Susan (left) in Key West, Fla., with Traci Johnson Coolidge and friend Jeanette. “We were part of the Cuban Comparsa dancers,” she wrote in a Facebook post. “I made Traci’s and my outfits and buddy Jeanette made her’s, Such memories!” A graphic artist, pottery maker, author of several informational sheets of[Read More…]
Author: Don Williams for The Chronicle
Touched by polio, blessed by Rotary
I was intrigued with the latest article by Col. Richard Heyman regarding contagious disease, and the polio epidemic. I lived through the polio scares in the 1940s and ’50s. I was impacted with my father’s older brother having paralyzed legs, as did President Franklin Roosevelt. My uncle contracted polio on a ranch[Read More…]