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A portion of the dais at the Dinner in honor of the young disabled of DIADEM.jpg
ICD Rehabilitation and Research Center dinner honoring project DIADEM disabled visitors from Denmark at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City – June 21, 1965.

A portion of the dais at the Dinner in honor of the young disabled of DIADEM. (Left…

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An ICD patient presents the Princess with a leather and sterling silver box made for her by the disabled at the ICD.jpg
ICD Rehabilitation and Research Center – Visit of Her Royal Highness, Princess Benedikte to the ICD – May 7, 1965

A double-legged amputee patient of the ICD presents the Princess with a leather and sterling silver engraved and filigreed box…

Mrs. Urban Hansen, Urban Hansen, Rosalind Fredericks, Marshall Fredericks and two unidentified men pose beside a Scandinavian Airlines System airplane.jpg
An unidentified woman, Urban Hansen, Rosalind Fredericks, Marshall Fredericks and two unidentified men following the landing of the plane carrying DIADEM participants.

Consul Gerard Edsburg, Tommie Thomsen, Lord Mayor Urban Hansen and Marshall Fredericks.jpg
Consul Gerard Edsburg, Tommie Thomsen, Lord Mayor Urban Hansen and Marshall Fredericks at the presentation of The President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped Award by Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh to Marshall Fredericks in September 1967.

D.B.M.C. Twenty Year Anniversary hosted by Ches. Larsen.jpg
D.B.M.C. Twenty Year Anniversary hosted by Ches. Larsen at the Detroit Athletic Club on May 20, 1967.

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Denmark's Ambassador to the United States Torben Rønne, Michigan Governor George Romney and Marshall Fredericks in the Fredericks' Birmingham, Michigan home.

DIADEM Leader participants with their new guide dogs aboard an airplane.jpg
DIADEM LEADER, the third exchange of the disabled between the United States and Denmark in 1969, brought blind Danes to the Leader Dog School in Rochester, Michigan for four weeks of training on the care and use of Leader Dogs. DIADEM LEADER was the…

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DIADEM participants arrive at the Copenhagen airport.jpg
In 1965, Fredericks along with The Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Urban Hansen, and with the patronage of Princess Benedikte of Demark, founded DIADEM (Disabled Americans’ Denmark Meeting), an exchange program between Denmark and the United States for…

Marshall Fredericks installed as Commodore of the Farrelli Flotilla by the Quarton Lake Yacht Club.jpg
Marshall Fredericks installed as Commodore of the Farrelli Flotilla by the Quarton Lake Yacht Club on June 16, 1966.

Marshall Fredericks is presented with The President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped Award by Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh.jpg
Marshall Fredericks is presented with The President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped Award by Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh in September 1967 as Rosalind Fredericks looks on.
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