Monday, August 6, 2007

John Thomas Nelson: 1911 - 2007

John Thomas "Tom" Nelson was very passionate about handicapped kids and lobbied for them extensively.

He wasn't a real popular person with the administration or the school board.He did what he thought was right, not what was politically correct.

Having graduated right into the Depression," Mr. Nelson moved back to Durant to work in his father's feed mill.

By the early 1930s, conditions improved, and he persuaded his parents to send him to Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Mr. Nelson transferred to the University of Iowa in Iowa City in his senior year and graduated in 1939 with an education degree. read more

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