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Healthy Living Magazine HOUSE Sun-Sentinel Happy Herald SAM'S FINANCIAL MSKINLEY SERVICES INC Graphics By: www.opunited.org Sun-Sentinel OBITUARIES Charlotte drug researcher researcher Tan, early and positive results, published in the journal Blood in 1953, are credited with speeding the acceptance of similar drug therapies. In the 1960s, Dr. Tan evaluated another highly successful drug, daunomycin, which is used to halt or slow the growth of cells in leukemias and in neuroblastomas, the solid tumors most common in children. Dr. Richard J.

O'Reilly, a pediatric oncologist and chairman of pediatrics at Sloan-Kettering, said that Dr. Tan's "enormous discipline and stalwart support for promising drugs" was instrumental i in the acceptance of daunomycin, which remains in wide use. In the 1970s, Dr. Tan turned to Hodgkin's disease, a cancer that spreads through the lymph nodes; it was an interest that she would carry into the 1990s. She studied the mechanism of childhood Hodgkin's, the immune complexes that result and circulate in the bloodstream and the way the cancer can migrate to the spleen.

Because of increasingly effective drug therapies, the survival rate for patients with Hodgkin's disease is about 90 percent. In important work with Dr. Herbert F. Oettgen and others, Dr. Tan tested an enzyme, L- asparaginase, which has been used effectively to attack tumors and deprive them of an amino acid needed by their cells to survive.

Charlotte Tian Chun Tan was born in Jiangxi, in south- Helen Yglesias, 92, was novelist, editor Her stories focused on women's lives Doctor was a driving force against cancer BY JEREMY PEARCE THE NEW YORK TIMES Dr. Charlotte T.C. Tan, who for many years was a driving force behind the testing of drugs that proved effective in treating children with leukemia and other cancers, died March 22 at her home in Brookline, Mass. She was 84. The cause was pneumonia, her family said.

From 1952 to 1996, Dr. Tan, an oncologist, conducted her research at what became the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York; she was a vice chairman of developmental therapeutics in the department of pediatrics. In the 1950s, at the outset of her career, she joined Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal and other pioneering oncologists at Sloan-Kettering in investigating pharmaceutical approaches to cancer treatments at a time when the primary therapies were surgery and radiation.

With Burchenal and others, Dr. Tan held clinical trials of the drug 6-mercaptopurine, which suppresses the body's immune response and has since been used successfully in treating leukemias and other cancers, in some cases leading to dramatic remissions. Their THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Helen Yglesias, whose novels examined women's lives in an array of settings and situations small towns, radical urban politics, abusive relationships, illness and old age died March 28 in Manhattan. She was 92 and had lived in Brooklin, Maine, until several years ago. She died of natural causes, her daughter, Tamar Cole, said.

Woven through much of Mrs. Yglesias' work is the tension of women juggling the demands of career and family. Although she worked as an editor at The Nation magazine in the late 1960s, Mrs. Yglesias, a mother by then, did not write the first of her five published novels until she was 54. That first work, How She Died, tells of Mary Moody Schwartz, the daughter of a Communist convicted of spying for the Soviets in the 1930s.

Delving into the roots of American radicalism, the story evolves into an account of one woman's struggle with cancer and the disorganized attempts of her family and friends to help her. Mrs. Yglesias' 1981 book, Sweetsir, is perhaps her bestknown work. Set in a small New England town, the book takes its title from the name of the brutish Morgan Sweetsir, who enjoys beating his wives. When he strikes his fifth wife, Sally, once too often, she fatally wards him off with the plunge of a kitchen knife.

After a trial she gains her freedom, but the question of liberation is not so simple. Mrs. Yglesias' other books are Family Feeling; The Saviors; and her last novel, The Girls, about four sisters living out their final years in "God's waiting room," Miami. Born Helen Bassine on March 29, 1915, Mrs. Yglesias was the youngest of seven children of Solomon and Kate Bassine, Yiddish-speaking immigrants from the Russian-ruled portion of Poland who lived in a cold-water apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Her father owned several grocery stores that failed. She wrote her first (unpublished) novel, about a teenage girl in a New York high school, in three notebooks on her kitchen table when she was a teenager herself. After high school, she had jobs selling underwear, stuffing envelopes, teaching ballroom dancing, typing manuscripts and, eventually, editing. By 1965, she was an editor at The Nation and the mother of two. Hazel Haley, Florida's longest-serving teacher THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKELAND Florida's longest-serving teacher has died.

