A Deaf-Blind Man on the Job and at Home

Abstract

Among the New Outlook's purposes is that of publishing, from, time to time, material indicating in a practical way how blind persons perform their professional jobs and other routines. In a recent letter to Miss Annette Dinsmore at AFB, reprinted below, Richard Kinney, of the staff of the Hddley Correspondence School, provides a sparkling recital of his work at that school as well as of his daily activities, which is suggestive of the versatility and resourcefulness that stand in such good stead for a blind person. There is an even far greater impact in Mr. Kinney's achievements and his irrepressible zest in the knowledge that he functions with a double handicap of deafness as well as blindness. Mr. Kinney graduated summa cum laude from Mt. Union College in 1954, and was valedictorian of his class.