The BG News August 10, 1988

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THE BG NEWS Vol. 70 Issue 134 Bowling Green, Ohio Wednesday, August 10,1988 Artist 'draws'on family support Ballgame does a lot of artwork for friends to benefit by Catherine Hoehn assistant managing editor and family, but tries to stay away from doing specific requests, since she has difficulty Drawing her strength from making exact lines needed for young girl her family and friends, a local drawing people and animal fig- artist is enjoying success de- ures. spite her disabilies. To aid Bodie in her artwork, a by Judl Kopp Pat Bodie, a 52-year-old resi- friend gave her a turntable for editor dent of Wood County Nursing her paints and paper that she Home, won an honorable men- can push around with her tion ribbon Friday for a pen-and- mouthstick, allowing her to dip The daughter of a Firelands ink drawing she submitted at the the brush and then apply paint to staff member may have many Wood County Fair Fine Arts the paper on her own. 'strikes' against her, but the open competition Friday. Bodie said she strives to be as University s classified staff Bodie, stricken with polio 34 independent as possible. hopes to stage a 'hit' with the years ago, is completely para- Howewever, she will probably benefit Softball game in her lyzed from the neck down. To do always need someone, like her honor. her pictures, she uses a long husband Jim, whom she met at mouthstick, with a clip at the Heartland Nursing Home in The 'BGSU All-Stars' will be end, to maneuver her pen or Perrysburg and married two playing the WTVG Channel 13 paintbrush. She said she didn't Sears ago, to feed her and get staff Sunday, Aug. 14 in a soft- want anyone to know before- er through the daily routine. ball game for the'Emma Fund', hand that her three entries at Jim, who has had three benign according to Joyce Hyslop, of the fair had been done by a disa- tumors which could possibly the classified staff council. bledperson. cause him to have severe sei- Hyslop said that the game will 'The most important thing zures, rooms with Bodie in the benefit Emma Horan, the about the pictures, I want to Wood County Nursing Home. daughter of Dennis and Alice watch people look at what I've Bodie claims that living in a Horan, who has severe birth done...and say 'I like that,' or nursing home, where the staff defects. Her father is the coor- 'Oh, that's nice,' because they can provide for her need physi- dinator of the instructional like the picture, not because I cal are, does not bother her, for media center on the Firelands did it with a mouthstick." she is not shy about enlisting the campus. Bodie said she first turned to aid of others. One resident once art several years ago "to fill an described her as being pushy She said the classified staff empty void'* in her fife. when trying to get things ac- became aware of Emma's med- "After I got my master's in complished. But Bodie said she ical problems when the Fire- guidance and counseling, I has learned she must fend for lands representative to the clas- didn't have much chance of get- herself in a world where handi- sified staff council told other ting a position. So I had a lot of capped people are taught to al- (classified staff) members time on my hands." ways "be perfect" and to control about her. Bodie graduated from Per- their emotions. rysburg High School and was She said a person who is se- "Emma has Migrational Syn- working as a student nurse at verely disabled has only two drome," Hyslop said. "It's unbe- Toledo Hospital when, at age 18, choices. lievable she's been able to sur- she got the infectious disease "One is to live on, the other is vive. She was born eight weeks that has left her permanently to give up and die," she said. "I early and wasn't expected to crippled. She said the vaccine believe if you seriously want to live. But she managed to survive for Polio came out six months die, you can do it emotionally. If and is doing rather well." after she was paralyzed. you really want to live, you have Bodie moved into Heartland to know how to accept what you She said Emma was bom in Nursing Home in Perrysburg, have. You must come to terms 1986 with several birth defects after several months of rehabili- with it and not kid yourself that including partial blindness due tation, and began taking free art it will go away." to cataracts, underdevelopment lessons from a visiting artist. Bodie said she tries to main- of the brain and hydrocephalis. She was later instructed by Pat tain a full life. Five years after She has a device in her brain to Gstalder, who was at that time a her first encounter with polio, drain off excess fluids, but Hys- Start High School art teacher. she went to the University of lop said she "still needs therapy Gstalder met Bodie while visit- Toledo to obtain her bachelors and diagnostic procedures." ing her mother, also a resident degree in English literature, and atHeartland. BG News/Cathy Hoehn returned later for her master's She said the Emma Fund was Bodie said the Wood County Pat Bodie degree. While a Perrysburg re- established by co-workers and Fair exhibit is the first open of her works in the Art Expres- Exhibits in the show are to be she has done several hundred sident, she traveled to Paris, Is- friends of the Horans in order to competition to which she has sions show sponsored by the Re- submitted from disabled per- pictures, including water color rael and Rome. Although alleviate some of the monetary submitted her work. habilitation Services Commis- sons only. paintings, charcoal and pen- neither she nor Jim have pressures of the medical bills. Bodie said hopes to submit two sion in Columbus, Sept. 11-16. Altogether, Bodie estimates and-ink drawings. She said she See Artwork, page 5. See Game, page S. Licensing to protect logos sed at the University since the mid 70s," he use of the logo in advertising that could be by Judl Kopp said. misleading. editor Manufacturers will have to pay a 6.5 per- "The symbols have been used on toilet cent royalty on the cost of producing goods seat covers," he said. "Also, the symbols that use a University identification mark. can be used in conjunction with T-shirts that Manufacturers of goods that carry a sym- He said the program applies to companies as may not be representative of the University. bol of the University must have the product well as individuals who want to produce "In addition, if the logo is used in advertis- approved under the new licensing system. goods using the University logos and sym- ing it implies that the University endorses John Buckenmyer, director of the Book- bols. the product (or idea), which may not neces- store, said that the primary purpose of the Under the program, manufacturers must sarily be true," Buckenmyer said. licensing program is "to protect the logos send a sample product to be approved, He said several marks associated with the that represent the University and prevent Buckenmyer said. University have been registered with the any misuse of logos and symbols that may "Approval is based on quality, proper U.S. Patent and Trademark office, including reflect unfavorably on the University. usage of logos and whether the product is the block BGSU, the falcon head logo, the "(The system) will also generate reven- designed in good taste. traditional University seal, the updated U- ues for scholarships and grants in aid (ath- "Any reasonable product will have no niversity seal and the name Bowling Green letic scholarships)," Buckenmyer said. problem being approved for licensing," he State University. He said the licensing program went into said. Several Mid-American Conference (MAC) effect July 1, and the idea was initiated at a Buckenmyer said there have been some Schools and the majority of the Big-Ten Con- Board of Trustees meeting in September, problems in the past with the use of the logos ference schools have implemented licensing BG News/ Michael Moore 1987. on items that don't represent the University. systems. Buckenmyer said the University of The University logo shown here will only be used on products after the D See Logo, page 5. manufactures have paid the University a 6.5 percent royalty fee to the U- "The idea of the program has been discus- Also, the licensing system will prevent the niversity. New chapters INSIDE □ The summer freshmen are will rush in fall anxious about their final exams; 18. Fall rush attracts about 1,000 see story, page 3.

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