Rehab : the Georgia Rehabilitation News, 1972 January-February

Volume 20, Number 1 The Georgia Rehabilitation News January-February 1972 UNIVI!R61TV OF GEORGIA LIBRARIES GETTING 1971 's VR PICTURE TOGETHER

rehab report
JOHNS. PRICKETT, JR. Assistant State Superintendent of Schools
for Rehabilitation Services

The GEORGIA REHABILITATION NEWS ~~:~:I~I~ATION
SERVICES
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION JACK P. NIX
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

In a recent meeting of rehabilitation workers the question was raised regarding the future of Rehabilitation. This concern was prompted by the uncertainty relating to reorganization in State Government.
It is my very firm belief that the future of Rehabilitation is bright regardless of the outcome of reorganization. A program which has such a worthy purpose, that of assis ting handicapped persons become productive and self-sustaining citizens, is bound to succeed. Add to this a staff which is dedicated to rendering the best possible services to these persons and success is assured.
At the present time a committee of Congress is considering an improved Rehabilitation bill which will, if passed, increase and broaden services available to eligible persons. A substantial increase in Federal funds is anticipated in fiscal 1973 and the following years. It is believed the Giaimo Amendment, which was passed last fall has influenced, and will continue to affect, recommendations made to Congress by the Administration.
Someone has described the 1970's as the "Decade of Rehabilitation ," and we believe it will be. In order for this to become a reality we must continue to get increased interest from the public. This will cause the Governor, as well as the Legislature, to give an even higher priority to programs of rehabilitation.
In tum, rehabilitation must continue to improve its delivery systems of services to clients. Although numerous rehabilitation models have already evolved, these may be improved and others developed.
In summary, the future is bright if we will continue to remain sensitive to the needs of the handicapped, render proper services, and keep the public informed.
Cover photograph by Bud Van Orden; special photographic treatment by Glenn Oliver

in this issue

First of the Second Fifty

If you've never seen V R's fifty-

first annual report, this article

w ill give you all the facts.

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We Aren't Alone Anymore

When you're wheelchair-bound, a

friend who understands is really

needed. Georgia's NPF Chapter

fills this need.

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REHAB Receives Awards

In which we modestly throw

some bouquets at ourselves.

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Forty Big'uns for Prickett

The Governor joins everybody

else in honoring a VR profes-

siona I for long and faithful

service to Georgia.

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Annual Report Garners Thanks of Solons

Letters from Washington

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REHABGAB

What they're saying about VR in

the press

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DESIGNED AND EDITED BY BOB PARDUE PHOTOGRAPHY BY BUD VAN ORDEN PUBLISHED BY PUBLICATIONS AND INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION OFFICE OF DEPARTMENT STAFF SERVICES 103 STATE OFFICE BUILDING, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30334

how Georgia VR helped make fiscal 1971 a very good year

Summations of rehab's per- social agencies such as local Georgians were listed as rehabili-

formance for fiscal 1971 tend to health departments, programs tated . An important distinction

su petla tives.

combating drug abuse, hospitals, here is not that this was the

departments of family and child- larger number served, but was

Anybody compiling a report ren services and many others. the number actually closed on

on what rehabilitation accomp- Concentrated Employment Pro- rehab's books as ready to assume

lished during its fifty-first year is immedja tely impressed with sheer numbers of people served as well as the quality and variety .of services performed in their

grams and Model Cities Programs in many locales were assisted, and mobile evaluation laboratories served isolated areas of the state with top quality VR evalua-

or return to some means of gainful employment following remedial attention obtained through YR.

behalf. Georgia, for sure, didn't take time to rest on its laurels after reaching the half-century mark in rehabilitation in 1970.

tion not otherwise obtainable for many citizens.
Returning to the World

During the 51 years VR has been operating in Georgia a total of 161 ,544 persons has been rehabilitated! There is no way to

accurately estimate the number

Innovations continued apace.

