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Copyright 1998 The Atlanta C o n s t i t u t i o n
The Atlanta Journal and C o n s t i t u t i o n
February 1, 1998, Sunday,
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HEADLINE: 'My only mission i n l i f e has been t o give a c h i l d a chance.';
At 100, doctor s t i l l dispenses advice;
Doctor: She j u s t can't stand t o be i d l e
BYLINE: Melissa Turner; STAFF WRITER
BODY:
Inside the ancient farmhouse nestled up i n the woods of Forsyth County, an
ancient woman i s p r a c t i c i n g medicine of a bygone era. Her wispy gray h a i r p u l l e d
back i n a bun, her face l i n e d by each of her 100 years, she appears f r a g i l e
enough t o blow over i n the b r i s k wind c u t t i n g across the creaky plank porch on
the f r o n t of her doctor's o f f i c e .
Her gravel yard i s f u l l of gleaming Lexuses and Volvos alongside the
beaten-up Chevy trucks. Alpharetta soccer moms and Canton home schoolers mingle
w i t h t h e i r c r y i n g and f i d g e t i n g babies i n the unadorned f r o n t room, w a i t i n g
sometimes f o r hours f o r Dr. L e i l a Denmark t o administer her dose of common sense
medicine.
There's no r e c e p t i o n i s t , nurse or appointment book. Just a s i g n - i n sheet on a
marble-top t a b l e . And by 8 a.m. every morning, the l i s t has begun.
On a recent Friday, Mary Swam, a Chicago transplant t o Alpharetta, has
a r r i v e d f i r s t w i t h her 14-month-old twins, Morgan and Madison, f o r a checkup.
I t ' s t h e i r f i r s t v i s i t . They were sent t o Denmark by a neighbor, Denise Jacob, a
third-generation p a t i e n t and such a devotee she named her second-bom L e i l a .
Ears, eyes, nose, heart checked, the unsuspecting mom i s
her inarching orders from the oldest p r a c t i c i n g physician i n
according t o American Medical Association records. I t ' s the
no-nonsense l e c t u r e t h a t mothers have received from Denmark
about t o be given
the country,
same r a p i d - f i r e ,
f o r 70 years.
Don't p i c k them up every time they cry. They c r y j u s t t o see i f you w i l l
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come. Don't come every time. Don't feed them on demand. Don't r a i s e your voice
to them. Don't put them i n any k i n d of i n s t i t u t i o n (day care) u n t i l they are 7
years o l d . They need t o l e a m your way f o r seven years. Be good t o your husband.
Forty percent o f husbands leave home now. They have t o have a father f o r
strength. There's two things you can't f o o l
a dog and a c h i l d . They know i f
you love them.
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from e a r l y morning u n t i l
the l a s t p a t i e n t leaves i n the evening. And i f a troubled mother c a l l s her a t
home a t 2 i n the morning, s h e ' l l p u l l on her robe and walk across the yard t o
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meet her at the o f f i c e . "You can't plan when a baby i s going to get sick," she
says m a t t e r - o f - f a c t l y .
Oh, she had planned t o r e t i r e when she and her l a t e husband, John Eustace
Denmark, moved here i n 1985 from Sandy Springs, where she'd p r a c t i c e d f o r some
40 years. She was 87, a f t e r a l l . They b u i l t the l o v e l y large, white columned
manse on property they had bought years e a r l i e r . I t would have made a l o v e l y
retirement home, u n t i l she asked a grandson
to come f i x up the 125-year-old farmhouse next door. Nothing fancy, j u s t
whitewash the w a l l s , hang some c u r t a i n s , plug i n a space heater. How long could
she be here? She'd j u s t play l i k e she was p r a c t i c i n g medicine t o pass the time.
Well, a dozen years l a t e r , she's s t i l l a t i t . Some days she sees 15 p a t i e n t s ,
other days 25. Just depends on when the babies get sick.
" I hope I ' l l know the day when I can't do i t r i g h t , " she says. "Old people
have t o know when i t ' s over. I hope my p a t i e n t s o r my daughter w i l l t e l l me."
Clearly, that time has not come. "Every now and then, she uses the word
' r e t i r e , " ' her daughter, Mary Hutcherson, says w i t h a laugh. "Every time i t
comes t o renew her license, she says, 'Maybe I ' l l j u s t work two more years.' "
E a r l i e r i n January, she renewed her two-year license again. I t ' s good i n t o the
next century.
Nearly a h a l f - c e n t u r y ago, Denmark was c o l l e c t i n g Atlanta's "Woman o f the
Year" award at the Piedmont D r i v i n g Club. She was honored "not only f o r her work
as a medical p r a c t i t i o n e r , but as a complete professional woman," the award's
chairman pronounced. That was i n 1953, when William H a r t s f i e l d was mayor and
Denmark at age 55 should have been i n the t w i l i g h t o f a d i s t i n g u i s h e d career.
Her beloved husband, a vice president a t the Federal Reserve Bank, died i n
1990 a t the age o f 91. She thought about r e t i r i n g then, too. She stayed home two
weeks, her daughter notes wryly. Hutcherson, 67, whose l a t e husband was a
U n i v e r s i t y of Georgia English professor, drives over once a week from her home
i n Athens t o do her mother's books, a task her f a t h e r managed before her.
"Mother has very low threshold of boredom; she can't stand t o be i d l e , " her
daughter says. "And she loves doing what she does."
No time f o r p a r t i e s
Denmark grants an i n t e r v i e w i n her o f f i c e ---as long as i t doesn't take 'too •
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birthday, which i s today. She knows her daughter i s planning a b i g p a r t y , arid
she doesn't much l i k e i t . "They'll dress me up, put me i n a c h a i r and I ' l l s i t
there l i k e a corpse. Everybody w i l l come by and say how good I look," she says.
Waste o f time, she f i g u r e s . And they b e t t e r not b r i n g presents. "Just a l o t o f
s t u f f I ' l l have t o get r i d o f . " The o f f i c e i s i n c r e d i b l y spare. No p a i n t i n g s on
the walls, rugs on the bare pine f l o o r s or comfortable upholstered f u r n i t u r e .
The same wooden examining table she s used i n her p r i v a t e p r a c t i c e f o r seven
decades. She s i t s u p r i g h t i n a straight-backed wooden chair f o r three hours
o f f e r i n g no coffee o r water, j u s t a piece o f her very sharp mind.
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I t ' s her day o f f , but the phone rings every 15 minutes. There i s no answering
machine. "He doesn't take the other breast at a l l ? Well, I don't believe there's
any milk i n i t , " she says d e f i n i t i v e l y t o one c a l l e r . "He's got a b r a i n . He
knows i f there's nothing there." C l i c k .
Between c a l l s , Denmark d e l i g h t s i n her d i a t r i b e denouncing mothers who work,
day care and the general neglect of today's c h i l d . "Women have been brainwashed
i n t o b e l i e v i n g don't mess around w i t h a c h i l d , l e t someone else do i t and go out
and be lawyers, teachers, preachers, anything," says the woman who began
p r a c t i c i n g medicine i n 1928. "And we've never had more sick c h i l d r e n than we
have today. Mothers have no r i g h t t o b r i n g a baby i n t o the world and then
neglect i t . "
Denmark believes she has p r a c t i c e d what she preaches. As soon as her daughter
Mary was bom i n 1930, she set up a p r i v a t e p r a c t i c e i n the breakfast room of
her f i r s t home i n Momingside, though she worked every Thursday at the Central
Presbyterian Church c h a r i t y baby c l i n i c and saw p a t i e n t s at Egleston Hospital
for Children. But she wasn't r e a l l y working, Denmark l i k e s t o say. " I never i n
my l i f e depended on the money I made. Mr. Denmark made the l i v i n g , I never had
to work."
Her daughter has a d i f f e r e n t view. " I was always jealous of the p a t i e n t s , "
she remembers. "Any c h i l d whose mother i s not there a l l the time f e e l s a l i t t l e
l e f t out."
She f i n d s i t i r o n i c t h a t her mother scolds women who don't stay home w i t h
t h e i r c h i l d r e n . " I n theory, t h a t ' s a l o v e l y idea, but there's an awful l o t of
women out there who have no options. They have t o be i n the workplace. I t ' s
c a l l e d eating."
