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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, December 5, 1968
Barnard will go down in medical history
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (UPI) — It was a little before dawn one year ago Tuesday that a then little known South African surgeon named Christiane Neethling Barnard made medical history.
Barnard led the Groote Schuur Hospital team that on Dec. 3, 1967, performed the world's first heart transplant upon a human being.
The patient—Cape Town grocer Louis Washkansky—died after living more than two weeks. But in a single year the operation that startled the world has become almost commonplace.
Barnard's second heart transplant patient, Phillip Blaiberg, is the world's longest living transplant patient.
The year also has seen Barnard rise to fame. He has been feted like royalty, worked harder in the operating theater than ever before and paid the price of overwork and tension with severe stomach troubles.
Boyish Features
His angular, boyish looking features appeared on the front pages of newspapers and on television screens everywhere. His clipped South African accent has been heard by millions all over the world.
He has met President Lyndon Johnson. Pope Paul VI and leaders of countries throughout Europe and North and South America. Film stars, actress and other personalities have sought to meet him.
"I do not think the transplant has changed me," he said. "I do not feel different."
But Barnard does not believe he is a different man today.
"I and my team never raced to be first to transplant a heart. We had been working towards it and knew others were. But we weren't afraid of not being first."
Barnard is resentful of some aspects of the publicity which surrounds him and has declared it has hurt his family life.
No sex in want ads is ruled
The surgeon, who is married and the father of one son and one daughter, complained he could not understand why all the publicity when he was photographed with Italian actress Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida while his meeting with the King of Thailand was hardly mentioned.
The Evening Star Newspaper Co. of Washington and the American Newspapers Publishers Association (ANPA) asked Corcoran last month to stop the guidelines from going into effect.
It was not immediately known whether further appeals would be filed.
ical circles, Barnard is quick to point out his work at Groote Schuur Hospital has not been hampered.
Attorney's for the ANPA told the court at the time that the guidelines would result in a reduction in classified advertising revenues for more than 1,000 daily newspapers.
He and his fellow cardiac surgeons performed 200 operations this year against the normal figure of 140.
Trips Cause Comment
In denying the ANPA request, Corcoran did rule that the guidelines are "not a regulation having the force or effect of law."
U. S. District Court Judge Howard F. Corcoran denied a request to block the guidelines. He ruled that the guidelines put forth by the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission were a reasonable interpretation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Barnard personally did 40 operations and had to go into Groote Schuur Hospital himself this autumn for treatment of a bleeding ulcer.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Newspapers have lost a first-round court appeal of new federal guidelines outlawing help wanted ads addressed separately to males and females.
Trips Cases Despite his frequent travels abroad, which have been criticized in some South African med-
The federal guidelines, requiring newspapers to abolish sex classifications in their want ads as a legitimate protection of the civil rights of women, have been upheld by a federal court judge.
While Barnard might feel he is personally unchanged since the
first transplant, his success has changed his life. While previously a recognized heart surgeon of international standing with his theories and words contained only in an occasional paper, now Barnard receives requests daily to write for overseas medical and semi-medical journals.
Thousands of letters arrived for him this year begging for surgery.
Heart sufferers express implicit faith in Barnard's ability to cure them.
Libraries built in different ways
The dedication of the $2,125,000 Kenneth Spencer Research Library in many ways is a contrast to the building of Watson Library.
A 1921 appropriation of $250,000 got the library up and in use. The Sept. 9, 1924, University Daily Kansan reported:
"The opening of Watson Library Thursday should mark the beginning of a new attitude toward books at the University of Kansas. For several years even those who were most interested in reading and studying have found it difficult to get much pleasure from it in Spooner Library because of the crowded conditions of both the stacks and the reading room."
But Watson still was unfinished, even with an additional $60,000 from the 1925 legislature. The money ran out and the front entrance was a set of temporary wood steps.
Temporary for 12 years. In 1936, Depression-short funds were finally stretched to complete the limestone entrance.
Mrs. Spencer has done it differently. Her gift was complete, providing everything new from a retaining wall above Memorial Drive to all stacks, display cases, rugs, furnishings, and decors.
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