21 Years In A Wheelchair, Then - Bruce Reynolds Now "Motorized"
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
April 23, 1953
April 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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For the last 21 of his 56 years. Bruce Reynolds has been moving about Middletown in a wheelchair. It is an awkward, worn wooden chair with two large bicycle tires which he rolls along by slowly turning two metal cranks. Today he has a new chair - a modern, deluxe affair that is pushed forward by a powerful motor, not by the slow twisting of tired hands. The chair is the gift of the Armco Employees Independent Federation, and Bruce was told about it yesterday afternoon at Founder’s Day ceremonies on the steps of the federation’s headquarters at 116 North Broad Street. This was the “secret” project of the AEIF. Every year individual members perform extra good turns at Founder’s Day ceremonies, and most of them remain secret forever...
For the last 21 of his 56 years. Bruce Reynolds has been moving about Middletown in a wheelchair. It is an awkward, worn wooden chair with two large bicycle tires which he rolls along by slowly turning two metal cranks. Today he has a new chair - a modern, deluxe affair that is pushed forward by a powerful motor, not by the slow twisting of tired hands. The chair is the gift of the Armco Employees Independent Federation, and Bruce was told about it yesterday afternoon at Founder’s Day ceremonies on the steps of the federation’s headquarters at 116 North Broad Street. This was the “secret” project of the AEIF. Every year individual members perform extra good turns at Founder’s Day ceremonies, and most of them remain secret forever...
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