A page from the President’s Report, Toledo Society for Crippled Children, February 8, 1938. MSS-190.

President George Shepard remarked on the culmination of the group’s efforts to build a new convalescent facility. To answer those who worried about how the society would pay for the operation of the new home, Shepard stated, “May I point out, however, the Toledo Society for Crippled Children is a corporation not for profit and while the expenses must be kept within the range of sound operation, without extravagances or unwise expenditures of any kind, that in the last analysis—we will gauge our profit by the measuring rod of ‘how many crippled kiddies did we help and did we do a good job?’”