[Magdalen] Jonas Salk happy birthday

[James Handsfield]

Jonas Salk was a good researcher but he was a major horse’s ass as a person.  I had the misfortune to have to deal with him once when I was working on my MPH degree at San Diego State University.

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Thinking one can behave their way into heaven is an insult to the very foundation of salvation.

Jim Handsfield
jhandsfield at att.net





> On Oct 28, 2014, at 1:19 AM, James Oppenheimer <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Today would be Jonas Salk's one-hundredth birthday.
> 
> We in Pittsburgh area remember all the kids lining up at the Cathedral of
> Learning to get their polio shots.  In time, it would be supplanted by the
> oral Sabine vaccine, but at the time, he was the guy who made it possible
> for kids to go back to swimming pools without fear.
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer
> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente