Oral history interview with Jeanne Schenk, 2007 December 5.

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Oral history interview with Jeanne Schenk, 2007 December 5.

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Schenk talks about growing up in the large family home in Villisca, Iowa where her father operated a hardware store, being diagnosed with polio as a fifth grader and the overcrowding of the hospitals at the time. She recalls her good and bad experiences in the Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, various singing and acting experiences, working with handicapped children, living in Saudi Arabia for a time, and caring for her grandchildren until post polio symptoms began to limit her activities. The collection includes copies of various newspaper articles about Jeanne's activities.

Transcript: 10 leaves + digital copies of 6 photographsSound recording: 1 sound cassette, 1 CD

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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...

Scott, Kate.

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Schenk, Margaret Jean Palmquist, b. 1941,

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