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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1968)
l.‘{, 100 years Oueen's bat ’s Ap« a wife and ld and an. 1 in Apni in the cof. mi rubbet i has h’o t meter, cm be the en. shaft. The air. ' _ my time )ile of box. me," said to his de- be able to - coffin, dians livi tl : he United Despite Loss Of Leg THE Thursday, February 22, 1968 BATTALION College Station, Texas Page 7 Mrs. R. E. Wainerdi Lives Full Life Job Calls MONDAY By BOB PALMER Battalion Staff Writer Mrs. Richard Wainerdi has not let life end on the operating table but continues to enjoy it to the fullest, serving as an inspira tion to numerous handicapped people around the world. "Whenever my husband or I hear of someone who has become handicapped, we write to them, telling that life does not have to end,” Mrs. Wainerdi, who has lost her right leg to the hip, said. “If there is any way that we can help them through that initial adjustment period, we try to do so,” the Texas mother said. Mrs. Wainerdi has found that just telling recent amputees that she married and had children after losing her leg to bone cancer helps their morale. She and her husband, associate dean of engineering at Texas A&M, have started a shoe ex change. “We have a file of names of people with only one leg and try to match legs and shoe sizes,” Angela commented. “Whenever I get a pair of shoes, I send my spare one to my shoemate.” Her shoemate, Roberta Scott, also spends much of her time spreading the Wainerdi doctrine of “keep living.” She has just returned from her second trip to Vietnam, entertaining servicemen who have recently had an ampu tation. Mrs. Wainerdi helped give the Tulsa, Okla., native a boost, when she got Rozerta entered in the Miss Handicapped contest as the candidate from Texas. Roberta finished second and was on her way to a career in show business. she Mrs. Wainerdi corresponds regularly with people like Roberta all over the country. “EVERYWHERE we travel, even in Europe, we run into people whom we write to,’ commented. She noted that some of her most enthusiastic correspondents are mothers of children who have lost limbs. Mrs. Wainerdi under stands their problems because she lost her leg at the age of 14. “I was in the hospital from the time I was seven until I was eighteen,” she said. “I never missed a year of school, however, because I was in Children’s Hos- pittal in Buffalo, N. Y., and they sent tutors to each bed when we could not attend classes.” After graduation from high school, Mrs. Wainerdi attended Albright Art School and became a newspaper fashion artist. “I HAD resigned myself to what I considered a realistic pic ture of my future life,” she said. “I thought I was destined to be a career girl and never leave Buffalo.” “This was before the copy editor of her newspaper, William R. O’Connor, wrote a story on her for Handicap Week. His_ story was carried in Perform ance, the government’s magazine on the handicapped. A research scientist, working on his doctorate in Oak Ridge, Tenn., read the story and wrote a letter to her. “I got many letters about that story, but his was such a beauti ful letter I just had to answer it,” Mrs. Wainerdi remembered. “Before I knew it, three letters would be waiting for me each day when I came to work.” clicked. Now we have two boys; Thomas Joseph, 9, and James Cooper, 7.” Wainderdi also takes an in terest in his wife’s work with the handicapped. He likes to design devices that make their life a bit easier. “WE CORRESPOND wtih one girl, Joyce Cox, who has lost both of her forearms,” she said. “She wanted to sew, so Dick designed a mechanical aid that let her.” American Electric Power Serv ice Company; Fisher Governor Company; Lone Star Steel Com pany; Motorla Incorporated, Semiconductor Products Division; PPG Industries, Chemical Divi sion, Lake Charles, La.; PPG In dustries, Corporate Office; PPG Industries, Houston Chemical Corporation; The Upjohn Com pany; Naval Weapons Center Co rona Laboratories. WAINERDI drove all the way from Oak Ridge to Buffalo in the snow to see for the first time this girl to whom he had been writing to three times a day. “Ten weeks after Dick came to Buffalo, we were married Angela recalled. Life is still not as soft for Mrs. Wainerdi as the thick car pets that cover the floors of her spacious home. She suffers a lot of pain, but “puts up a good front.” She is always tastefully dressed, paying special attention to her shoe, and has a continuous smile that shoves her ears back. MONDAY AND TUESDAY Armco Steel Corporation; Philco- Ford-Corporation, Houston Oper ations; Tenneco Oil Company; Texas Instruments Incorporated, Apparatus Division, Semiconduc tor-Components Division, Materi als Division, Science Services Di vision; The Procter & Gamble Co. “It was crazy, but we just But the pain still sent her back to Methodist Hospital in Hous ton for more surgery Feb. 11. TUESDAY Aluminum Company of Ameri ca; J. C. Penney Company, Inc.; Arthur Andersen & Company; Humble Oil & Refining Company. TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY Humble Oil & Refining Co. 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