this may' be a serious problem was in 1968, when instances of mesotheliorna Nvere reported among shipyard workers. Since the disease does not usually become evident for 20 tit 30 years from the onset ot asbestos exposure, the problem first became apparent 25 years following World War 11 (when a nuniner of people worked in the shipyards). The "oignif i aiiui ot this becomes apparent since, during World War II, I 5 million men and women corked in shipyards under condi Lawrence Broder is chief of the division of pulmonary oncology at the state Comprehensive Cancer Center at Jackson Memorial Medical Center. LAWRENCE E. BRODER, M.D.

Special to The Miami News "ASheStOS.1 is a common term used for a group of heat-resistant, fibrous minerals with hundreds of applications. In its natural state, asbestos is not a health hazard, since the s' fibers are large and compact. I lowever, following 1, processing, the individual fibers are small and are easily dispersed into dust. It is in this form that inhalation may lead to scarring of the lungs called "ashes- tosis," a significant health hazard in its own right. 0er the past 15 years, roder however, another, more lethal, health hazard has been identified in workers exposed to asbestos: Cancer.

It is associated with the deposition of the asbestos fibers in the body, especially in the lung. The cancer can take One Of iSVO forms: 20 per cent develop fatal lung cancer and 6 per ceill may develop a disease known as me The Riviera Presbyterian Church 5275 Sunset Dr. is the setting for the YWCAs Assertiveness Workshops from 7:30 to 9:30 on four Tuesday evenings beginning today with a fifth session on Thursday, July 10. The workshops, sponsored by the Y's Displaced Homemaker Center is for women over 35 who are widowed, divorced, separated or just plain single. The fee is by donation of from $2 to $15 for the series'depending on what you can afford.

For more information, call Betty Semet or Mary Strickland at 377-8161. Dade County's libraries are taking turns presenting the 13-part series "I Claudius," based on two novels by Robert Graves. South Miami Library, 6000 Sunset will present the series on Wednesdays at 2:30 p.m. beginning June 25. For more information, call 667-6121.

Coral Gables Library, 3443 Segovia. offers the series on Wednesday nights. Episode No. 3, "Waiting in the Wings," is scheduled for 730 p.m. Wednesday.

Details, 442-8706. Please see ASBESTOS, 2B Column with a Hart Eleanor Hart Three who are growing old with grace, honor The photography club, Daguerre Pictorialists, meets at 7:45 this evening at Gulliver School, 6575 Kendall Dr. The program, "Go Steady with a Tripod" by David Welt, will tell you how to get more out of your present equipment. The event is free and open to the public. Ills of the University of Miami, discussing -Mental Health for the Aging." There is a real need for a chapter in North Miami, adds lierrschatt.

interested in forming a group there should call her at 446-7030. Center for elderly "All my energy and the rest of my life dedicate to blindness." LEE KLEIN is some kind of angel to the hundreds of children going to the Deed Club Children's Cancer Clinic for chemotherapy each week. "tier love for children continually heals broken little hearts and comforts doubting little minds," says a father whose sevenyear-old son is one of "her children," The clinic, under her directorship for the past 14 years, accepts the financial responsibility for each child's medical care, thus eliminating the debilitating reality of not being able to afford cost IV medical procedures. She donates evcry Tuesday and Friday to the clinic and is always On call for any emotional problem parents have. NIARILYN REED is I he (11 ironmcntalist whose name is synonymous with the fight to preserve Biscayne Bay and other natural resources in bade County.

Most recently she was a member of the Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve Task Force on which she worked endlessly toward promulgating acceptable rules for the proper management of the bay. The words of one of her nominators sums up her feats best: "There is a saying, 'Everyone admires and loves the shade and fruit of the trees, but few take care of its the Marilyn has carefully and loyally tended the roots so that we and generations to come tnay enjoy the special beauty of our unique area." ANOTHER GRAY PANTHERS chapter is being formed. This one will meet on the third Saturday of the month at 10 a.m. at Immanuel I utheran Church. 1770 Brickell says Elena 'errs-chaff, GP activist.

The first meeting of the new bade County unit will he June 21 with Dr. Edith Lord, professor emeri "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of INing: Henri Amiel, Swiss philosopher. I find it significant Hart that three of the five winners of Channel 4's Jefferson Awards program, honoring citizens who have worked to improve the quality of life in and for the community consistently without fanfare and remuneration, are senior citizens. Recognition of Toby Emanuel, O. Mabel "Mame" Hunter Rea Bennett, 78, and Dr.

