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Title: University High School Oral History Disabilities Project, 2009-2010
ID: 10/12/11
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at U-C. Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services
Other Creators: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Extent: 0.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: In order by month and year.
Subjects: Disabilities, Faculty with Disabilities, Oral History, Students with Disabilities, University High School
Languages: English
University High School Oral History Disabilities Project (2009-2010) includes 16 voice recorded and written interviews, and visas concerning life history of disabled individuals, disabilities, faculty/staff with disabilities, and students with disabilities. The series contains interviews with former DRES staff Tim Nugent and Chuck Elmer, Brad Hedrick, Pat Malik, Paige Lewis and Jon Gunderson. U of I faculty/ staff Carl Lewis and former DRES students Lola L. Nosker, Adrienne Dahnke, Mark Chenail, Reo Wilhour, Corey Hyslop, Carmen Sutherland and Kevin Fritz, Jenna Lungaro and John Hobson.
The Rehabilitation Education Services program was begun at Galesburg in 1948 to provide physical therapy and recreation for physically disabled students and moved to Urbana when Galesburg closed in 1949.1 The Board of Trustees authorized the improvement of the Student Rehabilitation Center on July 25, 1953 and changed its name to the Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services on October 17, 1962.2 The division provides special facilities and services for students with permanent disabilities.3
1. T.J. Nugent, "Paraplegic Rehabilitation Program," The Galesburg Undergraduate Division--University of Illinois, pp. 129-30. Record Series 49/1/810.
2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 47th Report, July 25, 1953, p. 747; and 52nd Report, October 17, 1962, p. 182.
3. Undergraduate Study Catalog, 1965/66, p. 67.
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1012011.pdf
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