The Anne Carlsen Center for Children
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The Anne Carlsen Center for Children is a school for handicapped children in Jamestown, North Dakota. Named for Dr. Anne Carlsen, the school's principal from 1948 until her retirement in 1981, the school is one of the leading institutions in the United States for teaching children to live successfully with handicaps.
[edit] History
In 1940, the Lutheran Hospitals and Homes Society purchased the "Crippled Childrens' School" of Fargo, North Dakota and began moving the operation from a converted college facility in Fargo to a new site in Jamestown.[1]
The new facility - serving 18 students, with two modern classrooms, craft, library, and therapy facilities, a recreation room, dining hall, and a dormitory with a capacity of 35 - was dedicated as the Crippled Childrens' School on September 21, 1941. The superintendent was Rev. W.B. Schoenbohm.
One of the high school teachers at the new school's dedication was Anne Carlsen, a quadruple congenital amputee. Carlsen would go on to serve as the school's principal in 1948, the superintendent in 1950, and finally its namesake in 1980.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Historical timeline - annecenter.com
