The Michigan Daily - Sunday, July 29, 1984 - Page 3
25th annual art fair
draws to a
By ERIC MATTSON
Artists, merchants, patrons, and in-
terest groups all wrapped up their four-
day binge at the art fair yesterday, and
most people said the annual event was
quite a success.
Cold, rainy weather on Thursday
slowed business down a bit, but some
merchants and artists said they ac-
tually did better during the rain. By
yesteday, the skies had cleared up
enough to allow many of the nearly half
a million visitors to shop and people
watch to their hearts content.
"OVERALL, IT'S been very good,"
said Jack Elford of Crown Books on
State Street. "I think there's more
(pedestrian) traffic (than last year),"
he said.
Elford said the art fair makes or
breaks a lot of merchants' summers
because most students head home in
April. "If it weren't for the kids, this
place would be dead," he said.
Bill Kenney, owner of The Shoe
Palace and an organizer of the State
Street art fair, said some storeowners
have discussed extending the fair to
five days but "most merchants have
been working 15 hours a day and
they're running out of gas."
MANY OF the interest groups
represented on the corner of East
University and South University were
also successful at the fair. Al, a mem-
ber of the Revolutionary Communist
Party, said this was the "best year
we've ever had" at the fair because of
"more stuff happening in the world."
Lori Brown, a member of NOW, said
"it seems things are going great. She
said that people who disagree with
NOW's platform would often discuss
their differences with her, but "no one's
been really hostile."
NOW member Shannon Gillespie
close
agreed, saying "at the art fair, people
aren't overtly hostile." Gillespie also
said she thinks the booth was suc-
cessful, noting that "just about all our
literature is gone."
see 25TH, Page 4
Street fool
knows how
to draw an
audience
By DOV COHEN
Within minutes after comedian-
juggler-"street fool" Scotty Houghton
had started his show, his small 12-
person audience burgeoned into a
laughing, cheering, tightly-packed
crowd of 100.
"It's getting those first dozen people
that's the key. It's likd people passing
by say 'no one's watching him, he's no
good.' But if there's a crowd watching
you, people think 'wow - he's good,'
Houghton said.
AND FRIDAY'S performances on the
Diag proved that theory. Just two hours
earlier, he had tired to get attention by
offering to set himself on fire or
sacrifice a virgin. His attempt was un-
successful - in his own words, he
"couldn't draw a crowd with a pencil."
But 120 minutes later Houghton was
packing them in. It started slowly. He
drew about five people with a nose
See PERFORMER, Page 4
Top brass t"'V'.
Joe DeMarsh keeps the bass line on his tuba on the corner of State and North
University Streets yesterday. DeMarsh is part of "Today's Brass Quintet."
a group composed of University music school graduates.
U hospital releases
girl with new heart
By GEORGEA KOVANIS
Doctors at the University's C.S. Mott
Childrens' Hospital sent two-year-old
Jonita Greer - the nation's youngest
heart transplant recipient - home
Friday, five weeks after her historic
operation.
Dressed in a pink jogging suit, with a
surgical mask over her face to prevent
infection, Greer was carried out of the
hospital at about 1 p.m. by her parents,
Diane and John Greer. The girl waved
to photographers as she left.
THE HOSPITAL had withheld the
Detroit family's identity until the
release.
Greer suffered from cardiomyopathy
- a progressive disease that deprives
the heart of its ability to beat. She un-
derwent surgery on June 20.
According to doctors, Greer probably
would not have lived more than six
months if she had not undergone the
surgery.
"We did not anticipate her living very
long," Dr. Dennis Crowley, Greer's
cardiologist, said Friday at a press con-
ference which followed her release.
Before the operation, Greer had
grown so weak that by May she was
unable to walk. She began walking
again this month.
"JONITA HAS been in one hospital or
another most of the time since last
Thanksgiving, and when she came to
the University Hospitals in June, I
didn't think she'd live more than five or
so days if she couldn't receive a new
heart," said Diane Greer ina statement
released Friday by the hospital.
Doctors said they were pleased with
the operation's results.
"It's very successful as far as we're
concerned," Crowly said. He added,
however, that the risk of rejection and
infection is something which will
always concern doctors. "There's not
going to be an age when we can just
turn her loose," he said. "I don't think
we'll ever feel she's quite out of the
woods."
ACCORDING TO chief transplant
surgeon Dr. Douglas Behrendt, the
operation will probably cost a total of
$80,000 to $100,000.
Throughout Jonita's stay at the
hospital, doctors and nurses said they
were surprised at Greer's recovergy.
SHE MAINTAINED a strong appetite
and gained weight following the
surgery. In fact, according to hospital
spokesman, John Woodford, doctors
had to reduce the amount of ice cream
Greer was eating for fear she would
gain too much weight too soon before
she could exercise.
"She really didn't require any dif-
ferent post operative care," said Stacey
Galgola, Greer's primary nurse. "She
CAROL L. FRANCAVILLA /Doily
Two-year-old Jonita Greer peers out of her parents' car after her release
from the University's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital Friday. She underwent a
heart transplant operation June 20.
wa a delight to take care of," she said. best of her. "That girl has always had a
"Sh alayswavd a pepleasthy lot of will power," he said in the
"Se awstt wavdatwsy statement released by the hospital.
went past the windows." "Even when her heart was failing and
According to John Greer, Jonita was she could hardly walk, you couldn't
too stubborn to let her disease get the keep her from trying," he said.