Title: Director of the UC Berkeley Disabled Students' Program, 1988-1992; coordinator of the Residence Program, 1975-1988, and community historian
Description: Childhood and education in Illinois; contracting polio, 1955; family support and adjustments; high school teaching, Ilinois and California; observations as a participant in the Cowell Hospital Residence Program, summer 1971; coordinator of Disabled Students' Residence Program, 1975-1988: transition from hospital setting to university residence halls; director of the Disabled Students' Program at Berkeley, 1988-1992: facilitating independent living for students and orientation for families; politics of disability movement; relationship with California Department of Rehabilitation; removal of architectural barriers on University of California, Berkeley campus; organizing disability conferences; travel in Japan and Europe; contributions of Ed Roberts, Zona Roberts, John Hessler, and others to the disability rights movement.
Subjects: Buildings, Berkeley University of California, Women with disabilities, University of California, Berkeley. Physically Disabled Students Program, Interviews, Access for the physically handicapped, Barrier-free design, Patients, People with disabilities, Social conditions, Education (Higher), Poliomyelitis, University of California, Berkeley. Physically Disabled Students Residence Program, Political activity