Obit: Edmund Inselmann, 81; ‘Overcame handicaps’
December 4th, 2007From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Edmund H. Inselmann, 81, of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, who earned a doctorate and had a 40-year career with the government despite severe physical disabilities, died of pneumonia.
Dr. Inselmann was born with cerebral palsy. Doctors encouraged his mother to institutionalize him, his niece, Susan Levonian, said. Instead, his mother kept him home, and fought to send him to public schools. When he graduated from Northeast High School, Levonian said, he was advised to operate a newsstand for a living.
Although he had difficulty speaking and walking, his niece said, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Temple University, a master’s degree in mathematics and statistics from Columbia University, and a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Inselmann worked for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Philadelphia and, in 1969, joined the civilian staff of Army Materiel Command Headquarters in Washington. From 1982 until his retirement in 1991, he was a civilian employee for the Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
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