Greetings Go Through-Doris Whitaker, 22-year-old polio victim, is too ill to write Christmas cards but with the help of amateur radio operators her friends back home in Somerset, Ky., are to hear her voice on Christmas eve and she is to hear theirs. Here Atlanta "hams", Olin Crabb (right) and C.W. Read record her voice from her bed in Grady Hospital. Wednesday afternoon, they are to broadcast the recording and it is to be picked up by Ivan Kelley's station W4TUT at Somerset where her friends will be gathered. They will return greetings, via radio, and their voices will be relayed to her by phone.

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Title:
Greetings Go Through-Doris Whitaker, 22-year-old polio victim, is too ill to write Christmas cards but with the help of amateur radio operators her friends back home in Somerset, Ky., are to hear her voice on Christmas eve and she is to hear theirs. Here Atlanta "hams", Olin Crabb (right) and C.W. Read record her voice from her bed in Grady Hospital. Wednesday afternoon, they are to broadcast the recording and it is to be picked up by Ivan Kelley's station W4TUT at Somerset where her friends will be gathered. They will return greetings, via radio, and their voices will be relayed to her by phone.
Title (alt.):
Hams Find a Way-Doris Whittaker, 22, unable to write cards because of polio, but with help of amateur radio operators in Atlanta, Ga., makes recording of voice to be radioed to her friends in Somerset, Ky. Atlanta hams Olin Crab, right, and C. W. Read record voice to broadcast to Somerset station where her friends will hear it. Return greetings will be relayed her by phone.
Description:
[Information from item housing] Infantile Paralysis: Wire Photos
Photographer:
Associated Press
Name on Item:
AP
Date:
[ca. December 1952]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue
Subjects:
Poliomyelitis
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 210 x 256 mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s7529f66d
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
All rights reserved.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title(s) from item.
Preferred Citation:
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue, Boston Public Library
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Boston University, College of Communication, 1977/1978.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Identifier:
22_10_001299_0024
Barcode:
39999088103351