Hazel Haley taught English for 69 years before she retired from Lakeland High School two years ago. She died I Monday at age 91. Ms. Haley was certified by the state to teach in 1937, the same year she graduated from Florida Southern Col- 84, Dr. Tan tested drugs that proved effective in treating children with leukemia and other cancers.

ern China. In 1947, she received her medical degree from Hsiang-Ya Medical College, which is affiliated with Yale. Dr. Tan arrived in the United States the next year and interned at St. Barnabas Hospital in Newark, N.J.

After a residency in pediatrics at Philadelphia General, she moved to Sloan-Kettering and became an associate there in 1960. In 1962, she was named an associate professor of pediatrics at Cornell Medical College. Dr. Tan held appointments at Cornell and Sloan-Kettering for the rest of her career. She retired from Sloan-Kettering and Cornell in the 1990s.

She was married to Moses Hsu, a scholar who helped translate the Bible from English into Chinese for the American Bible Society. Hsu died in 2002. Dr. Tan is survived by a daughter, Alicia Hsu of Brookline; a sister, Tian Jin Tan of Xiamen, China; a brother, Tian Duo Tan of Xinjang, China; and three grandchildren. Broward County Forsythe Forsythe, Noel, was called home after a brief illness on April 4, 2008.

He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and was well known by his family and friends as "The Plumber." In 1955, he went to England, and married Carmel Simpson. They had six children: Marva Fraser, Lloyd and David Forsythe, Jacqueline White all of Florida, Monica Collins of Georgia, and George" Tony" Forsythe of Naugatuck, CT. He leaves behind 9 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. They moved to the US in 1968, and resided in CT for 14 years before moving to Florida. In CT, he was a welder employed by Electric Boat in Groton prior to his retirement.

In FL he worked as a plumber, welder, mechanic and carpenter. In Florida he met and married Jenepher, together they lived in Plantation and she cared for him until he passed away. Visitation will be held Friday from at the T.M. Ralph Plantation Funeral Home, 7001 NW 4 Street. Funeral Services will be held at the Christian Life Center, 2699 W.

Commercial on Saturday, Interment will follow at Forest Lawn South Cemetery, 2401 SW 64tth Avenue, Davie www.tmralph.com 954 587-6888. Gallet 2008 after a courageous battle with Parkinson disease. He was born on January 2, 1927 in Martinique, F.W.I. He moved to Florida, a dream come true, in July 1965 with his wife, Suzanne and 8 children. He made Dania his home.

That is where he built houses and started Tile International, a ceramic tile business which is now managed by his son Marc. He was a true patriarch and adored his family. He is survived by his loving wife, Suzanne; his 8 children and their spouses: Nicole (Robert) de Man, Christiane Head, Alain (Sandy) Gallet, Yves (Lisa) Gallet, Bertrand (Anne) Gallet, Marc (Monica) Gallet, Andre (Lisa) Gallet, Florence (Martin) Emanuel; 23 grandchildren; 8 great-grandchildren; 3 sisters and 1 brother. Besides his family, he had many friends that he met as a life-long member of the Rotary Club and Knights of Columbus 4th degree. Visitation Friday, PM with a Prayer Service Friday, 8:00 PM all at Panciera Memorial Home.

Funeral Mass Saturday, April 12, 2008, 10:00 AM at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church; 22094 Lyons Road in Boca Raton. His bright smile, adventurous outlook on life, quick wit, sincere honesty, charming and loving ways will be missed by all he touched. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Hospice by the Sea, 1531 West Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton, FL 33486-3395. Arrangements by: PANCIERA MEMORIAL HOME 4200 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, FL 33021 954-989-9900 www.panciera.com Gallet de St.

Aurin, Jacques, died April 2, lege with a bachelor's degree in English. Except fortwo brief teaching assignments, she spent her entire career at Lakeland High. One of the buildings there now bears her name. The beloved Ms. Haley taught two and sometimes three generations of some local families.

Her students included former Gov. Lawton Chiles. For hours and information call: Beach State of Florida National 954-425-1010 Miami 305-947-2632 Ext 1010 Email:.