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Ruth Kaarlela

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American university professor and social worker

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Ruth Kaarlela
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#116
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According to Wikipedia, Ruth Kaarlela was an American university professor and social worker. Her work was in the fields of blindness, gerontology, and vision rehabilitation therapy. Early life Kaarlela was born and raised in Keweenaw Bay, Michigan, the eleventh of twelve children born to Robert Kaarlela and Mary Kaarlela. When she was a child, she wrote poems published in the Detroit Free Press. She attended Baraga High School, and earned her undergraduate and master's level degrees in social work at Wayne State University. She completed doctoral work in gerontology at the University of Michigan. She also held a teaching certificate in special education.

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