have a house plant that I can't remember the name of. I got the plant in September 1982 from friends when my mother died. It looked like a corm plant was large, tall and very beautiful. Had four or five shouts coming off a larger trunk. The leaves looked like the leaves on a corn plant from the garden but with verious shades of green. There is only one little tree now the trunk in only about an inch and a half around, but about 6 feet tall and only about 15 to 20 leaves at the very top. I want to know what can be done to save my plant but I can not remember the real name.

please help me this plant is special to me.

It does sound like a corn plant. You can cut the stem to any height that you like, and it will grow back. The piece or pieces that you cut off will also root if you stick the lower end into the pot.
You should ask yourself, though, why the plant has gone downhill so badly - and be sure that the light (strong) and watering isright if you want to get it back. The scientific name is Dracaena fragraans. Derek