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John Hardines remembered for blind service and rural program
Ovid area residents recall John Hardines a Syracuse University football wrestler and track star who later taught and directed recreation for the blind. Now athletic director at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind he has worked with about 220 blind students since 1950 and led efforts to aid rural blind through a Harvard Agricultural and Rural Group for the Blind.
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John Hardines
Syracuse University
Ithaca College
Sampson College
Willard State Hospital
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New York Institute For the Education of the Blind
Harvard Agricultural and Rural Group
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Luther Bostrom
Indianapolis
Katherine Gormley