[Magdalen] Jonas Salk happy birthday

[Lynn Ronkainen]

polio shot at the doctors when little... sugar cube, several times (part of 
trial in Detroit suburbs) at a large church hall on a Sunday (not our 
church)...
Lynn

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From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 8:28 PM
To: "magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Jonas Salk happy birthday

> I know that I got a polio shot, though I don't remember the
> circumstances--probably at an Army dispensary. And I think I got the sugar
> cube with the Sabin vaccine tmy pediatrician's office.
> I do remember, however, the polio vaccine clinic they held my first year 
> of
> teaching.  It was held on a Saturday at one of the elementary community
> schools where I was teaching, and the line stretched out the door.  I 
> think
> my job was registering folks or something--I remember that all of us had 
> to
> work that clinic.
>
> On Tue, 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
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Grace Cangialosi
> Ruckersville, VA
>
> "There are a lot of amazing people out there to be thankful for--
> and a loving God. that's what life is about."
>                                                                   Robin
> Williams,  1951-2014