Discovering her vocation e a r l y
Growing up one of 12 c h i l d r e n on a prosperous farm i n the South Georgia town
of P o r t a l , near Statesboro, L e i l a Daughtry d i v i n e d her long l i f e ' s work e a r l y .
"When I was a c h i l d , I used t o love t o p i c k up w i l t e d flowers and put them i n
water and see them come back." Her f a t h e r was well-to-do, the town mayor. Her
f u t u r e husband l i v e d two farms down the road. They met a t the two-room
schoolhouse heated by a stove i n the center.
She attended T i f t College i n Forsyth t h i n k i n g she might be a teacher, but was
drawn more t o medical work. When her f u t u r e husband went o f f t o Java w i t h the
State Department, she applied t o medical school. Denmark was the t h i r d female
.graduate o f . t h e Medical College of Georgia i n 1928, the only woman i n her ciass.'
and one of only 32 p e d i a t r i c i a n s i n the s t a t e . Three days a f t e r graduation she '
married "Mir. Denmark, " - < s . h c a l l s him,..jandv.moved t o Atlainta t o V s t a r t .-.worki-at. ^^.>^:-:^.
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Grady H o s p i t a l . When Egleston opened three months l a t e r , she became the f i r s t
i n t e r n and admitted the f i r s t s i c k baby.
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"My only mission i n l i f e has been t o give a c h i l d a chance," she says.
But e a r l y i n the century, before formula, Gerber baby food and vaccines f o r
the l i k e s of whooping cough, d i p h t h e r i a , chicken pox, measles and p o l i o , she
said the task was more daunting. Without vaccines and a n t i b i o t i c s , a l l e a r l y
p e d i a t r i c i a n s could do was "nurse 'em back t o health."
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That sad r e a l i t y , though, forged Denmark's approach t o medicine: She teaches
mothers how t o keep t h e i r babies w e l l . And that begins w i t h keeping themselves
w e l l . " I f she didn't take care of h e r s e l f , the baby didn't amount t o anything,"
she says.
Her research on whooping cough i n the e a r l y '30s l e d t o the development of
the pertussis vaccine and the modern-day DPT vaccination. An outbreak of 75
cases of whooping cough, i n c l u d i n g the loss of t r i p l e t s , a t the Presbyterian
c l i n i c i n 1932 spurred her research i n v o l v i n g i n j e c t i n g a blood serum taken from
an adult s u f f e r e r i n t o c h i l d r e n . The c h i l d r e n got w e l l . She sent her research t o
E l i L i l l y and asked them t o make her a vaccine. " I t was a h o r r i b l e disease," she
says.
She scoffs a t today's newfangled s c i e n t i f i c research proving the p o s i t i v e
e f f e c t s t h a t good parenting can have on a c h i l d ' s developing b r a i n , e s p e c i a l l y
during the f i r s t three years of l i f e .
For 70 years she has taught mothers how t o feed, bathe, change and swaddle
t h e i r babies. And chastised those who didn't do i t r i g h t . "No baby needs t o d i e
today," she says. "We have more sick kids today than ever before and we have
everything i n the world t o keep them w e l l . But we don't take care of them."
Some of Denmark's contemporaries
i f that's possible
f i n d her ideas
old-fashioned, but not a l l bad. "A l o t of things she d i d , p e d i a t r i c i a n s thought
were not necessarily modern, but as years have gone by, they've turned out t o be
p r e t t y darn good," says Dr. Joseph Patterson, medical d i r e c t o r emeritus a t
Egleston. "She does have one a b i l i t y t h a t a l l of us cherish and wish we had:
She's t r u l y dedicated t o her p a t i e n t s . "
Treating the cause of the ailment
To t h i s day, when a mother brings a sick baby t o see her, she doesn't focus
on t r e a t i n g the cough or stomachache. She seeks t o t r e a t the cause of the
ailment. And t h a t can o f t e n lead t o an i n t e r r o g a t i o n of the mother. She wants t o
know where they l i v e , what she feeds the c h i l d r e n , i f she smoked or drank during
pregnancy. I f there's a f a t h e r a t home. "There's no use g i v i n g a baby a
p r e s c r i p t i o n without f i n d i n g out what made the baby sick."
"What d i d you have f o r breakfast? What d i d you have f o r lunch? What d i d you
drink? Did you snack? How many times d i d you have a bowel movement? What d i d i t
look l i k e ? " she f i r e s a t a 12-year-old w i t h a tummyache.
The youngster's mother. Celeste Frey of Gumming, has taken her s i x children
to Dr. Denmark for a decade, "the basic stuff works, " says Frey;;; " I . trust !V j
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t h i n k they do. They don't need legions of professionals, countless books and
dozens of d i f f e r e n t parenting magazines t o t e l l them what t o do. " I say q u i t
t u r n i n g t o someone else t o do your t h i n k i n g , " she says. " I f a mother asks me
what makes t h e i r c h i l d r e n go bad, I say look i n the m i r r o r . They don't get
offended; they l i k e t o hear the t r u t h . "
And that's what L e i l a Denmark i s going t o keep t e l l i n g them.
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Dr. L e i l a Denmark began p r a c t i c i n g medicine 70 years ago. Some other
h i g h l i g h t s of that year:
Alexander Fleming discovered the a n t i b a c t e r i a l e f f e c t s of the mold
p e n i c i l l i n . The i r o n lung, an a r t i f i c i a l breathing device, was developed
to t r e a t p o l i o v i c t i m s .
The Pap t e s t , used t o screen f o r cancer of the cervix, was developed.
The f i r s t r e g u l a r l y scheduled t e l e v i s i o n broadcasts began i n Schenectady,
N.Y. For the three transmissions each week, p i c t u r e s were broadcast by TV
s t a t i o n W2XAD and the sound by radio s t a t i o n WGY.
Mickey Mouse made h i s debut i n the Walt Disney cartoon "Plane Crazy."
Later t h a t year, "Steamboat W i l l i e " was released, which introduced sound
to animation. The second Winter Olympics were held i n St. Moritz,
Switzerland.
WIT AND WISDOM OF LEILA DENMARK
Dr. L e i l a Denmark launched her medical career and developed her
no-nonsense philosophy of c h i l d care tending poor c h i l d r e n i n South
Georgia. While a college student, she "and other g i r l s " i n the summers
cared f o r the babies of farmworkers i n a large and impoverished cotton
mill village.
"The c h i l d r e n were s t a r v i n g , " she says now. " I f a c h i l d i s n ' t f e d r i g h t ,
he can't b u i l d a b r a i n . I f he can't b u i l d a b r a i n he can't amount t o
anything."
So began her 70-year p r a c t i c e of teaching mothers how t o care f o r t h e i r
babies. Some more of her philosophy, i n her own words:
"Women should be able t o do everything a man does, but she shouldn't
neglect her baby t o do i t . Every woman on the earth should be able t o have
a professional l i f e i f she wants. Go out and do i t , but do not b r i n g a
baby i n t o the world and desert i t . "
"Older women make good mothers. They know they didn't have anything u n t i l
they got t h a t husband and c h i l d r e n . "
" I f a medicine worked i n the past, I say s t i l l use i t . Nowadays they
discard them. I f I f i n d something that i s b e t t e r , I switch. But as long as
what I ' m doing works, I keep i t up."
"Anything on earth you want t o do i s play. Anything on earth you have t o
do i s work. Play w i l l never k i l l you, work w i l l . I never worked a day i n
my l i f e . "
"You'll l i v e long i f you eat r i g h t and love what you do. I never t r i e d
anything l i k e tobacco or alcohol. I never eat between meals."
"My whole l i f e I've been t r y i n g t o teach mothers how t o take care of
t h e i r babies. Then they never have t o take them t o the doctor."
" I don't belong t o any of those HMOs. They have wrecked the medical
profession."
" K i d s i i i the United States have been abandoned.: Mothers have no r i g h t t o b r i n g a baby i n t o the world and then neglect i t . "
"I've never given a dose of cough medicine i n my l i f e . I t r y t o f i n d out
what's making them cough instead of s h u t t i n g them up."
