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Record Debuts on the Web HIGHLIGHTS· From 'Whatchamacallit' to Funshine New Camp Starts for Children The NIH Record, exclusively a paper publication since May 1949, is now Special love Infected with HIV available electronically on the World Wide launches New By Rich McManus Web. It can be accessed within the NIH Camp home page (www.nih.gov) under the nless you just came to NIH a week ago, you probably know at " Information for Employees" and "News Microsoft least something about Camp Fantastic. For the uninitiated, it's and Events" sections. Or open the site Wunderkind ~ a week-long slice of August turned into terrific summer camp directly by going to http://www.nih.gov/ Foretells Future for children-many of them Clinical Center patients-with cancer, news/NIH-Record/archives.htm. and has always been powered by the freehearted and funloving Catch the Record side of the National Cancer Institute-its Pediatric Branch and The Web version is modeled after the on the Web associated caregivers. It began 15 years ago at a 4-H campground paper one and closely resembles it, but has near Front Royal, Va., and has evolved into a year-round, family­ the advantage of color design and centered program that worries not just about the child with photography. The site's opening page is an cancer, but also about the healthy sibling who wonders where all " Archives" of issues that leads off-for the Dyer, Gorgas Talks of mom and dad's attention went. And much more. moment-with the Mar. 25 edition. It w ill Coming Up Organized by nonprofit Special Love, Inc., of Winchester, Va., eventually go back to July 1996, when we which was founded by the parents of a child who succumbed to adopted a new look. Soon, new issues w ill cancer, Camp Fantastic is a household word at NIH. You can appear online at the same time as, or even Mammography give CFC dollars each year to Special Love. You can chow down a day or two before, the printed version. Offered to NIH'ers SEE CAMP FUNSHINE, PAGE 6 Click on ,my of t he dates to enter a given issue. Play Ian Again, Microsoft's Myrhvold Gazes To encourage responses from readers, Please Into Computing's Future there are several links for sending us email; we hope readers w ill take advantage of By Rich McManus this tool. he flyer announcing his visit to NIH was, In preparation since last December, the site in itself, a stunning document, written, was developed w ith important contribu­ lpresumably, to induce pangs of inferiority tions from designer Richard Barnes of in the largest egos on campus. The next NCRR's design section, and Dennis speaker in NHGRl's Human Genome Rodrigues and Becca Houston of OD's Lecture Series was not simply Bill Gates' Office of Communications. right-hand man at Microsoft, the country's leading computer giant and certified shaper The online availability should be a boon to of worlds. He was also a colleague of famed retirees and off-campus readers who have cosmologist Stephen Hawking at Cam­ been barred from subscriptions to the bridge, holder of a herd's worth of sheepskin Dr. Nathan Myrhvold Record since 1987, when more than 2,000 U.S. lkp,utmcnt from such places as Princeton and Berkeley, outside subscribers fell victim to govern­ of Health and and dabbler in such pastimes as mountain climbing, formula car I luman Sc..·rvil:cs racing, photography and French cooking. ment cutbacks. N;1tirnul itl',lilllt1..·\ ol I k.dth "When he takes time off," the notice continued, "[Dr. Nathan] Check out-any day of the week-the Myrhvold works as an assistant chef at one of Seattle's leading "second best thing about payday" at NIHI April 8, 1997 French restaurants. He has competed twice in the world champi­ Vol. XLIX, No. 7 SEE MICROSOFT MAN, PAGE 4 Community Briefed about NIH Recycling Recently, the NIH core community working group was briefed on NIH's expanded recycling program. The group is led by Jan Hedetniemi, director of NIH's Office of Community Liaison, and has mem­ bers from the community, business and county government. The presentation was well received by both community and Montgomery County represen­ tatives. Eileen Kao, director of the Montgomery County recycling program, offered an interactive display for use during NIH recycling program events. The briefing noted that expanded recycling will take place in stages across campus by "clusters" of Jan Hedetniemi, director of the Office of Community Ileana V. Trevino buildings, each of which will have the opportunity to Liaison, receives a certificate of appreciation and NIH recently joined participate. Each NIH building will have a custom­ recycling T-shirt for her role as Bldg. 1 floor coordina­ NIH as deputy ized recycling plan, developed to meet its recycling tor from Dr. Robert McKinney, director, Division of director of the needs. Safety. Office