Mayor George Maynard
by: Jessica
George Maynard was the mayor of Nome in 1925. He was asked to
close the schools and movie house because a boy named Richard had a deadly
disease called Diphtheria. Medicine was needed within two weeks to
treat the disease. Mayor Maynard closed everything down so no one
else would be exposed to the disease. At a town meeting Mayor George
Maynard suggested that if the serum were located in Alaska, perhaps a daring
pilot could fly it from Fairbanks to Nome. It was decided that dog
teams would be more reliable in the cold Alaska weather. So they
used that plan and it worked.
Sources
www.iditarod/serum_run.html
The Race to Nome (Kenneth A. Ungermann)