Sage advice: Dr. Denmark t a l k s w i t h mother Mary Swam, who i s new t o the
area and brought i n her twins, Morgan and Madison, f o r physical exams. /
CHARLOTTE B. TEAGLE / S t a f f
Motherhood: L e i l a Denmark ( l e f t , holding Tutsy the cat) and her daughter
Mary spend some q u a l i t y time together c i r c a 1935-1936.
Pre-med: One of 12 c h i l d r e n , L e i l a Daughtry (Denmark) i n 1918 knew e a r l y
i n l i f e where her career i n t e r e s t s l a y .
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One-woman class: When then-Leila Daughtry (center) graduated from the
Medical College of Georgia i n 1928 she was only the t h i r d female graduate
and one of j u s t 32 p e d i a t r i c i a n s i n the state.
An austere farmhouse her o f f i c e , Dr. L e i l a Denmark takes a nuts-and-bolts
approach t o p e d i a t r i c s , emphasizing parents t r u s t t h e i r i n s t i n c t s when
dealing w i t h c h i l d r e n . / CHARLOTTE B. TEAGLE / S t a f f
Color: Dr. L e i l a Denmark, who turns 100 today, practices pediatric's i n her
Alpharetta o f f i c e . / CHARLOTTE B. TEAGLE / S t a f f
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LENGTH: 1979 words
HEADLINE: I n f o r the Long Haul
BYLINE: I r i s Krasnow, Special t o The Washington Post
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At the age of 100, L e i l a Denmark s t i l l t r e a t s up t o 30 patients a day i n her
p e d i a t r i c o f f i c e i n Alpharetta, Ga. She never has t r i e d any of the anti-aging
potions that baby boomers young enough t o be her great-grandchildren are gulping
down.
" I don't t h i n k you need a b i t o f those new things," she says a t the mention
of megavitamins and ginkgo biloba, an e x t r a c t from the leaves of the ancient
ginkgo tree taken t o b o l s t e r memory.
" I j u s t eat three simple meals a day, p r o t e i n i n every meal -- eggs, lean
meat, beans, or nuts," Denmark says. "Too many people today are g l u t t o n s . I f you
want t o l i v e a long time, you have t o eat r i g h t , and you have t o love what
you're doing. I have been i n p r a c t i c e since 1928, and I have always loved going
to work."
Elizabeth Campbell, the 96-year-old founder of WETA-TV/FM, agrees that
there's no need for "miracle cures." Campbell, whose t i t l e at the station i s
vice president of community a f f a i r s , feels an ongoing passion for people and
education has been enough fuel for her. She started the Greater Washington
Educational Telecommunications Association i n 1953, now the third largest
producing station for the Public Broadcasting Service.
" I t h i n k most people can l i v e a long time i f you have a j o b you want'to"go t o
and people you are close t o , " says Campbell, who s t i l l shows up f o r work most •''
days. "I've .always had work t o l i v e f o r , and I've always had people >who needed' • • \
me. I t i s t e r r i b l y important t o wake up i n the moming and know there are people
out there t o whom you make a d i f f e r e n c e . "
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healthy and the mind challenged, you, too, can be sharp and spry f o r nine
decades or more.
But rather than wait around f o r a l i f e t i m e of healthy habits t o k i c k i n ,
increasing numbers of panicky m i d l i f e r s are t u r n i n g instead t o wonder drugs and
presto paths t o restore youth. The massive baby boom that s t a r t s t u r n i n g 65 i n
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2011 i s f u e l i n g a m u l t i - b i l l i o n - d o l l a r industry of anti-aging e l i x i r s , enzymes,
alpha-hydroxy l o t i o n s and hormone therapies.
There now are e n t i r e sections of h e a l t h food stores marked "brain n u t r i e n t s . "
Witnessing the r e s u r r e c t i o n of Fleetwood Mac, s t i l l w r i t h i n g and sexy at
f i f t y i s h , has fanned everyone's fantasies of growing wilder w i t h time. Some
anti-aging doctors are t e l l i n g today's Peter Pans that these dreams are w i t h i n
reach.
"Aging i s not i n e v i t a b l e , " says osteopath Ronald Klatz, one of the country's
leading proponents of an aggressive approach t o "Stopping the Clock," the t i t l e
of the book he co-wrote. Klatz, 42, i s the founder and president of the American
Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine based i n Chicago. He i s an unflappable b e l i e v e r
that he w i l l l i v e beyond 120, and t h a t i f you f o l l o w h i s program of hormone
replacement therapy, high-dose antioxidants, vitamins, exercise and a
" r e v o l u t i o n i n personal a t t i t u d e , " you w i l l , too.
"Everything the baby boomers have set t h e i r minds t o has worked, because they
have demanded i t and they have worked hard t o make i t happen," says Klatz. They
"are now saying no t o aging. And they are saying yes t o the technology t h a t w i l l
keep them young and v i t a l at every age. I have no doubt t h a t at least h a l f of
the baby boomers w i l l see t h e i r 100th b i r t h d a y . "
Klatz and other o p t i m i s t i c age-busting docs say average l i f e s p a n s could run
between 120 and 150 before the year 2046. This p r e d i c t i o n seems far-fetched, but
i s i t ? I n 1900, l i f e expectancy a t b i r t h i n the United States was 47 years;
today t h a t f i g u r e i s 76, and persons over 75 are the fastest-growing segment of
the population. The oldest human being on record was 122-year-old Jeanne Calment
of Aries, France, who died i n August 1997.
In h i s own quest t o match the world record, Klatz takes 60 d i f f e r e n t p i l l s a
day, i n c l u d i n g the c o n t r o v e r s i a l human growth hormone taken t o restore muscle
mass and strengthen bones, and DHEA, a hormone t h a t a n t i - a g i n g enthusiasts
believe boosts the b r a i n , the immune system, and f i g h t s cancer.
"Now, we a l l know we are going t o die eventually, but i f I can l i v e 120 good
years, which i s absolutely i n the cards, why shouldn't I t r y t o do everything
possible t o reach t h a t goal?" Klatz asks.
At 78, time w a r r i o r Bob Delmonteque weighs the same 192 pounds and stands the
same 6-2 as he d i d when he was a 16-year-old s t a r a t h l e t e i n A l v i n , Tex. He
c o c k i l y c a l l s himself one of the "best conditioned guys i n the world, b e t t e r
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than most teenagers." His photo on the cover of the book he wrote, "Lifelbng
Fitness: How to. Look Great a t Any Age, " shows a b i o n i c bodybuilder w i t h veiins v '
popping out,of bulging muscles. His o i l e d , -tanned-chest i s covered by a muiacieli^::
T - s h i r t . Thick, moussed h a i r , come-hither g r i n , 32-inch waist -- t h i s i s a
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" I s t i l l run a 26-mile marathon," says Delmonteque, reached at h i s home i n
Malibu a f t e r an afternoon of tennis. " I can s t i l l do a 105-mile bike r i d e . I've
never stopped t r a i n i n g w i t h weights. I was the best a t h l e t e i n high school, and
I s t i l l t h i n k I'm the best a t h l e t e . You are as you t h i n k e t h . "
Like Ronald Klatz, he take supplements by the f i s t f u l , 50 each day t o be
exact. No growth hormones, but everything else, including " a l l the a n t i o x i d a n t s "
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and dozens o f o i l capsules of substances l i k e f l a x and black currant t h a t are
thought t o prevent heart disease and cancer. Klatz decribes the 78-year-old
Delmonteque as a man " s t i l l i n h i s prime."
An obsession w i t h hard-bodied youth and d i s d a i n f o r o l d age, as w e l l as use
of unproven supplements, are met w i t h outrage by t r a d i t i o n a l researchers, who
say the focus should be on healthy l i v i n g at every stage, not l i v i n g forever.
Klatz considers himself a v i s i o n a r y on the cusp of a "new r e a l i t y " ; c r i t i c s view
his promises as unreal and dangerous.
