Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 9, 1952
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Help For Polio Patients - Blake Ferris of Detroit (third from left), eastern state representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, hands a check for $5,000 to six-year-old Tina Bjornstad of Ypsilanti. The check will help cover costs of county polio patients in hospitals here. Looking on are J. Wayne Meadows (left), treasurer of the Washtenaw county chapter, and Mrs. A. Harold Bjornstad of Ypsilanti, mother of Tina, who had polio three years ago.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 10, 1953
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Dimes To Fight Polio - That's valuable mail that Post Office employe Victor W. Shewman is handing over to Mrs. Harold Goldman and Mrs. Harold W. Riggs. It contains $840 for the March of Dimes drive in dime folders and special gifts. A total of $4,170 has been collected to date from such mail. The drive will continue through Jan. 31. Mrs. Goldman is treasurer for the Ann Arbor drive, and Mrs. Riggs is chairman of the dime card collection.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 28, 1953
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Prepare For Mothers March: Steven Goslee, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Goslee of East Ann Arbor, holds aloft the lighted lamp -- symbol of the "Mothers March on Polio" slated Thursday night -- as chairman of the march for various areas of the county look on. Steven was a victim of polio last summer and still wears braces and uses crutches. Pictured are (first row, left to right) Mrs. William M. Flanders, East Ann Arbor; Mrs. Lee G. Begole, Dixboro; Mrs. William W. Steinberger, Willow Village; Mrs. Earl Schanz, Dexter; Mrs. George C. Hoppert, Ypsilanti; (second row) Mrs. Robert Button, Milan; Mrs. James A. Nichols, Ann Arbor; (third row) Mrs. Homer Cleary, Pittsfield Village; Mrs. Harold Carter, Dexter; Mrs. George Feack, Manchester; Mrs. Delores Bennett, Ypsilanti; Mrs. Waldemar J. Grossman, Chelsea; (fourth row) Mrs. Edwin J. Sutter, Chelsea; and Mrs. Norman Elfring, Saline.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 28, 1953
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Ann Arbor Captains (left to right) Mrs. Richard W. Berkeley, Mrs. Jess M. Mosher, Mrs. John Hedlesky, jr., Mrs. Frederick N. McOmber, Mrs. W. Paul Clark, Mrs. William T. Dobson, Mrs. C. W. Carpenter, Mrs. Marion E. McArtor and Mrs. Ronald S. Johnson.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, August 11, 1953
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Early Start For Polio Fund: Mrs. James A. Nichols, Ann Arbor chairman of the 1954 March of Dimes, watches Robert Kirk, 2115 Alice St., put his dog, Tippy, through one of the acts of a circus that neighborhood children staged to aid the polio fund. A circuit and a carnival were held by two groups in the new Northwest elementary school area and $5.74 was turned over to the polio fund. Among others who took part were Gordon Jones (left), 1806 Linwood Ave., and Mary Kay Hamilton, 306 Westwood Ave.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 10, 1953
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Prepare For Polio Campaign - Area chairmen for January's March of Dimes polio fund campaign met at the Michigan League in Ann arbor yesterday to hear Blake Ferris, Detroit representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, speak. Among those attending the meeting were (left to right) Mrs. Delores Bennett, chairman of the drive for the Ypsilanti Negro community; Mrs. Harold A. Bjornstad, Ypsilanti general chairman; Mrs. Walter Mast, Webster township chairman; and Mrs. William Steinberger, Willow Village chairman.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 20, 1942
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'March Of Dimes' Cards Start Marching: Boy and girl scouts, aided by the Red Cross motor corps, began the distribution here yesterday afternoon of 10,000 'March of Dimes' cards by which dimes may be contributed to the nationwide fund-raising campaign of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The photograph above shows several boy scouts piling out of car driven by a member of the motor corps to take the cards to residential houses.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 29, 1943
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Contributions Bring Happiness: Victims of infantile paralysis lead lives as nearly normal as possible when aided by funds contributed to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Nancy Jane Hackbarth, 317 Montgomery Ave., (shown with her radio), is one local victim who has been benefited by the fund. Gifts may be sent to the Foundation's Ann Arbor office in the First National building.