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As for being viewed differently, we know this was once a country that valued Anglo-Saxon names.'and immigrants from central Europe soon changed their names to better blend in with the environment Grabavich became Graham, etc. Have you ever sat and looked at your name and tried to understand it, to question it. wonder what it means? Is it me? Is that who I am? Would I be differ- ent with a dilfenent name? Would people View me differently. treat me differently? Of course, it didn't work. But his action reminded me a bit of what I call the "geographic cure." which is the belief that if I lived in Vancouver or Winnipeg - or wherever - my life would be different. You don't get much more personal than your name. And, in fact, it feels a bit irri- tating to have it misspelled. In some illogical way it seems insulting or demeaning. Not that there was anything. wrong with his name. It was just that, since he didn't like himself very much, and since his name was his symbol, he didn't like it much either. After long consideration, he settled on a name that sounded vaguely heroic and exotic. Something like Randall van Dorf. He had always been a bit "different." even as a kid, and had suffered because of it. An ,outsider, seen by other kids as weird. he decided that if he had a new name he could start over and his experi- ences would be better. I once had a patient who changed his name. _ by Ralph Pohlman m 7 “ WE GUARANTEE TO GET YOU IN SHAPE! “Specializing In Weight Loss” 1h Still Canadian, by any other name TOTAL ‘ FITNESS CENTRE PULSI ”The Pulse Is Fantastic. In 6 weeks I have losl 25 lbs. I feel greal. The Pulse has evelylhlngyou need to sllm down or bulk up. Whaleveryou're In lo. The stall ls energellc. helpful and they really do care. The Pulse ls amust |oln. It's the best lhlngyou can do loryou. Hey. Sloullvllle. what are you walling for?‘ But like everyone who has an uncus- tomary name, I've spent my life seeing it misspelled in odd ways. Pullman, Pholman. Poleman. Once. when I was a iock in university, a newspaper referred to me as 'Puzlman." It was only years later that l discov- ered that most of the kids I knew in that multi-ethnic polyglot town had gone though the same stuff. All the Safroniks. Stanovskys. Kempfs, Famulaks, Gabels. Mutchlers, Arshowskys and the rest whose parents or grandparents. or they themselves, had come here and wanted to be "Canadian. But it is my surname that I struggled with as a kid. When -I was born. in Medicine Hat, Alta. my name was Pohlmann. Get it? A double" n" on the end. By the time I was in school my folks had moved to Melville, Sask, and the war was on. And double" n" Pohlmann was clearly a German name. That was not a good thing to have and I had the bruis- es to prove it. Besides, it looked .funny and foreign and I wanted it to look Canadian. what- ever that meant. So I took the last 'n' off. Or maybe it was the second-last "n." Anyway, when l was about I0 I began spelling my name with only one "n" even though my parents continued with the old 'nn." I thought the "h" in the middle was funny too. After all. it was silent, so why was it there? But I didn't quite know what to do about it. So I just left it. and the only one by which lam called (as opposed to "Hey you"), but my first name is actually Ernest and l was called that for the first year of my life. But it seems that in our small Alberta town where I spent my pre-school years, the neighbours called ‘me either 'Emie" or ”Emst," both of which my mother hated, so she switched to "Ralph." Maybe I should adopt that one. Debble Berger USycars old. umber of live) May: HIII Fm APRIL 2003