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Paso Times LIVING Thureday. Macfi 12. 1998 8 El Paso women will be inducted into Hall of Fame 1998: The Year of Vftlfc'l the Family True friend stays closer than brother By Rudyard Kipling Special to the Times One man in a thousand, Solomon says. I rftijHJH IU.il -KwW '-jit Times staff reports Eight women who have pursued equal rights for women and exhibited an extraordinary sense of responsibility will be inducted into the El Paso Women's Hall of Fame tonight. The El Paso Commission for Women is sponsoring the induction forpmnnv and dinner at 6 It lMA i 1 Margo p.m.

at the El Paso Marriott. The Johnson inHnrtpps will ioin 50 other wom en who have previously been inducted into the hall. The 1998 inductees and the categories in which they were nominated are: Louise E. Johnson, Professional: chairman of the board of management. Assistance Corporation of American (MACA), a high technology firm she co-founded with her husband in 1979.

MACA is an information technology and business process rfrengineering firm that hac mnro than 900 full-time em- f('r Daughtry ployees and an annual income of about $12 Schild million. MACA has been recognized by Inc. Bill Hogan Chicago Tribune Sharon Skolnick, 54, is the executive director of the American Indian Center, a social service agency in Chicago, and is a descendant of the Apache followers of Geronimo. i Magazine as one or tne ouu rasiesi growing small businesses and by Black Enterprise Magazine as one of the largest black-owned businesses in the United States. Adair Wakefield Margo, Arts A successful art gallery owner, Margo has promoted the arts and well-being of the El Paso-Jua-rez community for a dozen years.

She was on the Texas Commission on the Arts for six years, her final three as chairman. She was appointed a member of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board life Heritage brought Tippin Apache pride drives woman's new career by Gov. George W. Bush. She supports rjodson border health issues through her involve- mont uith the FFMAP Foundation and By Amanda Vogt Chicago Tribune y.

1:4 Paso Del Norte Health Foundation. She also serves on these boards and committees: the UTEP Business Advisory Council and UTEP Board of Fellows; board of Chase Bank of Texas, El Paso; Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Dean's Council; Our Lady's Youth Center; Leadership El Paso and Business Committee on the Arts. Judge Kitty Schild, Public Service: Since 1991, Schild has been judge for El Paso County Court-at-Law No. 4. A lawyer in El Paso since 1974, Schild also was a municipal court judge from 1977 to Will stick closer than a brother.

It's worth while to seek him half your days If you find him before the other. Nine hundred and ninety-nine depend On what the world sees in you, But the Thousandth Man will stay your friend though the whole round world is against you. Tis neither promise nor prayer nor show Will settle the finding for thee. Nine hundred and ninety-nine of them go By your looks, or your acts, or your glory. But if he find you and you find him, The rest of the world doesn't matter; For the Thousandth Man will sink or swim With you in any water.

You can use his purse with no more talk Than he uses yours for his spendings, And laugh and meet in your daily walk As though there had been no lendings. Nine hundred and ninety-nine of them call For silver and gold in their dealings; But the Thousandth Man he's worth them all, Because you can show him your feelings. His wrong's your wrong, and his right's your right, In season or out of season. Stand up and back it in all men's sight With that for your only reason! Nine hundred and ninety-nine can't bide The shame or mocking or laughter, But the Thousandth Man will stand by your side To the gallows-foot and after! Today's prayer: "Lord, help me to be that one person in a thou-; sand who can be absolutely trust-i ed as a friend. Amen." Family resource: "Raising a Modern-Day Knight: A Father's Role in Guiding his Son to thentic Manhood" by Robert Lewis (Focus on the Family), $17.

This book offers practical, step-by-step guidance for fathers de-' siring to lead their sons to biblical masculinity. It illustrates the need for "modern knighthood" and the necessity for affirmation from father to son. M. Dodson B. Dodson 1989.

A graduate or Mice university onu tho llniuprcitu nf Texas SchOOl Of Law, forgotten memories of her early life, in particular the year she spent at Murrow. Skolnick's second husband, Manny Skolnick, a free-lance writer, encouraged her to write these down; last year they were compiled into a book titled "Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse." In the book a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit it's apparent that, in addition to her Indian heritage, what sustained the 9-year-old Skolnick through a suicide attempt, extreme emotional and physical deprivation and prejudice was an overriding desire to right the injustices done to others like her. As director of the Indian Center, a position she has held for four months, she is, she said, "as high as I can go in the Indian world." "We service between 15,000 and 17,000 Native Americans, and sometimes it gets ugly," she said. "There are some very negative people who come in. But when I have to tell off some ornery 6-foot-4 guy, it just makes me more determined.

They don't know who they're messing with." warrior, surrendered to U.S. troops in 1886. Her ancestors, Ge-ronimo's followers, were imprisoned first in Florida and then at Fort Sill, Okla. Their tragic fate was a heavy burden for their descendants. Skolnick's parents broke under its weight, taking out their frustrations on their five daughters.

When Skolnick was 5, the state of Oklahoma removed the Lakoe children from their home. For the next three years, Skolnick and a younger sister they were separated from the others were farmed out to an assortment of foster homes. They then spent a year at the Murrow Children's Home, a poor, crowded Indian orphanage in Muskogee, Okla. "For over 40 years I couldn't bear to think of that time," said Skolnick, who claimed that while a ward of the state of Oklahoma she was raped, beaten and exposed to almost every psychological wounding imaginable. Shortly after turning 50, Skolnick started having terrible dreams from which she would awaken crying.

Her dreams jarred loose long-suppressed and CHICAGO For most of her childhood, Sharon Skolnick wore her Apache heritage like a thorny badge of honor. That and her small stature made her an easy target for bullies and bigots. But no matter how badly she was beaten, she never cried in front of her enemies. No matter how badly outgunned, she always left her mark. Once, after a rare victory, she snipped a lock of hair from a fallen opponent.

Skolnick tried to embody Apache traits she admired, like stoicism, ruthlessness and bravery, but what she actually knew of her Indian heritage could have fit on the tip of an arrowhead. "Much of what I learned came from stereotypes," said Skolnick, now 54 and executive director of Chicago's American Indian Center, a social service agency. "And some things I just knew instinctively. My hatred kept me going." Skolnick was born Linda Sharon Lakoe almost 60 years after Geronimo, the last great Apache Mary Newell Tippin, Education: Since joining the Crockett Elementary School's PTA in 1956, Tippin has worked to improve the educational opportunities for El Paso's children. In 1976, she was elected to the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees and later became the first woman to serve as president of the trustees.

In 1987-89, she served on the National PTA Board; in 1984-86, she was president of the Texas PTA; and in 1987-88, she was president of the Council of Urban School Boards. Among the civic organization positions she has held are Goodwill Industries board of directors and UTEP Excellence Fund chairman. Mary Ann Dodson, Civic: El Paso has benefited from this Ohio native's love of history and art since she moved here in 1971. She was a founding member of the El Paso Del Norte Branch of American Association of University Women. She served on the study group that established the Arts Resources Department.

She helped found Discover El Paso and the El Paso Science Museum; helped train docents at the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso History Museum and Wilderness Park Museum; and served as president of the El Paso Historical Society. In 1990, she received one of 100 Leadership Texas Awards and in 1991, one of 100 Leadership American Awards. Betty J. Dodson, Education: An educator during 1961-87, the late Betty J. Dodson developed and directed the El Paso school district's School Age Parent Center to keep pregnant teens in school.

By doing so, she helped about 4,000 young women become self-sufficient by finishing their high-school educations. Among the honors she received in her career: Woman of the Year in Education, El Paso Women's Political Caucus, nominated to Texas Women's Hall of Fame. Schild came to El Paso as a staff attorney for the El Paso Legal Assistance Society in 1974. In 1977, she and Janet Reusch were appointed associate municipal court judges, becoming El Paso's first women judges. Schild later became the first woman elected as a judge in El Paso.

