Manchester Woman’s Braille Pioneer Becomes Vermont’s First Transcriber
Mrs. Leon Marks, longtime Manchester resident, became Vermont’s first certified Braille transcriber after moving to Manchester in 1958. She transcribes literature and textbooks for blind students from first grade through college, aided by volunteers under the state Division of Services for the Blind. The National Braille Club elected her to its board, representing the Northeast at a Washington conference.
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Vermont
Leon Marks
Manchester
Hillcrest Inn
Marks
Virginia Cole
Division of Services For
Montpelier
Miss Cole
Mrs. Marks
Chicago
Red Cross
Library of C Ss
Grein
Verve
New York Tone and Telegraph Co
Pioneers
Division of Services For the
State Department of Social Welfare
Division of Services For the Blind
Division For Special Education
Perkins Institute
Watertown
Mass
New York School For the
Florence Moore
Bennington
Donald Hillmann
Hoosick
N.Y
Edward Janeway
South Londonderry
Brattleboro
Margaret Baker
Trinity College
Burlington
Bates College
St Johns Sodality Holds May Meeting at Library
About 30 members attended the St Johns Sodality May meeting at the library with a covered dish supper. Plans were made for refreshments at a reception after Confirmation at St Johns Church. Mary Clancy of Shaftsbury demonstrated the six key Braille machine used by the New York Telephone Co. Pioneers to transcribe books for the blind, noting its six-dot language and geography text aid. Irene Desautels of Ludlow visiting sister Mary Powell in Bank Street.
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Louise Powers
St. John’s Church
Mary Clancy
Shaftsbury
New York Telephone Co
Pioneers
Telephone Company
American Association For the Blind
Services For
Miss Clancy
Clancy
Irene Desautels
Ludlow
Mary Powell
Bank Street
Fister to Speak at Vermont Medical Sesquicentennial Banquet
Dr George M Fister 116th AMA president from Ogden Utah will be banquet speaker at the Vermont State Medical Society sesquicentennial in Equinox House May 22 26 His talk Medicare a Masquerade will headline the May 25 banquet Awards for service will be announced at the event The article also details Braille transcription efforts by volunteers in Vermont led by Mrs Marks including training via Library of Congress materials and local coordinators in Brattleboro and Bennington.
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Manchester
George M. Fister
Ogden
Utah
American Medical Association
Vermont State Medical Society
Fister
AMA
House of Delegates
Board of Trustees
Utah State Medical Association
Weber County
Medical Society
Ogden Surgical Society
Surgeons General of the
Navy
Air Force
SS Hope
Labor Leader Joins Hoff Planning Council in Vermont
Gov Hoff added Ralph Williams 41 president of the Vermont State Labor Council to his Planning Council as the 10th member. Williams, a Democrat, previously organized for United Stone and Allied Products Workers of America and served as a former VP of the state labor council.
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Williams
United Stone & Allied Products Workers of America
State Labor Council
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