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It Can Happen To Anyone! Intel, Nike Managers
good days. V ocational Rehab
ou are single, have a decent
worked faithfully with Elizabeth
job, healthy, comfortable and
financially stable. Then one day for months. With so few working
parts this was not successful.
you wake up to a situation that
Always having been ambitious,
changes your life overnight.
active,
with a never-say-die atti
That’s what happened to Eliza
tude she “made-do” with a small
beth Handley on April 30, 1996.
income from her former marriage
After many years o f working with
and what she had in her saving
computers Elizabeth woke up with
account. Expenses were still more
De Quervain Tendinitis in her left
than income. Health Insurance
wrist and hand. Three days later
helped but was not easy to pay for.
she had De Quervain Tendinitis
Another giant blow came when
in her right wrist, hand, low erand
E lizabeth was diagnosed with
upper arm. One and a half years
breast cancer six month ago. After
later she was almost immobilized
breast surgery and reconstruction
with pain that never stops and
surgery her health insurance, held
that now has gone into knees, legs
over from her working days, ex
and feet.
pired on June 17, 1999.
The pain began slowly and
A fter perm anent T endinitis
gained momentum making it im
problems became a part o f her life
possible for her to continue the
Elizabeth applied for Social Secu
repetitive work with computers. For
rity Disability. She is still waiting
the last one and a half years Eliza
for news about that. A big problem
beth has been unable to do any
appears to be that as each new
work that requires much use of these
Medical Specialist enters her life
parts o f her body. She has had fair
everything starts over, apparently
days and bad days, but seldom any
Y
at the beginning Another new start
appears to be about to happen as
another new Doctor came into the
picture. Elizabeth has to have Che
motherapy because cancer cells
were found in a lymph node.
As all o f these problems have
grown so have the bills that now are
growing astronomically every day.
A special Fund to help Eliza
beth get through these newest prob
lems had been set up at:
Elizabeth Handley
Special Funds
Bank of America
790 Stevens Street
Medford, OR 97504
Or sent to any Bank o f America
Branch in Oregon
Any donations into this Fund
will be greatly appreciated, used
for her health care, other ex
penses, and hopefully will grow
enough to also help with further
Cancer Research.
Pendleton Man Receives
Providence’s First Heart
Transplant
T h i A ssociated P ress
A 51-year-old Pendleton truck
driver is the recipient of the first
heart transplant performed at
Providence Portland Medical
Center.
Terry Lee M iller was at the top
o f the hospital’s list and received
the heart Sunday night.
He was adm itted three weeks
ago and had been waiting for an
available heart.
L isa G o d w in , a h o s p ita l
spokeswoman, said M iller came
through the surgery successfully
and is recovering in the cardiac
intensive care unit.
Godwin said doctors will watch
for potential signs o f rejection,
which can always be present after
transplant surgery.
M iller is listed in critical con
dition, which is always the case
after a transplant.
Surgery began at 6 p.m. Sun-
day. The procedure typically takes
about six hours.
Miller suffers from an oversized
heart, a condition that killed his fa
ther at the age o f 53. Miller’s own
health declined rapidly after he first
began having breathing problems
18 months ago. Prior to that, his
health was never a concern.
That all changed, however, on
June 1, when his condition w ors
ened and he had to take time off.
After tests at Oregon Health Sci
ences University, he was adm it
ted to Providence on June 22.
Dr. Gary Ott, surgical director
o f cardiac transplantation for the
Providence Heart Institute, per
formed the surgery.
For 14 years, Portland’s only
heart-transplant program was at Or
egon Health Sciences University.
OHSU recently hired Dr. H. Storm
F lo ten , who p erfo rm ed the
hospital’s first heart transplant op
eration 14 years ago, as its new
Poll Shows Bush, Gore
With Comfortable
Leads in Oregon
T he A ssociated P ress 7/31/99
PORTLAND — A poll shows
Vice President A1 Gore and Texas
Gov. George Bush with comfort
able leads for their parties’ presi
dential nominations, and gives Bush
a double-digit lead over Gore.
The telephone poll was com
missioned by The Oregonian and
KATU-TV July 23-28 and inter
viewed 501 registered voters. It
has a margin of error o f 4.5 per
centage points.
The poll showed Gore trailing
Bush 49 percent to 37 percent with
the rest undecided.
Bush’s supporters welcomed
the results, which indicate about a
fifth of the Democrats would stray
to Bush in a contest between the
two front-runners.
“Democrats all over are taking
a good look at Bush,” said U S.
Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., state
director for the Bush campaign.
“They’ll find h e’s a man with
whom they can do business.”
Gore supporters countered say
ing the race has hardly begun. They
noted that Gore got 54 percent of
the Democratic support to former
U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley’s 23 percent.
Gore spokesman Roger Salazar
said the gap between Bush and
Gore would close.
The poll showed Gore ’ s strength
in Oregon to be women and younger
voters. Bush had only a 6 point
advantage with women compared to
director o f heart and chest surgery.
The university’s heart trans
plant program has been forced to
rely temporarily on a surgeon from
San Francisco after program head
Dr. Adnan Cobanoglu unexpect
edly left, citing personal reasons.
HEALTH
FOCUS
Jennifer Hays, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston. Texas
Many women I’ve talked to fear
they'll end up in a nursing home with
a broken hip or a spine so fragile they
can’t get out of bed. What a shame
that we think this is a normal conse
quence o f aging. Far too many
women end up with fragile, breakable
bones, but it’s due to a disease called
osteoporosis.
Up until the age of 30, bone is con
tinuously reabsorbed into the body
and replaced by new bone tissue.
During mid-life, we begin to lose
more bone than we replace, even
though estrogen slows down the pro
cess. When we have a marked de
crease in estrogen during and after
menopause, we become easy targets
for osteoporosis.
No matter what stage of life you're
in. there are things you can do to help
prevent bone loss and maintain bone
density. Here arc some ways to in
crease your chances of walking into
the future straight and tall:
• Eat a diet rich in calcium. The
amount of daily calcium recom
mended for women by the National
Institutes of Health depends on the
age group: ages 11-24, 1,200-
1,500 mg.; ages 25-50, 1,000 mg.;
ages 51-64 (on estrogen therapy),
1.000 mg.; ages 51-64 (not on es
trogen therapy), 1.500 mg.; and
age 65 or older, 1,500 mg. Good
sources o f calcium are low-fat
dairy products; dark-green, leafy
vegetables, such as broccoli, col
lard greens, and spinach; tofu; and
calcium-enriched products such as
orange juice, cereals, and breads.
Unfortunately, most o f us don t
get anywhere near enough calcium
T he A ssociated P ress 7/31/99
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)
Cross the fierce techno-geek brains
o f Intel with the high-gloss sports
marketing brawn of Nike, and all
sorts of possibilities come to mind:
A) Sports watches that double as
information appliances.
B) Chip factories relocated to Pa
kistan.
C) Running shoes that come with a
tax break.
Then there’s Lucy.com.
Two managers from Intel and
Nike have quit their jobs and
hopped into the m aelstrom of
today’s e-commerce industry. Their
plan: Sell women’s athletic apparel
and footwear on the Internet.
It’s true that just about every
athletic footwear company and ap
parel brand, not to mention the
retailers, are taking to cyberspace
themselves.
But Steve Hochman, 33, ex-
Intel, and Sue Levin, 36, ex-Nike,
feel their focus on women and their
skills set them apart from the pack.
Some deep-pocketed financiers
and big-time players in the tech
nology world agree.
Lucy.com, which in only six
months has built a staff o f 13, has
attracted $4.5 million in venture
capital and is in the process of
closing a second round.
Lucy .com not just the e-commerce
market leader but the leading seller
o f women’s athletic apparel and
footwear, period.
The b lu n t-sp o k e n L ev in ,
Lucy.corn’s chairwoman and chief
executive officer, said that al
though Nike and other vendors
have in recent years finally begun
to p ro d u ce c o m p e llin g new
women's products, industry retail
ers have failed to promote and
market the category.
“The lim iting factor on the
(wom en’s) market growth is retail
— the crummy state of retail,”
Levin said.
Lucy.com has reached agree
ments to get products from Nike,
Adidas and about 10 other large
companies. It hopes to have 15 to
20 vendors aboard by the time the
Web site is launched in October.
To some degree, the bloom is
o ff the Internet rose, a fact Levin
and Hochman are well aware of.
But they say they’re more inter
ested in building a sound, solid
business than in becoming paper
billionaires.
“Look, if w e’re in this just for
the IPO, w e’re idiots,” Levin said.
“W e’re too late.”
Hochman, who joined Intel in
1995, said he caught the start-up
bug while working for Intel’s new
business unit in Hillsboro. Part of
and external business plans and
new product ideas.
With an eye on funding, he con
templated what a local start-up
might offer that would convince a
venture capitalist to invest here in
stead o f other technology hotbeds.