"The magic b u l l e t s are a l l blanks," proclaims Gene Cohen, d i r e c t o r of the
Center on Aging, Health & Humanities at George Washington University. " I f the
paramount goal i s t o promote healthy aging, we have t o do so without t u r n i n g t o
empty s h e l l s , and t u r n instead t o the t r i e d and t r u e , " which Cohen defines as a
combination of good n u t r i t i o n , regular exercise, and a diverse "social
p o r t f o l i o " o f v a r i e d r e l a t i o n s h i p s and a c t i v i t i e s t h a t challenge your mind.
" I f you want t o enhance mental functioning as you age, make i t a p o i n t t o
learn something new, instead of t u r n i n g t o hormones or ginkgo b i l o b a , " advises
Cohen. "The best research so f a r shows t h a t hormones are nothing compared t o
taking a continuing education course f o r mind expansion."
As the former a c t i n g d i r e c t o r of the National I n s t i t u t e of Aging (NIA), which
i s part o f the National I n s t i t u t e s of Health, Cohen i s p a r t i c u l a r l y wary o f
DHEA, human growth hormone and melatonin t h a t are promoted f o r t h e i r a b i l i t y t o
b o l s t e r everything from mental acumen t o immune systems. The NIA's o f f i c i a l take
on these supplements, as d e t a i l e d i n the organization's l i t e r a t u r e , i s :
"Currently no treatments, drugs,, or p i l l s are known t o slow aging o r extend
l i f e i n humans. . . . Moreover, the side e f f e c t s of hormones could be very
serious; high amounts o f some hormones have been l i n k e d t o cancer."
Nevertheless, the NIA continues t o fund two dozen t r i a l s w i t h human growth
hormones, DHEA and testosterone, allowing t h a t these substances could "hold
promise" as p o t e n t i a l buffers against some degenerative conditions associated
w i t h aging. Yet so f a r , "the data j u s t i s n ' t there" t o give any remedy
s c i e n t i f i c approval as an age deterrent, according t o Huber Warner, a c t i n g
associate d i r e c t o r of the Biology of Aging program w i t h i n the NIA.
While researchers may dissent on the e f f i c a c y of hormone replacement therapy,
they do agree t h a t the most successful agers share some common, s i g n i f i c a n t
t r a i t s : They continue t o l e a m , f e e l i n charge o f t h e i r l i v e s and they exercise.
Obviously, another common l i n k i s they a l l have managed t o dodge k i l l e r diseases
and accidents.
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and beta carotene taken t o ward o f f free r a d i c a l s t h a t can age and damage c e l l s ,
although i t ' s best t o get them i n whole foods such as b r o c c o l i , c a r r o t s , cabbage
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l i f e s t y l e changes, made even i n l a t e r years, more than heredity, are the primary
determinant o f longevity. I n short, you can teach an o l d dog new t r i c k s .
"Our most s u r p r i s i n g f i n d i n g i s that we are responsible f o r our own o l d age,"
says John Rowe, coauthor of "Successful Aging," based on the 10-year MacArthur
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Foundation study of 1,350 senior c i t i z e n s . "Only about 30 percent of aging i s
inherited."
For a PBS series, "Stealing Time," set t o a i r i n 1999, John Palfreman, one of
the show's producers, immersed himself i n s t a t e - o f - t h e - a r t studies on the
cognitive aspects of aging. His reporting revealed that brains do not have t o
wither w i t h time.
" I t used t o be very widely believed that b r a i n c e l l s died o f f progressively
from your twenties onward," Palfreman says. "Yet, a whole l o t of research i s now
showing that some b r a i n regions i n humans do not have s i g n i f i c a n t c e l l death as
you age." Rather, as the b r a i n i s stimulated i t sprouts new p r o j e c t i o n s , c a l l e d
dendrites, t h a t grow l i k e limbs on trees. As you keep feeding your mind, these
c e l l s continue t o grow throughout the e n t i r e l i f e cycle.
While an aging b r a i n can sprout new branches from " i n t e l l e c t u a l sweating," a
term used by George Washington U n i v e r s i t y ' s Gene Cohen, so can a sweating body
sprout muscles i n l a t e r years. One c l a s s i c Boston study done i n the e a r l y 1990s
tracked nursing home residents as o l d as 98 who d i d three sets of exercises on
weight machines three times a week f o r eight weeks. Results showed muscle
strength t o increase an average of 174 percent, and t h e i r walking speed
increased 50 percent.
Washingtonian Evelyn Stefansson Nef decided t o give herself a f l a t tummy f o r
her 80th birthday, so she signed on w i t h personal t r a i n e r David K e l l e r . Five
years l a t e r , she s t i l l i s w i t h K e l l e r , who has designed a five-day program f o r
Nef t h a t i n t e g r a t e s the t r e a d m i l l w i t h weight t r a i n i n g and hydrotherapy. When
she s t a r t e d working w i t h K e l l e r at Fitness f o r L i f e i n Georgetown, the t r a i n e r
r e c a l l s that "she could hardly l i f t one arm." Today she can l i f t her l e g t o her
ear, and do 350 s i t - u p s at a time.
"And I can dance a l l n i g h t , " says Nef.
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her l a t e explorer husband, V i l h j a l m u r Stefansson, and at the age of
back t o school t o become a psychotherapist.
"My most successful c l i e n t s are the older c l i e n t s , " says K e l l e r . "They are
much more s e l f - d i s c i p l i n e d . They know t h a t exercise i s a fundamental of
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cousin, Jimmy Foxx, who was d r a f t e d by the Philadelphia A t h l e t i c s and became one
of the game's great sluggers. As a young woman, Anthony rode horseback through
woods t o the one-room schoolhouse where she taught grades one through seven.
A f t e r she r e t i r e d from teaching at age 65, she kept "bending and p u l l i n g and
weeding" i n her garden and traveled the world.
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"Had I j u s t gone home and sat down a f t e r I r e t i r e d I wouldn't be here today,"
says Anthony, a great-grandmother of 12. " A l l of my l i f e I have never stopped
moving. The people I know who stopped aren't around anymore."
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June 14, 1998 Sunday,
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LENGTH: 744 words
HEADLINE: Doctor, 100, practices on
BYLINE: KATHY BOCCELLA, KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
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ALPHARETTA, Ga.
I n a 125-year-old farmhouse nestled i n the woods i n t h i s
A t l a n t a suburb, L e i l a Denmark i s p r a c t i c i n g medicine the old-fashioned way: w i t h
no r e c e p t i o n i s t , nurse, computer or other accoutrements of a modern medical
office.
But "modem" i s hardly a word t h a t applies t o Denmark. At 100, t h i s
p e d i a t r i c i a n , who learned medicine when Calvin Coolidge was president, and
whooping cough was a childhood scourge, has been recognized as the nation's
oldest p r a c t i c i n g doctor. For more than seven decades, she has been doctoring
babies - her "angels," she c a l l s them - and dispensing the same advice t o
mothers t h a t she always has: Don't pick them up every time they cry, don't feed
them on demand, don't raise your voice and, most important, don't put them i n
day care before age 7.
Though some of her b e l i e f s seem q u a i n t l y outdated - no milk a f t e r seven
months, no tubes f o r chronic ear i n f e c t i o n s , and l a y babies on t h e i r stomachs
instead of t h e i r backs - parents love her homespun approach t o c h i l d care.
"Everybody t h a t gets pregnant e i t h e r goes t o see her or gets her book," said
Jane Wilson, 35, who has another p e d i a t r i c i a n f o r 2-month-old Stephen but wanted
mothering advice from the venerable Denmark.
The unsuspecting Wilson got more than she bargained f o r .
"Why don't you t r e a t him r i g h t ? " the doctor said, chiding Wilson when she
found out the f i r s t - t i m e mother l a i d the i n f a n t on h i s back, which she.believes
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o f f e r s huge doses of sympathy and support.
"She's so caring," said Sheila Corbin, who switched t o Denmark a f t e r spending
$ 600 t o no a v a i l on treatments prescribed by other doctors f o r her son's
stomach ailment. Denmark recommended a common a n t i b i o t i c , and the i n f e c t i o n
cleared up i n a few days.
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The doctor i s i n her o f f i c e four days a week from e a r l y i n the morning u n t i l
the l a s t p a t i e n t goes home. (Thursdays, she and her daughter take care of
bookkeeping.) I f a worried mother c a l l s her at 2 i n the morning, she puts on
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bathrobe and walks over t o the o f f i c e from her home next door.
