Bonnie was only two; one minute she was walking and the next she was not. At age 22 she started a 45-year journey as an International Public Health advisor that would take her around the world.

Carol was only two when she had the "summer flu“. She got better on her own, no doctor was ever called. Finally, at 90 years of age, her mother revealed that deep down, they always knew it was polio.

One hot summer day in 1930, she was brought down to a swimming pool in Newark NJ to cool off and go for a swim. The two year old was told not to dunk her head in the water.