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A2 The Pittsburgh Press Monday, March 20, 1989 STARIDIRJG OUT LOOKING Adopted brother, sister together again 7W I If VV II Vw-' ''X. i A By Jean Bryant The Pittsburgh Press Richard McKee was only 7 when he was introduced to the young and happy parents as their new son. The youngster had no fears on that day in January 1945, despite having been given up by both his blood parents and bv a foster family. He sensed that this new family would give him a permanent home. And he even liked his new name Richard Lebowitz.

"I felt as though I was embarking on a new adventure, a new life," recalls Lebowitz of that day more than 44 years ago. "I was young, but I was pretty enlightened. Things had been explained to me." And now, four decades after the little boy went home with his new parents, Samuel and Anna Rae Lebowitz, he has again embarked on an adventure. He is sharing his life for the first time in 50 years with the sister who was little more than a shadowy memory at the time of his adoption. Lebowitz, 52, of Squirrel Hill, and his sister, Joan Sanders-Brundage, 56, of Green Valley, met Saturday at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport.

Lebowitz was accompanied at the airport by his wife, Barbara; his daughter, Stacy, 17; and his adoptive mother, Anna Rae Lebowitz, 86, now a widow. Lebowitz said he always had felt he had other family but was not sure until his adoptive mother approached him about it when he was in his early 20s. "My (adoptive) mother didn't want to tell me too much until she felt I was able to understand. When I was about 25, she felt it was the proper time. She told me then she thought I had an older sister.

She said 'Do what you feel you want to And I felt I wanted to find my sister." Lebowitz said he went to Jewish Family Children's Service and was discouraged to find they could not release information. "They said I had a sister but they could not give me information because, by law, the records were sealed. They told me she might be living in Cleveland, Ohio. It was a stumbling block and I didn't know how to go about removing it. I dropped it." Lebowitz said that, as years went by and he heard success stories about those who either found their siblings or parents, he began to want to try again.

About a year ago, he contacted Jewish Family Children's Service again. And again he found himself discouraged. Oddly enough, at the same time, Mrs. Sanders-Brundage was trying to find Lebowitz. "I was adopted when I was about 8 years old," Mrs.

Sanders-Brundage recalled. "I don't ever remember ever being around my brother, but I was told by my adoptive I if MumnJ iiiifini i 1- r-irmr iihii jiiiiii.iimi BACK Harvard radicals returning for rally CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) Student radicals who paralyzed Harvard University in April 1969 by occupying a campus building and staging a two-week strike are coming back to commemorate the event and the impact that it made far beyond Harvard. Before comparing graying hair and mellowed politics, they're planning to kick off the event with a rally, just like the old days. "It's important to reaffirm in some public fashion and some social context the values and beliefs of 20 years ago," said reunion spokesman Michael Macy, now 40 and a sociology professor at Bran-deis University.

Invitations to the April 7 and 8 event are being relayed by word of mouth among those who forged enduring friendships while attending Harvard from 1968 to 1971 and participating in the protests. Besides the noon rally, speeches by Harvard alumni and faculty, guerrilla theater, a teach-in, formal debates and a reunion party are planned. The campus upheavals of the 1960s kicked off with the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964. Across the country, students began marching and protesting against America's presence in Vietnam and other establishment policies. When the turmoil hit the country's oldest and most prestigious university, attention was riveted on the campus for the nation's elite.

Shortly after noon on April 9, 1969, about 300 students seized Harvard's main administration building, threw out nine deans and chained the doors. The protesters wanted to get rid of the campus units of the U.S. military's Reserve Officer Training Corps units and expand the Afro-American studies program. When dawn broke the following day, more than 400 state and local police charged the building with a battering ram, pulling students out by the hair, beating them with nightsticks and kicking them. About 45 people were injured, some after jumping from first-floor windows.

Police took 197 people to jail. The show of force by police and the willingness of the university to deploy them galvanized more moderate students. A three-day boycott of classes stretched into a 15-day strike in which students virtually shut down the school. By the time the strike officially ended April 25, school administrators agreed to abolish ROTC on campus, to set up a department of African and Afro-American Studies and to build low-cost housing for people displaced by expansion projects. Vince MusiThe Pittsburgh Press Richard Lebowitz greets his sister, Joan Sanders-Brundage, at airport reunion mother that I did have a younger brother.

"I knew I had family. I lived with my grandmother until I was about 3. I don't recall my mother. "But I think both Richard and I were aware there was family someplace. I think that, regardless, if you have a successful adoption or otherwise, you are always curious about it." However, Mrs.

Sanders-Brundage had taken no steps to find her brother until six years ago, when her adoptive mother sent Mrs. Sanders-Brundage her original adoption papers and birth certificate. "I never asked my adoptive parents about it. Until then, I just accepted it." The legal papers revealed Mrs. Sanders-Brundage was Delores Nancy McKee at the time of her adoption.

Upon her adoption, her are deceased," said Mrs. Brundage, "it doesn't serve any purpose to deny to the adoptees knowledge of who the family members are or the reason for the adoption. "I believe poverty was the reason we were given up for adoption. I have heard that my father, Charles McKee, was killed in a flood in Johnstown. He was married to my mother, Julia Gluckman McKee, according to my birth certificate." "I regret the fact we did not spend our childhood together.

