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Deafness advocate Marie Hays Heiner charts funding hopes
Marie Hays Heiner, a fortysomething advocate for the deaf, seeks funds from major foundations to build wings for the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center, aiming to help 15,000,000 deaf people and promote a “Mayo Clinic of Deafness.” She recalls waking deaf at 19, collected sounds since, and envisions The Lost Chords Club for cancer victims with laryngectomies.
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Annie
Pie Sheridan
Betty Cake Hutton
Brunet
Marie Hays Heiner
Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center
Mayo Clinic
Bernie Baruch
Rockefeller
Whitney
Carnegie
Lost Chords Club