She helped found the Rape Crisis Center and the El Paso Women's Bar Association. Recently, she helped formulate a new jury selection process for El Paso. Barbara Jean Daughtry, Professional: Before her death last year, Daughtry accomplished many firsts in a 35-year banking career. She was the first woman cashier of any El Paso bank and the first woman vice president of El Paso National Bank. As manager of the professional and executive banking department, Daughtry managed more than $50 million in assets.

In 1989, she received the YWCA REACH Award. She served as president of many organizations, including the National Association of Bank Women, Viva! El Paso, El Paso Shelter for Battered Women and Executive Forum. She also served on the boards of the Chamber of Commerce, United Way, Texas Society to Prevent Blindness and the Komen Foundation. Stephanie Karr Dodson, HealthScience: A speech pathologist, Dodson is executive director of the Child Crisis Center. In 1988, she created the El Papalote Day Care Center for children with mental and physical disabilities, the first center of its kind in El Paso.

In private practice she worked with Head Start and the Border Children's Health Clinic. Under her direction, the Child Crisis Center has expanded its services and outreach efforts. She demonstrates her commitment to children as a foster parent. As a member of the Paso Del Norte Health Foundation, she is a strong advocate for children's health and social services. Smokers in danger least likely to quit Tbp narients least likelv to 63 percent continued to smoke.

By Don Colburn give up their smoking habit, the Mayo study found, are younger patients, those who smoke the most and those with other factors adding to their risk, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and a family history of heart disease. Among those who had a heart attack, over half continued to smoke. Nine percent sought help from a smoking-cessation program with the Mayo Clinic's Nicotine Dependence Center. Treatment to unclog coronary arteries in patients "should be considered a 'window of for persuading patients to change unhealthful habits such as cigarette smoking, researchers said in the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Washington Post People for whom the smoking habit is most dangerous are the least likely to quit, according to a 16-year study of patients treated for heart disease.

Researchers studied the smoking patterns of more than 5,400 patients who underwent angioplasty, a medical procedure to clear blood vessels, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Of the 1,169 smokers treated, Get prayer for your family by calling 566-HOPE (4673). If you would like to share a family values story, call 532-4253. "1998: Year of the Family" is an investment in El Paso families by the El Paso Times and the Pastors Civic Leaders Task Force. Smoking after being treated for clogged coronary arteries "substantially reverses any benefit gained from the procedure," warned physicians from the Nicotine Dependence Center.

Lucci receives 18th Emmy bid Nominees I. A People Island tells Hollywood: No moviemaking here TANGIER ISLAND, Va. Warner Bros, was hoping to use this tiny Chesapeake Bay island as a cation for "Message in a Bottle" starring Kevin Costner, Paul Newman and Robin Wright Penn. The town council voted unanimously to tell studio officials to pack their bags after members received copies of the script. "In the middle, they were taking clothes off and taking her clothes off," Mayor Dewey Crockett said.

"We realized the movie would have an economic impact, but it would also be undermining what we have stood for all these years." Paula Abdul seeking her 2nd divorce LOS ANGELES Paula Abdul wants a divorce from Brad Becker- man, the sportswear manufacturer she married 17 months ago. The singer cited irreconcilable differences. The 35-year-old Abdul married Beckerman, 31, in 1996. Abdul divorced Emilio Estevez in 1994. Former Beatle boosts cancer donations 1 LONDON Ringo Starr is hoping he can boost donations to a can- cer charity with a little help from his friends.

His appeal came a year to the day he lost his mother-in-law to the disease. Starr's daughter, Lee, now 27, suffered a brain tumor two years ago but has recovered. His first wife, Maureen, died of leukemia. CBS. Lead actor In a drama series: David Canary, "All My Children" ABC; Anthony Geary, "General Hospital," ABC; Peter Bergman, "The Young and the Restless," CBS; Eric Braeden, "The Young and the Restless," CBS; Kin Shriner, "Port Charles," ABC.