of Equal The assistance of building floor coordinators will be Opportunity. important as each building develops a recycling program. Division of Safety director Dr. Robert McKinney Before coming to presented Hedetniemi with a certificate of appreciation and NIH recycling T-shirt for her role as Bldg. 1 OEO, she was an floor coordinator. EEO consultant specializing in The NIH recycling program will include outside containers placed in convenient locations throughout counseling, campus. All recycling containers will be identified with the blue and green NIH recycling logo. complaints For more information about being a floor coordinator or about the recycling program, visit the NIH investigation and Recycles home page, http://www.nih.gov/od/ors/ds/recycle. Ill EEO training. From 1985 to Take Your Child to Work Day, Apr. 24 1989 she was chief of employ­ This is an opportunity to introduce school-age children to che public services ment programs their parents provide and to encourage future career decisions that will assure a for the Depart­ quality workforce for the 21st century. The observance was launched initially in ment of Agricul­ 1993 as "Take Your Daughter to Work," but NIH broadened it to include sons NI H RfC ORD ture. She served as well as daughters, and grandchildren as well. as a personnel Children can participate in a variety of activities such as displays, tours, Published biweekly at Bethesda, Md .. by the Editorial Operations management presentations and even " hands-on" exercises. Many of last year's popular specialist with the Branch, Division of Public activities will be available as well as some exciting new ones. lnformotion, for the information of Department of Visit the "Take Your Child to Work" web site: http://www.nih.gov/od/ors/ds/ employees of ,he Nationol Transportation Institutes of Health, Department of from 1979 to tycw/tycw.htm. This page will have the most up-to-date information about the Health and Human Services. The day and registration procedures. content is reprinrable without 1985. Trevino permission. Pictures may be earned a Due to space limitations, some activities will require preregistration on Apr. 17 a,·ailable on requeS1. Use of funds bachelor's degree or Apr. 18 between 10 and 1 p.m. in front of Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10. for prtnring ,his periodical has been from Boston Registration must be done in person and will be limited to two activities. apprmtd by 1he direc1or of the Offiae of ~fanagemcnt and Budget College, and a Employees are welcome to bring their children to work if approved by the 1hrough Sept. 30, 1997. master's degree employee's supervisor and certain rules are followed. NIH Manual Chapter from Boston 3015 contains information about bringing children into potentially hazardous University. KJH Record Office areas. Iii Bldg. 31, Rm. 2B03 Phone 6-2125 Workshop of Bibliographic Standards Fax 2-1485 Editor There will be a free workshop Apr. 16 titled, "The Future of Bibliographic Richard McManus Standards in a Networked Information Environment: Does the Internet Need [email protected] Bibliographic Standards?" Sponsored by CENDI, an interagency cooperative organization composed of scientific and technical information managers from a Assistant Editor Carla Garnett variety of federal agencies, the workshop will bring together speakers and [email protected] attendees from libraries, information centers and database producers; and from the public and private sectors to discuss the future of bibliographic standards Tin: "XI H Re,ord reserves tbc right to make correct. ions, changes, or deletions and practices. Hours are 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (registration begins at 8:30 a.m.), in submitted copy in conformity with Rms. El-E2, Natcher Conference Center. Registration by Apr. 9 is encouraged. Ith• policies of the p.lpcr and HHS. To register or for more information call Kathryn Johnson, 1-800-949-6659. Iii \.j The Record is recyclable as office white paper. Von Boehmer To Give Dyer Lecture pursue a Ph.D. as a fellow of the Max Planck Society. He received his Ph.D. in medical biology nr. Harald von Boehmer will give a talk on "Lym­ from Melbourne University in 1974. From 1973 to Uphocyte Survival" at the NIH Director's R.E. Dyer 1996 he did research at the Basel Institute for Lecture on Thursday, Apr. 10, at 3 p.m. in Masur Immunology, where he became a permanent member Auditorium, Bldg. 10. Von Boehmer is professor of in 1976. immunology at the Faculte de Medecine Necker and Since 1982, he has been an adjunct professor in the director of Unite INSERM (National Institute of department of pathology at the University of Florida Science and Medical Research) 373 in Paris. in Gainesville, and since 1991 he has also been This year's Some of von Boehmer's most important scientific professor