9 4 ckabilltatloiv Mws They Do Make Good Nathan R Kimbro 43 left in top panel was aided by Vocational Rehabilitation in training in elec trical work at North Georgia Trade School Clarkesville after his dis charge from Battey State Hos pital He was placed as a motor rewinder at the Ace Electric Co 333 Edgewood Avenue NE At lanta Kimbro has a wife and four children He had worked as a carpenter Hubert O Diggs right in top panel who has an impairment of the back and legs works at the Bowers Clock Watch Shop 1584 Piedmont Avenue NE Atlanta He received on the job training in Columbus and worked at Warner Robins before moving to Atlanta Mrs Delia Baxter left in center panel works as a machine opera tor in the manufacture of leather goods at the Smart Products Co 217 Pryor Street SW Atlanta She had training in sewing and power machine operation while at Battey 100 1 Another employee in the same establishment is Joyce Mattox right in center panel formerly of Blackshear Joyce who is deaf attended the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Spring and had vocational training there Sarah C King left formerly of Rt 1 Chula graduated from the Georgia School for the Deaf in 1958 and was provided with additional training at a business school in Atlanta She is now employed as a key punch operator at the Family Fund Life Insurance Co 1515 Spring Street NW Atlanta Hire The HandicappedIt PaysADC Welfare Clients Rehabilitated For about three years the Vocational Rehabilitation Division and the Fulton County Department of Public Welfare have worked together on a special proj ect designed to rehabilitate disabled parents of children receiving Aid to De pendent Children grants During this period 136 have been re stored to jobs These men and women are now working in a wide range of occupations They are earning upward of 350000 a year and are contributing through taxes to the community activi ties Under the law ADC families may re ceive up to 134 a month in welfare benefits until the youngest child becomes 16 years of age That means they could remain on the welfare rolls for 15 years or longer Records from the DPW indicate that the 136 families could have drawn 1 322133 in welfare grants The case service costs in Rehabili tation funds amounted to only 59000 When the project started there were nearly 900 cases involving disabled par ents on the rolls These cases have been reviewed with a view to selecting those having vocational rehabilitation poten tials Now all physically impaired ap plicants for ADC benefits are referred to Vocational Rehabilitation at intake On problem cases a survey team re views the records interviews the parents and others who may be familiar with the case histories and makes recommenda tions as to the services needed to get the disabled person back to work The teams are made up of representatives of various agencies a Vocational Re habilitation Counselor and a physician Reports on the results of the project will be sent to the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in Washington for the use of rehabilitation and welfare agen cies throughout the country in working with disabled welfare recipients The Dobsons are shown here feeding their 1000 layers From left Jeffie Dobson Debrah 8 Darlene 11 Mrs Dobson Joan 3 Brenda West 2 daughter of relatives and James 7 Turns to Eggs A former sheet metal worker who de veloped some emotional problems which became a job handicap is carving out a new career in a specialized agricul tural program He is Jeffie W Dobson 44 who lives on a farm off Stewart Mill Road Rt 4 Douglasville Mrs Dobson had a de formity of the right hand which has been corrected with plastic surgery The Dobsons have eight children rang ing in age from 11 years to six months Through Vocational Rehabilitation services they were assisted in an egg production enterprise They are tending 1000 layers looking after some hogs and raising feed and vegetables This summer they will have enough vege tables and berries to supply the family and some to put in the deep freezer for winter use The older children help with the chickens and garden after school hours and during vacation periods Dobson was in the Armed Forces dur ing World War II He had a farm back ground but decided to go into sheet metal work and was trained in that trade Mrs Otis L DeMoss a widow with five children had a disability following lung surgery She was provided with training in beauty culture and assisted in establish ing a shop at 1670 Lakewood Ave nue SE Atlantagtetfprrag daughter is in twfffiMg fiWBSm pects tO gO into liiiVcc with hpr IV LIBRARIES OF GEORGlNVffiUlIV i C OKo GcowoJMooootvc Ackabilitdtiorv jVews Vol 10 MayJune No 1 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 6 1509 Americus S Ga Vocational School Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone 448 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Building Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MIL 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville Athens 126 N Main St LEnox 47201 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey Hospital Rome Phone 7773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome 314 West Building Phone 8438 MACON DISTRICT Macon Columbus Dublin Milledgeville 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 305 Flowers Building Phone 21904 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 Brunswick Way Building Phone AM 56541 Help for Mentally 111 INETEEN State Vocational Rehabilitation agenciesincluding Georgiawere awarded grants last year 1958 by the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation for the extension or improvement of their programs of service for the mentally disabled Under the grants most of the projects consisted of placing re habilitation counselors in mental hospitals to work as members of a rehabilitation team Such a team helps to prepare patients for the earliest possible discharge date and for useful employment and a normal life The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation also supports research and demonstration activities designed to advance knowledge and methods for the improvement of services Under this program priority is being given to grants for the seriously disabled includ ing those with health problems Some good work for the mentally retarded also is in progress Persons in this group are among the most difficult to rehabilitate There is a lack of specialized facilities for their work evaluation and preparation There is employer resistance to hiring them and a lack of general public knowledge of the many jobs they can per form successfully In Georgia the rehabilitation program for the mentally ill is car ried on in cooperation with other agencies through clinics at Tal madge Memorial Hospital Milledgeville State Hospital Macon Hos pital and other centers A report from Washington shows that 4799 mentally handicap ped persons were rehabilitated during fiscal 1958 through the FederalState program of Vocational Rehabilitation The figure for Georgia was 141 It appears there will be an increase in the num ber of rehabilitation in this disability group during fiscal 1959 COVER v v Twentysevenyearold Roy W Rhinehart left in picture for merly of Summerville has im pairments of both legs But he is no longer vocationally handicap ped The young man is employed as a draftsman at the Southern States Equipment Co Hampton Through Vocational Rehabilitation services he was granted a scholar ship at Young Harris College and provided with special training at Southern Technical Institute He graduated from STI in June 1958 and soon had his present job Shown with him is T G Gilchrist Supervisor in the drafting depart mentNew Tests for Blind Given Twentyfive persons attending the ad justment center for the blind conducted by the Vocational Rehabilitation Divi sion at the Georgia Academy for the Blind Macon this summer were given a series of new performance tests now being used in a nationwide research project Dr Phil S Shurrager Professor and Chairman Department of Psychology and Education at the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago made a special trip to Macon to administer the tests He said the purpose of the research project was to develop tests which would iq meet the needs of blind people Tests now being used to measure performance achievement aptitudes and skills were developed for use with sighted people Under the research projects thou sands of blind people all over the coun try and in all walks of life will be given tests like to those administered to the Georgia group Dr Shurrager said This test called Performance Scale for the Adult Blind is being stand ardized with the hope that it can be used in conjunction with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Verbal Scale to yield a general I Q comparable to that obtained when the full WAIS is administered to sighted subjects Subjects used for this test will have a visual acuity of 5200 or less and will range in age from sixteen to sixtyfour The persons tested will be selected from a quota sampling system in the four geo graphical regions of the country Of these approximately 283 will be selected from the South Georgia is the first State to use Vo I cational Rehabilitation clients in this re search project The results of the studies made in the standardization of the Performance Scale for the Adult Blind will be pre sented September 1 at the American Psychological Association Cincinnati Ohio Dr Harriet Shurrager Assistant Professor Department of Psychology and Education Illinois School of Tech nology is the Project Director of this Office of Vocational Rehabilitation spon sored research Dr James F Garrett Assistant Di rector Rehabilitation Services Depart ment of Health Education and Welfare Washington D C is chairman of this program where the research projects re Fiftytwoyearold Elton Heath left tries his hand with an abacus one of the testing devices used at the adjustment center for the blind Shown conducting the test are Dr Philip S Shurrager Chicago psychologist and Miss Lenore Harvey Chief of Psychologi cal Services Vocational Rehabilitation Division Heath was a textile mill worker before losing his vision about two years ago Clients at the adjustment center get crafts training under the guidance of Mrs Dorothy Biesecker standing home employment counselor for the blind From left they are Miss Judy Duncan Quit man Mrs Jewel Crosby Pelham Mrs Mary F Carter Waycross and Miss Addie Mae Knight Baxley lated to the psychological aspects of dis ability will be discussed with psycho logists interested in Vocational Rehabili tation and State Vocational Rehabilita tion personnel from all over the United States There were 14 men and 11 women at the adjustment center this summer They range in age from 16 to 61 Some of them have been blind since birth Others lost their vision only a year or two ago The course at the center covers sub jects such as selfcare unaided travel use of hand tools crafts and home economics Upon completion of the course they may be given special train ing or placed in some suitable jobsAwards Made in Essay Contest A c Awards in the 1959 essay contest sponsored by the Governors Committee on Employment of the Physically Handi capped and the Associated Industries of Georgia Inc were presented to five state winners by Governor Ernest Van diver on June 5 The winners were First Ann An drews a Senior at Pelham High School Second Betty Smith a Junior at Baker High School Columbus Third Bonnie Sue Johnson a Junior at Gainesville High School Gainesville Fourth Nedra White West Side High School Dalton and Fifth Saundra Long a Senior at Roosevelt High School Atlanta They received cash prizes ranging from 100 to 10 awarded by the Asso ciated Industries of Georgia Inc to gether with certificates from the Presi dents Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped Theme of this years contest was Hir ing the Handicapped in Our Town The first place winner Ann Andrews won third place in the 1958 contest The Macon committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped this year sponsored contests in the local schools in advance of the statewide competition Three prizes were offered for high school students in the white and colored schools These prizes ranged from 25 to 750 Winners in the first group were First Thwala Ligon Second Georgann Raines and Third Cynthia Quinn They are students at McEvoy High School Winners in the second group were First Eugenia Vinson Second Eleanor Floyd and Third Magnolia Glasco They are students at BallardHudson High School Winners in the national competition were First Barbara Joan Zimmer Glenn Ridge N J Second Elizabeth OBrien Summerville Mass Third tie Diane J Collins Coventry R I and Brian OLeary San Antonio Texas and Four of the five winners in the state essay contest get awards from Governor Ernest Vandiver seated and Cliff Clarke Jr Chair man of the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handi capped They are from left Bonnie Sue Johnson Gainesville third place winner Betty Smith Columbus second Ann Andrews Pelham first and Saundra Long Atlanta fifth Fourthplace winne Nedra White Rocky Face was absent Fifth Margaret OMeara Lake Charles La They received cash prizes and a trip to Washington In the 1958 competition first place went to a Georgia student George Kesler of Augusta Get OASI Benefits More than 11000 claims for disability benefits under the Social Security laws will be reviewed and passed upon by the OASI Disability Determination unit of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division during the current fiscal year Reports indicate that cases are being received at the rate of about 1000 a month Benefits have been allowed in 6352 cases this year The average benefit on a nationwide basis is 70 a month This represents yearly benefits of approximately 5 336000 to these disabled Georgians through Social Security The total cost of operating this phase of the program is paid out of Social Security funds Applicants who may appear feasible for Vocational Rehabilitation services are referred to a Counselor for follow up Goes To Baltimore R E Williamson Review Specialist of the OASI Disability Determination unit has accepted a position on the BOASI staff of the Social Security Ad ministration Baltimore effective June 30 He has been with the Vocational Rehabilitation Division and the OASI unit for seven years To Speak in Georgia Dr Lawrence G Derthick U S Com missioner of Education Department of Health Education and Welfare Wash ington has accepted an invitation to speak at the annual dinner during the Divisions staff training conference in Savannah August 7 Miss Mary Switzer Director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation will speak at the first days session Aug ust 5 Heads Program for Blind Appointment of Louis H Rives Jr as Chief of the Division of Services to the Blind Office of Vocational Rehabili tation Washington has been announced by Miss Mary Switzer OVR Director Mr Rives who is totally blind has been with OVR since 1947 He is a native of Norfolk Va and has visited Georgia many times in connection with services to the BlindTax Expert Gets Electric For nearly 10 years Merlin Loftin 45 who was stricken by a crippling disease at 4 has conducted business enterprises from an office in his farm home near Roopville Through a correspondence course he laid the foundation for his main occu pation as a tax consultant He also operates a broiler project in partner ship with another man Merlin has only limited use of his arms and hands He was finding it more difficult to use a standard type writer in making out income tax re turns and carrying on correspondence A friend Lonnie Rogers president of the Heard County Lions Club decided to do something about it He got in touch with representatives of the Royal McBee Corporation Soon the formali ties were worked out for an electric machine The Lions Club sponsored the applica tion Before long an authorization for delivery of the machine was cleared A few days later George Spurlin Presi dent of DeKalb Office Equipment Co Decatur who had become interested in the project drove to Carroll County to deliver the new typewriter Merlin was grateful proudand hap py over the gift He said it was the one i piece of equipment he needed to speed up production of income tax returns for his clients during the busy season Because of the condition of his spine 3i and legs Merlin has a chair with a seat similar to a bicycle saddle It was designed especially to meet his needs The young tax consultant lives with his mother Mrs Cela Loftin Top pictureMerlin Loftin seat ed tries out his new electric type writer under the watchful eyes of George Spurlin president of De Kalb Office Equipment Co De catur and right Lonnie Rogers President of the Heard County Lions Club At rightHe uses a gadget designed to hold the tele phone receiver while he makes a call Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Hiss Carroll Hart General Library Univ of Ca Atnans Ga Three visuallyhandicapped youths get experience in greenhouse operations under the supervision of William T Womack left horticultural assistant at the Georgia Academy for the Blind Macon while enrolled at the adjustment center conducted each summer by Vocational Rehabilitation Services They are William Loy McCollum 19 of Rt 4 Cleveland Carlos Clark 16 of LaGrange and Ray mond Gabriel 18 of Crawford William and Raymond were in the 12th grade Carlos was a 7th grader At the center they receiv ed training in selfcare unaided travel and typing after getting aptitude and interests tests Plans for vocational training or job placement will be developed while they are enrolled at the center Jfcekabllitatloiv Mws lbs for the Handicapped Passports to Dignity The Presidents Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped MEMBERS CREE I BELIEVE that the physically handicapped should be given equal opportunity to choose and prepare for occupations commensurate with their physical abilities and their poten tialities for learning and acquiring skills that the physically handicapped should be given equal opportunity with others similarly qualified in selection appointment and ad vancement in employment I PLEDGE my best efforts in following these principles in my own employment practices my support of practical programs designed to achieve the foregoing principles my assistance in every feasible way to acquaint the public generally and employers specifically with these principles 00Tli59 UBRAFbTwentythreeyearold Jerry Cos per who has impaired lower limbs is shown at left in the watch re pair class at North Georgia Trade School Clarkesville Before being injured in a motorcycle accident he worked as shipping clerk in a tex tile plant A resident of Bowdon Rt 4 Jerry had therapy at the Warm Springs Foundation Louis H Norrell in center pan el a former saw mill worker who has impaired ankles resulting from a fracture is shown training in television repair in the electronics shop at North Georgia Trade School He also had a cleft palate Vocational Rehabilitation aided him with surgery A resident of Dah lonega Norrell 46 has a wife and three children Thirtyeightyearold Joe E Hughes left in lower panel of Rt 3 Quitman lost his right arm in a corn puller accident in 1956 He had surgery to revise the stump Hughes is a veteran but was in eligible for Veterans rehabilita tion services He is shown receiv ing training in the use of his arti ficial arm at the Albany amputee