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Marty Ravellette
Marty Ravellette (10 December 1939–12 November 2007) was born in Goodland, Indiana without arms, attended Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania as an infant and then the family moved to Oceanside, California where he was stopped for speeding in February 1963. The notoriety that resulted introduced him to his soon wife JoBeth Johnson and they moved to Klamath Falls, Oregon. Initially belonging to various denominations of Christianity, Revellette and several of the family converted to the Bahá'í Faith between 1967 and 1970. Later divorced, Ravellette moved to Teaneck, New Jersey serving the religion and then Chapel Hill, North Carolina where later he rescued an elderly woman in a burning car and again won national recognition. By then he was married a second time, and his life was noted in a documentary ''No Arms Needed: A Hero Among Us'' in 2003. Ravellette died in an auto accident in 2007.
==Born and schooled==
Marty Ravellette was the fourth child of the farm family of Ernest D. Ravellette and Laurene Ravellette (née Frohreich). He was born without arms, though not because of Thalidomide which was an issue in the later 1950s and 1960s.〔 Faced with the challenge of this disability his family was convinced to place him at 2 months old at the ''Good Shepherd Home'' (today the Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network) in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The main practice at ''Good Shepherd'' was mainstreaming and there they trained him in adapting the use of his legs and feet as arms and hand as well as an early prosthetic arms he later stopped using. Ravellette was not the armless person to go through the ''Good Shepherd'' facility - that was Ray Meyers - who was an inspiration to Ravellette.〔 Ravellette, while missing arms, favored his left foot like many do their left hand. Ravellete was known to entertain people with his use of feet and body to do tricks. While there Ravellette attended regular public school as well starting with Jefferson Elementary School and then South Mountain Junior High. At the age of 11 Ravellette suffered burns from a fire accident. At the age of 16 Ravellette rejoined his family partly because he was a discipline problem but was initially barred from attending high school by the principle - in the era, as Ravellette understood it, physical handicaps were equated with mental handicaps.〔 Ravellette's mother sued the school and produced transcripts from his public school years while living at the ''Good Shepherd''. However while attending high school Ravellete's reputation was not built because of his lack of arms as much as by his "rebel" confrontational attitude where he "didn't back down"〔 when fellow students picked at his difference and towns people treated him differently - "For the first time, I felt like I was a cripple."〔 But living on a farm taught him to not be afraid of work. His family did not have running water and at one point it was his job to fill water troughs from a "hand" pump.〔 For the high school prom Ravellette recalled he was denied a date saying "Marty, when I want to get married I want to marry a man, not half a one."
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