Oral history interview with Glenn Bellows, 2007 September 25.

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Oral history interview with Glenn Bellows, 2007 September 25.

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Bellows discusses his family's life on a farm near Spencer, Iowa; his experiences as a 15-year old polio patient including months spent at a hospital in Fort Dodge, the Sister Kenny Institute in Minneapolis and a facility in Warm Springs, Georgia; his college choice of the University of Illinois because of its accommodations for the physically handicapped; his engineering jobs in Champagne and Bloomington, Illinois; living with the physical limitations resulting from the disease; his faith (Methodist and Mormon); and his family.

Transcript: 7 leaves + 4 photosSound recording: 1 sound cassette

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Iowa Polio Stories Oral History Project.

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The State Library of Iowa hired Kate Scott to coordinate an oral history project to document the history and impact of polio in Iowa. Interviewees represented counties across Iowa and ranged in age from 55 to 96 and included medical personnel, family members and friends of the afflicted, and polio survivors. The project was carried out in conjunction with the State Library's Center for the Book All Iowa Reads selection for 2007, The Splendid Solution by Jeffrey Kluger. From the descr...

Sister Kenny Institute

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Scott, Kate.

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Bellows, Glen Lee, b. 1937,

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