clinic Mrs Jean Kirkley right in low er panel lost a leg as the result of an automobile accident in 1957 She too had training in the use of a prosthesis at the Albany am putee clinic Mrs Kirkley has two small children She is a resident of Albanys jam A record number of disabled persons were restored to jobs through Georgias Vocational Rehabilitation services during the fiscal year which ended June 30 The number rehabilitated was 5628 an increase of 110 over the rehabilita tions during the previous year when Georgia led the nation in this phase of education During the year 12351 persons re ceived one or more of the authorized servicesphysical restoration training guidance and placement At the end of the year there were 5938 cases on the active rolls still receiving services Among them were 1604 in trade or busi ness schools colleges and other training establishments There were 8451 appli cations awaiting surveys The men and women returned to jobs were dependent upon welfare agencies relatives or friends when they came to Vocational Rehabilitation for assistance Their disabilities represented almost every type that could bar them from employmentlimb or body impairments mental and emotional disturbances men tal retardation lack of vision hearing deficiencies arrested tuberculosis epilep sy heart ailments and others Now they are working in a wide range of occupations in offices factories serv ice trade establishments and on farms They are selfsupporting taxpaying citi zens some for the first time in their lives During the year the Division coop erated with the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Public Welfare hospitals and other agencies in developing a coordinated re habilitation program for the mentally ill Vocational Rehabilitation counselors work with other specialists at the hos pitals and other centers in planning re habilitation services for patients who ultimately may be returned to employ ment Some 137 mentally ill persons were restored to jobs last year and 383 were receiving services A somewhat similar program was car ried on in Atlanta Savannah and Augus ta for total evaluation and treatment of epileptics At those clinics patients are given medical psychological and voca tional evaluation A treatment plan is devised and a vocational program of counseling and guidance worked out with training if needed Last year 295 cases were referred to these epileptic clinics and evaluated 162 became seizurefree Of the seizurefree clients 115 were placed in employment Thirty seven were in training at the end of the year Of the 5628 disabled persons rehabili tated last year 331 were blinda record number for this disability group In recent years the Division has oper ated a special project for the rehabilita tion of blind persons from rural com munities in agricultural occupations such as horticulture broiler and egg produc tion and livestock raising Seventeen of the 331 blind persons rehabilitated were placed in special agricultural projects in their own communities The greenhouse at the Georgia Acad emy for the Blind Macon provides train ing for blind adults and members of the Senior Class There has been no problem in the placement of these trainees after they complete the 12months course Re ports from nurserymen and florists who have hired them show they are meeting production standards for sighted work ers The Division sponsors at Atlantas Grady Hospital an optical aid center where visually handicapped persons are given examinations looking to the im provement of vision through the use of newlydeveloped types of lenses and other aids During the year 134 persons were served at the center Blind adults who need instruction in selfcare unaided travel and fundamen tal training in homemaking and the use of hand tools attend an adjustment cen ter at the Academy during the summer months There were 24 enrolled there this summer A similar adjustment center for Ne groes is operated at the Metropolitan Association for the Blind headquarters in Atlanta There were 24 enrolled there The 62 vending stands for the blind operated by the Division and the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc last year provided employment for 82 blind persons who otherwise might be dependent upon welfare assistance The gross volume of sales amounted to near ly 1 million Operators earned 167902 What Others Say Under the caption Rehabilitation Agency Sets Excellent Example the Atlanta Constitution said For the fifth consecutive year Geor gia has led the nation in the number of disabled persons rehabilitated per 100000 of population Three out of those five years Georgia was second only to Pennsylvania which has a much larger population in the total of persons rehabilitated The entire state has reason to be proud of such record It represents an outstanding accomplishment from both a humanitarian and economic standpoint Director A P Jarrell of the Voca Dr Lawrence G Derthick U S Commissioner of Education Wash ington was the main speaker at the Divisions staff training con ference in Savannah He is shown seated with Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Vocational Reha bilitation Services tional Rehabilitation Division of the State Department of Education his staff Georgia employers and all others who have had a hand in making the achieve ment possible deserve commendation The results obtained in vocational re habilitation work contrasts sharply with the states poor record in curing the mentally ill and thus making it possible for them too to become productive mem bers of society again An allout effort should be made to shape the states fledgling mental health program in such a way that the treat ment of the mentally ill also become a field in which Georgia is a front runner rather than a shameful laggard Joins OVR Staff Appointment of Dr Prank H Krusen founder and Senior Consultant of Mayo Clinics Section of Physical Medicine Rochester Minn to assist in launching a strengthened program of medical re habilitation in the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation has been announced by Miss Mary E Switzer Director of OVR Dr Krusen will serve for 3 months be ginning September 16 as Special As sistant to Miss Switzer for Health and Medical Affairs He will be on leave from Mayos ClinicAekabilitation jVfews Vol 10 JulyAug 1959 No 2 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 6 1509 Americus S Ga Vocational School Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone 448 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Building Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT 126 N Main St LEnox 47201 Gainesville Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey Hospital Rome Phone 7773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome 314 West Building Phone 8438 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone Fairfax 21904 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Dublin Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 Brunswick Way Building Phone AM 56541 ram JriL ERES the text of a telegram from Miss Mary Switzer Director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Washington to Dr A P Jarrell Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services I want to congratulate you and your wonderful staff on Georgias record for 1959 I have just sent the following telegram to Gover nor Vandiver It gives me great pleasure to congratulate you and the people of Georgia on the accomplishments of the Georgia Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation In fiscal year 1959 which ended June 30 Georgia led all states for the second consecutive year in the proportion of its disabled citizens rehabilitated to productive and satisfying life Georgias record was 147 per 100000 of population The rec ords are not completely closed but the National average for the previous year was 43 rehabilitations per 100000 of population Georgia also ranked second only to Pennsylvania in the actual number of disabled men and women rehabilitated with 5628 an increase of 110 over the previous year Pennsylvania with a much larger population rehabilitated 5878 individuals In this respect Georgia also held its rank for the second con secutive year with many states striving to bring the rehabilitations to the point where they can displace some of the present leaders My thanks as head of the National program go to you to Dr Claude Purcell and to your Legislature for continuing support and to Dr A P Jarrell your State Rehabilitation Director and his dedicated statewide staff for a mission well accomplished Governor Ernest Vandiver wrote Miss Mary E Switzer Director Office of Vocational Rehabili tation Department of Health Education and Welfare hs tele graphed me relative to the superior record which you and the mem bers of your Division turned in during the fiscal year just concluded Please accept my congratulations This morning at my press conference I read to the newsmen from her telegram to me which contains some impressive figures regarding what has been accom plished Please extend my appreciation to all your personnel for their exemplary work The Glass Wall Movie Dramatic results of rehabilitation services for persons with loss of hearing are illustrated in The Glass Wall a new film produced by the American Hearing Society through a 31000 grant from the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Miss Mary E Switzer Director of the Office of Vocational Re habilitation said It is a tremendously moving production one of the best movies of its kinds I have ever seen The 27 V2minute film may be borrowed free of charge for show ing at meetings of clubs and other organizations Write Miss Ada M Hill American Hearing Society 919 Eighteenth Street NW Washington DCNew cafeteria left and girls dormitory at North Georgia Trade School Clarkesville Designed for Two new buildings at North Georgia Trade School Clarkesville were design ed especially to meet the needs of handi capped students enrolled there under the auspices of Vocational Rhabilitation services The girls dormitory and the cafeteria have entrances at ground level The doors are wide enough to accommodate wheel chairs One wing of the dormitory has been reserved for seriously handicapped stu dents There are hand rails along the hall walls There are no raised thresholds in the wide doorways The clothes racks in the closet space are low enough for articles to be reached by wheel chair occupants The sides of the tubs are low and above each is a grabrail for the safety of users with impaired limbs Wash basins and drink ing founts also are at low level Girls in wheel chairs no longer require the help of an attendant in carrying on their activities in the dormitory and cafeteria The Vocational Rehabilitation Division has about 100 clients enrolled at North Georgia Trade School Many of these students are seriously handicapped The new facilities are making it easier for them to be selfsufficient while in train ing The designs of these new buildings are in line with a project sponsored by the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped among architects and builders It has been pointed out that buildings with steps revolving doors and narrow doorways make it difficult for persons with some types of disabilities especial ly those in wheel chairs to use such buildings either for business or pleasure The Committee has been urging builders Typical room in wing designed especially for handicapped students At desk Elizabeth Mashburn of Hapeville and in background Caro lyn Bennett also from Hapeville Both are clients of Vocational Rehabilitation in beauty culture classes BelowElizabeth likes the new dresser to have at least one entrance which may be at ground level or reached by ramp in tall public buildings Standard designs also are being worked out for interiors with a view to the needs of handicapped people New Grants Announced Award of 1536088 in Federal grants for support of 62 research and demon stration projects in 11 states and the District of Columbia has been announced by the Office of Vocational Rehabilita tion Recipients of the grants are private nonprofit groups State Rehabilitation agencies and other public organizations The purpose of the awards is to pay part of the cost of activities for increasing knowledge and improving methods that contribute to the rehabilitation of physi cally or mentally handicapped people to suitable employment in By Harry E Hayes Director Services for the Blind Topeka Kansas Excerpts from address at the Divi sions staff training conference There is more intelligent understand ing today of the nature of blindness and the abilities of blind people than at any time in the past and this understanding is increasing steadily The importance of this fact cannot be overestimated since there is no greater limiting factor to the assimilation of blind persons into community life which includes employment than public mis understanding even sympathetic mis understanding The change has been gradual but is accelerating as the public has more first hand contact with blind people at their work and in social settings The cumulative impact of organized public relations efforts by the agencies is bearing fruit The many films talks books pamphlets new stories magazine articles and radio and television pro grams are being felt Not that we have achieved full understanding and accept ancefar from it But the average citi zenthe average employerno longer is incredulous when you speak of em ployment for a blind client He has em ployed a blind personknows someone who hasor has heard about successful placements Regardless of how adequate our ap propriations are or how skilled we be come as rehabilitation workers we will always be dependent on the public for job opportunities and the acceptance of blind persons and those otherwise se verely handicapped into other aspects of community life As a result of our accumulating ex perience there is a steady improve ment in the manner in which we are finding appraising and serving our blind clients Our philosophy the way we see the job to be done and the way we are going about it are all in a state of tran sition Our results are better so we are apparently making progress The contribution of psychology and psychiatry to the field of rehabilitation of the blind has been felt only during the past few years to any great extent I feel that this contribution has been most important The professional people are concerned with life adjustments and the under standing of the human personality and thus have a great deal to give us in understanding and appraising predict ing and helping our clients with their general and vocational adjustments Miss Evelyn Stewart is shown here in her backyard greenhouse One of the most important develop ments of recent years has been the growth and refinement of adjustment and diagnostic centers for the blind This group approach to some of the more perplexing problems in the rehabilitation of the blind was given impetus by the military facilities following World War II Refinements are continually being made in the several civilian centers and a veterans facility now operating in this country The coordinated use of multi discipline staffs and the wide variety of activities included in these programs are known to you Counselors The values of this approach to the re habilitation field might be simply sum marized by saying that first it provides factual information regarding clients abilities and limitations which make for intelligent wellbased vocational plans Secondly it offers help in the important area of adjustment to life with blindness which is essential to the success of job placement and third it serves as a tool to interpret the vocational rehabilitation program to the community Another development which has be come evident during recent years has been the greater use of prevocational and vocational training in the rehabilita tion of the blind Prevocational training is offered in adjustment centers shelter ed workshops and through the services of home teachers who provide instruc tion not only in daily living skills but in vocationally related fields of braille recordkeeping independent mobility typing and such Vocational training has become more Operates Greenhouse Miss Evelyn Stewart who has less than five percent vision operates a greenhouse in the backyard of her home at Thomasville Before losing her sight she was em ployed as a bookkeeper Through Vocational Rehabilitation services she was aided in training in the fundamentals of horticulture at the Geor gia Academy for the Blind following orientation training during a summer session there With some help she constructed an at tractive plastic greenhouse in her back yard The Division aided her in obtain ing an initial supply of dish garden plants clay and plastic pots and other articles to help her get started in busi ness Since that time she has purchased other plants and supplies and more than doubled her stock of some types of plants by rooting Miss Stewart supplies plants to sev eral stores in the Thomasville area She says she is enjoying her new vocation diversified as well as more widespread We are pinpointing our vocational ob jectives and providing the best available training for specific job goals Usually I think we are recognizing the import ance of giving our clients a plus in terms of superior job preparation to offset any deficiencies which blindness imposes We have come a long way in the field of placing blind workers into suitable jobs in the past several years The un natural circumstances of the war periods Continued on Page 7Gets the News by Ambulance Reprint from Atlanta Journal By Dorothy Cremin One Atlanta Journal correspondent covers his assignments in style and com fort He bought his own ambulance to get around in Not that Lurner Williams 32 of Den ton is lazy Actually hes a livewire with more fish to fry than a shortorder cook at the seashore But rheumatic fever struck the young man when he was 14 leaving him severe ly handicapped He must remain on a stretcher or bed only slightly propped up Mr Williams staunchly maintains however that every disadvantage has an advantage When I cover banquets I always get my food first while its still hot he said He can doze through the duller speeches too Besides handling both regular and sports news for The Atlanta Journal Mr Williams is a justice of the peace a tax practitioner they make out your tax returns a fulltime writer for the Jeff Davis County Ledger has a weekly re ligious news radio program and does sup ply preaching Hes a member of the Denton Baptist Church Last winter he was the president of the OcmulgeeSatilla Basketball League an amateur organization He is a mem ber of the Lions Club and the Junior Chamber of Commerce and takes pride in the fact that he is assigned to work for the clubs on the same footing as other members Nobody considers me a cripple any more They have accepted me into the community he said His motto is keep on keepin on youll succeed if you keep trying Thats how he got the job as The Atlanta Journals correspondent more than eight years ago I asked for the job but I didnt live in the county seat of Hazelhurst so I was turned down But I thought if I keep sending them news sooner or later they would have a space to fill up he added For 13 weeks I sent in news and on the thir teenth week the first item appeared No body said anything but I got a check at the end of the month and Ive been working for the paper ever since Mr Williams used to