Supporting actress In a drama series: Vanessa Marcil, "General Hospital," ABC; Victoria Rowell, "The Young and the Restless," CBS; Julia Barr, "All My Children," ABC; Amy Ecklund, "Guiding Light," CBS; Amy Carlson, "Another World," NBC. Supporting actor in a drama series: Ian Buchanan, "The Bold and the Beautiful," CBS; Scott Reeves, "The Young and the Restless," CBS; Michael Knight, "All My Children," ABC; Steve Burton, "General Hospital," ABC; Grant Aleksander, "Guiding Light," CBS. Game show host: Alex Trebek, syndicated; Bob Barker, "The Price Is Right," CBS; Pat Sajak, "Wheel of Fortune," syndicated. Talk show host: Leeza Gibbons, "Leeza," NBC; Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford, "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," syndicated; Oprah Winfrey, "The Oprah Winfrey Show," syndicated; Rosie O'Donnell, "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," syndicated; Barbara Walters, Star Jones, Meredith Viera, Joy Behar, Debbie Matenopoulos, "The View," ABC. Drama series: "All My Children," ABC; "Days of Our Lives," NBC; "General Hospital," ABC; "The Young and the Restless," CBS.

Game or audience participation show: syndicated; "The Price Is Right," CBS; "Pic-tionary," syndicated; "Wheel of Fortune," syndicated; "Win Ben Stein's Money," Comedy Central. Children's series: "Beakman's World," CBS; "Disney Presents Bill Nye the Science Guy," PBS-syndi-cated; "Nick News," Nickelodeon; "Reading Rainbow," PBS; "Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?" PBS. Children's animated program: "Arthur," PBS; "Disney's 101 Dalmatians: The Series," ABC; "Scholastic's the Magic School Bus," PBS; "Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs," WB; "Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky and the Brain," WB. Talk show: "Leeza," NBC; "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," syndicated; "Leeza," NBC; "Live With Regis and Kathie Lee," syndicated; "The Oprah Winfrey Show," syndicated; "The View," ABC. Service show: "Martha Stewart Living," syndicated; "The New Yan- kee Workshop," PBS; "Newton's Apple," PBS' "The Pet Department," FX; "This Old House," PBS.

Lead actress In a drama series: Susan Lucci, "All My Children," ABC; Eileen Davidson, "Days of Our Lives," NBC; Jacklyn Zeman, "General Hospital," ABC; Cynthia Watros, "Guiding Light," CBS: Kim Zimmer, "Guiding Light." By David Bauder Associated Press NEW YORK Longtime loser Susan Lucci has yet another chance to break her string of bad luck. The soap opera veteran received her 18th Daytime Emmy Award nomination for best actress Wednesday. Lucci, who plays Erica Kane on ABC's "All My Children," has had plenty of practice with consolation speeches. She's never won. In all, her show got 17 nominations.

CBS's "The Young and the Restless" had the most, 18 nominations, and "General Hospital had 16. "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," with 13 nominations, had more than any non soap opera. O'Donnell is up against "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which will compete for its fifth consecutive Emmy as best talk show. Other nominees are "Leeza, "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" and "The View." Competing for best talk show host are Winfrey; O'Donnell; Kathie Lee Gifford and Regis Philbin; Leeza Gibbons; and the ensemble on "The View" Barbara Walters, Meredith Viera, Star Jones, Debbie Matenopolous and Joy Behar. Jerry Springer, whose combative talk show has been soaring in the ratings lately, was snubbed in the talk show category.

Associated Press Susan Lucci, who plays Erica Kane on "All My Children," has never won a Daytime Emmy Award. Cynthia Watros of "Guiding Light" and Kim Zimmer of "Guiding Light." The winners are selected by members of the National Academy of Television Arts Sciences. I Lucci will compete in the category of outstanding lead actress in a daytime drama series (soap opera) against Eileen Davidson of "Days of Our Lives," Jacklyn Zeman of "General Hospital,".