From the year's beginning on of hours, dollars, or energy calo-

Notable were the continued July I, 1970, through the end of ries invested in-and by-these

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cooperative efforts with other the following June, 11 ,512 rehabilitants, but it is entirely

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safe to say that the combined investment has gained profits at a rate far exceeding everything put into it. A handy selling point for rehab over the years was a statement that a rehabilitated Georgian is a tax-paying citizen rather than a recipient of tax dollars, yet this told only a ~mall part of the real, total benefits of self-sufficiency.
D~ring the year, 55,030 clients were served in some way. At year's end 863 referred clients were awaiting contact. Those awaiting services or still in medical evaluation at year's end totaled 9,642. Vocational evaluation, a most important key to assuring proper rehabilitation services, was received by 560 clients. The VR caseload at the end of the year carried the names of 19,553 Georgians.
Dollars and Referrals
A total FY-71 budget of $23,330,975 was made up of 77.9 percent federal funds and 22.1 percent state funds. Of this, services for individuals made up the largest expenditure, $14,282,113 for the year. Within this category were diagnostic procedures at $2,609,992, physical restoration activities costing $ 5 , 9 1 6 , 5 4 3 , t ra i n ing at $3,706,985, maintenance at $866,350 and other assorted services totaling $1,182,113. Other major budget items were administration, $1 ,362,826; special activities, $93 7,380; and guidance, counseling and placement, $5,167,950.
Clients came from everywhere. Heading the source list for referrals was the toal for physicians with 2,664 individuals coming at the request of doctors. Schools referred 1,465 people, hospitals and sanatoriums sent I 379 other health agencies wer~ pri~ mary sources for 321 others.
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Welfare agencies, including private ones, were the referring parties for 1,177 clients, and correctional institutions sent 456. Individuals were a prime source of clients with 1,136 coming from such referrals. Too, I, 7 64 clients came on selfreferral. The Social Security Administration referred 238 people, Workmen's Compensation agencies 3, the State Employment Service 126, artificial appliance companies 68, and other sources 261.
All About Clients
At closure, clients entered a wide variety of occupations. Before receiving VR services, most clients who worked at all performed some sort of manual labor. When services were complete, however, clients went to work in professional and semiprofessional positions (1 ,067), clerical and sales occupations {1,541), service occupations (2,750), agriculture (413), skiiied trades (789), semiskiiied trades (393), unskilled occupations ( 2, 154), vending stands (18 ), sheltered workshops (12), and as homemakers and family workers (2,375).
What sort of conditions brought clients to VR in the first place? A variety of disabling ills preventing Georgians from achieving their full occupational potential was present. As expected, a large number suffered visual impairments, and 1,096 individuals were so classified on VR's caseloads. Hearing impairments affected 361, and orthopedic deformities disabled 1,441 . Amputations affected 343, tumors 235, allergies and similar metabolic difficulties 367, and blood conditions 13.
By far the largest classification of disablement concerned mental
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illness with 2,452. Mental retardation affected 1,172 during the fiscal year. Other conditions were epilepsy and other nervo us disorders with 142, cardiac ailments 585 , respiratory illnesses 10 2, various digestive impairments disabling 1,780, genitourinary disorders 955, speech impairments affecting 62 , and other disabilities crippling 405 .
Before rehabilitation activities commenced , family and friends co nstituted the largest single so ur ces of clients' financial support, with 6,115 clients reporting this assistance. Second in size, earnings, interest, dividends or rent supported 3,224 individuals. Publi c agencies assisted 877 and private agencies 18. Tax-supported public institutions assisted 629 persons and Workmen's Comp ensa tion aided 40. Disability insurance benefits under Social Security were paid to 300 persons prior to rehabilitation . Other disability, sickness, surv ivor's age and retirem ent benefits, combined with unemployment insurance benefits, constituted the income source for 218. Private insurance ben efits were being paid to 85 pers ons prior to assistance. Six clients did not report an income source.
A surprising 283 clients receiving services during the fiscal period had previously completed 16 or more years of formal education. Those completing 13 to 15 years totaled 715, those who were high school graduates numbered 2,479 , com pletion of the eleventh school year was reported 2,708 and those who had completed at least the eighth grade numbered 1,131.
Completion of the seventh grade was reported by the largest
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by Bob Pardue