cover a lot of his work by telephone Then I found I could buy an ambu lance It is a great convenience He came to Atlanta for the AllStar football and basketball games accompa Lurner Williams visits with Sports Editors at Atlanta Journal Left Furman Bisher and right Joe Rickenbacker nied by two friends Earl Bailey and Glynn Mathis who drove and managed his stretcher for him This is the first time Ive come to Atlanta for anything but visits to the doctor he said Ed NoteLurner at one time was a client of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division Work For The Blind Continued From Page 6 with labor shortages and cost plus at mosphere and the numerous routine un skilled jobs made placement relatively easy It was an opportunity to demonstrate that blind workers could turn in a full scale job performance and to a large ex tent it was a period of informing and familiarizing the public with the employ ability of blind persons Since the war placement has not been as easy and today there is still real re sistance to the employment of blind workers but our response to this chal lenge has been reasonable and forthright We are simply doing a more thorough job of defining skills providing more adequate training and placing the re habilitants in a greater variety of occu pations We have thrown away the old lists of practical jobs for blind workers with the conviction that they will never be com plete The old practice of grossly classi fying workers into industrial placement business enterprise or sheltered work shop categories and placing them ac cordingly has been replaced by a much more refined and particularized ap proach We are giving attention to cultivating special fields of placement such as busi ness enterprises rural and agricultural employment and industrial home work We are placing workers in better more highly skilled jobs todayand the jobs are lasting longer The ultimate goal of all of our efforts is the complete absorption of the blind person into his natural group and larger community WE HIRE THE HANDICAPPED ITS GOOD BUSINESSDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 jtiana Division AHlilM reorKi3 Libraries University of Georgia Athens Ccorgia ABILITY COUNTS v Fortysixyearold Aubrey L Key of Ochlocknee had followed many occupations before losing his sight in 1958 He ad farmed served as a carpenters mate in the U S Navy and had worked as an upholsterer Vocational Rehabilitation aided him with surgery which increased his sight from 20200 in the left eye to 2040 for dis tance with extreme restriction of vision He attended the adjustment center for adults at the Georgia Academy for the Blind in Macon Upon his return home he built a 6000 chick capacity broiler house on his farm Vocational Rehabilita tion aided him in equipping the house with automatic feeders waterers and a heater Key recently sold his second flock of broilers which averaged 36 pounds per bird with a livability record of 98 per cent He is working with a processing company which furnishes the chicks and feed and markets the broilers Key gets a specified price per pound of birds with a premium for a good feed conversion ratio ekabllitatioiv Mws James D Flowers 35 left in top panel has an impaired hand resulting from a shotgun accident A former sheet metal fabricator he is now learning the machinists trade at the SmithHughes Voca tional School in Atlanta Shown with him is H M Owen instructor A veteran of World War II he is receiving aid from VA in the cor rective surgery while Vocational Rehabilitation provides the train ing Another step in the surgical procedure is scheduled Flowers is the father of four children He was a star basketball player in high school J C Bearden 44 of Chatsworth center panel was a saw mill worker until he lost his vision The Beardens who have two sons 11 and 13 live on a fiveacre tract With a bank loan and Vocational Rehabilitation aid they built a poultry house and stocked it with 1900 layers The water supply is pumped from a branch that runs through the place They have de veloped a small lake and expect to produce live fish bait for sale to retail dealers Twentyeightyearold Charles W Fuller left in lower panel of Lawrenceville has a heart condi tion which forced him to give up construction work Through Voca tional Rehabilitation services he was trained in TV and radio repair at the North Georgia Trade School Clarkesville and assisted in estab lishing his own shop Fuller is the father of two children George K Hensley 35 right in lower panel of Rt 3 Chatsworth had a stroke which impaired his left arm and leg He spent some time in a VA hospital where he was fitted with a leg brace Then Vo cational Rehabilitation assisted him in a broiler project At the time this picture was made he had 6500 broilers about ready for market His poultry house is equipped with oil brooders The water supply is pumped from a branch which runs through his placeNEPH Week Gets Results Reports from local NEPH committees indicate a widespread observance of Na tional Employ the Physically Handicap ped Week in Georgia October 4 to 10 Representatives of public and volun teer agencies civic groups religious and fraternal organizations employers and labor leaders worked together in an ef fort to provide more job opportunities for qualified handicapped workers Clifford M Clarke Jr Executive Di rector of the Associated Industries of Georgia and Chairman of the Governors Committee on Employment of the Physi cally Handicapped said reports from community committees and placement agencies doubtless would show a sub stantial increase in the number of job placements over the previous years record Governor Ernest Vandiver sounded the keynote of the observance with a procla mation He said Opportunity for employment should not be denied any qualified persons merely because of a physical handicap An individuals abilitynot his dis abilityshould be the first consideration in determining his capacity for employ ment It is imperative that jobs be provided through the public employment services and other channels so that disabled vet erans and other handicapped men and women can become active and participat ing members of the Nations working force A highlight of the observance was the visit to Georgia of K Vernon Banta of Washington Deputy Executive Secretary of the Presidents Committee on Employ ment of the Physically Handicapped Mr Banta met with local committee men in Atlanta and Columbus and spoke to a Macon civic club Community committees received gen erous support from newspapers radio and television stations in efforts to focus public attention upon the social and eco nomic advantages of full employment for qualified handicapped workers Civic clubs in many cities invited speakers to discuss the problems of the disabled in getting fair employment opportunities Typical of the editorials in daily and weekly papers was one in the Columbus Ledge which said in part The federal government helps the various states support extensive pro grams for rehabilitating the physically handicapped and preparing them to take their places in business and industry as productive workers Many handicapped workers each year are trained in work and skills befitting their capacity and are prepared to enter employment and give their employers a dollars worth of work for each dollar they earn Some of those rehabilitated persons get jobs and their employers are pleased with the work they do and are willing to hire other handicapped persons when the need arises for their services There are some among those trained however who do not get jobs They are barred from productive work and taking their places in the nations labor force because many employers still havent seen the potential that is available through the rehabilitated handicapped The size of the problem can be illus trated with facts on the situation in Georgia Employment service offices of the State Department of Labor have about 3600 applicants registered and actively seeking employment On July 1 the Vo cational Rehabilitation Division of the Georgia Department of Education charged with the training had 5938 on active rolls receiving physical restora tion and training preparatory to place ment Additionally there were 8451 ap plications for services and training awaiting investigations Handicapped persons are being re habilitate trained and fitted for gain ful employment but unless employers are willing to give them a chance to prove their ability the trainees receive no benefits and the program supported by the government and the states cannot be fully effective Many employers have learned that it is good business to hire handicapped per sons specially trained for jobs consistent with their abilities They have found handicapped workers as a group pro duce and appreciate the opportunity given them resulting in loyal dedicated workers Those employers find them efficient and dependent workers and their safety records are such that there is no increase in employment insurance costs There are other employers however who still shun the hiring of handicapped workers Some firms have arbitrary physical standards which bar workers with physical defects officials of others have misconceptions about the ability and efficiency of the rehabilitated persons as workers Agencies rehabilitating the handicap ped find tht they also have to conduct educational campaigns to convince em ployers that those with physical defects can be valuable employers That is why National Employ the Handicapped Week is observed each year There are many handicapped persons who are able and willing to work What they need is for employers to give them a chance to prove its good business to hire the handicapped Working together for better mental health will be the theme of the first annual conference of the Georgia Re habilitation Association a chapter of NRA at the Academy of Medicine in Atlanta December 11 John S Prickett Jr President has announced Dr Irville Herbert MacKinnon Super intendent of the Milledgeville State Hos pital will be the keynote speaker There will be three panel discussions of various phases of the mental health problem Speakers for one on helping the men tally retarded become a part of com munity life will be Dr I Ignacy Gold berg Associate Professor Department of Education and Director of the Mental Retardation Project Teachers College Columbia University New York Dr Norman B Pursley Superintendent Georgia Training School for Mental De fectives Gracewood Miss Jetta Dowis Teacher of Exceptional Children Ros well Elementary School Roswell and Mrs George D Stewart Secretary for the Georgia Association of Retarded Children Another panel on helping the emotion ally disturbed return to community life will be chaired by Mrs Mariebeth Tur ner Medical Social Work Supervisor State Department of Public Welfare Speakers will be Dr Cecil B Harbin Chief Clinical Psychologist Mental Health Services of the Veterans Admin istration Dr Trawick Stubbs Director Division of Mental Health State Depart ment of Public Health Dr Vernelle Fox Medical Director of the Georgia Clinic Georgia Commission on Alcoholism and Senator Peyton Hawes President of the Georgia Association for Mental Health The third panel will discuss mental health of the family and the patient Miss Mary Webb Executive Director Georgia Society for Crippled Children and Adults will lead this discussion group Speakers will be Dr Charles Joel Jr Chief NeuroPsychiatric Ex amination Service of the Veterans Ad ministration Miss Lorraine Jennrich Executive Director of the Family Serv ice Miss Isabel Mungen Public Health Nurse Consultant State Department of Public Health and John Forrest Super visor of Special Services Vocational Re habilitation Divisionckabilitatiotv Vews Vol 10 SeptOct 1959 No 3 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 6 1509 Americus S Ga Vocational School Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Building Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville 126 N Main St LEnox 47201 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey Hospital Rome Phone 7773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome 314 West Building Phone 8438 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone Fairfax 21904 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 Brunswick Way Building Phone AM 56541 T Ready for Seal Sale HE Georgia Tuberculosis Association sponsors of the annual Christmas Seal Sale has announced November 16 as the opening date of the 1959 campaign The announcement said No personal or plant solicitation is made No goal is set for the Christmas Seal sale Rather every citizen is given an opportunity to acquaint himself with the TB problem and to determine in his own mind and in the privacy of his home if he wants to giveand how much Dr Pierce Harris pastor of Atlantas First Methodist Church is Honorary Chairman for this years sale in Georgia He says Theres not a town with a thousand people I havent been in for one reason or another One thing I know There are a hundred thousand peo ple in Georgia who could buy 10 worth of Christmas Seals and it wouldnt even make a dent in their Christmas money The question is will they And Im asking you So make a note of it now and lets make this the most successful Christmas Seal Sale our great state has ever had The GTA reports the 1958 sale in Georgia produced 33933128 a 24 percent increase over the previous years record Ninetyfour percent of the funds it says stayed in Georgia to carry on the TB Associations program of education casefinding patient rehabilita tion medical and social research The Vocational Rehabilitation Division offers its services to per sons 16 years of age and older with a history of tuberculosis An nually over 200 arrested TB cases are rehabilitated into jobs The Division maintains an office with a Counselor in charge at Battey State Hospital to counsel with patients there and initiate the services they need to get back into suitable employment Dr Irving Goldstein center Chairman of the Georgia Bnai Brith Employ the Handicapped Committee presents certifi cates for outstanding service to two Atlanta citizens Judge Jeptha Tanksley left Judge of Fulton Superior Court and Har old Levow right of Smart Products Com pany The citations from Bnai Brith were pre sented at a meeting of Gate City Lodge and was one of the features of the annual observance of National Employ the Psysi cally Handicapped Week in Atlanta Oc tober 410 Judge Tanksley who was seriously wounded in overseas combat during World War II was praised for the leadership and inspiration he has shown as a citizen A graduate of West Point Military Academy and Emory University Law School Judge Tanksley has been active in veterans affairs and services to the handicapped The Smart Products Company was cited for its policy of giving handicapped appli cants equal opportunities for employment The firm owned by Harold Levow and Max Sophier makes leather products costume jewelry and other articles It em ploys about 70 persons many of whom are physically handicapped Song Record Idea Helps Center At times it takes imagination unself ish effort and teamwork to put over even the most worthwhile community project A striking example of how it works comes from Savannah where civic lead ers have been working for months to establish an occupational training center for mentally retarded children and adults The Sigma Phi sorority raised funds for a building on land donated by the Chatham County Commission The Wo mens Federation voted 9000 for the first years operation There was pros pect of additional revenue from Voca tional Rehabilitation service fees But more funds were needed to take full ad vantage of the proposed grant of Federal funds The project is sponsored by the Chat ham Chapter for the Help of Retarded Inc Mrs John E Porter an officer in both the Federation and the Chapter came up with the idea of using Savannah talent in producing and recording two original songs for the Christmas season She enlisted the help of Mrs Evelyn Traylor a Savannah real estate broker who since the age of 12 had written songs for the sheer joy of it Mrs Traylor produced the two songs and Mrs Porter who is a pianist captured the music on paper Then came the problem of arrange ments and orchestrations Perry Bectal an Atlanta professional prepared the original arrangements and worked with Kenneth E Palmer Jr a Savannah vo calist on the orchestrations Talent was needed for the recordings TV Announcer Bob Nobles a singer con sulted Jack Elkins a popular Savannah dance maestro They picked Jan Easter ling a Savannah high school girl as the vocalist Jan the daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Dierking is a 14yearold blonde who has presented many radio TV and civic club performances They also needed a vocal trio and called on Jan Fulcher Roseanne Harp and Mary Louise Rose who had worked together on local shows Meanwhile Mrs Porter had made ar rangements with the Empire Recording Co in New York for pressing the records In late October Jack Elkins Orches tra Jan Easterling the vocal trio and technicians made the master tapes in the studios of WTOC for shipment to the recording company The two songs Family Christmas and There Will Always Be A Christ mas will be ready for distribution to Bufords N B Mauldin learned photography while in the air force but gave it up to work in a pants factory after being discharged After being dismissed from Battey State Hospital he was aided by Vocational Rehabilitation in getting photographic equipment and open ing a studio in Buford His wife does the tinting They have two children Brenda 14 and Charles 12 He is shown above in his dark room the Christmas trade To save expenses members of the Womens Federation de cided to paste the record covers by hand The label bears the name of the Savan nah Occupational Training Center Sponsors of the project hope there will be a tremendous demand for the Christmas record and sheet music Every sale will mean money for the operation of the Center a project that will provide better services for Georgias mentally retarded youth and adultsRehabilitation of Mentally Retarded By Dr Norman B Pursley Superintendent Georgia Training School for Mental Defectives Excerpts from address at VR Divisions staff training conference The magnitude of the problem of men tal retardation is very great indeed Three percent is the most commonly ac cepted figure for the overall prevalence and this figure is intended to include only those who are truly retarded in terms of their inherent capabilities and to exclude the very large group of per sons who appear to be retarded because of environmental or emotional factors but whose potential capabilities are ac tually within the normal range This figure is equivalent to five mil lion people in the United States alone Only about 150000 or 3 percent of the total are in institutions or training schools for the mentally retarded It is of course important to point out that a higher proportion of the severely re tarded are institutionalized and by the same token a smaller proportion of the mildly retarded are receiving such care The population of Georgia is around 4 million at a conservative estimate If the 3 percent figure is approximately correct this would mean that we would have 120000 individuals who fall in the category of mental deficiency Of this number 6000 would be idiots or severely retarded 24000 would be imbeciles or moderately retarded and 90000 would be morons or mildly retarded There are approximately 