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Blind American Honored With Presidential Medal of Freedom
Genevieve Caulfield, 73, a Suffolk Virginia native blind since infancy, receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom. For 30 years she has built and led schools for blind children in Southeast Asia, starting in Bangkok in 1928 with one pupil. Government and private support expanded her work to 145 students in one Thai school and 40 in another. She estimates about 30,000 blind people in Thailand.
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