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SECTION 2 - PAGE I - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, ltM l\lden foster mother tells television audience it 'comes naturally' fetalndealer newt service Doris Wagner told "Good iteming America" co-host Joan &unden and millions of rision viewers last week that doesn't think she is* a Foster diildren ^5 somethi parenting-1,006 35 years-is ng that "just comes so Natural," Mrs. Wagner of Alden #ad * Mrs. Wagner and two other worien, who are included in a Story in the July issue of *!Ladies' Home Journal," ap­ peared on the ABC-TV morning •qw. < In the magazine, "Fifty American Heroines" were Saluted for their "energy, I dedication and generous spirit." The women, representing each of the s&ates, are "enterprising, hardworking, selfless and surprisingly modest about their accomplishments." Mrs. Wagner, and Clara Hale, 79, of New York, who has cared for 500 babies born addicted to drugs, and Martha King of Oklahoma, who operates a Neighbor For Neighbor grocery- transportation-counseling program, shared their stories during the six-minute, live in­ terview. A half-dozen still photographs of the Wagner family were flashed across the screen while she told how she and her husband, Ralph, a foreman at Union Special in Huntley, started out as foster parents. They had applied to adopt a child after learning Doris could no longer have children following the birth of their daughter, Sharon. Tbey became impatient at the time the adoption process was taking and were asked if they would take in a homeless child. They did, and eventually adopted eight children. Mrs. Wagner told Lunden that she had to learn to "love (only) so far and be able to let go, and the kids then could accept leaving too." At one time, there were 19 foster children living in the average-size rural homestead where the Wagners garden to save on costs, Mrs. Wagner told viewers. Sharon and the Wagners' first foster son, Jack Zenk, flew to New York City to meet their mother, who left Milwaukee Monday afternoon. Mrs. Wagner said she recently had returned from a visit to a few of her children in the western U.S. The trip was made possible through free airline tickets given as part of an ap­ pearance on a television show last year in Tennessee. The family has been the subject of much local and national publicity in the past two years, including being featured in March 1983 on a segment of ABC-TV's "That's Incredible." An undoubtedly special delight for Mrs. Wagner was an interview that preceded the three women's interview with Lunden: Twins who were separated through adoption while they were infants ap­ peared to recall their reunion. Late last year, one of Mrs. Wagner's adopted daughters, Diane, was reunited with her sister, Deanna, who until a few months prior did not know she was a twin. "I hope (the publicity) instills other people to give foster parenting a try," Mrs. Wagner said before leaving for New York. Last ot abuse series presented Delores Daggett, family therapist at Victory Memorial Hospital, will present "Family Sculpturing", a visual portrayal of family member reaction when there is alcohol-drug abuse, at 7 p.m. on Friday June 29 at Grant Community High School Theater, 285 E. Grand Ave., Fox Lake. Sponsored by the Northern Illinois Council On Alcoholism, this is the final presentation of the free community education series until next fall. "Family sculpturing shows the various roles and attitudes the spouse and the children take on in a family where there is alchoholism," explains Ms. Daggett. $• I (O s N Vlls a i f rf VIJ 2 u\ ? 2 jpNaS * 8** JZ uS s s in to a K>? </> i s a a M r r | 0f SB i m k> m iiitiy1 v1 iimMMiMjiium).. Jfe