1340 chil dren and adults at the Georgia Training School for Mental Defectives and ap proximately 2000 adults at the Milledge ville Hospital with a diagnosis of mental deficiency with psychosis This means that the vast majority of mentally defective people must be as similated into our society in one man ner or another Of this group many will make some sort of adjustment by them selves and not coming to some agencys attention will not be labeled as mentally retarded These will be for the most part people whose adjustment includes regular work of some sort Those who are not able to make this adjustment through the efforts of them selves and their families will be in con tact with the various public agencies A substantial number should be expected to apply for Vocational Rehabilitation services I am sure that in the past Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors have had many cases successfully rehabilitated which in volved mentally retarded people but which were tabulated and generally re garded as not being mentally retarded because they were workers with some other presenting complaint generally a physical handicap People who are men tally retarded have twice as many physi cal handicaps as people in the mentally normal population Counselors who deal with mentally retarded clients will most frequently have to be concerned also with orthopedic visual and other physical problems The mentally retarded as a group are more like others than they are unlike them Also they differ from each other in intelligence physical characteristics and personality as much as you and I do Mental retardation is a matter of degree There is a great deal of difference be tween a 60 IQ and an 80 There is also a lot of difference between a boy who tests at 70 and is shy retiring and de pendent and a boy who tests at 70 and is aggressive confident and selfreliant There is a big difference between the girl with an IQ of 85 who is trying to go to college and the girl with an IQ of 85 who is cleaning chickens in a poultry plant Now the question arises What are we going to do in regard to prevention treatment training or education and Vocational Rehabilitation It is absolutely essential that more must be done in regard to prevention treatment and training On the question of prevention we must depend on the research scientists both medical and non medical to guide us and give us some thing to work on On the problem of treatment from a medical standpoint this will have to be left up to the medical and psychological professions and their various disciplines Training we must leave up to the educators This brings us to Vocational Rehabili tion which might better be termed for this group vocational habilitation since most of them will not be regain ing a vocational adjustment but mak ing an initial one In this process of assisting retarded people in becoming productive workers the Counselor must deal in some manner or other with the deficits which remain after these other various disciplines of preventive and clinical medicine educa tion etc have done their best It is to tally unrealistic to expect Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors to attempt to rehabilitate and place in employment the mentally retarded individual whose fam ily community and school have not done their part in preparing this person as a candidate for employment Work in this country generally re quires that an individual have a skill or service to offer that this skill or service be marketable and that he be well enough attuned to his surroundings so that he can consistently utilize these assets We have said that we are concerned with developing a person to his fullest extent so that he can work and get along in his environment How far we have to go is dependent on two things 1 the individual and 2 his environment There are boys and girls at Gracewood who can work and get along in that en vironment It is a protective largely noncompetitive rather tightly controlled situation I am sure that all of you know people who can get along in mili tary service but might not on the out side or people who hold jobs in family businesses which they could not hold competitively This would seem to bring us to two points 1 We can work at developing the individual toward fitting into a situa tion 2 We can to some extent ma nipulate or modify an environmental sit uation to fit the individual We need a thorough and adequate diagnostic evaluation of the individual and a thorough evaluation of the envir onmental situation or situations in which he will find himself very frequently The most influential features of an environmental situation are the other people who are there be they coworkers bosses or family members The mentally retarded individual may be able to get along with his family situation and he may be unable to get along without his family The attitude of a person toward his family and other people around him generally is more important than the physical tangible situation At Gracewood we have a large num ber of pupils for whom there is no other adequate situation available There are presumably many who could given ade quate family situations with the protec tion training instruction and assistance in development that are necessary sur vive quite handily in the outside world These situations are not available We try to offer educational and voca tional advantages to the best of our ability Last year we discharged ap proximately 50 mentally retarded indi viduals of all ages Most all of these children and adults were in the mildly retarded group The children who are more severely retarded continue to stay at the institu tion therefore we have a long waiting list Although we are not able to re habilitate these severely retarded chil dren and adults at Gracewood we do feel that we are contributing something to rehabilitation in general since we re lieve the parents of the difficult prob lem with which they cannot cope there by freeing them of the problem so that they and other members of the family group are able to be more productive and contributing members to our society Architect Named Leon Chatelain Jr Washington D C one of the nations most prominent architects has been appointed chairman of the American Standards Association Sectional Committee on facilities in pub lic buildings for persons with physical handicaps The appointment was announced joint ly by the Presidents Committee on Em ployment of the Physically Handicapped and the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults cosponsors of the project Under the supervision of the American Standards Association the project is de signed to plan building adaptations which will make public offices schools churches business offices and other buildings used by the public accessible to physically handicapped people Mr Chatelain is a Fellow and Past President of the American Institute of Architects Sixteenyearold John H Austin Jr center above who has only about one percent vision is well on his way in an egg production proj ect established with Vocational Rehabilitation aid on his fathers place near Pooler Shown with him are at left Edward H Harmond County Agent of Chatham County and Charlie Parker Vocational Re habilitation Counselor John completed the sixth grade at a local school and then entered the Georgia Academy for the Blind at Macon He won a 4H Club award for achieve ment with his poultry project The picture at right above shows John and the County Agent inspecting the flock of layers John has a steady and depend able outlet for eggs at a Savannah Hospital His father drives a school bus The pictures at right show the contrast between the old type of wooden leg and the new pros thesis Will Morgan 61 a saw mill worker at Helena lost his leg several years ago He seemed satisfied with his peg until the mill closed and he couldnt get another job Through Vocational Rehabilitation services he was aided in getting a modern artificial limb and training in the use of the prosthesis Will has been working temporarily in the ice business and other jobs until a permanent place can be found for him The pictures were made at an Albany amputee clinic where Morgan was trained in the use of the limb Is there a job opportunity for a qualified handicapped person in your business If s iorm and mail to us A representative will call on you There is no obligation whatever Name Street Business City VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 GeorgiaDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 icition A U n i v a r s ftthenc Division of Georsl9 3 r g i a Libraries In four years James C Garrett 56 who has only a little vision in one eye has built up a rather substantial business selling fish bait and fishing tackle at 3558 Moreland avenue near Conley His store faces the highway not far from his home He started the business with Vocational Rehabilitation aid in a small frame building In the past year or two he built an addition doubling the size of his floor space Live minnows are kept in four concrete tanks The water supply is pumped from a spring on his property Garrett is shown at left below dipping minnows The picture at right shows part of his tackle display O f ckabtlltatiotv Mws S UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA MAR 7 60 iMRARf 5WL WINSTON 0wms ml EM CAVAll J i Here is a view of the vending stand in the plant of the McDon ough Power Equipment Inc Mc Donough manufacturers of power lawn mowers and smallscale model automobiles The operator at left above is Sarah Goss who attend ed the Georgia Academy for the Blind and had some work experi ence before being placed in this stand which is operated by Voca tional Rehabilitation and the Geor gia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc Shown with her are three employees Frances Up church H M Simpson and Annie Ruth Patterson The unit is equip ped with tables A veteran employee of the Mc Donough Power Equipment Inc is Earnest Ricks at left in center panel who uses a prosthesis in operating a drill press Ricks lost his right arm several years ago when it was crushed beneath a section of pipe while he was drill ing a well after work hours in the McDonough plant He says he thought he would never be able to work again Vocational Rehabilita tion provided counseling service and guidance in getting training in the use of the artificial limb Fiftyyearold Roy Watson Sr of Ashburn at right in center panel is shown receiving training in the use of an artificial arm at the Albany Amputee Clinic With him is Miss Rosemary Feese Oc cupational Therapist A logger Watson lost his arm in a gunshot accident in 1958 The clinic is sponsored by the Easter Seal So ciety A heart condition forced thirtytwoyear old William L Williford right in lower panel to give up his welding job in Augusta A high school graduate he had mechanical aptitude Under the guidance of a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Williford decided to prepare for a new vocation He was enrolled at Southern Technical Institute Chamblee in mechanical technology He is shown here in the machine sketching class with E J Muller instructor in that department Williford is married and the father of two children Hire the HandicappedArm Amputee Repairs RadioTV For ten years Oliver D Keys who lost his left hand in a corn picking ma chine accident has been a successful radioTV repairman in Sears Macon store Soon after the accident he was aided by Vocational Rehabilitation in obtain ing an artificial arm and in training in a new vocation Keys case history was featured in the November issue of the Sears Dixie land News published monthly for some 40000 employees in the Southern region The story said a hook device oper ated by a system of cables connected with other parts of his body enables him to manipulate the intricate insides of a radio or TV with his artificial hand Keys was cited by both Macon Sears and the Georgia State Employment Serv ice as an outstanding worker among the physically handicapped during the annual HiretheHandicapped Week of October 5 RA Staub of Atlanta in Sears per sonnel department said the company has long had an interest in employing qualified handicapped workers He said Sears keeps informed of new promotional and educational ideas and uptodate information concerning latest developments in the fields of re habilitation and the placement of dis abled workers Jobs most frequently given to quali fied handicapped workers were listed as telephone solicitors tailors clerks watch repairmen switchboard operators and sales people Staub said We feel that capability not disabilityshould be considered All that handicapped people want is an equal opportunity to do a job they are capable of doing Each Sears store is furnished with a booklet Program for the Employment of Physically Handicapped which ex plains 1 why Sears should employ the Mabllltatioii Mws handicapped 2 industrys experience with the handicapped 3 Sears gen eral policy with regard to employment of the physically handicapped and 4 some answers and questions regarding the physically handicapped employees New Prizes for Essay Winners Firstprize winners in each state tak ing part in the annual high school essay contest sponsored by the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Physi cally Handicapped this year will be awarded an expensepaid trip to Wash ington Heretofore only those students who won places in the National contest have been awarded trips to the National Capi tal in addition to prizemoney The new award announced by the Presidents Committee will be made by the AFLCIO State leaders of the labor organization meeting in Washington acted on the recommendation of George Meany AFLCIO president and Gordon M Freeman president of the Interna tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work ers and Vice Chairman of the Presidents Committee Firstplace winner in the Georgia con test which closes March 1 will receive 100 and a certificate from the Presi dents Committee The Georgia prizes amounting to 200 are provided annually by the Associated Industries of Georgia Eleventh and 12th grade students in public private and parochial schools in 44 states took part in the contest last year Commenting on the new award Gen Melvin J Maas Chairman of the Presi dents Committee said The generous act by the AFLCIO in providing trans portation and living costs to Washing ton for the Presidents Committee an nual meeting for the first prize winners in each state participating in the na tional essay contest will give new and increased incentive to 11th and 12th grade students all over the country Heres a view of the vending stand opened recently in the Swains boro Sportswear Company plant Swainsboro by Vocational Rehabili tation and the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc The operator at right is Mrs Evelyn Wiley who was promoted to this unit from a smaller stand in a furniture factory With her is Shirley Slater assistant operator A green color scheme is carried out in the attractive fixtures The vending stand chain now provides em ployment for more than 80 visuallyhandicapped men and women Hire the HandicappedIt Pays OKc OeonrcivooooXotvoiV ehabilitatioa Afews Vol 10 NovDec 1959 No 4 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 6 1509 Americus S Ga Vocational School Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville 126 N Main St LEnox 47201 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey Hospital Rome Phone 7773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome 314 West Building Phone 8438 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone Fairfax 21904 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 Brunswick Way Building Phone AM 56541 Buy Easter Seals The 1960 annual Easter Seal campaign sponsored by the Georgia Society for Crippled Children and Adults Inc opens March 17 and continues through Easter Sunday April 17 State Chairman Ben S Gilmer of At lanta President of Southern Bell Tele phone Co says Easter is still weeks away but going into the mails are 1960 Easter Seals We hope you will watch for them They are messages of hope for crippled children and adults in all cities in Georgia and in the nation The seals in a real sense are personal Easter greetings awaiting responses that require understanding and a measure of sacrifice Through it all the Georgia Society for Crippled Children and Adults carries out its program of services for hundreds of physically handicapped Georgians each year The campaign is indeed a worthy one Through the spiritual and material giving it entails it is entirely in keeping with the true significance of the Easter season The Georgia Society sponsors treatment centers in Atlanta Albany and Augusta and treatment programs in many other communities The services include physical and occupational therapies prevoca tional testing home treatment recreational programs special edu cation and scholarships for professional personnel in treatment of specific disabilities Reports show 250 children and 467 adults were treated last year under the Societys program The Georgia Society and the Vocational Rehabilitation Division work together in providing services to adults in need of rehabilita tion and employment Grants for Projects Federal grants totaling 2747995 to pay part of the cost of 104 research and demonstration projects in 30 states and the Dis trict of Columbia were announced recently by Miss Mary E Switzer Director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Washington Among the projects are 17 selected demonstrations designed to make practical use of knowledge gained through the research pro gram started six years ago Each of these is based on a prototype for the development of improved techniques of services to selected categories of disabled people Seven of the demonstration projects are concerned with the estab lishment of occupational training centers for the mentally retarded Three are for the establishment of optical aids clinic for persons with low visual acuity or currently classified as blind in order to increase their opportunities for employment Research and demonstration grants are made to private nonprofit groups State Rehabilitation agencies and other public organiza tions The awards are in support of activities to increase knowledge and improve methods in the rehabilitation of physically or mentally handicapped individuals Several projects in these fields are operating in GeorgiaMakes Record in Collei It takes more than a physical handi cap to stop a person determined to get ahead A handsome 22yearold Senior at Emory University is proof of that He is Nat H Long who has had hand and speech impairments since infancy from cerebral palsy Through training and determination he has just about overcome the speech defects A son of Dr and Mrs Nat G Long young Nat enrolled at Emory Univer sity under a Vocational Rehabilitation scholarship providing for tuition Dr Long currently is pastor of Druid Hills Methodist Church Young Nat is president of the Stu dent Senate president of the Youth Division of the campus church and on the official board at Glenn Memorial Church He holds membership in the Omi Crom Delta Kappa national honorary leader ship society on the student advisory committee the Student Development Committee and others During his Freshman year he was chosen Delta Tau Delta representative on the Student Council The only difficulty I have is in tak ing notes he said It takes me about two and a half hours to do what some body else might do in