Blue Eyes Love Red Roses: The Essential Ilene – Ruth Ilene Lindquist - Couverture souple

Lindquist, Oiva Herbert "Herb"

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1537092294 ISBN 13 : 9781537092294

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

How did the polio epidemic of the 1950s affect patients and their families? This book – “Blue Eyes Love Red Roses” – is one response to that question. The author and his wife Ilene were very much in love when they married in 1948. They graduated from college, bought their first home, and had a young son. Herb Lindquist was teaching physics at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while establishing the physics department. Ilene was pregnant with the couple’s second son when the “polio bomb exploded” in their happy home. After Ilene contracted polio in 1952, how did she and Herb establish and maintain a “normal life” for themselves and their sons? This husband’s account, told with love and admiration, honors his wife’s abiding Christian faith, her positive outlook, and her “sisu” – the Finnish word for perseverance, guts, and grit. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit the Ruth Ilene Lindquist scholarship at Augsburg College for women majoring in physics. Oiva Herbert “Herb” Lindquist is also the author of “My Finnish Father’s Sauna Gift,” a memoir honoring his Finnish immigrant father.

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À propos de l?auteur

Oiva Herbert (Herb) Lindquist grew up in the woods and lakes of northern Minnesota where he fished, explored and enjoyed academics and athletics. After serving in the Army and as a naval cadet during World War II, Herb earned a bachelor’s degree in physics at Iowa State University where he met and married his late wife, Ilene. When Ilene contracted polio, Herb left teaching at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he founded the physics department, and began his 32-year career at Honeywell, Inc. With a masters degree in biophysics from the University of Minnesota, Herb became the space engineering manager at Honeywell and the section head of the systems group that analyzed, designed and released specifications for construction of equipment used on all Apollo spacecraft flights.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1537092294
• ISBN 13: 9781537092294
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg