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 * ** Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services at U of I **
 * Early years of rehab program (1948 - 1962)
 * Galesburg campus (1948 - 1949)
 * Urbana-Champaign campus (1949 on)
 * Tim Nugent, founder and director (1948 - 1986)
 * Rehab program becomes DRES (Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services, 1962 - 2004)
 * Tim Nugent, director (1948 - 1986)
 * Joseph Larson, director (1986 - 1989)
 * Paul Leung, director (1990 - 1994)
 * Brad Hedrick, director (1996 - present)
 * DRES renamed: Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services (2004 - present)
 * extracurricular activities for students with disabilities:
 * DSO (Delta Sigma Omicron, service fraternity) and //Sigma Signs//
 * cheerleading for Gizz Kids
 * Wheelchair Athletics
 * trip to South Africa, 1962
 * ===Beckwith Hall (see further information at Support for Students with Significant Physical Disabilities)===
 * ** [|History of Disability Services at U of I] **
 * **historical documents about 1949 closing of Galesburg campus can be found at website of Disability Museum (accessible via link on page about "History of Disability Rights Movement," see artifacts # 58, 59, 60, 61 under "schools" using browse tool)**
 * **1962 journal article about disability services at the U of I and a few other universities, see "The University Picture" under "higher education" using the browse tool)**


 * =Student life on UIUC campus=


 * =Accessibility of UIUC campus (see further information at Architectural Standards)=

=Research summaries:= Starr, Terrell. **“**Shattering perceptions of disabilities: Pioneer for equality.” //Daily Illini**.** N.p.////,// December 7, 2009. Web. April 28, 2009. . __Expanding Horizons: A History of the First 50 Years of the Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services at the University of Illinois.__  The Commemorative Book Preparation and Publication Committee. Champaign Illinois: Oxford DTPublishing, 1998. Print. · In the 1947/48 school year, the Rehab Program was created on a satellite campus of the University of Illinois in Galesburg Illinois. It was put in an unused hospital and was mainly for injured soldiers coming back from WWII.  · In 1948 Delta Sigma Omicron, or DSO, was founded. It was the first service fraternity for students with disabilities.  · In 1948 Timothy Nugent founded Disability Resource and Educational Services, or DRES, then called the Rehab Program, making the University of Illinois the first post-secondary institution to provide comprehensive services and accommodations to students with disabilities. DRES was just the new name for the Rehab Program, but the name DRES wasn’t used until 1962 officially. · After the 1948/49 school year, the Galesburg campus was closed, but Timothy Nugent and the first students convinced the University to move it to the campus in Champaign-Urbana. · The first place DRES’s staff and male students lived was three tarpaper shacks, which were not very well insulated and were pretty small. · In 1948 Illinois became the first post secondary institution to offer competitive adapted sports for students with disabilities. · The University did not accept the wheelchair basketball team as its own at first, so they had to be called the Gizz Kids. · In 1949, Nugent founded the National Wheelchair Basketball Association. · In 1949, Timothy Nugent made sure ramps were built on some of the main buildings, and that most were accessible to students with disabilities. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By 1954, Nugent had two busses from the Greyhound Bus Co. and got hydraulic lifts installed in them to make them wheelchair accessible. He also made bus routes that would help the disabled students get to their classes and back the DRES building. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1956, the University gave the Rehabilitation program funding. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Up until 1965 DRES was in the tarpaper shacks, but then they were moved to a different building. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1965, the University of Illinois became the first post-secondary institution to provide a study abroad program for disabled students. <span style="font-family: Symbol,helvetica,sans-serif;"> [Megan James]

//Celebration of Success: The Beckwith Experience//, 25th Anniversary Celebration Program. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. 5. Greenbrier, a nursing home in southwest Champaign, opened in 1959 for students with severe physical disabilities (5). It accommodated 4-5 students, and there was a live-in staff for taking care of the daily needs of the students (5). The problem was that Greenbrier was far way from campus, and a nursing home was not ideal for college students. Students lived there for two years, before Tanbrier opened in 1961 (5). [Troy Xu]

