Monday, Oct. 21, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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Wichita hospital gets pleasant surprise
Barnard offers transplant advice
United Press International
WICHITA - Heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard said he would like to be a consultant to St. Francis Regional Medical Center if the hospital decided to begin a heart transplant program.
Barnard, who in 1967 became the first surgeon to perform a human heart transplant, made his offer Friday night while speaking at a banquet at the Windsor Symposium, which was sponsored by St. Francis.
"His spontaneous comment to assist us came as a pleasant surprise." Martyn Howgill, the hospital's vice president for development and management for day+day. "We are delighted to have his support."
Howill said no decision had been made on whether St. Francis would become the third hospital in Kansas to perform heart transplants.
"We have been studying this at least a couple of years and have been looking at it very intensively the last couple of months." he said.
He said there was no correlation between St. Francis' study of heart transplants and the recent announcement by Wesley Medical Center of Wichita that it would begin performing heart transplants early in 1986.
"We are not in a race with anybody," Howgill said.
Wesley spokesman Gordon Thomson said Barnard's offer would not alter Wesley's plans.
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center of Topeka and the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., are the only two hospitals in Kansas that perform heart transplants.
Carles Robinson, 39, Lyndon, the Topeka hospital's second heart transplant patient, remained in critical but stable condition yesterday after receiving a new heart Thursday.
Barnard said it was important that hospitals explor ing the possibility of initiating a heart transplant program had experience in whole organ transplants.
Barnard, who will speak at Wichita State University today, predicted over the weekend that heart transplants would someday be as common as other types of heart surgery.
Howgill said St. Francis had extensive experience in kidney transplants and open heart surgery. He said it was the only hospital between Denver and metropolitan Kansas City that had a kidney dialysis center.
Barnard, 62, retired from Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, two years ago. He now practices medicine in Oklahoma, where he assists the Oklahoma Heart Center.
Court to hear battered wife case
United Press International
TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court today will hear the appeal of a Wichita woman who maintains the jury that convicted her of murdering her husband should have been made aware of the "battered wife syndrome."
The case is among 38 that will be heard by the high court this week. A Sedgwick County jury convicted Jacqueline L. Osby of first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a munition for the slaying of her husband, Olw Osby. He was shot during an argument that occurred when he
began moving his belongings from the couple's Wichita home.
On appeal, Osby maintains the Sedgwick County jury should have been told about the "battered wife syndrome."
In January, the high court overturned the involuntary manslaughter conviction of a Topeka woman accused of killing her husband and for the first time recognized the "battered wife syndrome." The high court ruled the trial judge erred.
The case was refiled. Hundley pleaded no contest to an involuntary manslaughter charge and was placed
in August on five years supervised probation.
On Wednesday, the high court also will hear an appeal from Kansas Public Service Co. that disputes a Douglas County jury's decision to award Leroy McDermott a total of $203,000 in actual and punitive damages stemming from a natural gas explosion in Lawrence in December 1977. The explosion killed two people and damaged several downtown businesses.
McDermott lived in an apartment damaged by the blast. Destroyed were his personal belongings and doctoral dissertation.
The KU Women's Soccer Club will practice at 6 p.m. today and Thursday on the soccer fields at 23rd and Iowa streets.
On the Record
The Strat-o-matic Baseball Club will meet at 7 p.m. today in Parlor C of the Kansas Union.
A seminar, "The Bible Today: A Basic Overview," will be presented at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
KU Sword & Shield will meet at 8 p.m. today in the Walnut Room of the Union.
The KU Committee on South Africa will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Ridiculous facts concerning pizza and its origins...
Pizza was actually invented in 1623, when the wife of Luigi Pizzaioli accidentally sat on a large ball of bread dough left to rise on a chair. The resulting cannake had such an interesting, saucer-like shape that she spread it with to-mato sauce, tossed on some cheese, and popped it into her stone oven. Later, when pizza had become a Pizziaiella family staple, Luigi's wife took to throwing it at him, frisbee style, when he didn't come home on time. The first pizza delivery!
On Campus
■During an armed robbery at about 8:15 p.m. Saturday, $440 was taken from the Jayhawk Oil Co. gas station, 902 W. 23rd St., Lawrence police said yesterday. Police have a description of a suspect and have started a search.
A stereo, amplifier and equalizer, together valued at $600, were stolen between midnight Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday from a car in the 1800 block of Tennessee Street, police said.
A bicycle valued at $275 was stolen between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. Saturday from behind the Holiday Inn Holdem, 200 McDonald Drive.
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