Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 28, 1952
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Ready To March On Polio Thursday - Preparing for Thursday night's "Mothers' March" campaign to raise funds for the March of Dimes are these 13 Ann Arbor area women. They are (left to right) Mrs. John Huss, Mrs. Richard Berkeley, Mrs. C. W. Carpenter, Mrs. E. L. MacQuiddy, Mrs. Harry Sakada, Mrs. Forrest Fuller, Mrs. Charles Baird, Mrs. Dudley Scholten, Mrs. Harold M. Levinson, Mrs. William Couper, Mrs. William Wood and Mrs. James Nichols. About 1,000 volunteers will take part in the drive.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 21, 1952
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Perform To Fight Polio - These five performers in a neighborhood "circus" raised $2.15 for the fight against polio. Staged for friends and neighbors in the 800 block of Princeton Ave., the circus featured (left to right) Coriene Hedel, 8, Tippy, Patricia Kuohn, 10, Wendy Manausa, 9, and Katherine Lyke, 11. The girls decided to give to the polio fund because Patricia is a former victim of the disease. Other donations made later swelled the girls' polio fund to $11.74.

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 12, 1953
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Studying To Help Polio Patients - Learning to ease the way for polio patients and other sick persons are these two young women studying medical social work under National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis scholarships. Miss Margaret L. Graham (left), daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Samuel A. Graham of 1718 Hermitage Rd., is in her first year of graduate study. Miss Marjorie Franck of Big Rapids will finish the two-year course in June.

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.