Word: davids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Richman, a freshman at Harvard who has been blind all his life, started out in a residential school, but switched at an early age to a public school with special facilities for the blind, such as Braille lessons. After seventh grade David went through the regular public school system. He feels that this was the best thing he could have done. A residential school is a "very unreal environment," he said. "It is a closed stale society, ignorant of the outside world. The transition from a school for the blind to a sighted university is almost impossible...
Charlie Hodge, a first-year law student and a graduate of Amherst College, spent ten years at Perkins. Unlike David, Charlie feels that for many blind children a residential school is best, at least through the eighth grade. "The rough and tumble of a public school is unsuited to the handicapped child," he said. He explained that rebuffs or teasing by normal children could make a blind child withdraw into a shell of hostility. Perkins not only teaches blind children tricks to make life more amenable and to help them get along by themselves and take care of themselves...
DIFFERENT sorts of problems present themselves when the blind student reaches college. David, only a freshman, is still in the process of adjusting to University life. Living in Wigglesworth, right in the Yard, he finds no difficulty in getting around with a cane, which he claims is both simpler and easier than a seeing eye dog. A prospective English major, David so far has been able to obtain most of the books he needs in Braille, and uses only one reader (a person who reads to a blind student) a week. He also makes use of Talking Books--a program...
...being blind." But he isn't only out to make a better world, he also wants to help educate the world about the blind. Once when he was applying for a job, the interviewer said to him, "My grandson is afflicted too. He's mentally retarded." Students such as David, Charlie, and Hal have proved themselves to the academic community, but the rest of the world needs convincing too. Even Hal's experience with the draft was a step in the right direction. "Not only did it give the nation a chance for a good laugh at itself," Hal pointed...
...David K. Smith '58, now director of Admissions for Harvard College, will be Radcliffe's first male dean of Admissions, Mrs. Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, announced yesterday...