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Easing into a New World. Last May Glenwood got a new superintendent, young (32) Alfred Sasser Jr., who had put through a whirlwind program of reform at Muscatatuck State School in Indiana (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954). Though his budget had been closed, Sasser talked legislators into reopening it, got extra funds for psychologists, trained technicians and essential equipment-an electroencephalograph, an audiometer, etc. Sasser also decided to retest the IQs of his 1,866 charges. In addition to Mayo Buckner, who scored 120, a dozen other patients were found to have IQs over 90 and to be well equipped...
...Muscatatuck State School for the Mentally Retarded. Dr. Groesbeck saw his first case of rickets in 36 years as a licensed physician, so bad was the malnutrition. Expensive new medical and dental equipment was found crated in basements, where it had rusted for ten years or more -nobody was interested enough to unpack it, and anyhow, there was no technical staff...
Somewhere on the banks of the Muscatatuck River, in the mid-19th Century, lived Jess Birdwell, Quaker and nurseryman. Jess thought he had everything life could give, except a chance to listen to music. His wife, Eliza, was a minister-"good-looking, as female preachers are apt to be." But like most of the local Quakers, Eliza believed that music was "a popish dido, a sop to the senses, a hurdle waiting to trip man in his upward struggle." She had to give Jess a pretty stern nudge in the ribs every seventh month, fourth day (Fourth of July), when...
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