of immunology at the University of Basel. Gorgas Memo­ contributions address one of the central issues in From 1992 to 1994, von Boehmer served as director rial/Leon Jacobs immunology, namely how the immune system of research at INSERM in France. He has been Lecture ivill be distinguishes between "self"-that is, the body's own professor of immunology at Faculte de Medecine given by Dr. molecules, cells or tissues-and "nonself"- foreign Necker since 1993, and this year also became Donald R. Hopkins, senior substances such as viruses or bacteria. Two types of director of Unite INSERM 373. The R.E. Dyer Lecture is a special Thursday lecture consultant for the white blood cells, T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes, Global 2000 serve on the front lines of the immune system, that is part of the NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series. All NIH employees are project of the enabling it to recognize and help destroy foreign Carter Presiden­ invited to attend. For more information, contact invaders. tial Center in T lymphocytes (T cells), which are produced in the Hilda Madine, 4-5595.-Elia Ben-Ari El Atlanta. His talk, thymus, have cell-surface receptors that enable them titled "Eradica­ to recognize and respond to a wide range of sub­ Blood Safety Advisory Committee Meets tion of Guinea stances. Some T cells have the potential to attack Worm Disease The DHHS advisory committee on blood safety self molecules, and, if left unchecked, can perma­ (Dracunculiasis)," and availability will hold its first meeting Apr. 24- will be presented nently damage the body's own tissues. This damage 25 in Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10. The meeting in Wilson Hall, is seen in various autoimmune diseases such as is sponsored by NIH, CDC and FDA. Bldg. 1, at 2 p.m. rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis. The entire meeting-from 8:30 a.m. on Apr. 24 on Apr. 23. A principal thrust of von Boehmer's research has through its adjournment-will be open to the been the study of self-nonself discrimination-that public. On Apr. 24, discussion topics will include is, how the immune system distinguishes between hepatitis C virus, including its epidemiology, useful T cells and harmful T cells, and how it infection related to blood transfusion, and destroys or inactivates potentially harmful "self­ possible public health prevention measures. On reactive" T cells. In the mid-1980's, in collaboration Apr. 25, discussion will cover Creutzfeldt-Jakob with several other research groups, von Boehmer disease and its possible transmittance by blood and colleagues established T-cell receptor (TCR) transfusion. transgenic mice with the goal of using them to study Those interested in speaking at the meeting must self-nonself discrimination. This was a major contact Dr. Paul McCurdy, executive secretary, at technical and conceptual breakthrough for immuno­ 5-0065. Presentations are limited to 5 minutes. logy research and the study of self-nonself discrimi­ Those who want to attend the meeting should nation. It enabled von Boehmer and others to show register by contacting Wanda Keys at Prospect that potentially harmful immature T cells are Associates by phone at (301) 468-6555 or fax eliminated, or deleted, in the thymus during the (301) 770-5164. process of T-cell development. He also used gene­ For general information, call Jodi Shelley, 5- deficient and TCR-transgenic mice for experiments 0065. that shed light on the mechanisms by which imma­ ture T cells develop into one of two possible types of mature T cells- killer (cytotoxic) T cells or helper T Symposium on Minorities, Cancer cells. In his lecture, von Boehmer will discuss, as he puts The 6th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the it, "the struggle of lymphocytes for survival by Medically Underserved and Cancer will be held Apr. trying to make the right receptors and engaging with 23-27, in Washington, D.C., at the Hyatt Regency various ligands throughout life." on Capitol Hill. The symposium brings attention to Von Boehmer was born in Guben, Germany, and in the issue of the disproportionate incidence of cancer 1968 received his medical diploma from the Univer­ morbidity and mortality in minority and medically sity of Munich. He prepared a thesis at the Max underserved populations in the United States. Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich as part Several NIH institutes will be participating in the of his work towards his M.D. degree. In 1971, he forum. For more information, contact T.J. Dunlap went to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of or Ruth Sanchez at (713) 798-5383 or email: Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, to [email protected]. Ill MICROSOFT MAN, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 onship of barbecue in Memphis, winning first and second place titles." So he is a down-home boy after all! It was a relief to see this titan in person, for he entered Lipsett Amphitheater with all of the panache of one of those guys who work the lights in the hall: portly, rumpled and utterly preoccupied with the back end of a Compaq laptop computer, into whose nethers he was reaching as a full hall awaited his pronouncements. Turns out his resume was incomplete, too. In addition to serving as chief technology officer at Compurns have already brought back T. Rex (in. the filn Microsoft, he is also the father of twin 8-year-old Jura55ic Park/, said Myrhvold (/), d,ief technology office, Sons of Italy boys, a story about whom launched the lecture. .i: _\ficrc soft, shown here meeting with NlH'ers. "It's Dinner Dance Invited to discuss the long-term future of software in or.l) .; nutrer of time before we bring back Elvis." genome research, he had told his sons that he was Looking for a great flying out to NIH to discuss the Human Genome -Software growth is limited only by human night out7 Come Project. "Well, they read the papers, and they asked amb10on, - he said. "If you can think of a new to the NIH's OSIA me, 'Daddy, what is [the genome project]? Why feature. someone will sit down and try to write it." Lodge's spring would anvone want to do that?'" Of course, any new invention will eventually fall dinner dance at What e~sued in the next 90 minutes didn't particu­ prey ;: another of Nathan's Laws - "It's fundamen­ the American larly have to do with the genome project, but was tally unpossible to have enough. New software will Legion Wheaton certainly entertaining as Myrhvold, who has a talent connnue t0 be written until computers are perfect." Lodge on Satur­ for juggling numbers and dimensions, demonstrated InrercmngJy. the new generation of computer day, Apr. 12. the force of computers in both the past and future. games : !'.>r kids are often more flagrant consumers of George Simons He confessed at the outset that he didn't know much comp.:cmg power than are scientific applications, will provide live about what NIH does, and apologized for setting Myrh\·o'.d disclosed. A new video game called "Lost dance music, there back the tide of biomedical discovery by an hour World.- based on the film Jurassic Park, uses more will be a cash bar and a half. But notions of time tended to dissolve as compu:er power than the original movie, which was from 6:30 p.m., he chopped large blocks of it like so many racks of regarded 1~ a special-effects tour de force, he said. and dinner will spice-rubbed baby-back ribs. Because people can always imagine more than include meatballs, To wit: Though it sometimes seems that comput­ what a c :npucer can deliver, there will always be a pasta dishes, ers and the Internet are ubiquitous, only 40 percent "software crms. ·· ~1yrhvold said. "It's a perpetual chicken, cheeses, of American homes have personal computers. There crisis. .-\nd it really is a crisis of expectations, not veggies, garden is a "constant doubling time" of advances in technology. The benefits of any new software salad and bread. computing speed and power, which have multiplied advance tend .o be absorbed by rising expectations. Tickets are 520 per by a factor of 1 million in the last 20 years. What "Kids ,nl: be able to make their own feature films person. Contact used t0 take a computer a year to do 20 years ago [on compurer} m the future," he predicted. Nina Baccanari, can now be accomplished in 30 seconds. Myrhvold Myrhvold said the Internet today is at a similar 1301 I 869-4045. predicts another million-fold increase in computing stage as the telephone in the days of Alexander power in the next 20 years, so that calculations that Graham Bell. or cele\·ision in the days of the Milton would occupy today's best computers for a full year BerleShou. would then take only a few seconds. "This trend is Turning more explicitly to biology, he played with likely to continue for at least the next 40 years," he big numbers tne way a sous chef might concoct said. In the nearer term, video transmission via sauces. For example, comparing genetic complexity computer "will become a common data type on PCs with its counterpart m software, he said the movie soon" as bandwidth, now considered "narrow," Evita, starring ~tadonna. takes up 4 gigabytes of becomes much broader in about 2 years. memory, whereas ~iadonna · yet-human genome He then raced through a series of "Nathan's only consisrs of 1 g,gabyre of information. Laws," illustrating his points neatly with the click of Observing char humans differ, genomically, from a mouse, which activated a color slide show. Put one another hr only about 0.25 percent; "all of the simply, hardware-the chips with all of their things that make you umque could fie on a [1.2 memory and connections-and