Word: pamela
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Live With It." In many another U.S. city Pamela would be shunted off to an institution. Not so in Atlanta schools, which integrate blind children (161 this year) with sighted students in a showcase program that began in 1954. Impetus came from one father of a blind daughter: Robert Hogg, a beer wholesaler, who faced up to his problem by launching the Foundation for Visually Handicapped Children. Hogg's group today spends $20,000 a year giving free training to blind pre-schoolers throughout Georgia. Purpose: to help parents prepare the children for as normal a life as possible...