one hour At times other students lend me their notes I take oral examinations The faculty has been wonderful to me in making these allowances he said Despite these disadvantages his grades have been C or better through out his college career Nat is enrolled in the College of Arts and Science majoring in history Upon graduation he expects to enter the school on Theology with a view to fol lowing in the footsteps of his father in the pastorial ministry He says he has Nat Long done some preaching during summer vacations I feel like I would be selling the world short if I didnt take advantage f TM Mrv1 Helping the mentally retarded become a part of community life was the topic of discussions by this group at the annual conference of the Georgia Rehabilitation Association in Atlanta on December 11 From left Miss Jetta Dowis teacher of Exceptional children at Roswell Elementary school who discussed evaluation training and education of the mentally retarded in Georgias school system Dr Ignacy Goldberg Director of Mental Retardation project Teachers College Columbia University New York who discussed the prob lems of mental retardation from a national viewpoint and Mrs George D Stewart of Atlanta Secretary of the Georgia Association of Retarded Children who discussed the work of the association At right Dr Norman Pursley Superintendent Georgia School for Mental Defectives Gracewood He spoke on helping the mentally retarded become a part of community life of the opportunities I have had he said Nat attended Garden Hills Elemen tary School North Fulton High School and the famous Webb School at Bell Buckle Tenn before entering Emory University His younger brother James T Long 20 is a Sophomore at Yale He has a sister Mrs E 0 Kellum Conference on Aging A regional conference on Positive Health and Life Fulfillment for the Aging will be held in Atlanta March 78 according to an announcement by the American Medical Associations Com mittee on Aging The meeting is being held in coopera tion with medical societies in Georgia Alabama Florida North and South Carolina and Tennessee Representatives of state and com munity groups interested in the subject have been invited to attend the confer ence The purpose it is pointed out is to explore opportunities for positive health and meaningful living among older people through exercise of indi vidual group and community initiative Vocational Rehabilitation agencies are more and more reaching the older age disabled persons who may be returned to employment through one or more of their servicesVice Admiral Ross T Mclntire MC USN Ret personal physician to the late President Franklin D Roossvelt and first Chairman of the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Physi cally Handicapped died suddenly in Chicago on December 8 He was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery following Methodist services in the Fort Meyer Chapel At the time of his death Admiral Mclntire was Executive Director of the International College of Surgeons with headquarters in Chicago He was a frequent visitor to Georgia with President Roosevelt and later as Chairman of the Presidents Committee and as Director of the College of Sur geons His many years of service to the Na tion brought tributes from associates on the Presidents Committee and others Major General Melvin J Maas USMCR Ret who succeeded Dr Mc lntire as Chairman of the committee said Ross Mclntire was the bone and sinew of the Presidents Committee from its beginning In his quiet but forceful way he engineered the foundations of the program that today has captured the imagination of millions He was not only a great Navy Surgeon General and a great leader of the American Red Cross Blood Program but he was a great American and an inspiration to all privi leged to work with him Robert Ramspeck former Congress man from Georgias Fifth District and a former Vice Chairman of the Presi dents Committee said During one early period when Dr Mclntire was Chairman of the Presi dents Committee it was my privilege to work very closely with him after he had named me as Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee I came to know him and appreciate his deep interest and feeling for the prob lems of the handicapped and to appre ciate how much of his time talents and energy he put into the program Born in Salem Oregon in 1889 Dr Mclntire received his medical degree from Williamette University Medical School now the University of Oregon in 1912 He was commissioned an As sistant Surgeon in 1917 and became chief of the Navys Bureau of Medicine and Surgery with rank of Rear Ad miral in 1938 He was made a Vice Admiral in 1944 two years before his retirement Many of todays modern miracles of rehabilitation were first perfected during World War II by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and todays Na tional Naval Medical Center at Bethesda Admiral Mclntire Md is in many ways a lasting monu ment to Admiral Mclntire who con vinced both the President and Congress of the Nations need for such an estab lishment Rehabilitation Story Wins Award Miss Lillian Barker is shown here with Annette Dionne shortly before the quints marriage to Germain Allard of Montreal An article by Miss Lillian Barker on Georgias Vocational Rehabilitation pro gram which appeared in the August September issue of Georgia Magazine has been awarded first place in the Pen Womens biennial contest for printed feature stories contributing to public enlightenment Announcement of the award was made by Miss Frances Vejtasa National Chairman of Editors the National Lea gue of American Pen Women Inc The Atlanta author is biographer of the Dionne Quints and a member of the Atlanta Branch of the National League In her prizewinning article Miss Bar ker showed with facts and figures how Georgia leads the Nation in relation to population in the number of disabled persons rehabilitated into employment The announcement of the award said The judges pronounced the contest most difficult but fascinating The crosssec tion of the entries was impressive coming from Maine to California and from Florida to Washington State All topics varied Second prizewinner in the contest was Blanche Fearington DeLand Fla for her feature Seeing Hands introduc ing the Daytona Museum of Art for the Blind published in Florida Illustrated Aileen Mallory Topeka Kan Asso ciated Editor of Cappers Farmer re ceived honorable mention for her article The Medicine Man is Back which ap peared in that magazine Awards in this and other categories of writing will be presented to the win ners at the NLAPW Biennial Conven tion in Washington April 26Willie Mae Moss who has an impaired leg resulting from a gun shot wound is being aided by Vo cational Rehabilitation in college training A graduate of David T Howard High School in Atlanta she had some work at Payne Col lege Augusta Now she is en rolled at Clarke College in Atlanta preparatory to becoming a social science teacher She has two chil dren She is shown seated at left above in the laboratory with Dr William Banks Professor of Bi ology At right above she is shown with Mrs Doris C Ford Assistant Dean of Women She is making an outstanding scholastic record at the college Valdostas Willie Bess in center panel is shown at the Albany Am putee Clinic receiving training in the use of a modern prosthesis A pulp wood worker and truck driver Bess lost his arm as the result of a gunshot accident while on a hunting trip Vocational Rehabilita tion aided him in obtaining the artificial limb and training in the use of it He is the father of five children all under 14 years of age He is shown using the prosthesis on the work board at the clinic which is sponsored by the Easter Seal Society Bess has gone back to his former occupation driving trucks and tractors Twentythreeyearold Donius Williams right Route 1 Madison a dairy farm worker was severely burned on his body and legs in an explosion on December 15 1958 when he tried to rekindle a fire with fuel oil He received emergency treatment at a Greensboro hospital Vocational Rehabilitation aided him in getting plastic sur gery operations and physical therapy He is shown with Fannie Dix at her nursing home in Atlanta Williams has a wife and two yearold son who are living with his parents until he is able to return to workDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aqulaltfona Division University of Georgia Libraries A then 3eorta ABILITY COUNTS sMmismimMismsAmB a cKabllltatioiv Mws 3 IS UNIVERSITY Of GEORGIA HELP FOR THE HANDICAPPED IN PRISON see story on page 3AboveMrs Henrietta Salter of Al bany 1S shown demonstrating the use of an abovetheknee suction socket artifi cial limb at the Easter Seal Society am putee clinic Shown with her is Dr John Meier Mrs Salter lost her leg after injuries sustained in an automobile accident She had surgery on the stump before fitting with the prosthesis LeftJohn D Free of Talmo double amputee is shown learning to use his artificial limbs on stairs The picture was made at an Atlanta amputee clinic Free lost h legs several years ago in an acci dent He is employed as a butcher aziine How 1100 mentally retarded young adults were able to earn more than 1800000 in their first year after reha bhtaton is told in a feature article in the first issue of Rehabilitation Record a new 40page bimonthly periodical pre pared by the Office of Vocational Reha bilitation and released today The new publication will review activi ties of the FederalState program of vo cational rehabilitation with special em phasis on research developments sup ported by OVR Eleven articles covering medical as pects training of rehabilitation workers blindness older workers State opera tions and research are included in the publication In Training Mentally Retarded for Employment Fred A Schumacher and James C Townsell of the OVR describe the great strides made in rehabilitating mentally retarded youths in recent years Twentyone special demonstration work shops are analyzed together with other FederalState and private activities in the rehabilitation of mentally retarded young adults The wide range of skilled semiskilled and unskilled occupations held by these young people whose condi tions were once regarded as all but hope less also are reported Contributors to the first issue include Arthur S Flemming Secretary of Health Education and Welfare Mary E Switzer Director Office of Voca tional Rehabilitation Mrs Emiley Lam born of OVR Reverend Thomas J Car roll Director Catholic Guild for the Blind and Dr Frank H Krusen founder of the Mayo Clinics Department of Phys ic nMne and Special Assistant to the OVR Director Joins OVR Staff Appointment of Morton A Seidenfeld as Assistant Chief of the Office of Voca tional Rehabilitations Division of Re search Grants and Demonstrations has been announced by Miss Mary Switzer OVR Director For the past 14 years Mr Seidenfeld has been Chief of Psychological Services Dvision of the National Foundation for infantile paralysis During World War II he was Chief Clinical Psychologist in the Neuropsychiatric Consultants Divi sion for the Surgeon General of the Army He held the rank of lieutenant colonel on his discharge from the service in 1945 He is a Fellow or member of 17 professional organizationsTheres Hope for Handicapped Convicts Too by Michael J Karabelas Editor of The Atlantian inmate magazine In Georgia and around the nation Vo cational Rehabilitation Agencies are co operating with Federal and state correc tional institutions in a unique experi ment to rehabilitate the physically handi capped convicted criminal by correcting his handicap and converting him into skilled craftsman so that upon release from prison he may become a productive and respected member of his community The following actual case histories were taken from the files of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiarys Vocational Coun selor Only the names have been changed to protect the individuals involved from any possible embarrassment inconveni ence or hardship John was a repulsive figure at first sight where his nose should have been there was nothing but a mass of scarred tissue which spread over his features in a grotesque caricature of what a horror face would look like A convicted crimi nal with a history of frequent social offenses there was considerable specu lation when he left prison that he would not be on the streets for any extended period of time The scoffers were mistaken John was met by a representative of Georgias Vo cational Rehabilitation Division who helped him get a job in a craftsmans trade Today John has been out almost two years he has married and has earned the respect of his community John was a convicted embezzler who had served a fiveyear sentence in At lantas Federal Penitentiary When he entered Atlanta John was a bitter hostile man possessing a huge in feriority complex and a host of emotional problems which had driven him into alco holism and then into crime The eldest son born to a middleclass lowincome American family John knew very little parental love and the benefits of a happy home life When he was seven years old his parents separated and when his mother remarried John lived with them At five years of age John had fallen onto some jagged glass and rocks which completely destroyed the bridge of his nose and split open a greater part of the facial tissue He was an exceptionally bright child with an IQ of 121 however he was forced to quit school after the ninth grade to help support the family when his stepfather fell seriously ill His childhood was not a happy or nor mal one since boys and girls avoided his company due to his unpleasing and some what hideous countenance He became a loner who frequented those establish ments with poor reputations he sought companionship and excitement When 23 years of age he met and mar ried a girl of his own age only to have the marriage end in divorce less than a year later With this further rejection John drifted more and more into blandish ments of alcoholism and petty thievery On one occasion early 1949 an at tempt was made to graft a piece of his rib bone to the destroyed bridge of his nose The operation was moderately suc cessful yet there was no followup until many years later John was still judged as unpleasing in appearance by those whom he met When John entered Atlanta Prison and appeared before the Classification Com mittee a sixman board responsible MabtlLtattoivkAWs Scene in hospital Welding school Instructor J L Jar rett left for outlining individual programs he was immediately referred to the Voca tional Counselor under whose care and guidance he would receive benefits of a special program provided especially for handicapped convicts In cooperation with the Vocational Counselor of Georgias Vocational Reha bilitation Division John was immediately scheduled for corrective surgery This programmed undertaking is financed jointly by Vocational Rehabilitation and the prison A professional plastic sur geon was retained to operate on Johns marred features In three short months Johns facial features were back to normal with only a slight almost indiscernible scar re maining as a reminder of the once hor ribly scarred face Probably equally im portant to the observant Vocational Counselor was the immediate lessening of Johns inferiority complex which solved many of his emotional problems Joseph H Scarbrough Vocational Re habilitation Counselor center and George Graf Vocational Counselor in terview amputee inmate As an adjunct to the operation a hernia rupture was corrected at the same time The twoman counseling team then entered John in a local Trade Training Program in eighteen months he was graduated a skilled craftsman in the Sheet Metal trade When he was paroled the Vocational Rehabilitation Division of Georgia got him a job as a Sheet Metal worker with a starting wage of 150 an hour They also provided the funds which purchased Johns craftsmans tools Today John has continued to improve his status in the community and in the shop He has remarried owns his own home and he is the father of a oneyear old son Tom went to prison A firsttime loser with only minor previous involvements with the law he was openly hostile and Continued on Page 6 Sheet metal class R J Richards In structorri Kabilitation Mws e State Superintendent of School Vol 10 JanFeb 1960 No 5 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell mate Superintendent of Schools DR A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 6 1509 Americus S Ga Vocational School Phone 5148 Bainbridge 218 Wegt g Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta jog University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross 706 j Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St N W Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave S W MU 86525 Newnan 44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville 126 N Main St LEnox 47201 10 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Athens Macon Battey Hospital Rome Phone 7773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome 314 West Building Phone 8438 MACON DISTRICT 406 Bankers Insurance Bide Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone Fairfax 21904 DUbHn t05 N Frankli St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 Brunswick w m a Wav Building Phone AM 56541 ye7sCaSgrCe ltS inC6Pti0n nearlyforty Thats why it was called Voca deTsltrPeRabilati0n and Placed uS dei State Boards for Vocational Edu cation in most states In a few states it is under other agencies fm fanl disabled People who apply for assistance were unskilled workers before being stricken by cripplings eases or injured in accidents ofhers have physical limitations which make it necessary for them to change Their occupations uge wien tvoefru the two state operated Americus t t CIarkevine anl Americuswere opened Georgias Tompelled1 T Twas compelled to send clients to trarle schools m other states for traLimr in mechanical skills The only Sterna tive was to place them in busmess establishments for onthejob traXg had about 200 trainees enrolled at aTwf fVhe Pivision has Others have been trained in local vocatinV I e two schools cities There is seldom any difficu tv innKfA0lS m the Prinpal m industries and service trades Pacing these men and women new ffIT locations for trade training in skills pppIhiL i aduIts They will offer nities and 1 dSwStSSiS8 in he ties IIve in trainees from the surrounding coun ZtJ that the through people who are expert2 ot be maintained except skills and who have top quahtyeducation f11 and technical lems that confront us education for dealing with the prob ems of Aged Studied and facilities for ernors Commission on Aging byacJraS be made to the Gov Conference in Athens next June committee m advance of the State TSSSSiS SeVeral pointed by D aged m various areas dy the services and needs of the fall will SttfSoSSh by GVenor Ernest Vandiver last Conference on Afj to the Whitelious Similar studies are being made in all statesRepairs Radios from Wheelchair Reprint from Douglas Enterprise At Woods Radio and TV Repair Shop there is an outstanding example of what can be accomplished when an individual who has a severe physical impairment develops a skill and an understanding employer is willing to hire that person Clyde W Davis of Douglas became afflicted with arthritis when he was twelve years old Eventually this crip pling disease made it necessary for him to stop school As soon as he was able he returned to high school for more edu cation but this time