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Departed GL Officers
Past District Deputy Emma C. Becton, of the Daytona Beach, FL, Lodge, died November 5, 2010. Member Becton served as district deputy for the East Central District of Florida in 2005–2006.
Past District Deputy Richard J. England, of the Cripple Creek, CO, Lodge, died March 4, 2010. Member England served as district deputy for the Central Southeast District of Colorado in 2004–2005.
Past District Deputy Celestine C. Ley, of the Dunedin-Clearwater, FL, Lodge, died January 8, 2010. As a member of the Waukegan, IL, Lodge, Member Ley served as district deputy for the North District of Illinois in 1993–1994.
Past District Deputy William E. Rowe, of the Wethersfield-Rocky Hill, CT, Lodge, died February 22, 2010. Member Rowe served as district deputy for the Central District of Connecticut in 2006–2007.
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Past District Deputy Ralph R. Rutherford, of the Carlinville, IL, Lodge, died October 12, 2010. Member Rutherford served as district deputy for the West Central District of Illinois in 1995–1996.
Past District Deputy Donald T. Turner, of the Crisfield, MD, Lodge, died October 14, 2010. Member Turner served as district deputy for the Southeast District of Maryland, Delaware and District of Columbia in 1978–1979.
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shows a normal protein pattern might lessen a patient’s worry about a precipitous cognitive decline. On the other hand, a positive test for the Alzheimer’s disease protein pattern might suggest a more drastic decline could be in the offing. Information like this will be valuable to some people and terrifying for others, and until there is some promising treatment available, no one should feel obliged to undergo cerebrospinal fluid testing. For the first years of testing, the new tests may be of most benefit to scientists working on discovering the cause of and treatments for the disease. Researchers who have long been frustrated by Alzheimer’s impenetra- bility see the new tests as a great advance. Testing proponents antici- pate that early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s will lead directly to a better understanding of its cause and, ultimately, to effective interventions before brain cells die. The advent of
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better tests for Alzheimer’s disease along with the development of large databases of test results may help identify the non-genetic, extrinsic factors involved in the disease by exposing unexpected correlations between these extrinsic factors and Alzheimer’s disease. For example, some researchers suspect that the degeneration of mitochondria, the tiny, energy- producing powerhouses in all cells, is the first step in the development of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative problems like Parkinson’s disease. Many drugs used by millions of people, including the popular cholesterol-lowering statins, can damage mitochondria. If the Alzheimer’s proteins show up more often in patients who are taking drugs like these or who are exposed to toxins such as pesticides, this information may provide new clues about what tips the balance from normal to abnormal aging in brain cells. That will be progress, and everyone who undergoes Alzheimer’s testing will have contributed. ■
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