Valerie Harper is best remembered for her roles as Rhoda Morgenstern
in the 1970s CBS television series The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-
1977) and its spin-off, Rhoda (1974-1978) and later as Valerie Hogan
in Valerie on NBC/CBS (1986-1991).

Harper was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009 and recent tests results
showed she has a rare type of incurable brain cancer. She is currently
undergoing chemotherapy to slow its progress.

Kevin Tighe (Jon Kevin Fishburn)

Tighe is best known as Fireman Roy DeSoto on the NBC – TV hit, Emergency!
(1972-1977). He was also in Another 47 Hrs. (1990) and What’s Eating Gilbert
Grape (1993).

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a
government-run military veteran benefit system which is
administered by the United States Secretary of Veterans
Affairs. It is the second largest department, after the
United States Department of Defense.

When “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” was first 
published, both the book and Dr. Spock, attained fame instantly, 
selling 500,000 copies in its first six months.   .

By 1998, when Spock died, over 50 million copies of the book had
been sold, making it the best-selling book of the twentieth century
in America, aside from the Bible. As of 2011, the book had been
translated into 39 languages.

Pediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock 

 
^{A well used soft cover copy of Dr. Spock’s book}