Storyteller: Pound, Judith Sue and Kelly, Keith (son)

Interviewer: Bertalot, Lorretta 12/18/2018

Language: English

Initiative: Tulsans Talk

Description: Lorretta Bertalot interviews Judy Pound and her son, Keith Kelly, about Oklahoma's Polio Epidemic and her life after she contracted polio in 1949 at the age of six. She stayed in isolation at Crippled Children's Hospital in OKC where they used the Kenny method of hot and cold sheets and for a time an Iron Lung to help her since the polio vaccine wasn't developed until 1955. Judy discusses her life as she continues to wear a built-up shoe and brace to help her walk. She also talks of her life working at Rockwell and now her retirement and life as a volunteer.

Subjects: Oklahoma's polio epidemic, Crippled Children's Hospital in OKC, Sister Kenney method to treat polio, iron lung, storybook doll collection, Gary Busey, 1st graduating class of Hale HS in Tulsa, American Aviation, North American Rockwell, Appolo missile, space shuttles, Grand Lake, Grove, OK, Tulsa, Broken Arrow, Green Box Program for recycling, exercises by swimming, water aerobics, book clubs, volunteering. ,