The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, February 6, 1991 11 PEOPLE Support group forming for women alcoholics By RICH JOHNSON Staff Writer An area woman has begun a crusade to help other women deal with the problem of alcoholism. Nina Renzo, of Hunlock Creek, is offering a program for Back Moun- tain women who want help in dealing with the problem. Renzo wants to form a local chapter of Women for Sobriety, Inc. WES is a national organiza- tion that is dedicated to a program to help “...all women recover from problem drinking through the dis- covery of self and encouragement from other women in similar circumstances.” Renzo, who has been part of the program in other states, feels that there is a need for such a program in this area and is looking for women who want to overcome problem drinking. “I have needed the help of Women for Sobriety and I want to start a positive support group to continue in this area,” she said. acenzo said that WES is a unique e:Fanization in that it is designed specifically for women. “There are a lot of things where women are categorized in the same manneras men and this organization sepa- rates the two and has set up a program just for women.” Renzo, first became involved with WFS in Rhode Island when she had an addiction problem. “I found I was having a lot of prob- lems and realized many of them were caused by my use of alcohol. I made a decision to get help and began going to Alcoholics Anony- mous,” she said. “A.A. helped a lot ~ but it wasn’t doing everything for me I felt I needed. | began looking elsewhere and that is when I heard about Women for Sobriety,” she added. Renzo said that working with other women who have had the same problems has really helped her and now that shehas moved to the area with her family, shewants to continue her rehabilitation while also giving other women a chance to change their lives. “I know that it can be very iso- lated for some women who have an addiction. This is a way to handle it,” she said. WEFS lists a number of purposes, including’ the belief that accep- tance and encouragement are ways of dealing with the problems in- volved with alcohol addiction. “Wereally focus on theidea that ‘the past is gone forever’ and go about rebuilding a positive self- esteem,” said Renzo. Even though starting a local chapter of the organization will be difficult, Renzo believes that there is a future for such a group in the area. I will run into some problems but for women who need some help this will be something that they will depend on.” Renzo is looking for a place to hold monthly meetings of the group. In the meantime she is helping some women over the phone. “Ihave already had a couple of people call me,” she said. “They have helped me as I have tried to help them.” Renzo urges anyone who is inter- ested in the program to call her at 256-7376. She stresses that all calls will be kept in complete ano- nymity. “I know that it will be hard and ' Crake, Mushinski honored as volunteers Mercy Center Convent Auxiliary recently honored two of its members, Anna Crake, left of Harveys Lake and Anne Mushinski of Hunlock Creek, for years of volunteer service to the auxiliary and Mercy Center, Dallas. The women were honored a a luncheon meeting at Pine Brook Inn, Dallas. Farkas appointed director at the Atlanta College of Art Ofelia Garcia, president of The Atlanta College of Art, the four- year art college in the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, announced three newadministrative appoint- ments: John A. Farkas as Director of Enrollment Management, Ann Chamberlain as Director of Devel- opment and Teresa Tantillo as Director of Financial Aid. Mr. Farkas, a Dallas native, came to ACA from Keystone Junior College in Pennsylvania where he was Director of Admissions with responsibilities for Financial Aid since 1985. Previously he served as Director of Counseling and Academic Advising at the same institution. He received a BS in Secondary Education and an MS in Counselor Education from the University of Scranton. The Atlanta College of Art, founded in 1928, is the oldest pri- vate art college in the Southeast, educating generations of the re- gion’s finest artists, designers and educators in art. Students come from across the United States and several foreign countries to work toward a four-year Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and approximately 2,000 adults and children take community education classes at the college each year. Blidner elected fellow in College of Physicians Martin D. Blidner, vice chief of the medical staff at the Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center and director of rheumatology with the Geisinger Medical Group in Wilkes-Barre, has been elected to Fellowship status in the American College of Physicians. He also serves as director of the Geisinger Medical Group’s CareWorks indus- trial medicine program. A graduate of the State Univer- sity of New York at Binghampton with a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry, Blidner earned his medical degree from and was vale- dictorian at the University of the East-Phillipines Medical School and completed the Fifth Pathway Program of the Monmouth Medical Center, Monmouth, New Jersey. He completed an internship pro- gram and served as chief internal medicine resident at the Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey, the major teaching affiliate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In addi- tion, he completed a Fellowship in rheumatology at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, as well as a mini-residency in occupational medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at Rutgers. Blidner is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medi- cine and Diplomate of the Ameri- MARTIN D. BLIDNER can Board of Internal Medicine subspecialty Rheumatology. A founding Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology, he is a four-time recipient of the Ameri- can Medical Association's Physi- cian Recognition Award. Fellowship status in the Ameri- can College of Physicians is at- tained through demonstration of academic excellence and profes- sional leadership throughout a physician's career. 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