LibGuides: Voices of Lebanon Valley College: Nelson, Roger

Dr. Roger Nelson

Oral History of Roger Nelson

Professor Emeritus of Physical Therapy

With a distinguished physical therapy teaching career, Dr. Nelson joined the LVC staff in 2002 as chair of the recently formed Department of Physical Therapy. He discusses in detail the challenges and rewards of establishing The Valley’s successful program. He retired in 2011.

Date: June 27, 2014

Interviewed by Dr. Art Ford, Professor Emeritus of English and Alumnus, Class of 1959.

Transcribed by Jananne Ferrere, Vernon and Doris Bishop Library Student Worker and Alumna, Class of 2015.

Nelson Oral History Transcript
Notice: This is a transcript of an audio recorded interview conducted for the Lebanon Valley
College Archives – Vernon and Doris Bishop Library. A draft of this transcript was edited and
some corrections were made; therefore, the reader should remember that this is essentially a
transcript of the spoken word, rather than the written word.

Restrictions: The oral history transcript may be read, quoted from, cited and reproduced for
purposes of research. It may not be published in full except by permission of Lebanon Valley
College.