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...LEAD an ordinary life, doing ordinary things," says North Dakota Teacher Anne Carlsen in the understatement of the year. For the extraordinary life of the "Handicapped American of the Year," see MEDICINE, Handicap Winner...
...lead an ordinary life doing ordinary things," said the short, sandy-haired woman waiting to be called as an honored guest to the platform in Washington's resplendent Departmental Auditorium last week. "I'm just doing what other people are doing." Dr. Anne Carlsen, 43, was right in a way. She just does "what other people are doing," but with a difference: she does it with no arms, and with artificial legs. The President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped could have found no more logical recipient for its annual trophy award to the "Handicapped...
When Anne Carlsen was born in Grantsburg, Wis., she had only stubs of arms ending above the elbow, her right leg ended above the knee, and the left was malformed, ending in a clubfoot. Left motherless at four, Anne got tireless encouragement from her father, an elder sister and four brothers. On a coaster wagon she learned to take part in a modified version of baseball. At eight she was pronounced ready for school, but only after a psychologist had gone over her and solemnly pronounced her "educable." Anne raced through two grades a year...
After discouraging years of baby-sitting and of writing, which brought only rejection slips, Anne Carlsen got the break she longed for: a chance to teach at a special school for crippled children in Fargo, N. Dak. The children, she found, quickly adjusted to her multiple .handicaps, soon seemed not to notice them. Summer studies won her an M.A., and in 1949 Anne Carlsen got her Ph.D. in education from Minnesota. The next year Dr. Carlsen moved in as superintendent of the Crippled Children's School, which had moved to Jamestown...
Finishing fifth in the league standings this spring after taking the championship last season, the Yale team has been plagued by weak pitching--a handicap which must come as quite a shock to coach Ethan Allen after his recent successes with Ken MacKenzie and Ray Carlsen. Diminutive southpaw Pete Higuchi, who lasted only one inning against the Crimson last month, may get the starting call again today...