[nagdu] nagdu vet reports and other issues

[Brent Reynolds]

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