1 1111~1 ALONE

The individual who is confined to a wheelchair can be awfully solitary.
Much sheer energy is required just to cross the room. Assistance is needed in most cases for a simple trip into town, and the inevitable barriers of curbings and stairs deter forward movement once there. There is the awkwardness of entering and leaving cars, buses and elevators. Air travel is frustrating ; restaurants, churches, schools and even homes are closed off.
Often, the chairbound paraplegic is simply overcome by the obstacles and stays home. After all, when he gets someplace else, he will likely be the only one there in a wheelchair and will be the object of curiosity and pity - unless he's a member of the newly formed Georgia Chapter of the National Paraplegia Foundation.
Since 1970, Georgia paraplegics have been getting together at places as varied as Fort

Yargo State Park's Camp Will-0-Way and the Sheraton Motor Inn in Macon in an all-out effort to form an association to promote the best interests of paraplegics all over the state.
The Georgia Chapter is largely the brainchild of Don Hogan, a VR counselor at Brunswick, who was contacted in December of 1970 by the mother of a quadraplegic daughter who had heard of such organizations in other states. Feelers were sent out to all sections of Georgia, resulting in still more activity by the paraplegics themselves. The end result was the Camp Will-0-Way meeting in July of 1970 for two days, where Greg Adams of Monroe was named president and the decision was made to affiliate with the National Paraplegia Foundation.
Paraplegics as a group have verified what was only supposed before - that they have mutual interests of nearly every sort through employment, sports, hobbies, the arts, music and a

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wide variety of community activities and personal services. Ead1 chapter of the Georgia Association offers social and recreation :tl opportunities not normally available to the solitary paraplegic. :h well as the chan ce to better till lot of the individual throu ~h actions of a group with common interests.
Currently, a basketball team '' being planned, along with " bowling league. Not too surpri v ing, several romances have tln\\ered from the meetings. since :til possible act i vities arl "co-educational" in structurL''
The Georgia Chapter has bl'l'!l active recently in in tluencin~ till' possible passing of a stiff arcl11 tectural barrier law. for publll buildings ,in Georgia to prl'\l'Jlt the construction of furtlll'l
impediments to the free 111' l'-
ment of the wheelchair-bou nd In addition , liaison has hl'l'!l established with the Office ot til- Comptroller General to :h'll ~:: that insurance companies doll
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GEORGIA TO HOST souTHEAST nRA mEET APRil 5-6
The Sheraton Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta will be the April 3-6 scene of the 1972 Regional National Rehabilitation Association Conference.
With the overall theme "Rehabilitation - Focus on Change," the conference's general sessions and special interest mee tings will focus on tim ely considerations of welfa re reform, drug abuse, alcoh olism, staff deve l opment, mental health, public offenders, the deaf and blind , the culturally deprived and programs on employmen t of the h a nd icap ped.
Special atten tion will also be given to issues su ch as the concerns of state agencies and of p ro fessi on al reh abili tation workers, along with the use of facilities in delivery of increasin gly e ffec tive rehabilitation se rvi ces.
Delegates to this Southeast R egi on NRA Conference are expected from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentu cky, Mississippi, North Carolin a, South Carolina and Tennessee. Plans are Pnderway to accommodate approximately 800 parti cipan ts.
Leon Meenach , chairm an of the conference, will provide additio nal info rmatio n as required . His address is Room 609, State Office Building, Atlanta, Georgia 30 33 4.

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T he Georgia R ehabilitation News, official publication of the Office of Rehabilitation Services
Georgia Department of Educa:
tion, has recently received two award s for design and writing during calendar year 1971.
The magazine was cited for "graphic arts excellence" with an award fo r outstanding merit from the Library of Graphic Design of the French Paper Company late in the year. Earlier, an editi on of the magazine won an h o n o rable me ntion , second highest award in its category , in a competition sponsored by the National School Public Relations Ass ocia tion.
In the November-December issue of R ehabilitation Record, a publication of the Social and Rehabilitation Service of the United States Department of Health , Education and Welfare, a story w h ic h was published in the March-April, 1971, issue of R ehab N ews was excerpted almost in its entirety. The story, " Mike Finlay , a New Definition of Winner," was written by Bob Pardue with photographs by Bud Van Orden. Mr. Van Orden's story and pictures in the September-October issue about Dave Webb and his marvel~us panel truck which he driv~s with minimal use of his hands IS ~0 be ex cerpted for an upcoming ISSU.e
of R ehabilitation Recor~. ~!
article has received natwnwl attenti.On, W.ith one m q u;...r.vJ fromk an orgam.zat.wn m New Yo.r interested m the enginee.nnuge details of Mr. Webb's umq vehicle.