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Celebration of Success: The Beckwith Experience- Memories of the Past and Present. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Urbana: University of Illinois, 2008. Print. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Beckwith Hall from 1982 to 2007 (cover). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Chronology <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -1959- Greenbrier Nursing Home was the living place for the first few severely disabled U of I student (6). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Problems with Greenbrier were that it was meant for senior citizens and so it wasn’t as comfortable from a student’s perspective aside from their special needs. For example it wouldn’t be as convenient to study and especially inconvenient if you wanted to party. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -1961- Tanbrier, home to a few male severely disabled students (6). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Limitations included that it was basically a regular house and not big enough to hold more than a few students. It was also only let in males due to its size and the cultural taboo of co-ed housing (6). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -1977- U of I Board of Trustees approved Beckwith (9). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -1981- Beckwith was completed (9). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -1982- Beckwith Hall became the formal dorm for U of I students with severe physical disabilities and would only accommodate 20 students (9).

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Namesake <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Guy M. Beckwith donated the money to create Beckwith (9). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -He was self educated, a successful farmer, and very wealthy. He decided to donate a large amount of money so that a building could be named after him on campus and his name could live on after he died (9).

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Physical Aspects of Beckwith Hall (9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -2 story structure. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -20 sleep-study rooms. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -1 kitchen. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -1 dining hall. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -1 library-study area with access to all computer resources on campus. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -1 lounge. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Laundry facilities. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -1 efficiency apartment. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -2 one-bedroom apartments. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -2 two-bedroom apartments. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -1 medical suite. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -1 office.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Michael Cafferty, Beckwith Resident, 1991-1996 (18-19) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -U of I was much more accommodating than Southern Illinois University of Carbondale. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Beckwith was very accessible and helpful to students with disabilities and people were able to make friends with others who could relate to each other’s disabilities. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Beckwith showed him how to become an independent adult by learning how to find the best personal assistant, how to schedule five college classes and pass them through well-managed studying, and that he was only one in hundreds of other people like him who had succeeded with the right support. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Beckwith Hall helped him prepare for independence at DePaul Law School.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Matthew A. Odelius, lived from 1979 to 2000 (24) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -He was an outgoing Beckwith Hall resident whose parents created a scholarship fun fo Beckwith Hall students in his name.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Ellen Bowie (26) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -She was a Beckwith Hall housekeeper who died of cancer. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Her closeness with the residents is a good example of the bonds formed at Beckwith.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Relationships at Beckwith (27) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Matthew Zellmer, resident in 2004, describes how Beckwith created bonds. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> -Activities such as movie nights or meals made it so that eventually everyone knew everyone else closely.

[Izzy Fitzpatrick]

Student Life and Cultural Archival Program. "Research Guides at the SLC Archives." // University //// of Illinois //// Archives //. U of Illinois, 2007. Web. 8 Feb. 2010. <[] >

**[|Student Life Timeline- early 50s to early 60s:]** 1950: First women cheerleaders for university sports. 1951: Victory in Big Ten for men’s basketball team. 1953: Automobiles banned from campus for 1 year. 1955: David Dodds Henry became university president. 1958: Allen Hall opened, housing 669 women. Gregory Drive Residence Halls opened. 1963: Assembly Hall opened.

**[|GI Bill:]** The GI Bill of Rights, passed by Congress in 1944, resulted in the national college attendance rate doubling between 1940 and 1960. At the U of I, the enrollment increased by more than double, so two satellite campuses were opened. The Galesburg satellite campus lasted from 1947 to 1949.

**[|Cold War:]** During the Cold War era (1945-1975), students were driven to question racist practices and fight for civil rights. In the late 60s, some students rebelled in support of the civil rights movement. The late 60s joined the civil rights movement with the Vietnam War protest, and the U of I, in addition to campuses nationwide, became the site of many student protests. Through these experiences, college life became much more lenient- the curfews and dress codes were dropped, and the campus became much more diverse.

