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Check Will Cover Costs For Polio Patients in Washtenaw Hospitals, December 1952

Check Will Cover Costs For Polio Patients in Washtenaw Hospitals, December 1952 image
Year:
1952
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 9, 1952
Caption:
Help For Polio Patients - Blake Ferris of Detroit (third from left), eastern state representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, hands a check for $5,000 to six-year-old Tina Bjornstad of Ypsilanti. The check will help cover costs of county polio patients in hospitals here. Looking on are J. Wayne Meadows (left), treasurer of the Washtenaw county chapter, and Mrs. A. Harold Bjornstad of Ypsilanti, mother of Tina, who had polio three years ago.

Tina Bjornstad Plays The Piano For Her Pet Poodles, January 1956

Tina Bjornstad Plays The Piano For Her Pet Poodles, January 1956 image
Year:
1956
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 23, 1956
Caption:
Favorite Pastime: Nine-year-old Tina Bjornstad plays piano while her pet poodle, "Duchess," listens. Tina, who was stricken with polio before she walked, has also learned to swim and ride a bicycle, with a brace on her leg. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. Bjornstad of 700 Ferris St., Ypsilanti.