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Leaders

Creator: n/a
Date: April 1932
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives


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The marked success of The National Patients' Committee has been in large part due to the splendid active leadership given to it by its three presidents.

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JOHN RUHRAH, M. D., of Baltimore, Maryland, past President the American Pediatric Society, the Medical and Chirurgical Society of Maryland and first President of The National Patients' Committee of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, July to October, 1931. Dr. Ruhrah, himself an authority on poliomyelitis, contracted infantile paralysis while in Europe in 1930, and came to Warm Springs in April, 1931, returning to his practice in October. In sending a Christmas greeting to the members of the Committee, Dr. Ruhrah said: "There is no nobler work than for those who have themselves suffered to help others to a life of activity and usefulness."

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WILLIAM K. LYON, of Niles Center, Illinois, Engineer and graduate of Armour Institute of Chicago, was President from January through March, 1932. Mr. Lyon gave to the work of the Committee the same aggressive leadership which he applies to his job as Cost Engineer for the Arcole Construction Company, which work he was able to resume after a considerable period of treatment in 1931.

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PAUL ROGERS, formerly of Milwaukee, graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Hydraulic Engineer and manufacturer of metal products, is one of the pioneers of Warm Springs, having come here when this work was in an experimental stage. He now owns a cottage here and calls Warm Springs his home. Music is Mr. Rogers' hobby and one might almost say his vocation, for he teaches stringed instruments and does a great deal of radio broadcasting. Mr. Rogers headed The National Patients' Committee from October 1931 to January, 1932, and greatly advanced the work so splendidly begun under the direction of Dr. Ruhrah.

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