[nagdu] question

[Wayne Merritt]

For those that use the NLS digital download service, the secodn
edition of the Love in the Lead book is available. The second edition
gives much of the detail from the first edition, it just continues
where the first edition left off, so you get to read about the Seeing
Eye history from 1979 to 1994. If you read the secodn without reading
the first edition, you're not missing much. I've thoroughly enjoyed
both books.

Wayne

On 2/21/09, lindagwizdak at peoplepc.com <lindagwizdak at peoplepc.com> wrote:
> Hi Allison,
> I should have said more about Morris Frank (grin!). This would happen to him
> before he heard about Dorthy Harris Eustis' article in the Saturday Evening
> Post.  In those days, blind people would just stay home.  The canes they had
> were the short wooden versions of a support cane.  Frank was an insurance
> salesman and he continued to do this after he was blinded.  To do his job he
> had to hire people to guide him around.  These people were usually losers
> who couldn't get anything else and they were very unreliable.  they'd drop
> him off at his destination, leave and then forget to come back to get him.
> One time he was left on the sidewalk!  The guide had wanted more money and
> when Frank refused him more money, the guy just left him stranded!
>
> Read the book, "Love In The Lead:  The 50 Year Miracle Of The Seeing Eye" by
> Peter Putnam.  It's availible on Talking Book.  Walt Disney Productions also
> made a movie based on the book in the 1980s.  The book origionally came out
> in 1979 and there was a newer version done several years ago.
>
> Take care,
>
> Linda and Landon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Allison Nastoff" <anastoff at wi.rr.com>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 7:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] question
>
>
>>I didn't know this happened to Morris Frank! Luckily, people tell me that I
>>
>>am a friendly easygoing person.  The few times I have made people mad, they
>>
>>have never gone as far as leaving me stranded.  But you are right.  If it
>>happened to the founder of Seeing Eye, I guess it could happen to me, so I
>>should always have a cane or dog.  But what did Morris Frank do to make his
>>
>>guide that mad?
>> Allison and Gilbert
>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>From: <lindagwizdak at peoplepc.com
>>>To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
>> Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org
>>>Date sent: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:28:37 -0800
>>>Subject: Re: [nagdu] question
>>
>>>I agree.  I think no blind person should EVER be without a cane
>> or dog while
>>>out - even with a human sighted guide.  What if your human
>> companion got
>>>pissed at you for something and just left you stranded sans a
>> mobility aid
>>>(grin!).
>>
>>>Morris Frank, Seeing Eye founder, found himself in this situation
>> and he
>>>would have given his eye teeth for a modern white cane and the
>> training in
>>>using it!
>>
>>>Linda and Landon
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (IT)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com
>>>To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
>> Users"
>>><nagdu at nfbnet.org
>>>Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:39 AM
>>>Subject: Re: [nagdu] question
>>
>>
>>>> Right, and how do you handle it say if you need to use the
>> ladies' room
>>>> and Dear Old Dad can't guide you in?
>>>> What happens too say if you're at an event and you meet a cute
>> guy (or
>>>> girl for that matter) who hasn't a clue how to guide you and
>> you'd like
>>>> to spend some extra time sans the parents with this person?
>>
>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> On
>>>> Behalf Of Buddy Brannan
>>>> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 3:32 AM
>>>> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
>> Users
>>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] question
>>
>>
>>>> On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Allison Nastoff wrote:
>>
>>>>> Usually, I don't carry a cane when doing sighted guide.
>>
>>>> I hope you never get stranded (even if accidentally) by your
>> guide.
>>>> What plan do you have for that, should it ever happen?
>>
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