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Show Friday, Octobrr Modeling Career Is fund-raisin- j s-- S IJ a wardrobe of five wigs and was soon known as the most versatile model in Atlanta. She was photographed both with hair and without. "Many chemotherapy pa- tients try to hide their baldness," she says. "But I never did except with a few clients who weren't ready to advertize their products with a bald model." Ivy says it took twice as much energy to go to auditions with one leg as it had with two. "I've always been a stubborn individual though, and I wasn't ready to be put out to pasture. I never allowed myself to think that I might not make it. I loved my lifestyle too much, and I didn't want it to change." Although she slowed down a bit while she was actually un- Model Ivy Gunter says she never let herself lose courage. ments and learned to ski. Along the way Ivy discovered that she has a talent for sharing her courage and determination with others. She still remains friends with a 54 woman she met in the year-ol- d run-way- s. lay-ou- hospital whom, she later learned, had contemplated suicide because of an amputation. Ivy's example inspired her to continue living. "If a person doesn't have a ts good Could Tell Dear Ann Landers: I met a man I'll call "George" who had He was a charmthree ing, sweet, generous and warmhearted person open and willto talk about feelings and the ing things most men can't or won't discuss. He told me about his described in detail his incredibly bad luck. Each of these women seemed sweet and kind, but the real bitch inside surfaced after a few years. They all turned out to be cold, spiteful, bitter and impossible to live with. s. I listened sympathetically and understood what he was saying. How sad that people are not what they seem. I took him at face value and regarded his well as an assortment of as he said, bitches. I fell in love with George and let him move in with me. Within a year I was the fourth "bitch." I didn't know I had it in me, but the man managed to bring out something so ugly I couldn't believe it. It wasn'i hard, really not after he lied to me, got drunk and abusive, lost job after job and let me support him while he ran up the bills. So, listen, all you women out there who are lonely and hoping Erma Dombeck in case you're home late. thermostate has to be adjusted, the draft in the fireplace cleaner The closed, the garden hose coiled neatly so no one will trip over it, and the iron unplugged. Extra nose tissue has to be packed and any medication, tickets, picnic supplies, sunglasses, eyeglasses or anything else that's forgotten. Extra car keys are packed and maybe rain gear in case it looks cloudy. The hall carpet has to be unceasing howling, yapping, growling and snarling of a dumb mutt who barks at everything that moves joggers, kids on bicycles, rels, something like this happens," she says, "nothing changes. I'm lucky because I always had a zest for living. But I feel even more strongly about it now than I did before. "I always loved doing things," she continues', "but 1-- lose my other leg, I know could make it again." I . jsj A . E,c. r SPECIAL EXHIBIT x X OF X FINISHED MODELS S 3" O O mm sN America's tS Oldest Knit Since 1904 X X X X Shop X KXX cottonXXXXIeafleUXXXXvarnsXXXXCREWELXXX - center U Ann Landers Dear Dogged: If enough neighbors who feel as you do banded together you might be able to accomplish something. Have you considered it? If not why not? Conference Sale LDS Counted Cross-Stite- h And Needlepoint Kits Of The LDS Temples, J X Relief Society X Emblems, BYV Logos, NOW THRU a OCT 20 o c 3 experienced thief How wonderful it would be if this town had an ordinance with teeth in it. But it's too much to hope for. So I'll just sign off and thank you for allowing me to let off some steam. Dogged Out In Indianapolis last-minut- 4 -- There was no response when 1 told him a smart burglar would tag our neighborhood as easy An 4U g delivery people, squir- could walk away with half a house and nobody would notice a thing because the dog is known to make a racket at the slightest provocation. The neighbors would assume he was barking his head off, as usual, at some rustling leaves or a gopher who ran across the lawn. moved from all the plants, the kitchen chairs shoved under the e check to table and a see if the hamster cage is secured The second to the last thing she must do is FLUSH! As a husband sits in the car, honking on the horn, racing the motor and shouting, "What are you doing in there?" a woman calling performs her last ritual whoever they are going to visit to tell them vou'll be late. Til):! v 1 now I love life itself. If someone told me tomorrow I would you name it. pickin's. smoothed out, the pictures straightened, dead leaves re- attitude about life before a Different Story some charrring, wonderful man will come along and rescue you. If you think you have found him, and he starts to tell you how the women in his life disappointed him by turning out to be so different from what they seemed run like hell. Chances are that he had a lot o do with that Linda