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...blonde Pamela Coffey, 7, puts on her clothes, backs up to her mother to have her dress buttoned. After breakfast, Pamela is driven from the Coffey s' home in Atlanta's northeast suburbs to the Garden Hills elementary school. In a regular second-grade class she reads the same books as her classmates, works the same arithmetic problems and plays ball at recess. It is a normal school day, and that is important to Pamela. She is blind...
...Pamela Coffey was born three months prematurely, weighed only 2 Ibs. 2 oz. Overdosed with oxygen, she became a victim of retrolental fibroplasia, which damaged the retinas of thousands of U.S. premature babies before doctors reported the cause (TIME, Sept. 28, 1953). When Pamela's father, an Internal Revenue Service regional chief, was transferred to Atlanta, Bob Hogg's group sent a special teacher to help the Coffeys avoid the debilitating kindness that can stunt a blind child's spirit even more than its physical handicap. At home, Pamela was taught to dress herself and brush...
...Victoria P. Coffey and William J. E. Jessop followed the histories of 1,326 women at three Dublin hospitals, half of whom had Asian flu while pregnant. Of 663 flu victims, 639 had normal babies while 24 had malformed children. Among an equal number of women who escaped flu, 653 had normal babies and only ten lad malformed children. There was no notable difference in the number of still or premature births. The malformations, concentrated among the women who had had flu in the first three months of pregnancy, were mainly in the central nervous system and included a disproportionate...
Other new officers of the organization include: Emily L. Hartshorne '62, secretary; Frederic Freilicher '60, treasurer; David F. Bartlett '59, Harvard affairs chairman; Vivian H. Oppenheim '62, Radcliffe affairs chairman; John J. Coffey '61, political affairs chairman; Stanley G. Brown '60, membership chairman; and Robert E. Friedman '62, publicity chairman...
...group also re-elected Charles Weiss '59 of Dunster House and Philadelphia, Penn., as Secretary. Re-elected as Membership Chairman is John Coffey of Thayer Hall and Watertown...