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“I don’t think that my disability
really changed anything as far as my relationship with my wife and
children…. [When] our daughter Louisie was in school (she
must’ve been really little), the teacher said to her, ‘Your
dad is Bob Gurney. He’s the one who is handicapped.’ Well,
Louisie told her, ‘No he’s not. He’s my daddy!’”
—Robert Gurney, 1996
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Left: From Rehabilitation Gazette, party and presents
Right: Party time
Newsletter mailing picnic for the Gazette, 1959
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“‘What happened to your leg?’ he asks me as
he’s loading the groceries into the trunk of my Volvo. ‘I
had polio.’ ‘What’s that?’ I feel like an aging
movie star who’s been asked her name by a restaurant maitre d’.
Polio was as famous as AIDS. Those of us who had it were figures.”
—Anne Finger, 2004
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Left: Dick Anton out fishing
Right: Joan Sands and her family
From Rehabilitation Gazette, motorcycling
Left: Race with tank
Right: Lorenzo
Left: Trick-or-treating, Halloween kids with mom
Right: Adele and Chuck Mockbbee
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Photographs courtesy of Post-Polio Health International, Dan and Carol
Wilson, Yoshiko Dart, Lorenzo Milam, Laura Nell Obaugh and Felix Oppenheim-Wedgewood,
Joy Weeber and Ron Mace, Laura Kreiss and Ben Minowitz, Marc Shell, John
Britt, Jack Warner, Richard J. Castiello, Dick and Barbara Eckhardt,
Jean-Marc Giboux, and Rotary International |