he went in a wheel chair to which he has been confined ever since He stopped school when his parents left Nicholls but never did he give up the idea for more education for he rea lized that he must learn something with his arms and hands if he were to taste success His faith in himself and his ability were the things that impressed the Vocational Rehabilitation represen tatives who worked with him He had worked on radios for several years and expressed an interest in learn ing how to repair radios and TV It was recognized that difficulties could be en countered in his getting a job however it was felt if he had sufficient ability the fact that he did his work from a wheel chair would be of little importance He was therefore provided training in Radio and TV Repair at the North Georgia Trade and Vocational School in Clarkesville and graduated in June Mr Gene and Charlie Wood had known Clyde before he went to school and when he returned he spent a good bit of time with them in their shop During this time they observed the kind of work he could do and offered him employment with them Mrs Jane Connell Vocational Reha bilitation Counselor who has worked with Mr Davis emphasizes that success Clyde Davis has been accomplished primarily because of this young mans determination to be a selfsupporting contributing member of society He is proving the statement Its Abilitynot Disability that counts SIS Stressing the voluntary nature of the hirethehandicapped program in the United States Earl Bunting former President of the National Association of Manufacturers and a Vice Chairman of the Presidents Committee on Employ ment of the Physically Handicapped urged increased consideration of the abil ities of physically impaired workers in an address recently before the National Industrial Council New York City We must have job opportunities for our rehabilitated handicapped workers Mr Bunting said and we want them to open up the voluntary waythrough the private initiative of the American employer We ask company presidents personnel directors plant managers and foremen to give equal employment op portunity to the physically handicapped workers in their communities Many get this opportunity but many more do not We urge those employers who are not giving the handicapped job opportunities to pause and question the basic assump tions on which they have been operating to review their requirements in hir ing work assignments and promotion to change their concepts and adopt real istic hiring practices that permit handi capped workers to qualify for available jobs on the basis of their ability to do these jobs The speaker pointed out that the Presi dents Committee at no time sponsors or opposes any legislation However he said the committee urges workmens compensation officials to speed up re ferrals of injured workmen to rehabili tation agencies and tries to encourage physicians who make preemployment physical examinations to look at the whole man rather than only at his dis ability We urge employers Mr Bunting said to adopt nondiscriminatory em ployment policiesthe kind that accept the principle that an individuals ability and not his disability should be the first consideration in determining his capacity for employment Workmens compensation laws he said must give the employer parity of risk if he employs handicapped workers He must not be left open to unfair lia bility Mr Bunting struck a heartening note when he said It is encouraging to me to know that the trend is toward this kind of protection for both the worker and the employer who gives him a job Connecticut recently improved its work mens compensation law and removed restrictions on the use of the second injury fund Now the fund may be used in cases where there is an increase in disability Before use of the fund was limited to cases of total disability and rarely used The Presidents Committee does not endorse recommend or oppose any par ticular type of legislations We believe that this is solely the prerogative of the States and Committeeaffiliated organ izations But you gentlemen in this room have spent many yearsand perhaps literally millions of hours of time wres tling with these problems It is my opin ion that some more hard work will enable you to find ways and means of meeting the situationsTheres Hope Continued from Page 3 bitter towards the world in general and his jailers in particular At first glance there was little indication that he would adopt any personal rehabilitation while in prison It was further evident that Tom pitied and felt sorry for himself Tom a convicted car thief was serv ing a twoyear sentence in Atlantas Fed eral Prison Born to respected middleclass low income American parents and the oldest of four boys Tom enjoyed a normal healthy childhood until the age of five when he was suddenly stricken with an attack of poliomyelitis which left his right leg permanently crippled Early efforts to relieve this condition through use of corrective surgery failed An ex ceptionally bright child IQ 121 Tom still managed to lead a relatively normal childhood completing 11 grades of for mal schooling before he was forced to find work to supplement the familys low income No record exists of early involve ment with the law When he was in his early twenties Tom married and two children were born of the union which later ended in di vorce The failure of this marriage was due to a great part in Toms inability to adjust to his handicapped condition es pecially when upon his doctors advice the now withered and useless right leg was amputated immediately below the knee Toms emotional turbulence in creased until he sought relief in alcohol and later in the commission of antisocial acts Cut adrift from responsibility feeling sorry for himself Tom roamed the coun try picking up oddjobs as a radiator mechanic whenever and wherever he could At times when he wasnt working he liked to joyride to his next destina tion in some other persons car For this Tom received a twoyear prison sentence In Atlanta Prison Tom appeared be fore the Classification Committee the board whose responsibility it is to outline individual rehabilitation programs for prisoners during their terms of impris onment Because of his handicapped con dition he was referred to the prisons Vocational Counselor who works in close rapport with Georgias Vocational Reha bilitation Counselor and a special pro gram designed for the handicapped man was put into effect Immediately steps were taken to out fit Tom with an artificial limb largely through the efforts of Georgias Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and in co operation with Floridas Division of Vo cational Rehabilitation which provided the funds necessary to purchase the arti ficial device Florida was Toms home residence to which he would return upon release Simultaneously he was enrolled in the prisons Trade Training Program as a trainee in the Welding School a 12 month training course and became a skilled craftsman The Welding Course was specifically prescribed for Tom as it would complement his experience in radiatorrepair work Upon graduation from the Welding 1960 State Board of EducationFront row from left Mrs Bruce Schaefer Toccoa Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Chairman James S Peters Manchester Henry Stewart Sr Cedar town and Mrs Julius Y Talmadge Athens Back row from left Robert B Wright Jr Moultrie L E Sweat Blackshear Paul S Stone Waynesboro Francis Shurling Wrightsville John McDonough Atlanta and Clarke W Duncan Buena Vista Mr Stone succeeded the late Henry Blount of Waynesboro Mr Wright succeeded W T Boden hamer of Ty Ty Mr McDonough succeeded George P Whitman Jr of College Park Governor S Ernest Vandiver third from left presents a citation from the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped to Clifford M Clarke Jr for outstanding service in promoting the hirethehandicapped program Mr Clarke is Executive Vice President of the Associated Industries of Georgia and Chairman of the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped At left Elbert Forester Assistant Director Employment Security Ag ency State Department of Labor second from right William Allgood Public Relations Department of Labor and Bruce Hall Secretary of the Governors Committee Course Toms classroom and shop train ing were further augmented with prac tical application of these skills in main tenance work inside the prison commu nity Eighteen months after entering prison Tom was released on parole A repre sentative of Georgias Vocational Reha bilitation Division helped him secure a job in an automobile repair shop as a welderradiator mechanic Today Tom has been out almost four years and he has continued to make steady and satisfactory progress he has earned the respect of his employer his coworkers and his community Toms early critics were gladly mis taken Tom is another product of a unique experiment where correctional officials and Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies are cooperating in an effort to rehabili tate physically handicapped convicted criminals by correcting their handicaps and converting them into skilled craftsMagnolia Jones of Waynesboro para lyzed from the waist down is shown practicing getting in and out of a wheel chair at the University Hospital Augus ta where she received physical therapy through Vocational Rehabilitation serv ices Her exercises were under the super vision of Miss Jacquelyn Neihuss RPT shown at right Magnolia was disabled from a spinal injury resulting from an accidental gunshot wound Fulton County Welfare workers coop erate with Vocational Rehabilitation counselors in social and domestic prob lems arising in connection with rehabili tation services for disabled recipients of Aid to Dependent Children benefits Mrs Erdie W Chandler Public Wel fare worker assigned as a specialist with the Fulton CountyVocational Rehabili tation project is shown here in the apart ment of Willie Mae Moss a VR client at left Willie Mae who has an impaired leg resulting from a gunshot wound is being aided by Vocational Rehabilitation in college training at Clarke College At lanta ABILITY COUNTS Hire the Handicapped Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 AqaisiUons Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Georgia ABILITY COUNTS An occupational training center for mentally retarded chil dren and adults was dedicated on February 21 in Savannah The center was built on land donated by Chatham County Beta Sigma Phi Sorority raised funds for construction of the building Other community groups provided funds for the first years operation Jack Ahern center director presided over ceremonies participated in by rep resentatives of the Board of Education Vocational Rehabilitation Services the Georgia Association for Retarded Chil dren Savannah Womens Federation United Community Services and other agencies Among the platform guests were James S Peters of Manchester Chair man of the State Board of Education W A Crump of Atlanta Specialist for Mentally Retarded Vocational Rehabili tation Division and E K Bell Savannah District Supervisor DVR The facility offers a striking example of community leaders and agencies work ing together to provide better services for handicapped peopleProblems of Disabled Viewed Four hundred professional rehabilita ion workers and representatives of re nted agencies attended the Southeast ern Regional Conference of the National I shabilitation Association in Atlanta April 18 to 21 Expanding Horizons in Rehabilita tion was the theme of this years con ference There were general sessions sect nal meetings workshops and a business session of the regional organi i ition Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services pre sided at the first general session Lee Evans president of the Atlanta Board Aldermen extended official greetings Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent oi Schools welcomed the visitors The keynote address was delivered by Dr Judson Ward VicePresident and of Faculties Emory University The developments of the past 30 years excite one with the tremendous possibilities for human betterment he said In the light of history it is truly remarkable to view this great nation as it reaches the point where it can afford to indulge in the social benefits which the group is now furnishing to many individuals In ancient times the weak the aged the halt the blind and the lame were such an economic burden that they were outcasts There was neither religion nor time nor resources to be concerned about them In America today we keep millions of our young men from the productive channels of agriculture commerce and industry while we educate them We house and provide medical care for nu merous persons who because of all kinds of afflictions or handicaps can make no or certainly little contribution to the basic problem of providing food cloth ing shelter and military protection to the nation But even more significant than this we direct thousandsyea mil lionsof workers to work with these nonproductive persons They provide services of help and mercy It is significant that our nation is wealthy enough to pay these people and to do without their services in provid ing the basic services for national se curity But much more importantthis nation has the philosophyindeed the religionthat each human being is a child of God with the rights thereto appertaining and the religion that makes us care that makes our hearts go out to all he said Louis R Schubert OVR Regional Rep resentative presided at a session featur Dr A P Jarrell center State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services receives the Cummings Award from John S Prickett Jr Assistant Director and Regional Chairman at the Regional NRA Conference in Atlanta At leftDr H B Cummings for whom the award was named Gets Cunimings Award Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services has been cited by the National Rehabilitation Association for exceptional contribu tions in the rehabilitation of disabled persons At the Southeastern Regional Confer ence here in April Dr Jarrell was given the Cummings Award for 1960 the highest honor that may be bestowed upon a professional rehabilitation work er in this region The award was named for Dr H B Cummings a pioneer in vocational re habilitation services who served for many years as Regional Representative of the Office of Vocational Rehabilita tion in the Southeast Dr Cummings now retired is a consultant to OVR He lives in Denton Texas Dr Jarrell began his career in Voca tional Rehabilitation nearly 20 years ago as a Counselor in Central and South Georgia areas In 1944 he was ap pointed Assistant Director in charge of technical services He administered the physical restoration program including medical care and hospitalization In 1955 he was appointed State Director by the State Board of Education to succeed the late Dr Paul S Barrett Dr Jarrell also administers the two state schools for handicapped children the Georgia Academy for the Blind at Macon and the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Spring Under his administration as Director Georgia has led the nation every year in the number of disabled persons in proportion to population restored to jobs through rehabilitation services He serves on boards of several public and volunteer agencies interested in services to disabled children and adults ing an address by H B Cummings for merly Regional Representative now re tired but acting as a consultant to OVR Speaking on the Challenge of the Fu ture Dr Cummings pointed up the need for recruitment and training of more professional workers the development of more facilitiesrehabilitation centers schools hospitals and workshops and the encouragement of local community interest and responsibility Another general session dealt with mental health and emotional aspects of disability The speakers were Dr James F Garrett Assistant Director Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Washington and Dr William P Hurder Associate Director for Mental Health Southern Regional Education Board Atlanta The four sectional meetings were at tended by 1 OASI Disability Determi Continued on Page 5OKc GcovoOoooXorvo MabilitatioaVews Vol 10 MarApr 1960 No 6 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 6 1509 Americus S Ga Vocational School Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville 126 N Main St LEnox 47201 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey Hospital Rome Phone 7773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome 314 West Building Phone 8438 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone Fairfax 21904 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 Brunswick Way Building Phone AM 56541 Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Says A report from the U S Department of Labor on the Manpower Challenge of the 60s predicts the increase in the number of work ers in the labor force during this decade will be up from 645 million to 87 million in 1970 The biggest increase it says will occur in occupations requiring the most education and training Some reasons are 1 continuing shift from an agricultural to an industrial economy 2 rapid expansion in research and development activities and 3 growing need for educational and medical services Young workers will have to prepare them selves for a rapidly changing and more com plex world of work will need more educa tion and training with better guidance and counseling and will have to compete more keenly for better jobs An important source of manpower in the years to come will be the welltrained handi capped workers In this connection it is sig nificant that about 780 young personsmen and womenwho have physical limitations currently are enrolled in colleges under the sponsorship of our Vo cational Rehabilitation Services Under this phase of the rehabilitation program the applicant for assistance in college training must meet eligibility requirements as to handicaps and scholastic achievements Moreover he must have a definite vocational objective and maintain passing grades while in college The Vocational Rehabilitation Division this year as in recent years is sponsoring students in nearly every college in the state and some in other states Enrollments in some Georgia colleges according to the last reports were University of Georgia 100 Geor gia Tech 54 Emory University 35 Mercer 29 Georgia Teachers College 27 Young Harris 27 Valdosta State College 26 and Rein hardt College 12 For about eight years a Georgia philanthropist Scott Appleby of Washington has had a scholarship fund at Young Harris College for physically handicapped students Under the plan the Appleby Scholarship pays the students room board and other expenses which cannot be paid out of rehabilitation funds Many students who qualified for these scholarships at Young Harris have made outstand ing records in college A few years ago Mr Appleby established a similar scholarship fund at Reinhardt College Just recently he announced the addi tion of two other Georgia collegesLaGrange and Mercer Univer sityto the scholarship program Through the generosity of this distinguished Georgian more young men and young women handicapped physically and financially will have opportunities to get a college education and qualify for profes sional and technical careers in the years to come New Film Available The Biggest Bridge in Action a 16mm sound film that tells a dramatic story has been produced for the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped by Mutual of Omaha It shows how a mans handicap and a womans determination helped a town build a bridge over which the physically handicapped could cross to a useful productive future Prints are available for show ings before community groups and on TV For information write Modern Talking Pictures 3 East 54th Street New York CityColumbus Girl Wins Essay Contest Attractive Evelyn Coulter a junior at Baker High School Columbus has been awarded first place in the state essay contest sponsored annually by the Governors Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped and the Associated Industries of Georgia j Her essay on Jobs for the Handicap ped Passports to Dignity was entered in competition with othersAy juniors and seniors in high schools throughout the state She gets 100 provided by AlG a certificate from the Presidents Commit tee and an expensepaid trip to Wash ington for the annual meeting of the Presidents Committee The Washington trip offered all firstplace state winners this year is awarded by the APLCIO Miss Coulter the daughter of Mr and Mrs W P Coulter is in an accelerated English class at Baker She is a ma jorette member of the Teen Age Grand Jury chaplain of the TriHi Y and on the staff of the school year book Mrs Alvin Dennis the English teach er said Miss Coulter is a good thinker and knows how to organize her mate rial The winning essay in each state is entered in the national competition for cash prizes aggregating 2000 The other Georgia winners who also received certificates and cash awards were SecondEunice Hunter Archer High School Atlanta ThirdSunny Harris Pelham High School Pelham FourthDiane York Roosevelt High School Atlanta and FifthBarbara Problems of Disabled Continued from Page 3 nation Specialists 2 Representatives of agencies for the blind 3 Sheltered workshop staff members and 4 work ers interested in the use and interpre tation of medical information Carl Fox Executive Director of the Georgia Tuberculosis Association and President of the Georgia Rehabilitation Association presided over a workshop on state NRA Chapters with a panel discussion of objectives of state organi zations Dr Henry E Russell of Memphis Minister of the Second Presbyterian Church spoke at the annual banquet always a highlight of the regional con ferences He is a brother of Georgias Senior U S Senator Richard B Russell This was the third regional confer ence held in Georgia The first in 1948 Chambers LaGrange High School La Grange The Presidents Committee has an nounced the national winners as fol lows FirstGail Marie Chadwell Reno High School Reno Nevada Second twoway tie between Kay Clausing Whitmer High School Toledo Ohio and Cynthia Neild Pawtucket West High School Pawtucket R I FourthCraig Grant South High School Denver Colo and Fiftha twoway tie between San dra Jean Fairburn Hueytown High School Hueytown Ala and Kay Smith Woodrow Wilson High School Dallas Texas First prize in the national contest was 1000 and a trip to Washington The prizes will be distributed at the meeting of the Presidents Committee in May Mabilitatioiv Mws Chairman Clarke presents certifi cate and check to Miss Sunny Har ris of Pelham third prize winner in essay contest was in Atlanta the second in 1954 was in Savannah Next years meeting will be in Biloxi Miss Reports on InterAmerican Meeting Encouraging progress in the develop ment of new facilities and procedures for the rehabilitation of handicapped people was reported at the Fourth Inter American Conference on Rehabilitation by delegates from 21 countries says Joseph Hunt Assistant Director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in an article which appeared recently in America National Catholic Weekly Re view The conference held in San Juan was sponsored by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples and the U S Office of Vocational Rehabilita tion Miss Mary E Switzer OVR direc tor was designated by the first confer ence resolution as one of the outstand Miss Evelyn Coulter center re ceives certificate and check from Governor Ernest Vandiver At left Clifford M Clarke Jr Vice Presi dent of the Associated Industries of Georgia and Chairman of the Governors Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped Miss Coulter poses with her Eng lish Teacher Mrs Alice M Dennis ing international leaders in the rehabili tation of the handicapped The service needs of the disabled in Latin American countries are great but the money facilities and professional resources are not equal to the task said Mr Hunt This was recognized he said in the discussion of the central theme Those representing countries whose economic and professional resour ces are much less than others were urged to look up and not feel that any substan tial program is impossible for them The remarkable progress of the Puerto Rican program in the past ten years was citedGeorgia Counselor Gets Award A Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Mrs Jane Melton Connell of Waycross has been awarded the 1960 CaseoftheYear trophy for Coun selors serving sighted clients in the Southeastern region comprising six states The award was made at the Regional Conference of the National Rehabilita tion Association in Atlanta April 1821 For years the Vocational Rehabilita tion agencies in this region have been sponsoring two caseoftheyear con testsone for Counselors serving sight ed clients and the other for Counselors working with blind persons Counselors submit reports on cases they consider best illustrate rehabilitation techniques The cases are reviewed by a committee The judges decisions are based on the completeness of the information show ing professional competence on the part of the Counselor in serving the client The case submitted by Mrs Connell involved a woman who was paralyzed from the waist down and was restored to work in selfemployment in a telephone answering service in her home com munity The caseoftheyear award for Coun selors serving blind clients went to W M Wilson of Florence Alabama Mrs Jane Connell right of Waycross winner of the Caseofthe Year contest for Counselors serving sighted clients in Southeastern Region At left Counselor W M Wilson of Florence Ala who received the award for Counselors to the blind At center Nathan Nolan Vocational Rehabilitation District Director who was chairman of the contest committee Nathan Nolan District Supervisor with headquarters in Albany was Chair man of the awards committee Mrs Connell and Mr Wilson received watches ress in The states of the South are increas ing their investment in training profes sional workers in the field of mental health Dr William P Hurder of At lanta Associate Director for Mental Health Southern Regional Education Board told the rehabilitation workers attending the recent NRA Regional con ference In 1954 he said eight universities in the South were accredited to give the doctors degree in clinical psychology in 1959 there were twelve In 1954 no university gave the mas ters degree in psychiatric nursing in the South in 1959 there were three Psychiatry and social work training programs have also grown in the last five years There were eight social work schools in 1954 there were twelve in 1960 In 1954 there were 1211 psychia trists in the Southern region in 1959 this number had grown to 1812 and the rate of growth was greater than that for the nation as a whole Psychologists had grown from 2383 in 1954 to 2732 in 1959 but the rate of growth was less than that of the nation as a whole Although mental hospital populations have decreased the number of admis sions have increased in the last four years and the number of live discharges from public mental hospitals have in creased over the same period of time The increased rate of entering and leaving mental hospitals has created a demand for more professional services for the mentally ill in communities Few communities have not kept up with this demand Although there are increased number of psychiatric units in general medical surgical hospitals and increasing num bers of halfway houses and daycare hospitals for the mentally ill the num bers are not nearly sufficient In more and more of our states Vo cational Rehabilitation is being applied to the convalescent or discharged men tal hospital patient Rehabilitation pro grams for mental patients seen in the mental health clinics in communities also are growing in number G E Currie Gets Promotion Dr A P Jarrell State Director has announced the appointment of G E Currie of Savannah as Supervisor of Special Disability Groups with headquar ters in Atlanta Mr Currie succeeds John Forrest who was recently appointed Assistant Re gional Representative for rehabilitation facilities in the Southeastern region Mr Currie had been a Counselor in the Savannah area for many years He is Chairman of the Rehabilitation Coun seling Division of the National Rehabili tation Association for this region100th Vending Stand Opened The one hundredth vending stand for the blind opened by the Vocational Re habilitation Division and the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc was formally dedicated recently in Syl vania This unit of the statewide chain of business enterprises is located in the Sylvania Garment Company plant which employs about 250 persons It is oper ated by Howard Davis 39 who has only about ten percent vision A native of Screven County Davis attended the Georgia Academy for the Blind at Ma con and had little work experience be fore being trained and placed in this stand Like other vending stand units this one was designed especially to meet the requirements of the location It is a modern selfservice unit The fixtures are of stainless steel Davis dispenses soft drinks packaged foods confection and tobacco products The plant man agement installed tables for the use of employees during lunch periods and coffee breaks The vending stand program was in augurated about fifteen years ago to provide job opportunities for visually handicapped persons who otherwise might be dependent upon public welfare Stand No 1 was opened in the old Post office Building at Walton and Forsyth streets Atlanta under the management of Clyde Archer in 1945 Mr Archer has reached retirement age and draws So cial Security benefits but he still works parttime in the same location The second stand was opened in the Postoffice Building in LaGrange with Miss Pearl Dozier in charge She is still there The third unit was located in the DeKalb County Court House The first operator died several years ago but the business is still going with another manager Currently there are 65 units in opera tion employing approximately 90 blind persons Some which were opened in defense plants were discontinued when the facilities closed There are twentyeight stands in in dustrial plants nine in Postoffices eight in County Court Houses five in hos pitals and fifteen in other public build ings including the State Highway De partment Building the State Office Building and the State Agricultural De partment Building Dr A P Jarrell second from left State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services visits vending stand in Sylvania Garment Company plant Sylvania Shown from leftGeorge L Nunnally Swainsboro Assistant Supervisor of Business Enterprises Dr Jar rell C D Hollingsworth Editor SYLVANIA TELEPHONE Nor man Estroff manager of the garment plant William Estroff Presi dent and Howard Davis blind operator of the vending stand Scene in the Sylvania Garment Company plant vending stand during lunch period Part of the merchandise display showing modern stainless steel fix turesDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Hiaa Carroll Hart General Library Univ of Ga Athens Ga ABILITY COUNTS LeftRobert H Epps a native of Hancock County operates the modern vending stand in the Knox Corporation plant at Thomson Shown with him is Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services who recently visited the unit Epps has a congenital visual handicap The picture at right shows a section of the stainless steel fixtures ervabllLtatloiv Mws At the dedication of the Bobby Dodd Sheltered Workshop for retarded children Center Ben Fort son Secretary of State left to right F E Wynn District Supervisor Vocational Rehabilitation Serv ices J F Moore President Atlanta Chapter Retarded Children Coach Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech and Rev Newton Wise Chaplain Civitan International See Story on Page 3f Typical of the staffing of cases in workshops for mentally retarded persons is this scene in the Bobby Dodd center in Atlanta Members of the workshop staff and Vocational Rehabilitation counselors get to gether to evaluate clients work potential and problems From left Dr Terese Hite Assistant Director Miss Eleanor Deely Social Worker William Center Direc tor Wilson Harry Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor and F E Wynn Vocational Rehabilitation District Supervisor Center panelTrainee at right gets instructions in method of packaging detergent samples under super vision of Ernest Wofford Assistant Workshop Super visor left and William Center The work is being done under a contract with the manufacturer Left in lower panel Trainee operates a power sewing machine in making red danger flags used by truckers on overhanging loads and on construction jobs This type of training leads to jobs as power machine operator in industry Counselor Wilson Harry observes the work At right in lower panelTrainee spray paints soft drink crates Under a contract with the manu facturer broken crates are repair ed and painted Hire the HandicappedIts good business Although Georgias Vocational Reha bilitation Division has been working with mentally retarded persons since the pas sage of Public Law 113 in 1943 provision of services usually was based on some diagnosed physically disability Many individuals who received phy sical restoration artificial appliances training guidance and job placement had an underlying handicap of mental retardation Realizing that mental retardation may constitute a clients major vocational handicap regardless of physical dis ability the Division in 1958 undertook to provide specialized services for this group With financial assistance provided through an Office of Vocational Re habilitation grant a threeyear project was started The primary objects of the project were 1 the development of better techniques for evaluating the vo cational potential of mentally retarded persons 2 the development of facilities for training and job preparation and 3 the provision of necessary Vocational Rehabilitation services to a larger group of mentally retarded persons The special disability unit in the State office was designated to carry out the program John Forrest now Assistant Regional Representative of OVR was Supervisor of the unit He was succeeded by G E Currie a Savannah Counselor John McFarland was named Special ist for the mentally retarded Later he resigned to join the staff at the Georgia Training School for Mental De fectives and Counselor W A Crump took his place Mr Crump has worked with the staff at the two occupational training centers which have been established since the project was initiated He also works with other agencies and groups inter ested in the problems of the mentally retarded During the first year of the project the Specialist for the mentally retarded carried a caseload operated an evalua tion clinics provided consultation to Vo cational Counselors in the field and evaluated the vocational potential of patients at the training school at Grace wood and of the older pupils in special education classes in public schools During the second year more efficient referral appraisal and evaluation pro cedures were developed The number of cases accepted for service increased sixty percent and the number rehabilitated into employment increased twentyfour percent Meanwhile community interest in the establishment of occupational training Trainees in workshop learn to assemble charcoal lighters The lighters are made from short cardboard cylinders wrapped in tissue paper and stuffed with newspaper and a fuse Then they are dipped in paraffin They are shown working on a contract for 10000 lighters Shown in the background is Warren Wages Shop Supervisor centers had been sparked The Savan nah Occupational Center was dedicated on February 21 It was sponsored by a number of organizations including the Chatham Chapter Association for Men tally Retarded Children Coordinating Council on Services to the Handicapped Beta Sigma Phi Sorority Savannah Womans Federation and Vocational Re habilitation Funds came from an OVR grant and the local nonprofit organiza tions Then about a month later the Bobby Dodd Sheltered Workshop was opened in the old Farmers Market in Atlanta It was sponsored by the Greater At lanta Chapter for the Retarded Children and Vocational Rehabilitation Funds for this center also came from a Federal grant and the volunteer agency These workshops concentrate on the evaluation of the trainees work poten tial providing personal and social ad justment services and the development of the trainees work habits and skills The trainees gain experience by work ing on subcontract production in mak ing danger flags packaging fertilizer pellets detergents and toys repairing soft drink cases and boats cleaning and painting steel scaffolds painting real estate signs making survey stakes and making up sample kits of various prod ucts The Savannah workshop had ten train Trainee learns silk screen paint ing under supervision of Ernest Wofford ees enrolled according to the last report available The Atlanta center had twen tyfive trainees and facilities for thirty Continued on Page 6MabilitatiotvAfevs Vol 10 MayJune 1960 No 7 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 6 1509 Americus S Ga Vocational School Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jpfferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville 126 N Main St 126 N LEnox 47201 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey Hospital Rome Phone 7773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome 314 West Building Phone 8438 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone Fairfax 21904 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 Brunswick Way Building Phone AM 56541 Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Says The State Board of Education has authorized the Department to include trainable children in the program for Exceptional Children This means those children with IQs of about 35 to 55 They are not educable but can be trained The Board authorized this after the 196061 budget was set up and instructed us to work out and submit plans at a later meeting So our program for these children in 196061 will be largely exploratory It will not really get underway until 196162 How ever we have allotted 450 teachers for special classes this year which is about 75 more than we had last year Commitments for these teachers already have been made to the local communities We expect to build 24 area Vocational Technical schools to which youths and adults can drive from a radius of 40 miles The schools are being built on a partnership basis between the local communities and the State Governor Vandiver has indicated that he would provide 8000000 in State funds to wards the completion of this area trade school building program We expect the schools to train Georgians in marketable skills for the many jobs that await them in Georgias expanding and incoming