software-the megabyte] floppy disk. programs that make those chips do useful things­ "The total generic di,·enry of the human race is are locked in a fevered race. No sooner do chips large by many measures,·· he continued, "but pales become more capacious than programmers think of in comparison with [rhe complexiry of] a large some cool new tricks that, incidentally, fill their website, such as Microsoft.com. In fact, the genetic circuits. diversity of all the world"s animals is about as complex as the World Wide Web will be in a few NIH Library Open House, Apr. 17 years." In the computing world, "it's not long before any The NIH Library Branch, part of NCRR, will hold fixed horizon is overwhelmed," he said. He pre­ an open house on Thursday, Apr. 17, starting at 10 dicted that in 20-30 years, "computers will have the a.m., in observance of National Library Week. same power as the human brain. Eighteen months NIH'ers are invited to visit the library in Bldg. 10. later, they'll have twice as much." He joked, "If we Tours will be held at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.; electronic stay fixed [with regard to brain power] and comput­ database demonstrations and registration for library ers keep growing, they're going to catch us. Then services including Ovid, Windows Grateful Med, the problem becomes, how do we program them if Loansome Doc, and Carl UnCover will run from 10 they're as smart as us?" a.m. to 2 p.m. As if to illustrate where all of this is heading, Everyone who completes a survey at the open Myrhvold ended his talk with a short and hilarious house or at one of the exhibits in Bldgs. 10, 49, or film depicting a brave new world in which an Parklawn will become eligible for the "Information uploaded, digitized version of Myrhvold, instead of Makeover Raffle." Winners will receive the consul­ his corporeal self, becomes "right-hand nerd" to Bill tation services of an NIH librarian for a day. After Gates. an assessment of the winner's information needs, the It looked like a hell of a way to lose weight. Iii librarian will help locate potentially valuable resources, and teach the person how to retrieve and manage the material. Dr. Donald F. Summers has For more information on the open house and other been named associate activities scheduled for National Library Week, The Society of director for the Frederick check the NIH Library's home page at http:// Investigative Cancer Research and libwww.ncrr.nih.gov, or call 6-1156. Dermatology Development Center by the (SID) is present­ National Cancer Institute. ing NIAMS He received his doctorate NIH Library Activities for National Library Week director Dr. from the University of Stephen I. Katz Illinois College of Medicine Monday, Apr. 14 its highest in 1959. He completed 2 Exhibit - An Information "Makeover" honor-the years of residency training Bldg. 10-11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Stephen Rothman in internal medicine in Lipsett Amphitheater Lobby Memorial Award, Harvard Medical Services at Register for Library services, UnCover Reveal, given annually Boston City Hospital in 1960. In 1961, he joined NIH Medline, and Loansome Doc for "distinguished as a research associate at NIAID. He taught at Albert service to Einstein College of Medicine from 1964 -1974. He then Tuesday, Apr. 15 investigative became professor and chair of the department of cellular, Electronic Resources Demonstrations cutaneous viral, and molecular biology at the University of Utah medicine." It School of Medicine. In 1992, he became senior associate Parklawn-10 a.m. - 2 p.m. recognizes Katz dean and professor of microbiology and molecular Register for Library services, UnCover Reveal, for "exceptional genetics and medicine at the University of California, Medline, and Loansome Doc achievements in Irvine. Summers has published over 120 scientific the form of major papers, book chapters, and reviews. He has research Wednesday, Apr. 16 scientific experience in biochemistry, microbiology, virology, and Exhibit - An Information "Makeover" publications, molecular biology. He has worked for more than 30 Bldg. 49- 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. outstanding years with poliovirus, rhabdovirus, influenza virus, and Register for Library services, UnCover Reveal, performance as a hepatitis A virus. Medline, and Loansome Doc teacher, and attraction of young, promising Blue Cross/Blue Shield Day, Apr. 9 Thursday, Apr. 17 investigators with Open House at NIH Library a medical or basic Blue Cross/Blue Shield of the National Capital Area Bldg. 10 -10 a.m. - 2 p.m. science back­ will be on the NIH campus Wednesday, Apr. 9 to Register for Library services ground into assist enrollees who have claims or enrollment Demos: Windows Grateful Med, Biological Ab­ dermatologic problems. A representative will be