Interrupted Lives by Mary Krugerud

Author:Mary Krugerud
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud
Published: 2018-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

Boarding Club. (Courtesy of the Lokke Collection)

The Sarahurst Club. (Courtesy of the Hennepin History Museum)

In 1939, the Hennepin County Tuberculosis Association of Minneapolis turned to filmmaking to publicize its success in vocational rehabilitation. Sanatorium scenes for the color motion picture Restored were filmed at Glen Lake. The fifteen-minute movie followed a factory girl from development of tuberculosis through sanatorium treatment, education within the sanatorium, retraining at Sarahurst, home care, and return to self-support. The film debuted at the Southern Tuberculosis Conference in Charleston, South Carolina.31 In September of that year, Rosetta van Gelder from the department of rehabilitation of the National Tuberculosis Association visited Sarahurst and Glen Lake. She commented that in no other city had she found a plan equal in effectiveness to the one worked out in Minneapolis and Glen Lake.32

Life wasn’t all work and no play, though. Other things were happening at Glen Lake, including annual visits by baseball players from the Minneapolis Millers. The team’s owner, Mike Kelley, had personally granted permission for the games to be rebroadcast to the bed patients when the live game was during rest hours. In 1935, Joe Hauser and Andy Cohen from the Minneapolis Millers visited the children’s camp and the children’s building. Both players promised to hit homes runs at that afternoon’s game, and both did. Halsey Hall, the baseball announcer for WCCO, mentioned that in his broadcast of the game.33 Ted Williams visited in 1938, the year he played for the Millers before being called up to the big leagues.

Irving Sandler, who entered the sanatorium in 1936, described himself as having connections in show business. Other accounts say that he had in fact been a successful tap dancer on the vaudeville circuit. Although Sandler was on strict bed rest for more than two years, he used some of his connections to persuade entertainers to come out to Glen Lake for shows.34

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