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Walton
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private women's college when the
Walton family moved to Bethlehem
to take advantage of a job opportu
nity offered to her husband. He is
presently manager of manufactur
ing at Precision Roll Grinders in
Allentown.
At the time of their move,
Zachary was one year old.
"I started teaching math part
time at Muhlenberg College and, at
the same time, became a part-time
administrator at Allentown Col
lege," Walton recalled. But she
soon succumbed to the urging of
the Rev. Daniel Gambet, Allentown
College president, and the Rev.
Alexander Pocetto, senior vice
president, and joined the Allentown
College family on a full-time basis.
Not surprisingly, Walton also
credits both men as mentors who
have shaped the course of her life.
Finals
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A student could take a week off
from a semester during the regular
school year without too much trou
ble catching up on the material,
Greenberg said.
However, a student would not be
able to catch up as easily in the
summer if he or she missed a
week, she said.
"A lot of students aren't pre
pared for the day-to-day dedication
that summer school demands,"
Greenberg said.
Library
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COG Executive Committee that
each municipality design a deci
sion-making process through which
the library issue could be brought
to closure.
Daubert, along with council new library will be more than ade
member Ruth Lavin, advocated quate.
Skaters
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"All the local government people
think that none of the skater people
have taken action, and it's true,"
Kraemer said.
"I just don't think they're doing
anything. They're ticketing kids
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With an almost disbelieving
shake of the head, Walton con
fessed, "I honestly don't know why
I went into mathematics. Nothing
in my childhood ever pointed that
way. I admit I was a tomboy and
loved playing sports with all the
boys in the neighborhood, but I
enrolled in Vassar as an English
major.
"I was taking some math courses
and my professors were exclusive
ly female. One, in particular, began
urging me to switch to math. So I
did."
The rest is history.
The encouragement Walton
received from her professors at
Vassar was the inspiration for her
work in encouraging young women
to pursue careers in math and sci
ence. And although writing grant
proposals to help achieve that goal
admittedly falls outside her job
Students can't afford to allow
themselves to be distracted when
they have an intensive workload,
she said.
"People have such different
motivation for taking summer
classes," Greenberg said.
She said she teaches some pre
freshmen who are eager to learn,
and on the opposite side, there are
some students who tell Greenberg
they only need a C to pass the class
and graduate.
Scott Beattie, a graduate student
putting the decision solely in the
hands of library trustees.
"That's our only choice, Tom,"
said Lavin, who presented a new
study she said confirms that the 84
projected parking spaces at the
but there's no place to go.
Skating is just another recre
ational activity they need to make
room for."
Price said she is confident the
park will be built eventually.
"I think we've been on this thing
description at Allentown College,
it's an avocation that is "stimulat
ing and revitalizing for me."
Through the years, Walton has
accumulated numerous honors,
including the 1994 Woman of Dis
tinction award from Great Valley
Girl Scout Council
Walton also earned a 1991 Annu
al Achievement award from the
Inter-Service Club Council of
Greater Johnstown, and a 1985 Out
standing Woman of the Year award
from the Lehigh Valley Association
of Academic Women.
Two other awards were responsi
ble for her three-month stay in
England in 1992.
She was a Visiting Scholar at
Wolfson College, Cambridge Uni
versity, and a Fulbright Adminis
trative Fellow at La Sainte Union
College of Higher Education in
Southampton.
who teaches a statistics course this
summer, said he is not making his
final any harder or easier because
it is the summer.
Beattie said students have more
time in the summer and a lower
stress level than usual.
"As a teacher, I think we change
how we teach a little bit every
semester," Beattie said. He added
the work his students have done
this summer has been good.
"I've been very satisfied with
what they have done," he said.
"We put our money there, now
we're putting our mouths there,"
said council member Jean McMan
is. "What else can we do?"
Daubert said the board may want
to charge ahead with the Foster
Avenue site, even without support
from outlying municipalities.
for four years, or five maybe," she
said.
"It's long. We'd like to have it
sooner, but we have faith enough to
know that we will get this.
"We have patience, we have
faith," she added.
Brain implants approved
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Howard
Zirkle's hands shook so badly that
he couldn't feed himself until he
received a brain implant that cut
off his shakes.
The Food and Drug Administra
tion approved the powerful "deep
brain stimulator" yesterday, say
ing it could help thousands of
patients with Parkinson's disease
or the equally debilitating disorder
called "essential tremor" that
Zirkle suffers.
"It's made a great difference in
my life," said Zirkle, 72, of Min
ster, Ohio, who was almost a
recluse for five years before test
ing the implant. "You can't imagine
going in to eat anyplace and not
being able to pick anything up.... I
can pick up coffee now, carry it to
the patio and not spill a drop."
Medtronic Corp.'s Activa implant
"can significantly decrease
tremors in many people with these
debilitating diseases," said FDA
Acting Commissioner Michael
Friedman.
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difference in my life."
Howard Zirkle
brain implant recipient
About 2 million Americans have
essential tremor, a little-under
stood hereditary disorder that
causes violent shaking.
Up to 1.5 million Americans have
Parkinson's disease, a degenerative
neurological disease that causes
shaking along with rigid limbs and
other worsening symptoms.
The drug L-Dopa helps some
Parkinson's symptoms, although its
effects wane over time.
Only about 40 percent of essen
tial tremor patients are helped with
current medicines.
The shaking eventually destroys
patients' ability to work or even
feed themselves.
Some undergo dangerous
surgery to destroy a small part of
their brains that causes the trem
bling. But the surgery can cause
permanent problems with speech,.l
movement and swallowing.
The Activa brain implant promis
es less shaking with fewer side
effects.
In a $25,000 procedure, doctors-,
drill through the skull and implantc,
an electrode into the thalamus, a;
walnut-sized region deep in the
brain.
The left side of the thalamus con
trols movement in the right side of,'
the body, and vice versa.
A wire runs just under the scalp/
down to the collarbone, where a
pacemaker-sized "pulse generator"
is implanted.
It sends electrical waves to the
electrode, which emits constant,
tiny electrical shocks customized
to block tremors.
In a study of 196 severe Parkin-i,
son's and essential tremor patients,
tremors decreased in almost every
one and sometimes even disap-vi
peared.
Some 58 percent of essential
tremor patients and 67 percent of_
Parkinson's patients had a signifi-, a.
cant reduction in their tremors,_,
according to the study.
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