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The regents on Friday approved demolition of the former Munroe-Meyer Institute on the UNMC campus, clearing the way for what university officials have called another great set of opportunities.
Ken Oerter still remembers the day he fell ill with the mysterious sickness that was rampaging across the country, killing children and forcing families to isolate in their homes. He grew dizzy and weak just before he passed out on the playground of his country school near Reynolds in September 1945. Eight-year-old Ken was eventually loaded into the family car and driven over bumpy back roads to a hospital in Omaha where his parents received the grim news: he had polio, an incurable disease known to cause paralysis or even death. For Oerter, now 83, and others of his generation, the ongoing C...