In September, he ran his idea
for a women’s-only e-commerce
operation by Levin, a personal
friend and U S. wom en’s brand
director at Nike.
She told him the niche presented
enormous promise. The women’s
market for athletic footwear and ap
parel totals a whopping $23 billion.
But Levin was taken aback by
Hochman’s next suggestion: that
she join the effort.
She said no thanks. “My mind
was elsewhere. I was happy at
Nike,” she said.
Hochman again approached
Levin in December w ith a refined
business plan. Almost in spite of
herself, she was impressed.
By February, the duo gave no
tice to their respective employers.
Just weeks later, venture capi
talists were extending term sheets.
Eventually, the company accepted
$4.5 million for Silicon Valley
venture firms Foundation Capital
and Sutter Hill.
The company is currently clos
ing a second, interim round of
funding, though Levin would not
Portland Management Expert Named
DHR Personnel Director
A management consultant and
former telecommunications execu
tive with more than two decades of
experience in organizational de
velopment, business management
and community relations has been
chosen to be the new personnel
director for the state Department
o f Human Resources.
Donnie Griffin, 47, principal
consultant for The Griffin Group,
P o rtla n d , and in s tru c to r at
Marylhurst University, will begin
w ork A ug. 16 in the DHR
Director’s Office in Salem. He will
be responsible for hiring and other
personnel-related policies for all
DHR divisions. DHR has 9,500
employees and 160 field offices
throughout the state that provide
public assistance, child protection,
health and other services.
Griffin has consulted in areas
of executive coaching, team build
ing, training and organizational
change for clients in business,
government and non-profit orga
nizations.
From 1976 to 1996, he held
various positions with U S West
Communications in Seattle, Den
ver and Portland. He has been gen
eral manger o f US W est’s 911
a 17-point advantage among men.
Among 18-34-year-old voters
the two ran about even.
In both subsamples the margin
o f error is higher than it is in the
overall poll.
Osteoporosis: What you can do today
W O M E N ’S
Quit Jobs for Internet
Venture
from our diets, so check with your
doctor about taking a calcium
supplement.
• Get regular weight-bearing exer
cise. Ask a friend to walk with
you, take the stairs instead of the
elevator, and check with your gym
about tailoring a weight-lifting
program for you.
• Drink in moderation only.
• Don’t smoke.
• Ask your doctor about new drugs
to prevent and treat osteoporosis.
You might be a candidate for hor
mone replacement therapy or for
other drugs that help reduce bone
loss and increase bone density.
None of us wants to end up in a
wheelchair or unable to lift our grand
children or our groceries. So talk to
your doctor now about creating a
custom-made plan for preventing
osteoporosis.
Please don't miss your opportu
nity to remain strong and active for
the rest of your life.
Public Safety Group and manag
ing director of the company’s Com-
m unity A ffairs and C orporate
Communications team in Oregon.
Griffin has a master’s degree in
management from Antioch Uni
versity in Seattle and a bachelor's
degree in communications from
Washington State University. He
is vice chair o f the Oregon State
Board of Education and a senior
fellow of the American Leader
ship Forum of Oregon.
“Donnie G riffin's experience
with the private and public sec
tors will help out DHR on the
cutting edge of personnel m an
agement changes,” said DHR Di
rector Gary Weeks.
G riffin w ill su cceed John
Heilman, who retired in April.
EDUCATION CRISIS TEAM
Upcoming meetings:
Thursday, August 12,1999
and
Thursday, August 26, 1999
7:00 p.m.
Self Enhancement, Inc.
3920 North Kerby Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97227
The Urban League, Self Enhancement, Inc., the Albina Ministerial
Alliance and the Black United Front are forming Education Crisis
Teams to reverse the educational crisis that is crippling our children.
Please join us on August 12* and August 26th. We will discuss
specific steps our community must take to rapidly improve our
children’s poor academic performance. The plan’s dual focus is on
holding Portland Public Schools accountable for providing children a
quality education and the development of a community-wide
mobilization to address this education emergency.
All participating organizations agree this education crisis is causing
irreparable harm to children and severely limiting their future. This
crisis is impairing the ability of children, families and our
community to successfully compete in today’s technology-based
economy.
Our choice is clear, respond to this emergency and take the necessary
steps to prevent our children from joining the growing ranks of
dropouts and high school graduates that possess few marketable
skills.
Please plan to attend these meetings. Our children need ns, we have
promises to keep.
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