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D95645-2
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- 1955-12-20 (Creation)
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Frank Gillihan, the Pierce County campaign director for the March of Dimes, visited Tacoma's Crippled Children's School at East 50th Street and Sumner Avenue on December 20, 1955. While there he took time to read the classic children's book "The Christ Child" by Maud and Miksa Petersham to Jimmy Galligan, Frances Miller (on Mr. Gillihan's lap), and Gretchen Hensel. They were among the seventeen children afflicted with polio attending the school located by Salishan. All were reported progressing well. In 1958 the Tacoma school district became one of the first school districts in the United States to move to "mainsteaming", providing handicapped pupils with ongoing contact with their nonhandicapped peers. (Photograph ordered by the March of Dimes.) (TNT 12-21-55, A-15)
Children & adults--Tacoma; Reading--Tacoma; People with disabilities--Tacoma; Orthopedic braces; Wheelchairs; Gillihan, Frank J.; Galligan, Jimmy; Miller, Frances; Hensel, Gretchen;