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FORTY BIG'UNS
for
~ICKElTI

A BIG OCCASION for Director of Rehabilitation Services John S. Prickett, Jr. was the recent presentation of a certificate and pin signifying forty years of service to the State of Georgia.
Director Prickett, shown above accepting the certificate and pin from the Honorable Jimmy Carter, Governor of Georgia, was a high school principal and teacher for eleven years before joining the former Vocational R ehabilitation Division of the Georgia Department of Education as a counselor in 1932. He was promoted to District Supervisor in 1944 and served in that capacity until his appointment as Assistant State Director in 1951. He was appointed Director of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in 1964 and was continued as director when the Division became the Office of Rehabilitation Services.
With the title of Assistant State Superintendent of Schools, Prickett has ably led the Office of Rehabilitation Services as it assumed increasing loads of both numbers of rehabilitants and areas of service in bringing Georgians to self-sufficiency through the overcoming of handicaps.

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WE AREN'TALONE ANYMORE
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business in the state are not permitted to discriminate against the handicapped .
The public is being educated on paraplegia through the Georgia Chapter's participation at civic club meetings, schools and the like. Here, there is a continuing emphasis upon hiring of the handicapped through making clear the contributions possible from paraplegics and others by proper job placement.
The Georgia Chapter welcomes additional members. Dues are just $6 per year for active members ; $25 per year for those interested but not in wheelchairs. A life membership in the Chapter costs just $1 00 and is an ideal gesture for individuals and groups honoring a paraplegic.
The Georgia Chapter publishes a bimonthly bulletin, The Rolling News, edited by Miss Joel Ward of Covington. At recent meetings the Chapter has contributed its own funds to projects such as an upcoming conference on central nervous system regeneration sponsored by the National Paraplegia Foundation ($300), help with NPF operating costs ($200) and assistance to the Georgia Easter Seal Society's Camp Will-0-Way facility for handicapped Georgians ($1 00). "This is only a beginning," says President Adams.
This year, the group hopes to branch into two or more chapters because of the long distances presently traveled by many members in attending meetings. Full information on membership may be obtained by contacting Mr. Greg Adams, President, Georgia Chapter, National Paraplegia Foundation, Post Office Box J, Monroe, Georgia.

FIRST OF THE SECOND FIFTY
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number of clients, 2,891. No educational attainment at all was reported by 154 clients. Some form of special education had been the background of 1,142 persons.
Females constituted the largest number of clients, 6,319, during the period. Males accounted for 5,193. At year's end 7,335 white clients had been served and 4,171 black clients. Other races served accounted for just six persons. Of the clients reported , 4,953 were married , 3,661 had never married, 753 were widows, I ,031 had been divorced and an additional I, I09 were separated from their spouses.

Ages under 20 were reported by 2,392. The largest age group, from 20 to 44, numbered 5,822 persons, and there were 3,194 between the ages of 45 and 64. Clients over 65 numbered only 104.
There are many ways to defme and mark a rehab year. As expressed in the 1971 Ann~~~ Report of the Office of Rehabilitation Services, perhaps one of the best ways is in terms of the rehabilitated client himself who, perhaps for the first time in a long time or the first time ever, knows th~t matchless feeling of pride and pleasure in being abl.e to make his own way. When thiS takes place, all of the seeds planted by VR suddenly bear
rich fruit!

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annual~e~o~t ;a~ne~s

than~s of solons

Dear Mr. Prickett:
Thank you for your letter of January 31st and the enclosed Annual Report of the Office of Rehabilitation Services.

Each year when the Annual Report of the Office of Rehabilitation Services is released, some early recipients are Georgia 's senators and congressmen .

The rehabilitation offices certainly do a splendid service for our State and you are assured of my continued support of this program.
Kindest regards and best wishes.

