[Magdalen] Jonas Salk happy birthday

[Jay Weigel]

My brother's class was one of the first to receive polio shots (as a school
full of faculty brats of a major university, we were often guinea pigs for
assorted projects) and I recall him coming home to report that the biggest
boy in the class had fainted on getting his.

On Tuesday, October 28, 2014, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> And I remember stepping up into a yellow school bus and being
> driven to St. Catherine's church, which had a cavernous but well-lit
> basement, and how surprised I was to see our neighbor Dr. Shattuck
> supervising the process. I'd never been on a bus before and I'd
> never seen so many children in one place in my life.
>
> They'd laid out gym mats on the floor for the kids who fainted.
> One little fellow was wearing a cub scout uniform. I was ashamed
> for him, really. "Dear God ! A man in uniform!" I thought.
>
> Ah, life in a navy town.
> -M
>