[Nfb-seniors] FwdMatilda Ziegler Magazine

[Susan Mooney]

Sad.  I have a soft spot in my heart for that magazine.  In fact, that's
the magazine that my friend used to teach me to read braille.  I was 11.  I
remember those brown craft pages and reading, reading, reading, every line
so I could learn to read fluently by touch.  That magazine taught me to
read as fast with my fingers and I could with my eyes and I still read
braille faster by touch even after being a transcriber for 50 years and
using a computer now.  Another piece of braille bites the dust.  Sad.

SM


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 12:57 PM, David Andrews via Nfb-seniors <
nfb-seniors at nfbnet.org> wrote:

>
>
>> July 25, 2014
>>
>> As you are aware the Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind has been
>> suspended for the past several months pending a review by the Board of
>> Directors of The E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind. Considerable
>> time was spent evaluating its substance, breadth of distribution, and
>> readers' responses. With heavy heart the directors voted to discontinue the
>> weekly magazine and use the Foundation's resources solely for scientific
>> research through grants to highly innovative medical researchers who are
>> making important advances in vision research.
>>
>> We've come a long way from when my great grandmother, Electa Matilda
>> Ziegler, founded the magazine in 1907 with the goal of producing reading
>> material for the blind "as much as possible like that published for the
>> seeing." Raised type books of the era were expensive, and the freely
>> circulated magazine helped to fill an information void.
>>
>> Today's blind and those with visual impairment can obtain books and
>> magazines in Braille, on cassette, and in DVD or CD format from the
>> National Library Service and the American Foundation for the Blind. Radio,
>> television, internet, and commercially produced audio books have all become
>> accessible, and provide resources that could not have been imagined in 1907.
>>
>> Your emails and letters show that we've touched the lives of thousands of
>> blind and vision impaired people. The Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the
>> Blind was once described by Helen Keller as a "godsend," and Mark Twain
>> described it as "one of the noblest benefactions of his lifetime." We hope
>> to realize a medical breakthrough that will be worthy of the same praise.
>>
>> On behalf of the E. Matilda Ziegler Foundation Board I sincerely thank
>> you for your loyal readership over our many years.
>>
>> Cynthia Ziegler Brighton
>> President
>>
>>
>> This email was sent to dandrews at visi.com.
>> If you are no longer interested you can unsubscribe instantly:
>> http://swisher.cmail2.com/t/r-u-msjhhd-fldltikkk-r/
>>
>
>         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
> E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org
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