[Gloria Ha]

//Expanding Horizons: A History of the First 50 years of the Division of Rehabilitation Education Services at the University of Illinois.// Commemorative Book Preparation and Publication Committee. Champaign, Illinois: Roxford DTPublishing, 1998. Print. The Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services, the Rehab Program, or DRES, (as it has been variously called over the years) has had a major part in the students’ college experience, including the types of extra-curriculars that people with physical disabilities have been able to take part in over the years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When polio and wars had left many disabled, when they came to college they normally couldn’t or weren’t allowed to participate in the same activities as the able-bodied people. The program was created so that students with disabilities could attend college and lead independent live afterwards. Along with this, extra-curriculars for these students were started, and in the mid-fifties, there were about 100 students signed up in the program’s extra-cirriculars, with more waiting for admittance. There were buses supplied in 1952, affectionately called the “Blue Bulls,” that were wheelchair accessible, which were later replaced in 1956 with GMC buses, and in 1958 two Marmon-Herrington buses were added. Ramps were also added to many University buildings. Sports, another major part of the college experience, at least according to Tim Nugent, who was the founder of the Rehab Program, was not left out for people with disabilities. For the males, wheelchair basketball was the sport offered, and for the females it was wheelchair cheerleading. Square-dancing, archery, swimming, and other activities were also available. Being one of the first teams in the nation, the Gizz Kids (the University would not let the teams use the name ‘Fighting Illini’) were some of the best, raising money for the program by doing exhibitions and playing ‘regular’ basketball teams. According to some sources, these games were pretty funny, because the other teams were not used to the wheelchairs, and kept falling out. Tim Nugent also started Delta Sigma Omicron (ΔΣΟ), a service fraternity for people with disabilities. ΔΣΟ grew a lot in the mid-fifties as well. 33 students joined at UIUC, and a Beta chapter was founded at the University of Florida, both in 1955. Overall, the extra cirrculars of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign grew and changed, and continue on today, still strong and present, with DRES still making changes in the way many disabled people would have experienced college, if they had been able to go without the program.

[Mary Campbell]

//Celebration of Success: The Beckwith Experience//, 25th Anniversary Celebration Program. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, 2007. 35. Wiki page. //U of I Wiki//. U of Illinois, 3 June 2008. Web. 5 Feb. 2010. [].

Ikenberry Commons was designed to be able to support the residents and assistants of Beckwith Hall, in addition to able-bodied students on the U of I campus. There will be several floors, but the students with severe physical disabilities live only on the first floor. All of the PAs and residents at Beckwith Hall will relocate entirely to Ikenberry, leaving Beckwith behind. Ikenberry supports exactly the same number of students with severe physical disabilities as Beckwith did, around 20. One of the main goals of Ikenberry is that students, both with and without disabilities, can get to know each other. This was harder at Beckwith because only students with disabilities lived there, in addition to personal assistants. At Ikenberry, the students eat together, and use the same facilities like the computer lab and student lounge. Ikenberry is managed by University Housing. [Colin Althaus]

Starr, Terrell. "Pioneer for Equality." //Daily Illini// 28 Apr. 2009: 1A+3A. Print. "History of Disability Services." //Disability Resources and Educational Services//. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2010. <http://www.disability.uiuc.edu/ page.php?id=10>. // Celebration of Success:The Beckwith Experience //. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2007. Print. 1948: Tim Nugent founds the Rehabilitation Program to help disabled students get a college education. 1949: The governor of Illinois announces a plan to close the Galesburg Campus. Also, the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) is founded by Tim Nugent. 1954: The Rehabilitation Program two buses from Greyhound to help move students around. 1956: The University starts to help fund the Rehabilitation Program. 1961: Tanbrier is used as a new housing facility for disabled students. It could hold around four disabled students. 1965: The University of Illinois becomes the first University to have study abroad programs for disabled students. 1981: Beckwith Hall, a residential building for the disabled, is built. The rehabilitation program was founded in order to give people with disabilities the same opportunities as those without disabilities. DRES stands for Disability Resources and Educational Services. After WW II, there were lots of returning soldiers that needed education. Thus, the Galesburg campus of the University of Illinois was formed. In 1949, the governer of Illinois prepared to close Galesburg. However, many disabled students protested, and they were able to move the program to the Champaign campus of Illinois. Even so, the University refused to fund the Rehabilitation Program. Even so, the program became more and more popular as time went on until the University agreed to fund them in 1956. This meant that Tim Nugent (the founder of the program) could hire more helpers. One of the first people he hired was Chuck Elmer, who worked for him as a secretary and physical therapist. Tim Nugent also made sure that, in 1949, there were ramps installed in the main buildings on the campus. This way, most students confined to wheelchairs would be able to get to their classes. He also advocated letting students push themselves to their classes, to show people that disabled people could take care of themselves. [Aileen Chu]
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 * Details on the DRES program **

