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1996-2016

March 2004

Rolling On: The Story of the Amazing Gary McPherson

Gerald W. Hankins. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2003; 216 pp; ISBN: 0-88864-405-1; paper $24.95 CA.
Gary McPherson contracted life-threatening polio during the epidemic of 1955 which left him a quadriplegic. He retains just enough coarse movement in his left hand to click a mouse and enough strength in his left leg to push his wheelchair backwards a few feet. Gary cannot feed himself or comb his hair. Yet his achievements are amazing. He is a husband and father, has coached championship sporting teams, is past chair of the Alberta Premier's Council on the Status of Persons with Disabilities, and is currently both a lecturer in the School of Business at the University of Alberta and executive director of the Canadian Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.

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