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Interesting Events At Warm Springs

Creator: n/a
Date: February 1933
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives


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JOHN LEMOINE of Montreal, president, presided over the semi-annual meeting of the National Patients' Committee on Jan. 20. All Committee Groups reported. The president along with his co-workers, Warren Edmunds of Bayside, L. I., vice-president, Mildred Kerry of Brookline, Mass., secretary, and Frances McGaan of Altona, Ill., were re-elected to office.

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Mr. Roosevelt and his party arrived on Sunday, Jan. 22. Since then we have had glimpses of such of the great and near-great as Senator Robert LaFollette, Bernard Baruch, Swagar Sherley, Walker, Mines, Major James Curley, and Floyd Gibbons.

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We had a vaudeville show on Jan. 24. Dancers, acrobats, black face comedy, marionettes, and singers brought over from Columbus, Ga., through the kind offices of Mrs. B. A. Renfroe of that city, provided the entertainment. Mr. Roosevelt was our honored guest.

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Mrs. Mary K. Jerome, of the Georgia State Fish and Game Commission, gave an interesting talk and showed movies about the Commission's work, Friday, Jan. 27.

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On Saturday night, Jan. 28, the entertainment committee staged a dance at the Playhouse. Everyone was there. Some of the polios ventured on the floor, but they seemed to have a tendency to " 'fa' down and go 'boom'."

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If you don't think a visit to little Warm Springs by a British ambassador is an interesting event, you should have seen the crowd attracted by the visit of Sir Ronald Lindsay on Sunday, Jan. 29.

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