Oral history interview with Lawrence Schulenberg, 2007 December 10.

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Oral history interview with Lawrence Schulenberg, 2007 December 10.

Schulenberg talks about contracting polio in the first grade; being treated in a hospital in Topeka, Kansas; various childhood experiences in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri; his career as a school teacher in Iowa and Kansas and a high school principal in Nebraska; and retiring to Council Bluffs, Iowa after the onset of post-polio symptoms.

Transcript: 9 leavesSound recording: 1 sound cassette

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SNAC Resource ID: 7612043

Iowa State Historical Society

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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...

Schulenberg, Lawrence J.

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Schulenberg, Lawrence J., b. 1940,

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Gollinghorst, Monica,

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