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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.
WEDNESDAY
Fort Hays Kansas State Col
lege; Hydrocarbon Research, Inc.;
Standard Oil Company of Cali
fornia and Chevron Research
Company; Teledyne Industries,
Geotech Division; Army & Air
Force Exchange Service.
THURSDAY
Central Power and Light Com
pany; General Electric Company;
Haskins & Sells; Rohm & Haas
Company; Central Intelligence
Agency.
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY
AND MARCH 1
Shell Companies.
THURSDAY AND MARCH 1
Ford Motor Company.
MARCH 1
Campbell Soup Company; Gulf
States Utilities Company; Olin
Mathieson; Sundstrand Corpora
tion: Westinghouse Electric Cor
poration.
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