MS SOCIETY HONOURS GARR

Movie actress TERI GARR has been named America's first national chair of the NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY'S WOMEN AGAINST MS program.

The TOOTSIE star revealed that she has multiple sclerosis in 2002, after nearly 20 years of dealing with the illness.

She says in a statement, "As a mother, a person with MS and an advocate for the MS cause, I have a strong empathy for the Women Against MS programs and the people I met at events where I have spoken.

"I think we inspire each other to fight even harder to make MS just another footnote in history."

The 55-year-old actress received the National MS Society's SHINING STAR AWARD in 2002, the second time the award had been given. The first recipient was actress ANNETTE FUNICELLO.