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THE MONTH -- GROUP BY GROUP

Polio Crusaders -- A heavy work schedule completed; new work being carried out as planned. Nine hundred letters (Imagine it!) sent out, over five hundred and fifty being individually typed or written longhand.

Everyone helping; Mrs. Lillian K. Donovan, of Harvard, Illinois, and Peggy Clark, of New York City, in charge. Edith Kenney, of New York City, doing lion's share of typing, and Christine Piper, of Irving, Kansas, organizing and dispatching one large mailing.

Alumni getting members, too. Boyd White, now of Cotuit, Massachusetts, Harriett Root, of Greenwich, Connecticut, John Blakely, of Boston, Massachusetts, and Mrs. Elizabeth Pierson, of Detroit, sending memberships recently.

Membership boosted to 337, and growing fast.

Publicity -- Over four thousand July Polio Chronicles published and mailed to doctors, physiotherapists, editors, polio victims, and others interested. Addressing and inserting in envelopes by polio volunteers; a big job done in two days.

Southern Railway putting an attractive Warm Springs leaflet out to all its agencies, through efforts of this Group.

Walter Beyer, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, doing a man's job managing publication and mailing, then, (Tough luck!) laid up in Infirmary with annoying, but not serious illness. Phil Buchen, of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, (Stout fella!) stepping in, editing this August issue.

Chad Sparks, of Orlando, Florida, making the Bulletin Board alive, worth reading.

Entertainment -- Stephen Helburn, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Bernard Katz, of Perth Amboy, and accomplices, getting heads together and providing the good times listed to right of this column. (Nuf sed!)

Rehabilitation -- Lowell Martin, of Lafayette, Indiana, (Imagine his embarrassment!) cramming parliamentary law to tell us when we are out of order in drill. Carrying on work started by Reg Bulkley, of Cambridge, and amplified by Jim Tomlinson, of Portland, Maine.

Plan and Purpose -- A new Group, Dick Kerry, Brookline, Massachusetts, Chairman. To crystallize and bring up-to-the-minute, in writing, the aims and organization of the National Patients' Committee and Polio Crusaders.

Greeting -- Another new one, Bessie Furr, Washington, D. C., Chairman. To greet new patients at the Warm Springs Foundation and introduce them to Warm Springs philosophy and National Patients' Committee program.