[rehab] FwdMatilda Ziegler Magazine

[David Andrews]

>
>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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         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org