Triumph on Baker Road: How the Walsh Family Defeated Polio - Softcover

Rose Walsh Landers graduated from Durand High School in 1968 and Western Illinois University in Macomb in 1972. She completed a certificate program at the University of Pennsylvania and began a 30-year career as a pediatric occupational therapist in 1975 in Iowa. She and her husband Bill Landers raised their three children in Iowa City, where she and Bill continue to live today. Rose was diagnosed in 2013 with Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS), a form of ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Mike Waller graduated from Durand High School in 1959, began his newspaper career in 1961 and graduated in 1963 from Millikin University in Decatur, Ill. He worked as a reporter, editor and publisher for 41 years at various newspapers, retiring in 2002 as publisher of The Sun in Baltimore. He and his wife Donna, who live on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, have four children between them. Sue Walsh Cocoma graduated in 1961 from Durand High School and in 1965 from Edgewood College in Madison, Wis. She taught at elementary school for 34 years in Durand, where she and her husband John Cocoma raised their five children. She and John still are active today in the Durand community.