Oral history interview with Ron Reichert, 2007 November 15.

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Oral history interview with Ron Reichert, 2007 November 15.

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Reichert discusses growing up on a farm near Milwaukee, Wisconsin; contracting polio in 1946 and spending the next year and a half in the hospital; the complications of attending a small rural school in a wheelchair; attending the Crippled Children's Hospital-School in Jamestown, N.D. which catered to disabled students thanks to support from Easter Seals; meeting his second wife; attending the Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking in New York and working as a watchmaker in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; his mother's death from tuberculosis when he was in high school and his family's bankruptcy due to the burden of her medical bills; post-polio syndrome and support groups for polio survivors; and ways that polio affected his personal relationships.

Transcript: 43 leaves + 2 photographs and 3 sheets of digital copies of 7 photographsSound recording: 2 sound cassettes

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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...

Reichert, Ronald Charles, b. 1938,

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Crippled Children's Hospital-School (Jamestown, N.D.)

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Armitage, Linda,

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