[Nfbf-l] Fw: Matilda Ziegler Magazine

[Sherri]

I think this is very sad, but I understand the reasoning behind its ending. 
I really enjoyed the Ziegler and will miss it. I always got it in Braille 
until it went to e-mail. There were articles in it you really didn't see 
anywhere else and I always liked the Reader's Forum.

Sherri
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind" <editor at matildaziegler.com>
To: <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 2:00 PM
Subject: Matilda Ziegler Magazine


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


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