Polio Hall of Fame

Designed by Edmond Romulus Amateis, the sculpted busts were cast in bronze and positioned in an irregular linear pattern on a white marble wall.

There is a detailed coverage of the celebration including photographs of the sculptor and the persons involved posing in front of their respective busts in Edward A. Beeman’s biography of one of the scientists, Charles Armstrong (see below No.

6) [2] The first 15 of the 17 bronze busts show 14 men and one woman, who were instrumental in polio research and treatment.

Beginning in 1924,[9]: 257  the 32nd U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had regularly spent some time at Warm Springs and died there in 1945.

[9]: 451  He was struck with a severe paralytic illness in August 1921, diagnosed at the time as polio, while vacationing with his family at their summer home at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada.