WPCNR COMMON COUNCIL CHRONICLE-EXAMINER. By John F. Bailey. March 8, 2005: The fourteen-year Common Councilman, Robert Greer, with a slow, quiet voice and conservative movements, announced to the City of White Plains Monday night that he has been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, the affliction that struck down Yankee First Baseman Lou Gehrig in the early spring of 1939, and ended his major league career by July of that year. 

YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET, were Councilman Robert Greer's fighting words as he promised to viewers of WPGA-TV White Plains Government Access Television Monday night that he would stay on the Common Council and serve "as long as I'm able."  Mayor Delfino said he welcomed Mr. Greer's continued service because the Council works as a team. Photo Capture of WPGA-TV Common Council Cablecast by WPCNR News.

Mr. Greer, speaking to the public at the televised monthly Common Council meeting said there was no cure for the disease which he said afflicted the nerves controlling movements of the body, but it did not affect his mind. "I'm still me," he said. He promised he would serve on the Common Council as long as he was able. He said he still is able to work out three times a week. He said he had been diagnosed by Columbia Presbyterian Hospital after many tests over the last six months.

Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with the disease in spring of 1939, retired from baseball by July of 1939, and died from the disease two years later in July, 1941.