She has never charged more than $ 10 a v i s i t . That's a r e a l v i s i t , w i t h time
f o r questions or some grandmotherly advice.
With no one t o schedule v i s i t s , p a t i e n t s j u s t sign i n and wait t h e i r t u m on
hardwood chairs. Her o f f i c e i s a homey, nursery-size room l i g h t e d by two bare
bulbs and furnished w i t h an o l d desk, r u f f l e curtains and a small wood chair
next t o a portable e l e c t r i c heater. The examining table i s an o l d , white farm
table w i t h a pad on top. The scale she uses t o weigh babies may have had a
former l i f e weighing melons at a country f a i r , and i t i s up t o parents t o f e t c h
t h e i r children's records from the o l d f i l i n g cabinets i n a back room.
Teaching mothers how t o keep t h e i r babies w e l l has been the l e i t m o t i f of her
l i f e . Having l i v e d i n a time when there were no vaccines or a n t i b i o t i c s , she
marvels at the wonders of modern medicine but bemoans what she perceives as a
lack of good parenting.
When she turned 100 on Feb. 1, she became the nation's oldest p r a c t i c i n g
physician, according t o the American Medical Association. But she hardly looks
l i k e a centenarian. Though her gray h a i r i s t h i n n i n g , she has p e n e t r a t i n g hazel
eyes and a steady hand. She had planned t o r e t i r e i n 1985 when she and her
husband moved i n t o the gracious white-columned home they b u i l t . She was 87 and
set aside a l o v e l y room w i t h a comfortable chair f o r reading and r e l a x i n g .
" I never got t o use i t , " she said.
One by one, her p a t i e n t s c a l l e d . So her grandson f i x e d up the o l d farmhouse
next door and she began seeing the angels again. That was 12 years ago. When her
beloved husband, banker John Eustace Denmark, died i n 1990 at age 91, she
considered retirement again. I n two weeks, she was back a t work.
Now when people ask her when she i s going t o r e t i r e , she t e l l s them t h e y ' l l
know when they see her name i n the o b i t u a r i e s .
" I don't want t o r e t i r e , " she snaps, when asked f o r the umpteenth time. "When
I can't see r i g h t or don't hear r i g h t or t h i n k I'm g e t t i n g t o where I can't "
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People
May 18, 1998
SECTION: MEDICS; Pg. 134
LENGTH: 262 words
HEADLINE: Doc Of Ages;
At 100, L e i l a Denmark, M.D., America's oldest p r a c t i c i n g physician, knows a
t h i n g or two about staying healthy
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of medicine go down. "When a mother asks, 'Doctor, what makes my baby so bad?'"
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making her the country's most senior medical c i t i z e n , can a f f o r d t o dispense her
frank advice i n large doses. That back-to-basics approach i s what f i l l s the
w a i t i n g room of her o f f i c e i n Alpharetta, Ga., up t o 10 hours a day, s i x days a
week. "She's been i n p r a c t i c e so long," says Denise Jacob, mother of two small
p a t i e n t s , "she can look at a c h i l d and t e l l you what's wrong."
I n f a c t , Denmark, who graduated from the Medical College of Georgia i n 1928
and helped develop a vaccine f o r whooping cough i n the '30s, was p r a c t i c i n g
h o l i s t i c medicine long before i t s r e t u r n t o vogue. "She always focused on f a m i l y
and i t s r e l a t i o n s h i p t o the wellness of a c h i l d , " says Dr. David Jones, 45, an
old friend.
The t h i r d of 12 c h i l d r e n of a P o r t a l , Ga., farmer and h i s wife, Denmark
p r a c t i c e d medicine a t home while r a i s i n g her only c h i l d , Mary, now 67. The
secret of her l o n g e v i t y i s simple, says the great-grandmother of two:
" I eat vegetables and p r o t e i n a t every meal, and I love what I'm doing." She
thought of q u i t t i n g once--when husband John Denmark, a Federal Reserve Bank
executive, died i n 1990, a t 91--but reconsidered. ' W e I can't see or t h i n k
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w e l l , I ' l l q u i t , " she says. "And when I go, I hope i t w i l l be r i g h t here i n t h i s
office."
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kids I can put on the r i g h t t r a c k , " says Dr. Denmark (examining 20-month-old
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February 21, 1998 Saturday, F i n a l Chaser
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HEADLINE: CENTENARIAN DOCTOR A 'BLESSING FROM HEAVEN'
BYLINE: By Jack U. H a r w e l l , R e l i g i o n News S e r v i c e
DATELINE: ALPHARETTA, Ga.
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Some o f her fans c a l l Dr. L e i l a Denmark "the Mother Teresa o f A t l a n t a , " and
w e l l t h e y m i g h t . Not o n l y does t h e 1 0 0 - y e a r - o l d p h y s i c i a n bear a p h y s i c a l
resemblance t o t h e l a t e nun from C a l c u t t a b u t , a d m i r e r s say, Denmark m i r r o r s
Mother Teresa's s i n g l e - m i n d e d m i n i s t r y o f compassion.
Denmark, who t u r n e d 100 on Feb. 1 , i s t h e o l d e s t p r a c t i c i n g p h y s i c i s m i n t h e
n a t i o n , a c c o r d i n g t o American M e d i c a l A s s o c i a t i o n r e c o r d s . She s t i l l p u t s i n 10and 12-hour days f o u r days a week, and s t i l l charges j u s t $10 a v i s i t .
For 56 y e a r s , she donated her " o f f day" t o a w e l l - b a b y c l i n i c i n downtown
A t l a n t a , r e a c h i n g o u t t o p r o v i d e care t o i n n e r - c i t y mothers. Her m i n i s t r y t h e r e
ended o n l y a f t e r she t u r n e d 90 and c o u l d no l o n g e r d r i v e i n downtown t r a f f i c .
"A v i s i t t o her l i t t l e o f f i c e i s a s p i r i t u a l e x p e r i e n c e , a b l e s s i n g f r o m
heaven," s a i d Paula Lewis o f Smyrna, who c a l l s Denmark "our f a m i l y s a i n t . "
"She's d o i n g j u s t what t h e B i b l e teaches: h e a l t h e s i c k . "
Denmark keeps her o f f i c e i n a 1 2 0 - y e a r - o l d l o g c a b i n "out i n t h e y a r d " o f h e r
r u r a l home, 30 m i l e s n o r t h o f A t l a n t a . She s t i l l uses t h e same wooden examining
t a b l e she s t a r t e d on 70 y e a r s ago. Her sparse o f f i c e d i s p l a y s no diplomas,
plaques o r awards. Every photo i n h e r o f f i c e was donated b y g r a t e f u l mothers o f
her thousands o f p a t i e n t s .
She doesn't make appointments and has no s e c r e t a r y . She averages 15 p a t i e n t s
p e r day and sometimes as many as 25. Her daughter v i v i t s on Denmark's o f f d a y . t o
h e l p w i t h paperwork.
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who was b o r n w i t h a c o n g e n i t a l h e a r i n g d e f i c i e n c y . Some d o c t o r s "wrote him o f f
as a l i m i t e d , handicapped person," r e c a l l e d h i s mother, Frances.
"But we heard o f Dr. Denmark, t o o k Wayne t o her and thus began a l i f e l o n g
d o c t o r - p a t i e n t r e l a t i o n s h i p , " Frances C o l q u i t t s a i d .
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made him believe in himself. She i s absolutely wonderful. Children trust her.
Wayne trusted her. With her guidance and encouragement, he learned to read l i p s ,
became a success in school, sports and business. He gives a l l the credit to
Dr. L e i l a Denmark."
Lewis noted several things about Denmark that everyone f a m i l i a r w i t h her
techniques mentions.
"She i s d i f f e r e n t , " Lewis said. "She i s s t r i c t . She i s s t r a i g h t . She i s
b l u n t . She i s courageous. She has strong opinions. But they are u s u a l l y
correct."
Denmark preaches loud and long about the primary place of mothers i n the
home, arguing t h a t every mother should stay a t home from the time her f i r s t
c h i l d i s born u n t i l the youngest c h i l d i s at least 7.