Dear Mr. Prickett:
Thank y ou for your letter of JanUJry 31, 19 72 and the copy of the Annual Report of the Office of R ehabilitation Services.
I appreciate your providing me with a copy of this report. It is certainly good to know of the success with which you have met in providing essential rehabilitation services to Georgian s.
As you are probably aware, hearings are now in progress on vocational rehabilitation and related legislation by the Select Subcommittee on Education of the House Education and Labor Committee. I firmly believe that the handicapped and other disadvan~aged persons must receive the finest m rehabilitation services, and you may be assured that I will consider all pertinent legislation in this light.
Again, thank you for writing and please feel free to contact me whenever I may be of service.
Sincerely yours,
John W. Davis Member of Congress

The 19 71 report was no exception. Shortly after copies were mailed to Washington, letters of thanks came back. We thought you might like to know what these gentlemen said about VR 's efforts in fiscal19 71.
Dear John:
Thanks so much for sending me the Offic e of Rehabilitation Services' Annual R eport. Please be assured of my continued interest and support of programs to help the handicapped.

Sincerely ,
Phil M. Landrum Member of Congress Dear Mr. Prickett:
This will acknowledge and thank y ou for your letter ofJanuary 28th in which you enclosed a copy of the 51st Annual Report of the Office of Rehabilitation Services, Georgia Department of Education.
I very much appreciate your writing and sending me this Report.
With kindest regards, I am
Sincerely,

Kindest personal regards.
Yours very truly,
Fletcher Thompson Member of Congress
Dear Mr. Prickett:
Thank you for sending me your annual report. It is a fine report and, as the title suggests, it was indeed a very good year for the Rehabilitation Services.
Congratulations on another year of service to the handicapped citizens of Georgia. I am sure that you will achieve your goal.
With best wishes and kindest regards, I am
Sincerely,
David H. Gambrell United States Senate

G. Elliott Hagan Member of Congress
Dear Mr. Prickett:
I appreciate very much the copy of the fifty-first Annual Report of the 0 ffi ce of Rehabilitation Services, Georgia Department of Education entitled "It Was a Very Good Year". I'm sure I will find it very interesting and informative.
Do not hesitate to call on me anytime you feel I may be of service to you or those whom you serve. I will be more than happy to talk over matters of mutual interest.
With best wishes, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Dawson Mathis Member of Congress
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rehabilitation in the press
MENTAL HEALTH CENTER GETS NEW SERVICE
There's a new service at the North Georgia Community Mental Health Center in Gainesville and a man to provide it.
Wayne McEachin is the new vocational counselor at the center.
Contracting the service from the Office of Rehabilitation Services, the center is providing 90 per cent of the cost with the Gainesville-Hall County Mental Health Association supplying I 0 per cent of the funds.
McEachin will be working in the 13-county catchement area the mental health center serves as a cou nselor coordinator and an aid to hometown counselors, Miss Jean Meeks, director intake services, said .
Miss Meeks said that having a vocational counselor at the center "opens the door for other agencies to work as a coordinated team ."
"Additional services availab le through rehabilitation are not available through the mental health center," she said.
The mental health center helps with emotional and mental problems while vocational rehabilitation can provide training and job placement, explained Ralph Hampton , district director of rehabilitation services.
The rehabilitation agency will focus on work related problems of those who are experiencing emotional difficulties.
"This is an even larger concept imagined when the mental health association formed in 1958," the Rev. A. A. Markley III, president of the Gainesville-Hall County Mental Health Association , said .
-Gainesville Daily Times

GRC "SEEING MACHINE" ONE OF FIRST
WAR~ ~ J>RINGS-Georgia Rehabilitation Center is one of the first rehabilitation facilities in the United States to install a "Lasers Seeing Machine." Two of these units, which consist of a closed circuit television , camera a 17" monitor (television set) a~ adjustable table and a spot li~t have been secured for use by th~ severely visually impaired students.
While seated at a table the students may place a book, magazine, or other printed material underneath the small television camera, move the camera up or down to bring the print into focus, then magnify the print to the size needed. There is also a control to allow the user to follow a line across the page.
This machine will permit legally blind (those whose corrected vision in the better eye is no better than 20/200, or whose visual field is no greater than 20 degrees) to read material now being read by the sighted. It can open doors for employment not now available to the severely visually handicapped; it may be a means for sighted watch repairmen to closely examine minute working parts of watches.
-Meriwether Vindicator

