This I Believe

Each year that you honor a member of the Association by this award, you are honoring, also, the memory of Mary McMillan. The February 1960 issue of the Physical Therapy Review was dedicated to her memory. I have read and reread the story of her life, the tributes by her many friends, and the speech she gave at the 25th Anniversary of the Association in which she told about her work in helping to establish physical therapy in America and China. I would like to see these articles reprinted and made available to the physical therapists so they may read about this remarkable woman whose life and works were a great inspiration to many people. I regret that I did not know her personally, but some circumstances have linked us together. She started the physical therapy department at Walter Reed Hospital where I later took my training.…