" I remember l i s t e n i n g . t o the s u f f r a g e t t e s i n the 1920s," Denmark said. "They
would come t o our l i t t l e town of P o r t a l and put on the dramatic p l a y l e t , 10
Nights i n a Bar Room. Then they would step out on the stage and say, 'When women
get the vote, y o u ' l l never see t h i s again.' "
But, she added, "Women got the vote i n 1922. What have we done w i t h i t ?
"Now, we can k i l l our babies; that's what we've done w i t h i t . I b e l i e v e i n
women having freedom. But w i t h our freedom, we have abandoned our c h i l d r e n and
wrecked our nation. Forty percent of the women who work outside the home lose
t h e i r husbands. I s t h a t progress?"
For her own p a r t , Denmark s t i l l hikes i n the mountains, walks several miles
each day and plays g o l f .
Breaking down b a r r i e r s and stereotypes i s not new f o r Denmark. I n 1928, she
was the only woman graduate of the Medical College of Georgia i n Augusta. She
was the f i r s t doctor c e r t i f i e d on the s t a f f of the famed Egleston Children's
Hospital i n A t l a n t a , a post she held f o r more than 60 years.
For years, her husband, John, who died i n 1991, managed her o f f i c e . He was a
banker who r e t i r e d as v i c e president of the Federal Reserve Bank i n A t l a n t a .
In 1985, the couple moved 20 miles north of Alpharetta onto an 82-acre tract
they owned and b u i l t a home duplicating in detail the home they had l e f t . They
renovated a small log cabin, which became Denmark's new office.
Her army of mothers and babies followed her to Alpharetta, and they s t i l l
come, from a l l over Atlanta.
Friends describe Denmark's career i n missionary terms.
"I'm a C h r i s t i a n and I seek out C h r i s t i a n f r i e n d s , " said J u l i a Ogletree of
Dunwoody, who has used Denmark as her doctor f o r a decade. "By her f r u i t s and
her a t t i t u d e , I know L e i l a Denmark i s a committed C h r i s t i a n . She has convinced
me and many others that motherhood i s a sacred c a l l i n g , a d i v i n e vocation, not a
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For more than 65 years, Denmark has been a member of Atlanta's Druid H i l l s
Baptist Church, which held a service i n honor of her 100th birthday. Messages
came from President C l i n t o n and former President Carter. Phone c a l l s came from
as f a r away as Sweden, England and A u s t r a l i a .
" I don't deserve a l l t h i s recognition," Denmark said. "My only mission i n
l i f e has been t o give a c h i l d a chance."
GRAPHIC: Photo by Teleia Harwell/Religion News Service; "She's doing j u s t what
the Bible teaches - heal the s i c k , " a devoted p a t i e n t says of Dr. L e i l a
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February 2, 1998, Monday, PM cycle
SECTION: Domestic News
LENGTH: 3 93 words
HEADLINE: 100-year-old p e d i a t r i c i a n s t i l l p r a c t i c i n g a f t e r 70 years
DATELINE: ALPHARETTA, Ga.
BODY:
A f t e r seven decades of p r a c t i c i n g medicine, 100-year-old p e d i a t r i c i a n
L e i l a Denmark dispenses the same advice t o mothers that she always has: Don't
pick them up every time they cry, don't feed them on demand, and don't r a i s e
your voice.
Also, don't neglect the c h i l d - they need t o l e a m your way f o r seven years.
"Women have been brainwashed i n t o b e l i e v i n g don't mess around w i t h a c h i l d ,
l e t someone else do i t and go out and be lawyers, teachers, preachers,
anything," Mrs. Denmark said. "And we've never had more sick c h i l d r e n than we
have today."
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country, according t o the American Medical Association.
She began p r a c t i c i n g i n 1928 and s t i l l meets w i t h p a t i e n t s today i n a
125-year-old farmhouse nestled i n the woods n o r t h of t h i s northern A t l a n t a
suburb.
Moms s i t w i t h t h e i r c r y i n g and f i d g e t i n g babies i n an unadorned f r o n t room,
w a i t i n g sometimes f o r hours. There's no r e c e p t i o n i s t , nurse o r appointment book
- j u s t a s i g n - i n sheet on a marble-top t a b l e .
The doctor i s i n her o f f i c e f i v e days a week, from e a r l y morning u n t i l the
l a s t p a t i e n t leaves. And i f a troubled mother c a l l s her a t home a t 2 a.m., she
w i l l p u l l on her robe and walk across the yard t o meet her a t the o f f i c e .
"You can't plan when a baby i s going t o get sick," she said.
Mrs. Denmark had planned t o r e t i r e when she and her l a t e husband, John
Eustace Denmark, b u i l t a home here i n 1985 from nearby Sandy Springs, where she
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to p r a c t i c e a while longer t o pass the time. A dozen years l a t e r , she's s t i l l a t
i t , seeing 15 t o 25 p a t i e n t s a day.
" I hope I ' l l know the day when I can't do i t r i g h t , " she said. "Old people
have t o know when i t ' s over. I hope my patients o r my daughter w i l l t e l l me."
Some doctors f i n d her ideas old-fashioned - she doesn't believe i n HMOs o r
cough medicine - but not a l l bad.
"A l o t of things she d i d , p e d i a t r i c i a n s thought were not necessarily modern,
but as years have gone by, they've turned out t o be p r e t t y darn good," says Dr.
Joseph Patterson, medical d i r e c t o r emeritus a t Egleston Hospital f o r Children.
"She does have one a b i l i t y that a l l of us cherish and wish we had: She's t r u l y
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�DR. RITA COLWELL
DIRECTOR
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF)
"When Rita Colwell was growing up as the daughter of Italian immigrants in Beverly,
Massachusetts, herfirstscientific passion — the ocean — was right in her backyard. And let me
just say, no one has taken better care ofAmerica's backyard than Rita. In her professional life,
she has been making the important link between climate change and human health, and she has
seen the data in human terms — working to develop simplefiltrationssystems that will help to
stem the outbreak of diseases like cholera in developing nations. Rita is more than a good
scientist, she is a passionate, compassionate advocate. Iam proud that she is thefirstfemale
director of the National Science Foundation, but Iam prouder still that she's on our team."
— Vice President Al Gore
at a White House ceremony, swearing in Dr. Rita Colwell
as Director of the National Science Foundation (11/23/98)
Given that President Clinton is likely to announce his new multi-billion dollar initiative
on information technology in the State of the Union address, Dr. Rita Colwell, Director of the
National Science Foundation, is an altogetherfittingand logical choice to be featured
prominently in the First Lady's box.
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The President will emphasize the need and the importance of making significant
increased investments in computing and communications research. The National Science
Foundation will be one of the lead agencies. Rita Colwell will help direct this innovative
multi-billion dollar, multi-agency initiative in information technology. She helps put a
human face on a highly technical initative, and, as thefirstwoman to head the NSF, and
thefirstbiologist to do so in 25 years, she represents American preeminence in science
with a capital "S".
•
In addition to being a past President of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and former President of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute,
Colwell is an internationally recognized microbiologist.
•
She was thefirstresearcher to use high performance computers — working on bacteria in
marine animals in the late 1950s/early 1960s — to classify marine bacteria, or any
bacteriafromthe environment Her current research, on environmental factors
associated with cholera epidemics, would be impossible without powerful computers using remote sensing and computer processing to integrate datafromnumerous
disciplines: oceanography, epidemiology, ecology, microbiology.
•
She and her research team currently are developing models to enable prediction of
conditions conducive to cholera epidemics that will allow proactive, not just reactive,
measures against cholera that will result in saved lives.
�The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), which was
one of the major drivers of the Information Technology Initiative that President Clinton is
expected to announce in the State of the Union address, was co-chaired by:
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Ken Kennedy of Houston, Texas, is Director of the Center for Research on Parallel
Computation at Rice University and Ann and John Doerr Professor of Computer Science.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers; a member of the National Academy of Engineering; and in 1995 received the
W. Wallace McDowell Award, the highest research award of the IEEE Computer
Society.
•
Bill Joy of Aspen, Colorado is co-founder and Vice President for Research of Sun
Microsystems. He was the principal designer of the University of California, Berkeley,
version of the Unix operating system and in the 1980s spearheaded Sun's "open systems"
model of computing. He is the recipient of the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
and the Grace Murray Hopper Award. Mr. Joy co-chaired the PITAC Committee.
�PRESIDENT CLINTON'S EARLY CAREER AWARDS
FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS (PECASE)
President Clinton demonstrated his commitment to the importance of producing
promising young scientists and engineers when he inaugurated in 1996 his Presidential Early
Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. Each year, about sixty young scholars, most of
them in the early part of their academic careers combining research and education, are honored
in a White House ceremony for their research contributions, for their promise, and for their
commitment to broader societal goals.
Nine Federal departments and agencies join together in nominating and selecting these
young scientists and engineers. The breadth of their research interests demonstrates that
overarching societal goals spanning health, environmental quality, economic competitiveness,
national security, and the advancement of knowledge are being addressed creatively by many of
our brightest young scientists and engineers. A number of the recent winners include:
Two skilled, young researchers from the Department of Veterans Affairs are among the recipients of the 1999
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. With the guidance of dedicated senior scientists, their
studies are laying the groundwork for advancing medical science.
Alan E. Mast, M.D., Ph.D., a staff physician at the Memphis VA Medical Center, is conducting studies of the basic
biomechanisms of proteins that regulate blood clotting. His work will help expand our therapeutic strategies for
preventing and treating the medical complications associated with vascular disease. This effort has the potential of
tremendous benefit for many veterans treated by the VA, particularly older patients at high risk for myocardial
infarction, stroke and related diseases. Dr. Mast believes his Presidential Early Career Award will help him achieve his
two primary professional ambitions, establishment of an independently funded research laboratory and contributing to
the development of a high-quality clinical pathology program at the Memphis VA Medical Center.
Richard N. Pierson, III, M.D., of the Nashville VA Medical Center, is working to develop improved strategies to
prevent and treat organ rejection by heart and lung transplant recipients. Transplantation is frequently the best available
option for patients with end-stage organ failure, but the use of this life-saving therapy is limited by the availability of
donor organs. Dr. Pierson is investigating whether animals can serve as organ donors for transplants to humans. He is
testing the effectiveness of humanized antibodies in preventing the rejection of pig hearts transplanted to monkeys. His
efforts offer hope that we may one day have a sufficient supply of organs for transplants to veterans and other patients
with end-stage organ failure.
Guillermo Sapiro, University of Minnesota - 1998 PECASE awardee. Sapiro is one of the pioneers in the use of
geometric partial differential equations, an advanced mathematical tool, in the area of image processing. His work is
being applied to diverse areas like Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a novel imaging technique that allows the
study of the human brain, and underwater ultrasound imaging for military applications. While at Hewlett-Packard, he
co-developed a new algorithm for the compression of images, which has been internationally adopted as a standard. This
improves the transmission of images through the Internet, contributing to the development of the National Information
Infrastructure.
Dr. James Weifu Lee, Staff Scientist, U.S. Oak Ridge National Laboratory - 1998 PECASE awardee. He is
developing a new generation of electronic devices, such as super-high-resolution video cameras and fast computer
chips. Additionally, he is working on finding new energy resources, and doing research on global climate change.
Lori A. Setton, Duke University-PECASE awardee October 1997. She has had a special leadership role in the
education and research in understanding and restoring biomechanical function to spinal tissue, degenerated by injury or
aging.
�INTEL SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH
(formerly Westinghouse Science Talent Search)
The Science Talent Search is America's oldest and most highly regarded pre-college
science contest. Each year the STS helps the nation find and encourage especially talented high
school seniors to pursue careers in science, math, engineering and medicine. Alumni of this
program have won more than 100 of the world's most coveted science and math honors. Five
finalists have won the Nobel Prize. 30 have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
More than half of formerfinalistsare engaged in research and/or teaching at colleges and
universities.
A number of the recentfinalists- articles attached ~ in the Intel Science Talent Search
include:
omi Sue Bates grew up in a log cabin in West Virginia that had no indoor plumbing and no
electricity. While a high schoolfreshman,her science teacher inspired her interest in astronomy
when she took her to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, WV. During
the last three years of high school she did research there that helped reinforce the theory that our
galaxy is shaped in a spiral. She has since been afinalistin the Westinghouse as well as several
first place awards at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Tucson, AZ
Heather Matthews discovered a way to compare man-made and natural wetlands over a longer
period of time without taking two decades to produce results; her research will help guide the
creation of better man-made wetlands in the future. Besides being afinalistat the Westinghouse
awards, she has also won a Pinnacle Award and a trip to the South American International
Science Fair.
Mary Ellen Matyskiela's research on problems associated with nuclear waste disposal caught
the attention of both CNN, the Washington Post, and, earlier this year, she met with OMB
representatives to discuss the Yucca Mountain research plan.
Adjurft5ohen turned his bedroom into a research lab to create an electrochemical paintbrush that
produce microscopic patterns such as those used for computer chips. He was thefirstplace
winner in the most recent Science Talent Search.
arker Conrad entered the Science Talent Search with a physiology project on synapse
regeneration, a subject crucial to understanding such functions as learning, memory and recovery
following injury. In ninth grade, he started a computer consulting business; he has also
understudied for a leading role in a Broadway musical.
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�DR. RITA COLWELL
DIRECTOR
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF)
"When Rita Colwell was growing up as the daughter of Italian immigrants in Beverly,
Massachusetts, herfirstscientific passion — the ocean — was right in her backyard. And let me
just say, no one has taken better care ofAmerica's backyard than Rita. In her professional life,
she has been making the important link between climate change and human health, and she has
seen the data in human terms ~ working to develop simplefiltrationssystems that will help to
stem the outbreak of diseases like cholera in developing nations. Rita is more than a good
scientist, she is a passionate, compassionate advocate. Iam proud that she is thefirstfemale
director of the National Science Foundation, but I am prouder still that she's on our team. "
- Vice President Al Gore
at a White House ceremony, swearing in Dr. Rita Colwell
as Director of the National Science Foundation (11/23/98)
Given that President Clinton is likely to announce his new multi-billion dollar initiative
on information technology in the State of the Union address, Dr. Rita Colwell, Director of the
National Science Foundation, is an altogether fitting and logical choice to be featured
prominently in the First Lady's box.
•
The President will emphasize the need and the importance of making significant
increased investments in computing and communications research. The National Science
Foundation will be one of the lead agencies. Rita Colwell will help direct this innovative
multi-billion dollar, multi-agency initiative in information technology. She helps put a
human face on a highly technical initative, and, as thefirstwoman to head the NSF, and
thefirstbiologist to do so in 25 years, she represents American preeminence in science
with a capital "S".
•
In addition to being a past President of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and former President of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute,
Colwell is an internationally recognized microbiologist.
•
She was thefirstresearcher to use high performance computersworking on bacteria in
marine animals in the late 1950s/early 1960s - to classify marine bacteria, or any
bacteriafromthe environment Her current research, on environmental factors
associated with cholera epidemics, would be impossible without powerful computers using remote sensing and computer processing to integrate datafromnumerous
disciplines: oceanography, epidemiology, ecology, microbiology.
•
She and her research team currently are developing models to enable prediction of
conditions conducive to cholera epidemics that will allow proactive, not just reactive,
measures against cholera that will result in saved lives.
�The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), which was
one of the major drivers of the Information Technology Initiative that President Clinton is
expected to announce in the State of the Union address, was co-chaired by:
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Ken Kennedy of Houston, Texas, is Director of the Center for Research on Parallel
Computation at Rice University and Ann and John Doerr Professor of Computer Science.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers; a member of the National Academy of Engineering; and in 1995 received the
W. Wallace McDowell Award, the highest research award of the IEEE Computer
Society.
•
Bill Joy of Aspen, Colorado is co-founder and Vice President for Research of Sun
Microsystems. He was the principal designer of the University of California, Berkeley,
version of the Unix operating system and in the 1980s spearheaded Sun's "open systems"
model of computing. He is the recipient of the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
and the Grace Murray Hopper Award. Mr. Joy co-chaired the PITAC Committee.
