Show Brownie Investiture November 3rd was a special day for Brownie Troop It was the troop's birthday and they celebrated by using the to invest their new THE MOTHERS were invited to see their daughters received into the Brownie The new Brownies are Christy Gina Shelly Sarah Violet Shirley Phyllis Diane Teri Debra Michelle Van and Mary THE BROWNIES who had completed their first year of scouting were awarded their membership They pinned the Brownie pin their new sister One year Brownies are Wendy Diane Susan Carey Elizabeth Susan Amy Sheryl Lori REFRESHMENTS were served by the mother's troop There were such and they were available through the work of Sylvia N. a social service expert who herself had fought a life-long battle with myopia and who had founded and still heads the Myopia In files was a report by Robert H. of a pioneer in drug BEDROSSIAN had selected 42 of his young patients whose eyes were failing at an abnormal he had treated them with and he had contrasted the results with a control group that had started out with slightly better he had that was an actual decrease in myopia in many of the eyes treated with atropine while in almost every control eye there was an sent Bedrossian's research paper and other reports to the specialist designated by the worried Bethesda Less than a year on January the father wrote that results have been NOT ONLY had scopolamine halted the galloping deterioration of his young son's but between March and the boy had recovered the loss of the previous three The improvement In a letter in the father reported after two years of his son's eyes were than they were before we began this There have been no complications or My son's eyes remain good enough to read mas without and THE Bethesda case is only one many that illus-strate the seriousness of the myopia Not so long ago received a frantic phone call from a young woman visiting New York for a The caller said her sister was about to receive her Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Indiana she found she had lost the central vision in one Could anything be done to help agreed to send research papers to a designated ANOTHER day a postman walked into the tiny office of the Myopia International Research Foundation at Lexington New he have been delivering your mail for and now do you know what's My little niece has a serious case of I can't believe THE his voice explained how the family had gone from one celebrated eye specialist to another and had become lost in a bewildering sea of conflicting One doctor urged use of contact lenses our little girl is only How can she wear contact Another can do nothing but give corrective Come back in six A third suggested use of but a fourth away from All those drugs are very THE postman covered his face with his hands and said in a voice of are we to It is a cry for help that is uttered almost every day of the week somewhere in the And if there are not yet the positive answers one might there is at least a fund of information that provides some basis for reasoned judgments all thanks to one determined and her Myopia International Research |