—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Sept. 5,1989 Hurricane Gabrielle may hit East Coast Seventh tropical storm of 1989 season slated to hit U.S. in 3-5 days By ROSS DICKMAN Collegian Staff Writer Hurricane Gabrielle, the seventh tropical storm of the 1989 season, will keep weather forecasters unusually busy this week determining whether the storm will affect the East Coast. At 5 p.m. yesterday, the center of Hurricane Gabrielle was moving west-northwest at 15 mph and was located near 19.1 degrees north lati tude and 55.7 degrees west longitude, or about 410 miles east-north-east of the extreme northeastern Leeward and Virgin Islands. . Weather patterns for the end of this week will help bring its remnants northward. Air force reconnaissance reported that Gabrielle now has maximum sus tained winds of 130 mph and gusts to over 150 mph, with a potential of fur ther strengthening, according to pub lic hurricane advisories issued by the National Hurricane Center. A hurricane, by definition, is an intense storm of tropical origin which contains sustained winds of at least 74 mph and forms over the warm waters of the tropical Atlantic or east ern Pacific oceans. Given the right atmospheric conditions, a hurricane can grow into a ferocious storm and generate life-threatening conditions. Gabrielle, which may join this decade's other two great 'G' storms Gloria and Gilbert began its life from a powerful cluster of thunder storms that moved off the west coast of Africa late last month. Moving westward across the fueling tropical waters of the Atlantic, the storm rap idly intensified to hurricane strength in a matter of a few days. If Gabrielle continues on her same path, it will spell big trouble for the coastal sections of the southeast Atlan- women Studies Minors Have You Changed Your Address ? ? PENNSTATE ADDRESS CORRECTION FORM STUDENT NUMBED LAST NAME FIRST MIDDLE HOME ( ) MAILING sTREEr PHONE ADDRESS BUILDING APT. NO. 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Unfortunately, the future track of this system has not been determined due to the complexity of atmospheric patterns in the area. The experts at the National Hurri cane Center in Coral Gables, Fla., agree that Gabrielle will be located just southeast of the Bahamas in about two days. This places the eastern Unit ed States in a vulnerable position and the forecast track then becomes quite uncertain. B E REGISTER EARLY FOR THE NINTH ANNUAL DEDRACES There are a few possibilities for Gabrielle. One is that she is forced out to sea, sparing the East Coast from any destruction. Another scenario suggests it might hit anywhere from Florida to perhaps the mid-Atlantic coastal sections. With Gabrielle at least three to five days away from the mainland United States, forecasters will continuously monitor the progress. of this potentially dangerous situation. One thing is for sure, however, if KINKOS 8103 SMARTFOOD Gabrielle should visit the United States, weather patterns for the end of this week will help bring its remnants northward. This will create large quantities of rain for many areas including the State College region. As the week progresses, meteorol ogists will be able to better predict weekend weather conditions for the Nittany Lions' football battle against the Virginia Cavaliers. La Vie 1990 • La Viel99o • La Vie 1990 • La Vie 1990 • La Vie 1990 • La Vie 1990 • 0 CD Seniors September sth through September Bth are the only days to have your Senior Portraits taken for LA VIE 1990 Walk ins will be accepted on a first come 865-2602 to schedule your appointment. This is your only opportunity to be a part of one of Penn State's longest standing traditions. Singing surgeon leads Jekyll-Hyde lifestyle By ROBERT M. ANDREWS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. After a long day of performing brain surgery, Dr. Bernard Stopak loves nothing better than slipping into a tuxedo, grabbing a microphone and crooning "Let's Get Away From It All" before a night club audience. By day, he's a prominent neurosur geon at George Washington University Medical Center. By night, he's a cabaret singer who cures his listeners' blues with a finger-snapping repertoire of jazz and Broadway show tunes. A vocalist in the mellow Tony Bennett style, Stopak has composed a few songs in his car, a sort of portable studio equipped with tape deck. The tunes pop into his head while he's driving from one hospital to another, he said. One of his originals, "Remember Me," is the title song of his first album, which was released in 1987 and features Stopak singing such golden oldies as "Makin' Whoopee" and "Old Devil Moon." "I was big in Elkton, Maryland," he said with a smile. "I was sixth on the charts at the radio station there." Stopak enjoys the best of both workis medicine and show business and sees a link between the two. "The delicate surgery that I perform, which is often a life-and-dealb situation, is really theater at its most dramatic, and it requires a considerable degree of creativity," he said in an interview. "Singing, though certainly not life threatening, can be very inventive in creating various moods and interpreta tions of music," he said. The son of Russian immigrants who operated a mom-and-pop Jewish delica tessen in Washington, Stopak grew up with music. His parents gave him a vio lin when he was 5, and he still remem bers his first case of stage fright. "I had to play at an elementary school talent show or something," he said. "I got so nervous seeing the crowd that I turned around and played the vio lin with my back to the audience." As he got older, Stopak played horns, saxophone and clarinet in the local police boy's band, the old Washington in the colleges of: Agriculture Arts and Architecture Business Earth and Mineral Sciences Education School of Communication first serve basis in 318 HUB or call Redskins band and a jazz band he formed in high school called the Young Moderns. He worked his way through the University of Maryland playing music. He also sang in student musicals and toured with two university choral groups. By early 1961, he was good enough to sing with a dance band at one of President Kennedy's inaugural balls, where he attracted the attention of actress Angie Dickenson. A year or two later, he flew to California to see her. "I had a feeling I could make it in show business," he said, but Miss Dick enson "turned my life around." "She told me, `whatever you do in life, the first thing you have to be is a man.' That's what I always heard from my family. `Zoy a mensch Be a man.' I thought, do I want to be singing and playing in life, or do I want to do some thing substantial? That's when I got serious about medicine." For the next quarter-century, Stopak studied medicine in France and returned to perform thousands of oper ations and become associate professor of neurosurgery at George Washington University, specializing in brain sur gery under a microscope. Then, nearly five years ago, some jazz musician friends made a surprise appearance at his 48th birthday party, and Stopak oxlisowered the joy of sing ing with a combo. After he won applause singing with the band at a friend's wedding at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, Stopak decided it was time to pursue an after-hours musical career. When he wasn't performing surgery, he was performing at jazz clubs, restau rants, hotel lounges and other night spots in Washington and New York until early 1988, when a traumatic divorce put his singing on temporary hold. Now remarried to a fellow neurosur geon, Juliet, and the proud father of a son born last June, Stopak, 52, is eager to return to the stage and recording stu dio. He no longer suffers stage fright, but admits that his mouth still gets dry before he sings that first note. _ "I am much more comfortable in the operating theater than on stage."
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