A lawyer by training, American born Basil O’Connor was
"the architect of the fight against poliomyelitis." In 1927, O’Connor
was recruited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to raise funds to support
polio patients at Warm Springs, Georgia. O’Connor assumed the lead role of the
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation when Roosevelt was elected Governor of New
York. In 1938, the two men formed the National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis (NFIP), which focused on supporting research to find a solution to
the problem of poliomyelitis. Under O'Connor, the NFIP, known best as "the
March of Dimes," mobilized volunteers to help fund research to develop the
polio vaccines that ended the polio epidemics in the US.
The MARCH OF DIMES TOUR - 1944
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