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White Cane Club Holds First MeetingThe bill to remove the state ceiling on aid to the blind is still alive. State Sen. Raymond E. Bice told the newly-formed White Cane Club Sunday.Thirty-four men and women, including 13 blind or visually-handicapped persons, attended the club’s first meeting. Besides Bice, Raymond E. Plamadore, manager of Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium, and State Assemblyman Norbert Nuttleman were on the program, Plamadore spoke on the auditorium and Nuttleman on his trip to Russia last year.Bice told the club that the bill to remove the limit of $73 monthly aid to the blind has passed the Wisconsin Senate and will be before the assembly next year.Laura Hatch was elected president of the club.Other officers are Donna Stanhope, secretary; Henry Stinson,WHITE CANE CLUB OFFICERS—Officers of the newly formed White Cane treasurer; LaVerne Ott, chaplain;Club are, from the left, Laura Hatch, president; John Secor, vice president; and John Secor, vice president.LaVerne Ott, chaplain; and Donna Stanhope, secretary.—Tribune Photo. Mrs. Stinson will be reader.- Committee members selected were Mrs. Jerry' Kammel, birthday greetings; Mrs. Verdon Gra-binski and Mrs. 0. W. Page, hospitality; and Mrs. Elnor Knothe, sunshine.The club decided to hold its summer meetings at Myrick Park.Future programs will include a representative of Leader Dog, Rochester, Mich., and Gregor Zie-mer, director of public education, American Foundation for the Blind, New York.Mrs. Stanhope, one of the founders of the club, said the White Cane Club is both education and social.Voting memberships are limited to the blind or visually handicapped, and associate memberships to persons who wish to help,' said Mrs. Stanhope.! “Interest of sighted persons is necessary so the club may carry on its educational and social program,” she adds, “This help is particularly necessary in providing transportation to the monthly meetings,” she says.
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La Crosse Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Mon, May 21, 1962
Page 12
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