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-Vanderbilt- Continued from page 14. Asbury, university chaplain at Vanderbilt. Bev, as he is known to old friends from his hometown of Elberton, Ga., has been widely recognized for his efforts on behalf of religious tolerance, respect and diversity. In 1985, Chaplain Asbury re ceived The Humanitarian Award, a one-time award given by the Southern Region of Hadassah. He was also selected by “Nashville” magazine in 1985 as one of the city’s top 50 “shapers and drea mers, 1965-85.” Educated at the University of Georgia and Yale Divinity School, Bev Asbury has continued to study. In 1979 he attended an Israel Study Seminar and has done independ ent study on the Holocaust in Israel during the summers of 1980 and 1982. In 1985, Bev Asbury brought together an amazingly impressive group of speakers for the series entitled “Holocaust, Hiroshima, and Hope.” Included were Elie Wiesel, David S. Wyman (author of “The Abandonment of the Jews: America and The Holocaust 1941- 1945,”) Sen Albert Gore Jr., and Dr. Benjamin Spock. Spock’s sub ject was “Raising Children After Hiroshima.” The program of another year examined survival: “the capacity of men and women to live beneath the pressure of protracted crisis and emerge sane, alive and still human.” Survivor Alex Gross of Atlanta and Dr. Terrence Des Pres, author of “The Survivor: An Anat omy of Life in the Death Camps” were featured speakers. “From Healer To Killer: The Doctors of Auschwitz” was the address by Yale professor of psy chiatry Robert Jay Lifton in 1980. Other years the series has looked at expressions of the Holocaust in literature, art, and music as the lec tures pursue from every angle the consideration of the Nazi calcu lated horror and its implications for today and tomorrow. Bev Asbury’s Christian back ground and training, his small town upbringing, seem a surprising pre lude to his present dedication and sensitivity to this burden of the Jewish experience. That assump tion belies his searching intellect, human empathy, and truly reli gious convictions. When questioned as to when his consciousness of the Holocaust was first aroused, Bev Asbury answers from both historical and psycho logical perspectives. He recalls when a young German refuge came to live with a Jewish family in Elber ton during World War II. He and some friends made jokes about the young man’s name. Bev’s mother took her son aside and said, “Do you know what is happening to his people?” That was a lesson he has long remembered. Then as a young chaplain at Vanderbilt he went through a per sonal crisis of divorce. In the mourning process over the break up of his first marriage, Bev Asbury says he began to look at how to deal with loss and death and trag edy. 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The purpose of this first Inter faith Encounter program was to look at Judaism and Christianity as Covenants of Life, to examine their inter-relatedness, and to en courage openness, learning and re spect of each other. Bev Asbury pushes open doors to understanding within his aca demic community and the greater Nashville community. Whether he talks of issues of race, women, or religion, he challenges listeners to stretch their perceptions, to ques tion tired prejudices, and to look at new possibilities of belief and be havior. ■k American Red Cross Do you have breast cancer? “’fes” and “no” are the only acceptable answers to this question. “I don’t know” means you haven’t taken the time to find out and that means you could be in serious jeopardy. Because what you don’t know about breast cancer can cost you your life. Three women contract this disease every fifteen minutes. I’m one of those women. I’m a breast cancer survivor and I want you to be one too, should you have this disease. One of the three women who gets it doesn’t survive and that’s a terrible waste of human life since breast cancer is 90% curable when it’s discovered early and treated quickly. Mammography is the safe, painless way to-evalu ate breast tissue. This kind of x-ray (using minimal doses of radiation) can detect lumps so small it would take years to discover them through physical examination. The staff of the Breast Care Center wants you to live a long, cancer-free life. So they established this Center to promote mammogram screenings to detect cancer (or the absence of it) early on. They care genuinely about women’s needs and that ; caring has prompted them ' §. ' | > to create an atmosphere ? s . that is warm and personal, where screenings are carried out in privacy with respect for a woman’s physical and emotional well-being. Contact the Center today for a mammogram or have your personal physician make the appoint ment. The American Cancer Society recommends a baseline mammogram (your first mammogram used for later comparisons) for women (who have no symptoms) between the ages of 35 and 40 fol lowed by a mammogram every one to two years from ages 40 through 49 and every year from age 50. Not knowing if you have breast cancer can be the most terrible thing about this disease. If you’re not dying to find out after all this, remember, you could simply be dying. 'omonc&\£S W f THf BHFASI DIAGNOSTIC CrNTtH * Northlake Tower Festival Atrium 4053 Iji\ ista Rd. • Tucker. GA 30084 491-6686 m HCA. We cane for America. We care for you. PAGE 15 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 10, 1986