Author Biographical Info

Jack Romulus Hild was born February 27, 1904 in Waco, Texas. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of South California at Los Angeles, and his MD from Tulane University in New Orleans, in 1929, after which he served an internship in pediatrics in Cincinnati, Ohio. He and his wife Dorothy moved to Douglas, Arizona, in 1933 and stayed there until 1939, when he completed his residency. During World War II, Hild achieved the rank of major in the Army Air Force Medical Corps. Two of his three children were injured by polio in the late 1940s and Hild and Dr. O.A. Fly were co-directors of the mass polio vaccinations in Harris County in 1962. He died on August 24, 1992, and is buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.

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MS056-b1-f1-011

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English

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This is an article clipped from the Houston Chronicle from Wednesday, January 17, 1962 with the headline reading, “Polio Victim Knows Difficulties Her Special Students Are Facing.” The article is about Lisbeth Hild, daughter of Dr. Jack Hild, who suffered from Polio at age 14 and in 1962 was 27 years old working with children in the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research. See more at finding aid.

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Vaccination, Poliomyelitis, Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine, Teaching, Houston (Tex.), Harris County (Tex.), Houston Chronicle, Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, Hermann Hospital (Houston, Tex.), Rice University (Houston (Tex.), Harris County (Tex.), newspaper clippings, news photographs

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