Ruth Torrence Session 1

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DescriptionIn Session 1, Ruth Torrence talks about her childhood as a child with a physical disability, attending Billings’ schools, her mother’s advocacy for she and her foster siblings with cerebral palsy who attended Easter Montana College’s Cerebral Palsy Handicap Center, her memories of Dr. Louis Allard, her sister - Jane, her mother – Isabel Stanton, attending Montana State University in Bozeman before transferring to Eastern Montana College, teaching school in Idaho, meeting and marrying David Torrence, moving and raising a family in Sydney, MT, having two children with disabilities (Trisomy 13 and Downs), and her work with the federally mandated Developmental Disabled Council of Montana in the 1970s.TypeTextCreatorHunley, LaurenGenredocumentsLanguageengDate2023-4-7ContributorInterviewsDisabilitiesInterviews--MontanaSpecial educationPeople with disabilities--Services for--Law and legislationContributing InstitutionWestern Heritage CenterGeographic CoverageBillings, Montana Yellowstone County, MontanaSydney, MontanaRichland County, MontanaDigital CollectionCommunities with Disabilities Oral History ProjectDigital Formatapplication/pdfDigitization SpecificationsDigital word document saved a pdfDate Digitized2023Contact UsFor questions about our oral histories, email us at archives@ywhc.org

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