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6445 W. Maple Rd.
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
O NE DAY
MOM SAID SHE LOVED HER
FLOWERS, BUT DAD WISHED HE
Dr. Robert D. Beitman of West
Bloomfield recently received the
J. Edward Beck Award present-
ed by the Sinai Hospital Alumni
Association in recognition of his
selection as the member of the at-
tending staff contributing most to
house education for the Depart-
ment of Ophthalmology for 1997.
Purdy, Birmingham; and Mon-
day, Aug. 18, at the Beaumont
Medical Building, 6900 Orchard
Lake Road, West Bloomfield. To
register, call (800) 633-7377.
Botsford Hospital's Health De-
velopment Network will hold a
healthful cooking demon-
stration, 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug.
Botsford General Hospital's Fam- 7, 39750 Grand River Ave., Novi.
ily Daze Open House will take To register, call (248) 477-6100.
place 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday,
III To have an event included
Aug. 2, at the Drakeshire Family
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practice and Meadowbrook
include the name, time, day,
OB/GYN facility, 35125 Grand
date, location and subject of the
River in Farmington. For infor-
event as well as a contact name
mation, call (248) 442-7986.
and phone number. Send all
information at least two weeks
The Department of Behavioral
Medicine - St. Joseph Mercy of in advance to Alan Hitsky, De
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Oakland has a 24 hour access
Franklin Road, Southfield, MI
phone, (248) 858-3623.
48034.
An orientation for infertility
and IVF programs will be held
7-9 p.m. Monday, Aug. 4, at
William Beaumont Administra-
tion Building, 3601 W. Thirteen
Mile, Royal Oak. To register for
the free meeting, call (248) 551- JACK WIWAMS
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A four-session course to help pro-
vide incentive and support to quit
smoking will be offered by
William Beaumont Hospital, 7-9
p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, Aug.
5,7, 12, 14, at the Administration
Building, 3601 W. Thirteen Mile,
Royal Oak. To register, call (800)
633-7377.
Beitman Laser-Eye Institute will
host a free seminar on the newest
technology for vision correc-
tion, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug.
6, at the DoubleTree Hotel in
Novi. For reservations, call (800)
826-EYES.
St. Mary Hospital in Livonia will
host a free self-help group for
cancer patients and their fam-
ilies, 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Aug. 6. The hospital is at 36475
Five Mile Road, Livonia.
Orientation sessions for the Beau-
mont weight loss program will
be held 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednes-
day, Aug 6, 13, 20, 27, at Beau-
mont's Division of Preventive and
Nutritional Medicine, 390 Park,
Birmingham. To register, call
(248) 646-6500.
William Beaumont Hospital will
offer a one-session course on ba-
sic techniques of infant/child
CPR, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Thursday,
Aug 7, 14, 21, 28, at the Rehabil-
itation and Health Center, 746
s steadily as the sun rises
each morning, the wispy vi-
sionary who revolutionized
baby and child care eases
into his ritual of rejuvenation.
For Dr. Benjamin Spock, it is
the difference between being in
a wheelchair and striding me-
thodically up a daunting trail on
the Southern California coast.
It's the difference between car-
rying the burden of his 94 years
on stooped shoulders and rising,
as surely as the temperature on a
summer day, to the height that
nature intended: 6 feet, 2 inches.
Spock has found youth in yoga.
He's found sustenance in a
meatless macrobiotic diet of nat-
ural foods and serenity in tran-
scendental meditation.
He's found that life in the 90s
is like, well, life in the '90s: full of
all kinds of new challenges.
"People still want to hear from
him," says Mary Morgan, his wife
and caretaker, who is 41 years his
junior. "He's writing three articles
right now, and wrote another new
book - 'A Better World for Our
Children' - a couple years ago."
At the moment, Spock is col-
laborating with San Diego pedia-
trician Martin Stein on a revision
of his landmark "Dr. Spocles Baby
and Child Care," originally pub-
lished a half-century ago. The up-
date is due for release in February
by Pocket Books.
Meanwhile, Spock's carefully