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...considered that her real life, her "soul's birthday," as she put it, began when Anne Sullivan, who herself had been half-blind before surgery, penetrated Helen's limbo of blind, deaf childhood. "Teacher," as the girl was always to call her, not only put her pupil in touch with the world but also began the process of liberation that was to make the child from Tuscumbia, Ala., a world figure...
...Bach composed the aria and 30 variations for his pupil, Johann Gottlieb Theophilus Goldberg, who wanted a little bit of night music to play for his patron, Count Hermann Carl von Kaiserling, a sickly insomniac...
...March 15]: We have come a long way in incorporating handicapped individuals into our colleges and our business world. There is more to be accomplished, however, and Robert Arhelger's story will furnish inspiration to many severely handicapped individuals to continue their efforts. Bob was an excellent pupil in my fourth-grade class at the Elias Michael School, St. Louis...
...more given to prodigality than his mentor, Senator Harry Byrd (who died in 1966), Godwin is considerably more willing to concede that change is inexorable. When he took office, Virginia's financially starved educational system ranked 38th nationally in dollars spent per pupil, not to mention the illiteracy rate and median school years completed. It ranked dead last among ten Southern states in school expenditures as a percentage of personal income. Yet, thanks largely to the suburban outflow of well-to-do Washingtonians, Virginia's voters today are the wealthiest citizens in the entire South...
...chapters, CEF issues calls for public pressure on legislators whenever a bill affecting nonpublic schools is at issue; its supporters faithfully respond by inundating lawmakers with telegrams and letters. One day last November, Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer was deluged with 100,000 telegrams from CEF enthusiasts supporting a parochial pupil aid bill. The Michigan CEF arranged for Catholic schools to give students a homework-free night-on the condition that each wrote six letters to legislators urging passage of CEF proposals...