Anne Carlsen: a pioneer is remembered.On December 22, 2002, the disabilities community lost one of its most treasured advocates with the death of Dr. Anne Carlsen at the age of 87. But her memory will live on forever. She was truly a lady who never thought of only herself, always the needs of others. Dr. Carlsen was born in Grantsburg, Wisconsin Grantsburg is a village in Burnett County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 1,369 at the 2000 census. The village is located within the Town of Grantsburg. Grantsburg bills itself the "Gateway to Crex Meadows", the largest wildlife area in Wisconsin. on November 4, 1915. Born without forearms and lower legs, she never let that get in the way of her life. Growing up, she abided by the words of her father, who told her, "Anne, two arms and two legs missing aren't as important as one head that's present. The best way to make that head help is to get it educated." She went on to learn everything her typically developing peers were doing at the time. Anne learned to swim, play baseball and take part in other games. She walked and ran with the assistance of her kiddie kid·die or kid·dy n. pl. kid·dies Slang A small child. kiddie Noun Informal a child car (a device similar to a wagon) and learned many different tasks utilizing her arm stubs stubs The shares of equity in a firm that is financed almost completely with debt. Stubs are often created when firms go through a leveraged buyout or pay big cash dividends in order to fend off a takeover. : including writing and feeding herself. As an adult, she learned to drive a car and in 1964 she took a carload carload In commodities trading, a railroad car or truckload of grain that ranges from 1,400 to 2,500 bushels. of daring friends to the World's Fair in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . After receiving her Master's degree from Northern University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. , where she had already earned a Bachelor's degree. From the University of Minnesota Anne earned a PhD in Education, with her Dissertation: A Comparative Study of the Responses of Crippled and Non-Crippled Adolescents on Some Personality and Interest Tests, 1949. In addition to education, Dr. Carlsen was involved with countless developmental disability developmental disability n. A cognitive, emotional, or physical impairment, especially one related to abnormal sensory or motor development, that appears in infancy or childhood and involves a failure or delay in progressing through the normal committees and presidential advisory boards. She received numerous honors and awards for her accomplishments. In 1958 Carlsen received the prestigious President's trophy as the Handicapped American of the Year, presented by then vice-president Richard Nixon. In between her education she worked as a junior high and high school teacher at schools for the developmentally challenged (i.e., Gillette State Hospital, St. Paul Minnesota and Crippled Children's School, Jamestown, ND, where she soon became principal). All of the experience with Crippled Children's School enabled Carlsen to become Administrator in 1950. In 1980 The Board of Education of Crippled Children's School renamed the school to the Anne Carlsen School. After holding the administrator position for about thirty years, Carlsen retired in 1981. She still served as a consultant and a mentor to the school's students until her passing. Carlsen kept an office on campus and continued to spend much of her time corresponding with former students, family and friends. Let us remember Dr. Anne Carlsen, a lady of wonderful accomplishments and an inspiration to all. |
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