[nagdu] question

[JULIE PHILLIPSON]

bookshare has the first lady of the seeing eye.

Julie Phillipson
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From: "Angie Matney" <leadinglabbie at mpmail.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] question


> Hi Rebecca,
>
>>Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Seeing Eye used to have a
>>requirement that a person getting had to work (presumably outside the
>>home) and that they had to get to work without using sighted assistance?
>
> As far as I know, this has never been a requirement. The school expects 
> that the graduate will be able to provide the dog with meaningful work 
> opportunities. A very early class (held in Burkeley, before The Seeing Eye 
> moved to Morristown) had
> among its students a homemaker (who did not graduate for other reasons) 
> and a retired veteran. That class also had five women and two men.
>
>>I also wonder if Moris's guides were true loosers, or if he made more of
>>it due to his need (and it is a good need0 to promote the Seeing Eye?
>>Seeing Eye was his business after all.
>
> Actually, those incidents happened before TSE was founded. That was why he 
> wrote to Mrs. Eustace, asking her to train a dog for him.
>
> If anyone is interested in this stuff, I highly recommend Love in the 
> Lead. I'm pretty sure it's on Bookshare. It's definitely on NLS. There 
> used to be a link to it on The Seeing Eye's web site, but I don't know if 
> it's still there. Actually, there were a lot of
> books on the web site at one time, but I'm wondering if they are still 
> there in light of copyright concerns.
>
> Angie
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