difference. Just call me The Survivor Dear Survivor: Thanks for the short course. Are you listening out there? No matter how good an actor a man may be, time will unmask him. Stay in the relationship long enough to observe the significant other under a variety of circumstances. If you see evidence of excessive drinking, lying or cheating, give him the gate before he brings out a side of you you didn't know existed. Dear Ann Landers: May I say a word to those ignoramuses out there who believe their dogs are an effective burglar alarm just because they bark a lot? The dumb owner leaves his house with nary a worry. He thinks he has nothing to worry about because the hound is "in charge." Meanwhile, we, the neighbors, are cursed with the i XRussian PunchXXXXitamped goodsXXXXneedlepointX 3" Ex-Wiv- es if be turned off, all the toys picked up off the floor, the garbage from the sink wrapped and put in a bag. water from the floor mopped up and 15 lights extinguished. (There are more at night. ) The beds that someone sat on to answer the phone have to be smoothed out. the towels hung up from the floor, the soap retrieved from the shower drain, the top put on the shampoo tube, water for the dog set out, the sliding doors locked, the water spigots turned off for the washer, magazines stacked neatly on the coffee table, and a note written for the ." Ivy is now as active as she ever was. In addition to her role as a national spokeswoman for the American Cancer Society, she has returned to modeling with a vengeance. She has a specially designed prosthesis with a hydraulic knee that enables her to strut up and down "I do it all, just like before," she says. "My prosthesis looks like a normal, beaut.;fully-shape- d leg. I wear heels, boots, anything I want." She has even done for bathing suit advertise- - ) r v. strangers. That's why the faucets have to dergoing chemotherapy, as soon as it was over she "jumped right back on the merry-go-round- 4k 1 good bald." Ivy purchased d - Page H By ERMA BOM BECK me." After the operation, she faced a another hurdle: chem- otherapy. This time she was left not only minus a leg, but bald. Even so, within six months she was back in front of the camera. "I thought of it as a proving ground," she says, "because modeling was familiar territory. Plus, I happened to look THE HERALD. Provo, I'tah. If there s one thing 1 can't stand, it's being accused of being sexist ... especially when the accuser has a point. A few columns back, 1 pointed out the need for a greeting card inviting dawdling husbands to dinner. I think 1 said there is something Favlovian about' the words, " D 1 1 N A A A A A A A H ? ' that sends men scurrying to clean out the medicine chest, trim their toenails and set the garbage cans out at the curb. It has now been pointed out that a specialized greeting card shold also be sent by men who are in a hot cold car with all the kids waiting for the woman of the house who is inside doing God knows what. Okay, okay! But you have to understand the way a woman's mind works. A woman is the last one out of the house because when she leaves it, it is always with the possibility it will be the last time she will ever see it. The next one to view it could be Fortunately, Ivy's husband turned out to be a "knight in shining armor who stuck by Nothing stops Ivy Gunter. Nothing. While in Provo recently for the kickoff conference of the annual American Cancer Sog drive, she ciety recalled how even as a child she was a "I was an overachiever who always did what 1 wanted to do," she says. What she wanted more than anything was to be a model. So, during her early teens she began making her dream come true. By 1980 Ivy's Atlanta-basecareer was flourishing. In the Spring she flew to New York for an assignment, feeling on top of the world. Three weeks later she received a crushing blow. A photographer had caught sight of some swelling in Ivy's right leg, and he brought it to her attention. "I had been ignoring both the swelling and the pain for six months," she says, noting that covering it with cowboy boots and loose-fittin- g jeans had been easy up to that point. But now the photographer's concern fueled her husband's suspicions, and at last Ivy went to a doctor. The verdict was cancer. An osteogenic sarcoma tumor the size of an orange had invaded her calf. The treatment was amputation. "I flew to Atlanta immediately," she recalls. The doctors gave her "five devastating days to adjust to the fact that I was going to lose my leg." But adjust she did. With a characteristically indomitable will, she determined that she would not be beaten by cancer unless and until she died. "My main concern was that my husband would leave me," says Ivy. "I didn't think it was fair to put that kind of stress on our relationship, and I figured that, given the opportunity, he would take off." Ml Last Minute Rituals Are Essential Tasks Flourishing Cancer Victim Loses Leg, But Not Hope By LAURA JONES Herald Staff Writer 5. 0 H.' . .""-i"';?''',"",i- cuna -" . Sootwn--- FOR WOMEN r- -i W HeaW" " Pool . 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