// Expanding Horizons: A History of the First 50 Years of the Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services at the University of Illinois. // Roxford DT Publishing: Champaign IL. 1998. Print **The 1950s** v Most disabled students lived in army barracks, the few female students were allowed to live in women’s dorms. (11) v About 95% of the student housing on campus was not accessible to people with disabilities. (11) v Because of the Korean War, more and more men were coming back with permanent disabilities. (13) v Polio was raging through the country leaving more people disabled in 1951 and 1952. (13) v Students with disabilities started getting picked up by special buses instead of car pooling in 1952. (14) v By spring 1954, over 90 students with disabilities were enrolled at UIUC. (14) v Sports grew, the first wheelchair softball game was played in 1950 (15) v Canada became the first foreign team to play in the National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament (NWBT) in 1954. (15) **1959-1960**  v A new rehabilitation center is proposed by Tim Nugent. The new center was to have the facilities to provide physical therapy, medical services, athletics and recreation, counseling, and many more therapy services. (11) v A $20,000 grant for research was given to help determine standards that could be used to make all buildings accessible to persons with disabilities. (11) v The U of I had students that went to the 1960 Paralympics (15) **1960s** v In May of 1961, the rehabilitation program received a $300,000 grant for constructing a new rehabilitation center. (15) v By 1966, the Rehabilitation program had 381 graduates. (15)

[Kathryn Powell]

Disability Resources and Educational Services. "History of Disability Services at the University of Illinois." //Disability Resources and Educational// //Services//. The Board of Trustees at the University of Illinois, 2007. Web. 15 Feb. 2010. <http://www.disability.uiuc.edu/page.php?id=10>.