G.R. C.'S SECOND OPEN HOUSE Head of England , an air of festive Christmas good will prevailed.
Neither rain, nor cold , nor fog could dampen the enthusiasm of Students and guests assembled the more than 300 gues ts who in the G.R.C. Auditorium for visited the Georgia Rehabilita- music presented by the First tion Center Sunday December 5, Baptist Church Choir of Pine for the Christmas-Around-The- Mountain. The program was conWorld Open House . From the cluded with group singing of Phillipine Hu t with the pig roas t- familiar Christmas carols. A large ing to the Wassil Bnwl and Boar's refreshment table was set up i~

the quiet recreation area and refreshments, prepared from recipes of the countries represented, were served in the Phillipine, Poland, England and Mexico sections. Students and staff were available to explain the origin of the decorations and the procedure used in making them . Authentic costumes were worn by some of the guides.
-GRC News Release

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PARAPLEGIC'S SON IS SPECIAL

SOLONS'THANKS (Continued from page 13)

There's always a feeling of

ba~gwhht enhoypoeu

and promise in the walk into a hospital

rmooOthmer.

to congratulate a There's talk about

new th.e

size of the baby, how much hatr _ or the lack of it- he has, who the newcomer favors, ho~ m~ny

touchdowns little Jason ts gomg

to throw or the many beauty

contests the new daughter will

win .

But there was something a little extra special in the atmosphere in the room of Jeannie Stone at Pineview General Hospital. Perhaps it was the way Mrs. Stone and her husband , William Stone, talked or the expressions of their faces when their new son was mentioned that brightened up the room.

Mrs. Stone gave birth to a son, William Christopher Stone, on Sept. 21. She had a normal pregnancy, except for the fact that she is a paraplegic. She's paralyzed from the waist down.

Stone, being confined to a wheelchair doesn't stop his wife from performing the everyday tasks of running a house -and running it well.

Dear John:
This will acknowledge and thank you for your letter of 31 January 1972 and express my appreciation to you for enclosing the most informative annual report of the Office ofRehabilitation Services.

Happiness is

Rehabilitation is most certainly a very important aspect of education in Georgia and it is truly satisfying to read of the many Georgians who have benefited from this service.

employees

I am taking great pride in supporting programs of this type and will continue to give any future rehabilitation proposals my utmost attention.

who care.

Your comments are greatly appreciated and please feel free to drop by to see me any time you are in Washington .

With warm regards and best wishes, Jam

Hire the Handicapped

Sincerely yours,
John J. Flynt, Jr. Member of Congress

On Nov. 22, 1969, Mrs. Stone, formerly of Blount's Creek, N.C., was involved in an automobile accident in which she sustained a broken back. After being hospitalized for six months and confined to a wheel chair and braces, Mrs. Stone met her future husband at Georgia Rehabilitation Center at Warm Springs.
"I had a joint disease which crippled both my legs for about a year and a half," Stone, 22, explained. "I was at Warm Springs taking a drafting course while Jeannie was taking a course in commercial arts. But I had fully recovered when we met."
The couple married Nov. 13, 1970, at a home ceremony at Nashville, Ga. And according to

" When the doctor told me I was pregnant, he said it would probably be a normal pregnancy, except that I might not know when I was in labor," Mrs. Stone, 19, explained. " But I didn't have any complications."
Mrs. Stone checked in to the hospital at 5 p.m. Sept. 20 and had her baby at 1 p.m. the following day.
Stone is a graduate of Florida Junior College and is employed by Hobo Mobile Homes. Asked about plans for additional children , he replied, "Later, let this one get a little older first."
-Susan Prine, in The Valdosta Daily Times

DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states: "No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color or national orgin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits o[, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
In compliance with this act, the Office of Rehabilitation Services renders services to the handicapped of this state without regard to race, creed, color or national orgin.

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VR secretary Betty Peters brings national attention to the Valdosta Office as the subject of the cover story of the February, 1972 issue of Today 's Secretary, a publication of the Gregg Division, McGraw-Hill Book Company.
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supervision learn of Betty's services to rehabilitan ts and VR professionals alike and are offered insights into the operations of a physical restoration and job training program on the scale of Valdosta's operations.
The well written article by Today's Secretary staffer Norma

Vavolizza, entitled "Finesse, Facts, Figures," features attractive photographs of Miss Peters on the job with Paul Myddleton, counselor to physically handicapped clients, and Charles DeVane, who works with the men tally retarded .