�PRESIDENT CLINTON'S EARLY CAREER AWARDS
FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS (PECASE)
President Clinton demonstrated his commitment to the importance of producing
promising young scientists and engineers when he inaugurated in 1996 his Presidential Early
Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. Each year, about sixty young scholars, most of
them in the early part of their academic careers combining research and education, are honored
in a White House ceremony for their research contributions, for their promise, and for their
commitment to broader societal goals.
Nine Federal departments and agencies join together in nominating and selecting these
young scientists and engineers. The breadth of their research interests demonstrates that
overarching societal goals spanning health, environmental quality, economic competitiveness,
national security, and the advancement of knowledge are being addressed creatively by many of
our brightest young scientists and engineers. A number of the recent winners include:
Two skilled, young researchers from the Department of Veterans Affairs are among the recipients of the 1999
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. With the guidance of dedicated senior scientists, their
studies are laying the groundwork for advancing medical science.
Alan E. Mast, M.D., Ph.D., a staff physician at the Memphis VA Medical Center, is conducting studies of the basic
biomechanisms of proteins that regulate blood clotting. His work will help expand our therapeutic strategies for
preventing and treating the medical complications associated with vascular disease. This effort has the potential of
tremendous benefit for many veterans treated by the VA, particularly older patients at highriskfor myocardial
infarction, stroke and related diseases. Dr. Mast believes his Presidential Early Career Award will help him achieve his
two primary professional ambitions, establishment of an independently funded research laboratory and contributing to
the development of a high-quality clinical pathology program at the Memphis VA Medical Center.
Richard N. Pierson, III, M.D., of the Nashville VA Medical Center, is working to develop improved strategies to
prevent and treat organ rejection by heart and lung transplant recipients. Transplantation isfrequendythe best available
option for padents with end-stage organ failure, but the use of this life-saving therapy is limited by the availability of
donor organs. Dr. Pierson is investigating whether animals can serve as organ donors for transplants to humans. He is
testing the effectiveness of humanized antibodies in preventing the rejection of pig hearts transplanted to monkeys. His
efforts offer hope that we may one day have a sufficient supply of organs for transplants to veterans and other patients
with end-stage organ failure.
Guillermo Sapiro, University of Minnesota - 1998 PECASE awardee. Sapiro is one of the pioneers in the use of
geometric partial differential equations, an advanced mathematical tool, in the area of image processing. His work is
being applied to diverse areas like Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a novel imaging technique that allows the
study of the human brain, and underwater ultrasound imaging for military implications. While at Hewlett-Packard, he
co-developed a new algorithm for the compression of images, which has been internationally adopted as a standard. This
improves the transmission of images through the Internet, contributing to the development of the National Information
Infrastructure.
Dr. James Weifu Lee, Staff Scientist, U.S. Oak Ridge National Laboratory - 1998 PECASE awardee. He is
developing a new generation of electronic devices, such as super-high-resolution video cameras and fast computer
chips. Additionally, he is working on finding new energy resources, and doing research on global climate change.
Lori A. Setton, Duke University-PECASE awardee October 1997. She has had a special leadership role in the
education and research in understanding and restoring biomechanical function to spinal tissue, degenerated by injury or
aging.
�INTEL SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH
(formerly Westinghouse Science Talent Search)
The Science Talent Search is America's oldest and most highly regarded pre-college
science contest. Each year the STS helps the nation find and encourage especially talented high
school seniors to pursue careers in science, math, engineering and medicine. Alumni of this
program have won more than 100 of the world's most coveted science and math honors. Five
finalists have won the Nobel Prize. 30 have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
More than half of former finalists are engaged in research and/or teaching at colleges and
universities.
A number of the recentfinalists~ articles attached ~ in the Intel Science Talent Search
include:
(omi Sue Bates grew up in a log cabin in West Virginia that had no indoor plumbing and no
electricity. While a high schoolfreshman,her science teacher inspired her interest in astronomy
when she took her to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, WV. During
the last three years of high school she did research there that helped reinforce the theory that our
galaxy is shaped in a spiral. She has since been afinalistin the Westinghouse as well as several
first place awards at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Tucson, AZ
Heather Matthews discovered a way to compare man-made and natural wetlands over a longer
period of time without taking two decades to produce results; her research will help guide the
creation of better man-made wetlands in thefiiture.Besides being afinalistat the Westinghouse
awards, she has also won a Pinnacle Award and a trip to the South American International
Science Fair.
Mary Ellen Matyskiela's research on problems associated with nuclear waste disposal caught
the attention of both CNN, the Washington Post, and, earlier this year, she met with OMB
representatives to discuss the Yucca Mountain research plan.
AdpafCohen turned his bedroom into a research lab to create an electrochemical paintbrush that
produce microscopic patterns such as those used for computer chips. He was thefirstplace
winner in the most recent Science Talent Search.
arker Conrad entered the Science Talent Search with a physiology project on synapse
regeneration, a subject crucial to understanding such functions as learning, memory and recovery
following injury. In ninth grade, he started a computer consulting business; he has also
understudied for a leading role in a Broadway musical.
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Subject: Revised Crime w / Suzann Wilson
But too many neighborhoods still are not safe. Tonight, I propose a 21st Century
crime bill to marshall the latest tools, technologies and tactics in the fight against crime.
My budget provides funds to put up to 50,000 more police on the beat in the areas
hardest hit by crime, and gives them 21st Century tools, from crime-mapping computers to
digital mug shots.
We must keep working to break the deadly cycle of drugs and crime. My budget
strengthens support for drug testing and treatment. It says to prisoners: If you stay on drugs,
you must stay behind bars. And it says to those out on parole: If you want to keep your
freedom, you have to keep free of drugs.
Congress should restore the mandatory 5-day waiting period for buying a handgun that
expired last year, and extend the Brady Bill so that juveniles who commit violent crimes won't
be able to buy handguns for life.
And we must make our schools the safest places in our communities. Last year, our
nation was horrified and heartbroken by the tragic killings in our schools - in Jonesboro,
Arkansas, in Paducah, Kentucky, in Pearl, Mississippi, in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, in
Springfield, Oregon. We cannot forget these tragedies. And we cannot forget the courage of
the grief stricken parents who have dedicated themselves to keeping guns out of the hands of
children — so no parent ever has to live through the loss they have suffered.
Suzann Wilson lost her daughter, Brittheny, when a student opened fire on his
classmates in Jonesboro. When came to visit me at the White House, she issued a powerful
plea to us all. She said, "Please, please, for the sake of your children, lock up your guns.
Don't let your gun become an instrument of murder. Don't let what happened in Jonesboro
happen in your town." Suzann is here with us in the First Lady's box. In her presence, and
in memory of all the children who lost their lives this year to school violence, let us pledge
tonight to redouble our efforts to make our schools safe.
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Michael Waldman
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<p>Michael Waldman was Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting from 1995-1999. His responsibilities were writing and editing nearly 2,000 speeches, which included four State of the Union speeches and two Inaugural Addresses. From 1993 -1995 he served as Special Assistant to the President for Policy Coordination.</p>
<p>The collection generally consists of copies of speeches and speech drafts, talking points, memoranda, background material, correspondence, reports, handwritten notes, articles, clippings, and presidential schedules. A large volume of this collection was for the State of the Union speeches. Many of the speech drafts are heavily annotated with additions or deletions. There are a lot of articles and clippings in this collection.</p>
<p>Due to the size of this collection it has been divided into two segments. Use links below for access to the individual segments:<br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0469-F+Segment+1">Segment One</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=43&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2006-0469-F+Segment+2">Segment Two</a></p>
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Michael Waldman
Office of Speechwriting
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1993-1999
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2006-0469-F
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Segment One contains 1071 folders in 72 boxes.
Segment Two contains 868 folders in 66 boxes.
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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Adobe Acrobat Document
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paper
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[State of the Union 1999] FLOTUS Box: Policy Memos/Language [3]
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Office of Speechwriting
Michael Waldman
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Box 55
<a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/36403"> Collection Finding Aid</a>
<a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7763296">National Archives Catalog Description</a>
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2006-0469-F Segment 1
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White House Staff and Office Files
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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Adobe Acrobat Document
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Preservation-Reproduction-Reference
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6/3/2015
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7763296
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