I feel adoption agencies should try to keep children together. I think I missed something While Mrs. Sanders-Brundage is in Pittsburgh, she said she and Lebowitz will search for two other siblings they believe may still be living. name was changed to Joan Sanders, her adoptive family's name. Through the adoption papers, Mrs.

Sanders-Brundage was eventually led to call Jewish Family Children's Service and got a pleasant surprise. "Your brother has been searching for you. I could never have put you two together unless this had happened," a woman at the agency told her. "We like each other," said Mrs. Sanders-Brundage, a commercial artist.

Both Lebowitz and his sister had happy relationships with their adoptive parents. They both feel there should be an easing of restrictions to make it easier to find families lost through adoption. "I think, where there is a genuine interest on both sides and a good chance the parents SHOWMG UP smoking to prevent lung cancer. The program, which began working with health facilities in the city, is preparing to extend its cancer-screening activities in the county. Dr.

Begg, who is a nurse with a doctorate in public health, has a five-year, $400,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to help support her research. The grant is among 10 preventive oncology awards ongoing nationwide. She is the first nurse to receive such an award. Vincent Cairoli, chief of the cancer training branch at the National Cancer Institute, said that many cancer researchers are focused on treatment. The oncology award is aimed at encouraging professionals to make a career of prevention.

Compiled by Eleanor Chute, with local and wire reports From the Fonz Actor Henry Winkler, who played "the Fonz" in the TV series "Happy Days," and his wife, Stacey, live in.California, but they wanted to send a corned beef sandwich to a friend at Presbyterian-University Hospital. So, Mrs. Winkler called Rhoda's Deli and Restaurant in Squirrel Hill. Amy Shugerman-Glasser, part of the family that owns Rhoda's, isn't sure how the Winklers heard of their deli, although other stars have stopped there. She said they weren't sure it really was the Winklers, but they figured they'd deliver the corned beef sandwich on rye with pickles and two cans of Dr.

Brown's pop. "Either way, it was a good gesture. Somebody was sick in the hospital," she said. The next day, a $25 check arrived via Federal Express. Later, an autographed photo of Winkler arrived.

That's on display at the deli counter, complete with the message "Thank you for your corned beef and taking such good care of our friend. Love, Henry Winkler." Kidney awards They've helped to make gifts of life possible, and so the National Kidney Foundation of Western Pennsylvania Inc. is giving them a Gift of Life Award. Thomas R. Hakala, professor and chief of the urology department at Presbyterian-University Hospital, is receiving the medical award, and Charles A.

Corry, president of the USX will receive the corporate honor. The foundation cajls Hakala a pioneer in kidney transplantation and leader in the transplant program at Presby. It noted that Corry has served as honorary chairman of a foundation fund-raiser. The USX Corp. provided the seed money for setting up the local affiliate of the Kidney Foundation and has continued to contribute to the organization.

Cancer research Lisa Begg, principal investigator at the Pittsburgh Cancer Screening Program, is trying to encourage people to take steps to avoid cancer and researching why they don't. "It's fairly complicated. It's not just strictly money. There's some fear, ignorance," she said. She urges screening mammography to detect breast cancer early, Pap tests to check for cervical cancer and quitting The weather front today Braat, Extended forecast Wednesday, March 22 Friday, March 24 Western Pennsylvania Wednesday, partly cloudy and cold, high in the 30s, low in the lower 20s.

Thursday, mostly sunny, high In the 40s, low near 30. Friday, increasingly cloudy and warmer with a chance of showers, high near 50, low in the 30s. Hui rOfrJ Local forecast Late tonight, rain will change to snow, with a low near 30; northwest winds, 10 to 20 mph. Tomorrow, mostly cloudy and cold with flurries, highs In the mid-30s. Sunset today at 6:32 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow at 6:22 a.m. I ft, r. mo JJ4 Normal precip. since March 1 2 14 Deficiency in precip. since March 1 0 24 Total precip.

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1 0 09 River conditions Rivers in the Pittsburgh district will remain steady over the next 24 hours Airport tmpratur dais for yattarday Normal temperature for tha day 0 Deficiency temp, for the day 11 Excess in temp since March 1 30 Excess in temp, since Jan. 1 292 Airport precipitation data for yesterday Total precip. since March 1 1 90 National forecast Showers are forecast today for the Pacific Northwest, Oklahoma and New Mexico as well as in Arizona and Texas. Snow is forecast for parts of Colorado and Kansas. A wide band of rain is forecast from parts of Pennsylvania through parts of Louisiana and eastern Texas.

Light snow is forecast for parts of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Nation high, low The highest temperature reported yesterday, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, was 92 degrees at Palm Springs, Bor-rego Springs and Thermal, Calif. The low this morning was 13 degrees below zero at Yellowstone, Wyo. International weather "Johoias riUrri I 4rt. Ph'la1al Tempsratures in Pittsburgh for 24-hour period ending early today Highest 37 Lowest 26 Mean 32.

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