USTA Director and breeder-owner-trainer-driver Walter "Boots" Dunn is recovering from a second surgery to set bones broken around his lower legs and ankles in an accident on May 15.

Dunn, from Cochranton, Pa., was preparing for construction work on a building at the Meadville Fairgrounds when his legs became entangled in a paving machine. He broke his right leg and sustained multiple fractures, at least one of them an open fracture, in his lower left leg and is being treated at the Erie Medical Center. The right leg was placed in a cast yesterday and the left leg has been fitted with a plate to aid healing.

Surgery went according to plan, reports his daughter, Kathy Dunn Harvey, and he is expected to begin physical therapy soon. No plans for discharge have yet been made, but cards are welcome at PO Box 8, Cochranton, PA 16314.

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