Benjamin G. Forman. 73, will be made, with the other two winners, Lee Klein and Marilyn Reed, at a dinner Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Sonesta Beach Hotel, Key Biscayne. Chosen from more than 700 nominees submitted by the public in February, each will receive a bronze medallion featuring a replica of the seal of the United States.

And all are, eligible for the national prize of $1,000 and the national Jefferson Award, to be given in the chambers of the United States Supreme Court in Washington this sum-Rey. National sponsor of the program is the American Institute for Public Service, chaired by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Sen. Robert Taft. Samuel S. Beard, former associate of the late Robert Kennedy, is president and founder.

Who are these illustrious five and what have they done? TOBY EMANUEL was instrumental In establishing the first facility for children suffering from rhtiniatic fever, the National Children's Cardiac Home, in 1938 in a rented house on Miami Beach. Her sun, Victor, whose illness brought the family here from New York in search of a warm climate, was the first patient. (Later locations were on Brickell Avenue and in Coral Gables. In 1941 the home was moved into a new building at Hagler Street and Le Jenne Road and staffed professionally. Present 'location for the facility, now known as the National Children's Cardiac Hospital which treats children with acute heart disorders, is 1475 NW 12th part of the University of Miami Medical School Jackson Memorial Hospital complex).

"Hers was a deed of valor for which she was never given credit," says her daughter, Grace O'Donald, who nominated her mother'. "She is truly one of the unsung heroines of the area." MABEL "MAME" BUNTER REA BENNETT is the harling of the migrant workers. Through her involvement with the High School Equivalency Program (REP) of the University of Miami, scores of promising young migrants have earned a high school diploma, gone to college, found jobs. A relentless collector, she finds and solicits discards furniture, clothing, kitchenware, for her families in need. She has been a volunteer since 1968 when the program was funded on the UM campus and she offered her services as a sewing instructor.

DR. BENJAMIN G. FORMAN, who lost his sight in 1961, is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the Center for the Blind in Fort Lauderdale, which he started on a shoestring after his arrival in Lauderhill in 1972. The former scientist, chemical engineer and microelectronic consultant with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) before his world( went dark, has never retired, just shifted his priorities. LOW-FAT COOKERY will be the focus of a cardiac nutrition workshop June 23 at 10 a.m.

at Parkway General Hospital, 160 NW 170th North Miami Beach. Mary Tarantino, registered thelitian, will talk about the need tor dietary modification for person with cardiac history and show a short film "Diet and Your Heart." Menu with recipes and free samples will be distributed, and there will be a question and answer period. The program is tree and open to the public. THOSE GOLDEN YLARS. Happy 52nd annivcrsary to George and Thelma Kegelmever of Coral Gables.

June 19. And happy 50th birthday, June 14, to Philip Bloom whose wife. Elaine, former member Of the Florida House of Representatives and now talk host on WKAT radio, says: "He is truly worthy of a Super Spouse award. His encouragement sent me out into the community while his support and acceptance of some of my former responsibilities made it possible for me to serve in public office and help my community. His encouragement has given me and our children confidence to 'do our thing', while his stature has grown, too." If you would like a Super Spouse certificate.

send names and date to be remembered with large. self-addressed. stamped envelope to kanor Hart. The Miami News, P. Box 615, Miami, 33152.

This column welcomes information about the senior community and guestions of geneful interest. The Jewish Vocational Service Nutritional Project Building at 920 Alton Miami Beach, was re-dedicated this morning following a five-month remodeling project. Nutritious meals are served to more than 175 senior citizens in the large air-conditioned dining area of the building every day. It is also the packaging facility for 420 home-delivered meals. The project is federally funded through the Older Americans Act program with matching funds by the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and the City of Miami Beach.

The JVC adminsters the program. Meals are free, based on need. "We feel we are keeping people in the community so they don't fall by the wayside or end up in institutuions," says project director Naomi Benson. The project employs 10 full-time workers and 50 part-time eldery who help serve the meals and earn the minimum wage ($3.10 per hour). "It's a pleasant atmosphere, with a nice front porch and a lawn of new grass," Benson says.

For more information, call Benson at 673-5112; Local lights Dr. Martin H. Kaiser, chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, is the new president of the medical staff of Jackson Memorial Hospital. Dr. Mary Jane Jesse, pediatrics, is vice-president Id Dr.

Gerard A. Kaiser, surgery, is secretary-treasurer..