[nagdu] nagdu vet reports and other issues

[Tracy Carcione]

Brent,
I've read the same histories you have, which is why my friend's story
surprised me so.  But she's no fool, and that's what she says.  I don't
know; I wasn't even born back then.  Perhaps Jeanine and Lori have the
right of it, and she met a bad apple who ignored school policy.  We'll
never know, at this late date.
Really, I only brought it up as an example of how bad things could happen
in the past, but not be happening now.
Tracy


>
> Tracy,
> I think if you read the published histories of The Seeing Eye, you will
> find
> that The Seeing established a no-discrimination policy on race as far back
> as 1929.  A class was being arranged for a group of students in
> Harrisburg,
> Pennsylvania around November of that year and the subject came up about a
> prospective black student.  William Debetaz asked Morris Frank if he had
> drawn a color line and he said no.  They were to bring the guy in and test
> and treat him like anybody else.  Frank allowed as how he did not think
> the
> school could be a legitimate organization serving blind people if it
> discriminated based on race.  You can read the details in the first
> edition
> of, "Love in the Lead," by Peter Putnam.
>
> I believe that your friend probably fell into the trap of believing that
> if
> she was so good in her own mind that the only possible reason she could
> have
> been turned down by the school in the 1950's had to be because of race.  I
> would just about be willing to bet that if she was turned down for
> training
> for a Seeing Eye dog, it was some other reason.  Indications are that, not
> only did the school never deny a dog to a person based on race, they never
> even segregated classes of instruction based on race.
>
> Brent Reynolds, Atlanta, GA  USA
> Email: burddawg at bellsouth.net  Phone: 1-404-814-0768
>
>
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