Word: reichart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jack Reichart, a 64-year-old inventor and appliance manufacturer of Muncie, Ind. had never seen an "iron lung" respirator in his life. Last week he was asked to make one in a hurry. Muncie's Ball Memorial Hospital, which owned the only iron lung in three counties, suddenly had 28 polio (infantile paralysis) patients on its hands. That lung was in use when Rue Steel, an eight-year-old boy who urgently needed a respirator, was brought in. Hospital Superintendent Nellie Brown asked Reichart if he could turn out an emergency...
...Reichart studied data on the complex machine at his little factory, then called for what he needed. Businessmen donated steel barrels and alcohol drums, plywood, motors and parts from vacuum cleaners, small crankshafts from outboard motors. Employees volunteered their labor and worked all night. After ten hours the lung was ready for Rue Steel. The mechanical minutemen kept on, making seven more, and Reichart drew blueprints from which any small-town machine shop could put together an emergency lung...
...girls nominated this week include Luretta Davis, Raquel Heller, Mary Lou Buckley, Donna Cook, Barbara Heanue, Ruth Reichart, all of them senior class officers, Mary Bruchholz, Alice Gilbert, Winifred Libbon, Joan McPartlin, Joan Projansky, Francena Thomas, Irene Tinker, and Suzanne Watson...
...Commencement Day by Grace Anthony '49, Marie Benedetti '49, Virginia Cass '49, Elizabeth Crowley '49, Ann Devney '49, Natasha Drury '49, Josephine Fiske '49, Shirley Goldman '49, Marion Hayes '49, Charlotte Horwood '49, Nancy Kane '49, Winifred Libbon '49, Ruth Marshall '49, Frances McDonald '49, Ann Murphy '49, Ruth Reichart '49, Elizabeth Zacharchuk '49, Joan Braverman '50, Nina Emerson '50, Nancy Rodriguez '50, Lucia Toscano '50, Joan Bresnahan '51, Hanni Ehren theil '51, Barbara Fitzgerald '51, and Jean O'Brien...
Those in the class of '49 who will assume posts in next year's Senior Class are: Luretta F. Davis, President; Raquel Heller, Vice-President; Mary L. Buckley, Secretary; La Donna M. Cook, Treasurer; and Barbara A. Heanue and Ruth Reichart, Student Council Representatives...