“I only got as far as ABD and then I had a baby instead.
“I had been a history major in college and worked on a Ph.D. She relied on her love of history to tease out their stories. It didn’t take long for Foote to realize that she had to tell the story of this campaign and the dedicated and people behind it. These individuals had very little in common except for a clear-headed determination to change the way the state cared for its citizens with mental illness. Luther Youngdahl, Minneapolis Tribune reporter Geri Hoffner (now Geri Joseph), psychiatrist Ralph Rossen and Engla Schey, a psychiatric hospital attendant-turned-human-rights campaigner. The key figures in this effort represented a wide range of Minnesotans, including Arthur Foote himself, Minneapolis social reformer Genevieve Steefel, Minnesota Gov.
