Jeff Hanna As I watched videos of the first COVID-19 vaccine being administered throughout the country Monday, I remembered the moment, 65 years earlier, when I trooped from my second-grade classroom to the “sick room” at the old Bethany School. It was April 21, 1955. The U.S. government had declared the Salk vaccine safe and effective for use nine days earlier. All of us in Bethany and the rest of Brooke County had been alerted to the availability of the vaccine through a story in The Intelligencer, which appeared under the headline “Brooke Youths to Get Polio Vaccine Today.” In fact, the story ran on Tuesday, April 19, but the first and second graders in Bethany were at the end of the county’s line and had to wait until Thursday for our turn.