What we now know as D.R.E.S. (the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services) was first started as a "Rehabilitation Program" on the Galesburg campus of the University of Illinois in 1948. The Galesburg campus had been created at a Veterans Administration Hospital in 1947 to accommodate the huge number of returning veterans from World War II that wanted to go to college through the G.I. bill. In 1949 the University of Illinois decided to close the Galesburg campus, but in response the students at the "Rehabilitation Program" went to Springfield to ask Governor Stevenson to stop the closure of the campus. The __Citizen's Tribune__ of Springfield recognized how much this mattered and posted an article in their March 24th, 1949 paper that was titled "Crippled Students Fight College Closing, Demand Branch at Galesburg be Maintained." D.R.E.S. saw the article as suggesting the fact that they were battling for even more the continuation of the program and school. Despite these efforts, the Galesburg campus was closed, but the "Rehabilitation Program" still had one more option. Requesting that the "Rehabilitation Program" to move to the Champaign-Urbana campus was their only remaining choice. This permission was eventually granted, but support of the program on the campus was still very low. The mind-set of the many people on UIUC campus was that disabled people had no need to attend college because, it was assumed, they could not have a family, get a steady job, or live “normal lives”. One of the only reasons why the first students with disabilities even got to stay there is because they were self-reliant and self-advocating. In 1954 some DSO, a independent living fraternity funded by the D.R.E.S., students decided that they should get the local governor at the time, William Stratton to serve as the keynote speaker at their yearly awards banquet. The governor decided to go to the banquet and that resulted in a surprisingly good turn out. To make it better, the governor gave a highly supportive, friendly speech on how important rehabilitation programs are and how important the effort of the rehabilitation program was. Since that speech, DRES was never seriously attacked or questioned despite the past record. [Desmond Powers]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Little, Jan. //If It Weren’t for the Honor, I’d Rather Have Walked.// Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books, Inc, 1996. Excerpted in //Expanding Horizons.// Champaign, IL: Roxford DTPublishing, 1998. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Early 1962 – Trip to South Africa sponsored by the University of Illinois rehab group (DRES). · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Tom Knowles – paraplegic, travel agent in South Africa. He wanted to change South Africans’ views on disabled people and people in wheelchairs. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Tom Knowles was a friend of John Powell, who left South Africa to teach at the U of I. Powell informed Knowles about the Illinois Gizz Kids. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A team of people in wheelchairs was made of employed college graduates who <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> were disabled and in wheelchairs. This was important in order to show that disabled people were capable of succeeding in college and normal work life. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (17)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> There were a total of 14 people in wheelchairs on the team. Six of the team members had become disabled due to polio, including Jan Little, the author. Five people had been involved in car accidents. One was disabled in World War II, and the other was disabled in a tractor accident. A total of nine nondisabled people went along to help out. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (18)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> They were Chuck Elmer, Gibb Fink, and Bob Wright, Paul Luedtke, Charlie Ryder, Jim Nugent (Tim Nugent’s brother), Roger Ebert (now a famous movie critic), Dr. Echo Dell Pepper, and Adrienne Dahncke (Chuck Dahncke’s wife). Adrienne Dahncke was also one of Jan Little’s roommates in college. Henry Bowman would have been part of the team but South Africa didn’t let him go because he was black. There was an uncertainty of whether or not the trip would be a go due to funding. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> When they arrived in Africa, they did various sports demonstrations. These demonstrations were meant to show the South Africans that disabled people can do things that nondisabled people can do too. They were well received because South Africans had never seen anything like it. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> (19)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(20)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">They had celebrity status
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Children wanted their autographs and money
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Added activity: Visiting childrens’ hospitals

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(21) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> [Brooks Hauser]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Bus breakdown story
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">“The logistics were overwhelming…. Seven men carried the 14 of us, who could not walk at all, off of planes and buses, a tribute to their physical condition.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">They never lost any belongings including six spare wheelchairs, 25 suitcases, six bags of sports equipment, a portable display, four archery sets, three sets of uniforms, and a set of portable stairs. The way that they kept track of their stuff was by numbering each item.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Overall the group got along well

// Celebration of Success //. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois, 2007. Print.

Beckwith Hall was opened on May 12, 1982, by Tim Nugent. Tim Nugent was young man who wanted the University of Illinois to be accessible and welcoming to students who had disabilities. Beckwith Hall is a 2 story building with 20 rooms, a kitchen, a dining hall, a library, and a lounge. It was built to serve as a transitional living facility, and built by funds that were donated by a man named Guy M. Beckwith, who was a retired farmer. Beckwith can house 20-22 students and 8-10 P.A.s. P.A.s are the staff who live at Beckwith full time and help the students with their everyday activities, like showering and getting dressed. The P.A.s are trained to be able to help the students with anything that they may need help with, and then the students hire the P.A.s to work for them at certain times of the day. Over the years, Beckwith has housed 151 students, and has a 87% graduation rate. [Bill Metcalf]

Sources: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">National Wheelchair Basketball Association. “NWBA Hall of Fame”. //National Wheelchair Basketball Association//. N.d. Web. Feb. 2010. <[].> University of Illinois Archives. “Joseph R. Larsen, Jr.” University of Illinois. N.d. Web. Feb. 2010. <[]> **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Tim Nugent **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Tim Nugent was the first person to organize a tournament for wheelchair basketball.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">He founded the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) and later got into the NWBA Hall of Fame in 1973.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Nugent studied Educational Psychology and was also a former coach.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The first NWBA National Tournament he hosted in 1949 only had six teams.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Tim Nugent founded DRES in 1948 on the Galesburg campus and moved it in 1949 to the campus at Urbana-Champaign due to the Galesburg closure.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The first wheelchair basketball team he created was named the Gizz Kids, later changed to the Fighting Illini in 1986.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Nugent helped construct the first Paralympic Games in Italy in 1960 by negotiating plans with other sports leaders around the world to internationalize wheelchair sports.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Nugent retired in 1986 after 36 of working at DRES.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Joseph Larsen **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">He was the director of DRES from 1985-1989.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">He received the Delta Sigma Omicron Honorary Life Membership Award.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Larsen has been a professor of entomology and physiology, the director of School of Life Sciences, and the director of the Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services (DRES).