available from 9 stracts, Embase, Psychinfo, Reference Management research." SID a.m. to 3 p.m. that day in Bldg. 31, Conf. Rm. 8, Software president Dr. armed with a laptop computer to access directly the Library Tours at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Ill John]. Voorhees enrollee's records at company headquarters. will present the No appointment is necessary. Assistance will be award in a provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Blue ceremony on Apr. 24 at the Cross/Blue Shield comes to the NIH campus one day Sheraton each month, usually on the second Wednesday of the Washington month. Iii Hotel. CAMP FUNSHINE, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 at the annual Camp Fantastic Barbecue, held each run- a weekend-long camp dubbed -camp June on the patio outside Bldg. 31. You can ski with \\hacchamacallit"- just to see if they could pull it the camp kids in winter, run in road races designed off. Their first effort, in 1994. was ,,u_;:cessful, with to raise funds for them in the fall, play in a softball 13 families, all of them from rhe C!!n1.:al Center. tournament benefitting them in summer, and attend The following year, 1995, plans: : a second plays in Masur Auditorium that will put cash in weekend camp bogged down and am enough their kitty. You can buy their T-shirts at the R&W families enrolled in time for rhe e,.~= rn take place. store, where General Manager Randy Schools is not Because it was so heavily comrru;::d ;:; us estab­ lished Camp Fantastic, and beca.;5e :i...:nout was so low for the new camp, Special Lc,-e "i:hdrew its sponsorship of what the kids ha.:: .~amed Camp Funshine. No hard feelings. t, , -5~ 5c::-med to be a nonstarter. Chastened by their sophomore , -m~. Russell, whom Bergin describes as -pas::,:a:u:e .3bouc children with life-threatening :. - ~,-e-,-she recog­ nized a tremendous need co rez..-:i.. o...t :o the grow­ ing HIV population," and Be.:-; - e-= ded to pool their talents: She is a former ab s~.3tive officer ar NCI who now is associate &e~. r for planning and administration of the Lo::-~i! Cancer Center at Georgetown; Bergin, a - -: e,: i-e;e:.an counselor at Camp Fantastic, is opera:-: - r:.r.::.z;er at the Lombardi Center. Together. ~ .k,. .;ed ro turn what had been known as\\.:..:· ••~ .. .-. ;.·allit into something worthy of a name. Aided by counselor-turned-, - .:.r~r Jodi DeOms The Bethesda Little Theatre-formerly the NIH R &W Theatre Group­ :-vicKay (who, until last year. - • .: :o: R&W) and recently made a gift of $1,000 to Camp Funshine, a new camp for kids u.1th a host of Special Love veter;.;-,_ --~ :.1:l a second HIV that is growing under the auspices of Special Love, Inc., which .1/so weekend camp in June 1990 ~= ;-n-a ed the first, sponsors Camp Fantastic each summer for kids with cancer. On hand /or :IJe proving to Special Love cha: :..~ 1! :he will and presentation were (fro1n I) Brian Campbell of the Substance Abuse and .\len:.1/ the ability-and the fundra~• -; c:..:,xie---io create Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Michael Bergin of Comp something new. "It was ,n.c... -...::~::,.:U.. - says Funshine, Teddi Pensinger of SAMHSA, R& W General Manager Rand) Bergin, who was recently oc ~---s ;~a.:c ept a Schools, Alice Page Smyth of the Clinical Center, and Michelle McGou..m of check for $1,000 donated w ::..e ~ camp by the the National Eye Institute. Bethesda Little Theatre (forwe- .le ~IH R&W Theatre Group). "We had .23 =~es.. :ncluding 60 just a Special Love charter member, but also one of kids who were either infecre~ - ..:e-.:ud by HIV. the camp's most avid summer funsters. "It's very family-focused. - s..u-:: ~-:.. .. so they It makes perfect sense, then, in an age of cloning, have time together away fro..i --e - .;..5 and tribula­ to recreate the success of a camp for youngsters with tions of the disease. A lot o: :~ :-- ;:amming and cancer by starting a summer camp for kids with the people who run it are frc:n Ca..:n; fantastic, so another fearsome diagnosis- human immunodefi­ it's based on what we\·e do~e -- .:a.Leer kids." ciency virus (HIV). Novel issues with an HIY .:a.