Support Group Projects
- Museum Exhibit - "Hope and the Human Spirit - Overcoming Polio" at the Reno County Historical Museum. (Exhibit closed)
- At the invitation of Promise Regional Medical
Center, members of the
Central Kansas Polio Survivors Group have continued that polio legacy of “doing
the impossible”. They have moved a portion of their exhibit titled “Hope and
the Human Spirit --- Overcoming Polio” to the lower level of the hospital near
the conference rooms. Officially open on Thursday, June 18th,
the exhibit will feature an authentic iron lung complete with its
life-sustaining sound. Visitors will learn about The March of Dimes, hot pack treatments,
Australian bush nurse Sister Kenney, a vaccine that was truly successful, braces
and crutches, area medical professionals involved in the local epidemic, and
much more.
Our purpose is to educate those who, because of an immunization that works, will never have to experience polio - a disease that united our nation into action but also forever changed thousands of lives.
- Writing Personal Stories