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> [Elbert Wang]

"Delta Sigma Omicron (DSO)." //Welcome to DRES//. Web. 20 Feb. 2010. <http://www.disability.uiuc.edu/services/dso/>. "DSO Historical Highlights." //Welcome to DRES//. Web. 20 Feb. 2010. <http://www.disability.uiuc.edu/services/dso/index.php?sub=13>.

History of DSO: • Delta Sigma Omicron was founded in 1948 as a service fraternity for students with disabilities.. • It was incorporated in 1949 in Illinois. • DSO was the first fraternity dedicated to education, research, and service in rehabilitation, made up of individuals with disabilities. • It used to be only made up of students with disabilities at the University of Illinois, but now all people enrolled at the U of I, Alumni, and field members who have an interest in ensuring that qualified people with disabilities have an equal chance to participate in the programs and activities offered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are allowed to join. • Delta Sigma Omicron was founded by Dr. Timothy Nugent and a group of students with disabilities at the University of Illinois at Galesburg.. • On the original Board of Directors were Harold A. Scharper, Donald W. Swift, Harold Drake, Harris Hjelter, and George Steinmann. • DSO has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years to various charities on behalf of people with disabilities. • DSO also had two publications, an annual publication called //Sigma Signs// and a monthly newsletter called //The Spokesman//. //Sigma Signs// tells people about the achievements of students with severe disabilities. //The Spokesman// helps the chapters communicate by informing them about current opportunities of interest to them. • There are now chapters of the DSO at Arkansas State University at Jonesboro, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and the University of Florida.

"History of Disability Services at the University of Illinois - University of Illinois.” //Welcome to DRES//. Web. 20 Feb. 2010. <http://www.disability.uiuc.edu/page.php?id=10>.

History of DRES: • In 1947, Disability Resources and Educational Services(DRES), then called the “Rehabilitation Program,” was created at the University of Illinois Galesburg campus. • In 1949, the program was moved to the Urbana-Champaign campus. This happened because the Galesburg campus had closed. The students did not want the program to end, so they protested to have it moved. • DRES created DSO, the first accessible dorms, the first wheelchair accessible fixed bus route, and the first adapted athletics program for people with disabilities at a collegiate level. [Shruti Topudurti]

Commemorative Book Preparation and Publication Committee, comp. //Expanding// //Horizons//. Champaign: Roxford DTPublishing, 1998. Print.

- - -, ed. "Nugent, Timothy J. (1923-)." // University Archives //. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010. Web. 17 Feb. 2010. <http://www.library.illinois.edu/archives/archon/index.php?p=creators/creator&id=2347>.

University of Illinois Archives. "Joseph R. Larsen, Jr." // The University of // //Illinois at Urbana-Champaign//. Digital Archives, 2010. Web. 17 Feb. 2010. <http://www.library.illinois.edu/archives/archon/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=4117>.

Joseph Larsen
 * Began being director of DRES: || September 1985 ||
 * Jobs: || * Professor of Entomology and Physiology (1963-75)
 * Director of School of Life Sciences (1975-85)
 * director of the Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services (DRES) (1985-89) ||
 * Awards: || * Honorary Life Membership Award from Delta Sigma Omicron (DSO) ||
 * End || * February 1989, died of cancer ||

Tim Nugent President of: Created the: 1945-1960 suggested name: Paralympics (International History) · 1944 Dr. Ludwig Guttmann opened a spinal injuries center at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, London. Sports were introduced as a form of rehabilitation for a disabled person · 1948 Olympic games were in London, the Mandeville Games were founded and the first competitive wheelchair sports were organized · 1952 A Dutch World War II veteran becomes a part of the Mandeville Games, and founded the International Stoke Mandeville Games Committee (ISMGC).
 * Date of Birth: || January 10, 1923 ||
 * Degrees from: || * Tarleton State, Texas
 * U of Wisconsin at LaCrosse, Wisconsin
 * U of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin ||
 * Honorary Degrees from: || * Springfield College in Massachusetts
 * Mount Mary College in Wisconsin ||
 * Jobs: || * Professor of Rehabilitation (1948-?)
 * Director of DRES (1948-1986)
 * Director of Rehabilitation Education Center (REC) (Date Unknown) ||
 * Achievements : || Founded:z
 * National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) (1949)
 * Delta Sigma Omicron (DSO) (1948)
 * National Paraplegia Foundation (now National Spinal Cord Injury Association) for 4 terms
 * Timothy J. Nugent Award ||
 * Organizations he was active in: || * American National Standards Institute
 * Illinois State Legislative Commission
 * Committee on Technical Aids
 * Hospitalization of Spinal Cord Injured
 * Housing and Transportation of Rehabilitation International
 * Institute for the Advancement of Prosthetics ||
 * 1950 First wheelchair softball game
 * 1954 Canada becomes first foreign team to go against US wheelchair teams
 * 1954 It is proposed that someday there will be a world-wide competition,

[Bryan Hwu]

"Welcome to DRES." //The Division of Disability Resources and Educational// //Services//. N.p., 15 Mar. 2008. Web. 23 Feb. 2010. <http://www.disability.uiuc.edu/>. In 1947, a satellite campus was established in a former hospital in Galesburg, Illinois, as many disabled veterans were returning to the US seeking an education after World War II. One aspect of this satellite campus was a rehabilitation program for disabled veterans. In 1949, the state tried to shut down the campus at Galesburg. A few disabled students convinced the state to move the rehabilitation program to the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. At this time, attitudes towards the disabled were not as kind as they are today, so the rehab program was only given ‘experimental’ status after the students proved they could navigate the campus. Over time, students with disabilities became more accepted into the U of I community, by participating in events and activities hosted by Delta Sigma Omicron (DSO). In 1962, the rehabilitation program was officially renamed to DRES, The Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services. [David Bergvelt]

"National Wheelchair Basketball Hall of Fame Member Details". National Wheelchair Basketball Association Hall of Fame. 2005. National Wheelchair Basketball Association. 17 February 2010. <http://www.nwbahof.org/hofmembersDetails.cfm?ID=99>

"Staff Profile". Disability Resources and Education Services. 15 March 2008. University of Illinois. 15 February 2010. <http://www.disability.uiuc.edu/staff.php?id=1>

Paul Leung was director of DRES from 1990 through 1994, when he resigned because of a job offered in Australia. During his directorship and the previous directorships, the student body of DRES had an increasing number of students with learning disabilities rather than with physical disabilities. After Leung left, DRES experienced some turmoil because of the many directorship changes after Timothy Nugent retired, and even had an external review ordered by Larry Faulkner, the Provost in 1995. The review suggested that the services and academic departments of DRES be split up, and that change was made. After Paul Leung left, Brad Hedrick was named interim director, and eventually became the permanent director, which he is still today. Brad Hedrick has had along history with DRES, which began after he became a research assistant at DRES in 1977. Hedrick eventually climbed the ranks of DRES, and in 1996 he became interim director of DRES, and in 1997 the permanent director. Hedrick has made many contributions to wheelchair sports, especially wheelchair basketball. He has wrote many books and articles about wheelchair sports. Hedrick has played wheelchair basketball, where he was in two Final Four appearances with the Carolina Tar Wheels, the North Carolina team in 1974, and in 1986 with the Springfield Spoke Jockeys, a city club team. coached in wheelchair basketball with much success, including a a gold medal with the women's team in the 1988 Paralympics, and a bronze medal at the 1996 Paralympics with the men's team. Hedrick was inducted into the National Wheelchair Basketball Association Hall of Fame in 2005.

[Peter Ivanov]