~- -.:,-de providing A few years ago, when N CI's Pediatric Branch bottled water for campers. "-: ~ --;;une systems began accepting youngsters with the AIDS virus for could be harmed by bacter:.a t.1 ;a; .uer. Disclo­ treatment, some of the kids quite naturally wanted sure of illness is another ma : •~n some to attend Camp Fantastic, which is the premier families, the child knows on · ~= ::e 1s sick, and social event of the year for the branch's patients. hasn't been told, perhaps bee.a-~ -e .sn·c old In 1994, Dr. Philip Pizzo, another Special Love enough, that he has HI\'. So~e~ e ·en siblings godfather who until last summer was chief of NCI's don't know what the diago05n ~- Pm·acy issues Pediatric Branch, and his colleagues decided there extend beyond the family a:. ,, dl. should be a special camp for kids with H IV. "Publicity at Camp Funshu:e ,- ~~..:h different The folks at Special Love welcomed the idea of than Camp Fantastic," expla1::-- &rp:i. "'We are hosting a new camp. Organizers included Kathy trying to provide a respite fo: .:-~ ~1mtlies, far Russell and Michael Bergin of Georgetown Univer­ away from the isolation and :i"X" e;.i. s:igrna that sity, both of whom have close professional ties to they may feel at home. We ha ea cremendous NCI and Pizzo. They pitched the idea of a brief trial respect for their privacy. \\-e p:O\ ce an environ- ment free from judgment, where everyone is in the "Basically, I've been the guest who will never same boat. They can draw strength from each other leave," he laughs now. At Georgetown since 1994, and our wonderful staff." he will soon have both an M.B.A. and a wife. The camp doesn't focus on the diagnosis at all, "I met my fiancee at Camp Funshine last year," he explains Bergin. "It isn't even mentioned. It's not says. "It goes to show that when you do what you on our camp T-shirts, it's not on our literature, and love in life, good things come to you." On June 14, it's not part of the program. We do provide re­ Bergin will marry Jeanne Higgins, a veteran HIV sources for the family, however. Last year we had a camp counselor who was also once an NCI Pediatric social worker from a clinic in Washington, D.C., and Branch volunteer. Interestingly, Bergin nearly turned Dr. Lauren Wood of NIH, who conducted voluntary her down as a camp volunteer before they ever met. sessions for the parents and caregivers. They are "She kept calling and calling, and I told her we had The Division of Research Grants also available throughout the weekend to provide enough counselors. Finally I relented, and I'm glad I recently gave the did." They were engaged in front of the camp fire information one-on-one, as it is needed. The onus is ££0 Special on the parents to seek us out, we do not force them circle last October at a Special Love family weekend. Achievement to talk about anything." A former college basketball player at LaSalle, Award to Dr. Convinced that Funshine was in the hands of Bergin knows coaches and players at both the Marjam Behar, a seasoned pros, Special Love welcomed it back into college level and the NBA who he feels comfortable scientific review its fold of official programs last November. It will tapping for help at Camp Funshine. During college administrator in be conducted at the 4-H center June 6-8 and Oct. he realized that his future lay in helping kids rather the biochemical 31-Nov. 2 in 1997, and for 1998-1999 intends co than starring as an athlete, so he never let friend­ sciences initial expand to a full week. ships falter. re-view group, for "We don't want to tax the (financial) resources of "My coach at LaSalle, Speedy Morris, still sends us her work on Project SEED Special Love too much," said Bergin. "We're similar balls and T-shirts," he proudly reporcs. (Summer to where they were with Camp Fantastic 10 or 15 Still very much the kid himself, despite being 6'4" Educational years ago." and weighing 220, Bergin remembers the weekend £;'

On Apr. 23, Dr. Three members Frances M. of the NIH Brodsky, professor Extramural in the schools of Associates pharmacy and Program winter medicine at the 1997 class, Dr. University of Carolyn Caudle NIAAA director Dr. Enoch Gordis (third from l) and California, San (1) from Tennes­ deputy director Dr. Mary Dufour (bottom l) welcome Francisco, will see State new members to the National Advisory Council on present "Endocy­ University, Dr. Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. They are (standing, tosis: Mechanism Princilla Smart from l) Dr. Mark Goldman, University of South Florida; Evans (second from l) from Fisk University and Dr. and Subversion." Dr. Marc Galanter, New York University School of Lynda Jordan from North Carolina A&T University (r), Medicine; and Roger Hartman, ex-officio member recently greeted 1995 NIH EA Dr. Johnnie Jones, now representing the Department of Defense. Seated are For m ore informa­ dean of Hampton University's School of Science, at the (second from 1) Dr. Carrie Randall, Medical University tion or for Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network of South Carolina, and Joan Hamilton, Yukon­ reasonable Conference, an annual summit held in Washington, D.C. Kuskokwin Health Corp. Missing are new members Dr. accommodation, Now in its sixth year, the QEM network was formed to Henri Begleiter, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, and call Hilda Madine, establish mechanisms for increasing the participation of former Sen. George McGovern, Middle East Policy 4-5595. minorities in science, math and engineering. Council.