industries We have served our people in Vocational Agriculture with a good program for many years We must keep up with this for food and fiber are basic to our economy We also must strengthen our trade and industrial program There has been a dramatic shift of population from farms to urban centers and we owe these the same educational service we have rendered agriculture through the years On September 12 we begin our new television program from Station WMVG in Athens This will be on Channel 8 which we share with the University of Georgia We will teach science math and languages We have already experimented with television teaching by com mercial TV and by closed circuit TV Schools in the area of WGTV have their receiving sets made possible through the National Defense Education Act We hope later to extend the services through a statewide net work when funds become available Another important thing we have done is to provide state scho larships for future teachers We urgently need more young teachers We want the brightest minds we can get This year we have 150000 to use for scholarships for young Georgians who want to become teachers They must be in the upper 20 per cent of their class must pass the college entrance tests and must maintain at least a B average in college They can get up to 1000 a year The State has been helping to finance the education of future doctors and we feel that teachers also are important EPH Stamp The Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped has announced that a new Employ the Handicapped 4cent com memorative stamp will be released August 28 in New York at special ceremonies opening the Eighth World Congress of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples Maj Gen Melvin J Maas Chairman of the Presidents Com mittee has asked all interested agencies and individuals to contact their postmasters and place orders for the stamps and First Day covers Local EPH Committees are urged to arrange some ceremony in connection with the first day salesRehabilitationA Force in International Relations The interdependence of nations is one of the certainties of this age As the world shrinks in time and distance all of us become increasingly aware of how one part of the world depends on other parts not only for economic well being but for measures that protect world health and enhance the welfare of the disabled It is eminently fitting that such an important organization in our national rehabilitation effort as the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Phy sically Handicapped should help to point up the fact that rehabilitation has grown into a truly worldwide movement by bringing us together at this luncheon to make us better prepared for the highly important international meetings that will take place this year and their effect on international understanding as well as international rehabilitation We are on the eve of the Eighth World Congress of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples in New York City in August Its theme Rehabilitation and World Peace is par ticularly appropriate Mans greater awareness of the forces within his en vironment that affect his welfare is bringing to a heartening glow the regard for the disabled that in this country was kindled 40 years ago Few of us who are concerned with rehabilitation can escape the feeling that the forum of five thousand people from many countries who will exchange opinions information and viewpoints at the Con gress despite any differences in nation ality religion ideology or economic status can end with anything but accord and greater bonds of international friendship I was literally amazed last summer while attending the First Mediterranean Conference on Rehabilitation in Athens Greece to learn of the progress that some of the eastern nations have made toward rehabilitating their disabled They too are realizing the great burden of dependency that can be erased through vocational rehabilitation of the disabled As the importance of the individual be comes more pronounced in nations that for centuries had accepted ill health and disability as a condition of existence the health of the individual becomes of more concern This feeling was substantiated and ex tended toward most of the nations of the world by a publication since issued under direction of the Committee on Govern ment Operations of the United States Senate Under the title Rehabilitation of the Disabled in Thirtyseven Coun tries of the World it is a highly in By Miss Mary E Switzer Director Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Address before the Annual Meeting of the Presidents Committee on Employ ment of the Physically Handicapped formative contribution to the cause of international rehabilitation programs and the needs and hopes of the future In January a seminar on International Rehabilitation held here in Washington was the means of our taking a look at the expansion of activities and interest in international rehabilitation in the past few years It was sponsored by the National Rehabilitation Association and the International Society for the Wel fare of Cripples and marked the first time that voluntary groups in the United States had met with government agencies concerned with rehabilitation to review the past and to explore the future of our programs with relation to interna tional rehabilitation One of the subjects for seminar discus sion was the use to which counterpart funds in several countries could be placed as the world moves toward acceptance of rehabilitation as a universal ideal rather than purely national activities The United States government ac quires and expends large amounts of foreign currencies in its overseas opera tions The Department of Health Edu cation and Welfare in its proposed budget for 1961 has asked for 930000 in these funds to be set aside for reha bilitation activities in nine countries Included are India 350000 Israel 100000 Yugoslavia and Poland 90000 each United Arab Republics 80000 Pakistan 70000 Brazil 60000 Indo nesia 50000 and Burma 40000 These funds which of course have to be expended in the countries where they are accumulated would be used for two principal purposes educa tional activities in the need for and use of rehabilitation measures and for support of selected research and demon stration projects The program would be carried on through the regular grant mechanisms of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation with utilization of the resources of the various international rehabilitation organizations A major problem in international re habilitation according to the seminar is the public attitude of governments and their people toward rehabilitation One of the reasons for slow progress in some countries is this lack of under standing of what rehabilitation is and what it means Possibly one of the best uses to which some of these funds could be put is to aid the efforts of strong international rehabilitation organizations in emphasizing to governments and peo ple the dividends that rehabilitation of the disabled can pay It is considerably within our own interests that international research and demonstration projects be initiated There are 20 million persons throughout the world for instance who are stricken and disfigured by Hansens disease or leprosy Some are in the United States particularly in the new State of Hawaii New drugs and surgical procedures en able many patients to regain use of their hands Many scars are eliminated Total rehabilitation is becoming a reality but more research is needed Highly valuable work is underway in India and with further development of research facilities there specialists from all over the world can learn the techniques that are helping so much to remove the effects of this dread disease In Burma there exists an ideal op portunity to conduct research into the manufacture of prosthesis from native materials that are resistant to the ef fects of heat and humidity The reha bilitation center in Solo has done some remarkable things along this line which could be of benefit to us and to the rest of the world if further research and demonstrations were conducted A great deal of rehabilitation activity in India is among its blind but one of the great problems there is finding em ployment for those who are prepared for work This is being overcome and the methods used to find employment in a country that is overpopulated where unemployment is widespread are worthy of study These are some of the trends in our thinking and illustrate some of the ways these funds could be importantly used Other projects in relation to the specific needs of various countries are in our collective thoughts so that international research will be speeded on its way to solution of problems common to many countries Rehabilitation by its very nature in volves people closely with the verities of life their physical or mental state their independence their abilities to earn and to enjoy basic satisfactions This universal yearning of the disabled to be accepted on individual merit has met a guardian and protector in that phase of the growing PeopletoPeople Program that deals with the disabled and the handicapped Continued on Page 7Chaiivbound Girl Wins Teaching Job A recent issue of The Metter Adver tiser carried a reprint of a feature story which appeared in The Tampa Tribune about Laura Jean Cook a polio victim who graduated from the University of Tampa this spring Miss Cook whose home is on Route 1 Metter was aided through college under the auspices of Georgias Voca tional Rehabilitation services She se lected the Florida institution because the buildings are equipped with ramps for easy access by wheel chair students Despite the handicap of having both legs paralyzed she plans to get married to another wheel chair polio victim named Albert Gray and will teach the first grade at ClairMel City Elemen tary School next fall said The Tampa Tribune story Things are going good right now for Cookie as her friends call her but until Friday morning she was about the most unhappy person in Tampa it continued Cookie almost got caught in the red tape web that goes with government While she was finishing up that last year of college the state legisla ture passed a law prohibiting certifica tion of school teachers who are physically handicapped to the point where the in capacity interferes with their teaching Cookie didnt even know about the law until she heard about it indirectly from another teacher early this year Then when time came to graduate it appeared University of Tampa officials wouldnt recommend certification for her because of the new law Apparently that law knocking phy sically handicapped out of teaching was passed without fanfare because nobody seemed to know it was there until word got around in the last two weeks about Cookies plight Despite her trouble getting certified Hillsboro County school principals werent concerned about Cookies ability to teach Seven of them contacted her for interviews and she landed the job she wanted most The principal there ClairMel School found that the only problem Cookie will have is a fourinch step lead ing into the building and two wood chocks will enable her to roll her wheel chair up there without much trouble Cookie needs no assistance doing any thing else Dr David Delo the university presi dent heard about her trouble and in vestigated it He told newsmen Cookie will definitely be recommended by the university She had thought she would return to Miss Laura Jean Cook her home town of Metter Ga to teach until she met and fell in love with Al Al has another year at the University of Tampa where he studies accounting In an editorial note The Metter Ad vertiser said Many have followed with special interest the exceptionally fine character qualities Laura Jean Cook has shown in her undaunted effort to pursue a happy and rewarding career for her self despite circumstances that for many would have been a handicap Her cour age and success in doing so deserves ad miration and applause from all who know her World Congress To Meet in U S A worldwide interchange of knowledge in the field of rehabilitation and employ ment of the physically handicapped will take place when the Eight World Con gress of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples meets August 28 to September 2 in New York Held for the first time outside Europe the Congress will evolve from plans shaped by more than 100 US citizens The National Society for Crippled Chil dren and Adults will be host of the meeting More than 5500 physicians nurses therapists educators scientists employ ers industrialists government officials and voluntary agency leaders will repre sent more than 70 countries 5000 Offered For Better Wheelchair An inventor who can devise a revolu tionary wheelchair to make it easier for a physically handicapped person to move around in an industrial building can win himself a 5000 prize it was announced recently by Secretary of Commerce Fred erick H Mueller speaking for the Na tional Inventors Council This wheelchair will have to be quite a radical development he said but if it can be developed many more physically handicapped people can be employed Some firms are reluctant to hire capable persons dependent on wheelchairs be cause of the difficulty of bringing the chairs into and out of industrial space The chair must meet these require ments maximum weight of occupant 200 lbs approximate weight of chair 5075 lbs chair may be folded and stowed in automobile should be capable of negotiating any stairs with average height risers and various depth of tread should be able to turn on stair landing Operation of the drive mechanism by either the occupant or an attendant should be possible Retail cost of pro duction models should be no more than 500 The National Inventors Council in the US Department of Commerce has been designated as the agency to receive and screen ideas presented The prize money has been provided by a publicspirited private citizen who has long been interested in the better ment of the physically handicapped it was announced Continued from Page 3 The number of mentally retarded per sons rehabilitated into competitive jobs increased from 37 during fiscal 195859 to 76 during the year ending June 30 1960 The extent to which the Division will be able to expand its services to the mentally retarded will continue to be dependent to some degree upon the cali ber of academic and prevocational in struction provided in public and private schools the availability of formal voca tional training the development of com munity workshops and other facilities community attitude toward this group and employer acceptance of them as workersRehabilitation Ami International Force Continued from Page 5 Our coworker and friend General Melvin Maas Chairman of the Presi dents Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped has most ap propriately been named to head the Com mittee on the Physically Handicapped within the PeopletoPeople Program Under his guidance the Committee is doing several things that add a needed human touch to international rehabilita tion On the more administrative side the Committee has brought together in liaison the efforts of close to 30 organiza tions in the United States that are con cerned with rehabilitation and has formed lines of communication with re habilitation groups all over the world It has also performed a notable service in compiling a directory of international rehabilitation groups In more personal and intimate context the Committee promotes correspondence among disabled persons in many coun tries and on the intensely practical side the Committee provides a fine service for amputees over the world by acting as a clearing house for component parts of the many kinds of prosthetic devices that are in world use The research and demonstration pro gram of the OVR is developing on its own account somewhat an international flavor Though we do not have as many resources for this purpose as we would like some of our projects do have world wide implications We have moved to support world organizations working in international rehabilitation and to carry on projects that will benefit other na tions as well as ourselves Grants have been made to the Interna tional Society for the Welfare of Crip ples to aid the exchange of information that is developed on technical skills and knowledge in their Congresses and the same was done for the American Con gress of Physical Medicine and Reha bilitation in Chicago this year Another grant was to the Excerpta Medica Foun dation to abstract worldwide publica tions on rehabilitation and publish them periodically In more active settings the World Federation for Mental Health has re ceived a grant to study attitudes toward mental health and mental illness in diverse settings so that there will be greater opportunity for effective com munity health programs to evolve The mission of rehabilitation is to mend and not destroy to prevent and heal the scars of disability We have arrived at the place where all of us must blend our national aspirations for Shown here are Isaac Obie in Boy Scout uniform being tested at the center for the development of deafblind children at left Dr Louis M DiCarlo noted audiologist John Henderson Psychologist and Mrs Feme Root Coordinator at the Center Dr DiCarlo is di rector of Gordon D Hoople Hearing and Speech Center Syracuse N Y and consultant to numerous agencies and organizations Isaac is proud of his Scout uniform A deafblind boy from rural Georgia was one of 16 handicapped children ac cepted during the past year for diagnos tic evaluation at the Syracuse University Center Syracuse NY Twelveyearold Isaac Obie of Rt 1 Palmetto a pupil at the Negro Division of the Georgia Academy for the Blind Macon recently was flown to Syracuse for interviews and examination at the center for the Development of Deaf Blind children He was accompanied by his mother Mrs Mary Obie and Miss Lenore M Harvey Chief of Psychological Services Vocational Rehabilitation Division All expenses in connection with the trip were paid by the American Foundation for the Blind Isaac is a welldeveloped boy who lost his sight through an accident at the age our disabled into a world viewpoint We who work in rehabilitation should keep in mind that whatever our task may be in working with and for the disabled we are individual ambassadors of peace Our efforts to restore the hopes of those who seek only adequate opportunity to live useful and satisfying lives justify our existence in rehabili tation More than that our cumulative efforts can mount up to becoming a powerful instrument in international affairs one that could be profound in the establishment and maintenance of enduring peace among nations of five His right eye has been enuc leated and there is a cataract on his left eye During the past five years his hear ing has become progressively worse He wears a hearing aid which is of little use to him His speech is remarkably good considering his inability to hear A report on his case says Isaac has good personality development with no emotional disturbances which are so fre quently found in children with his dis ability He is talented and has demon strated remarkable learning ability and independence There are seven other children in the family At the center Isaac was given a com plete physical neurological psychologi cal ophthalmological and audiological examination It was recommended that he be sent to the Perkins School for the Blind Wa tertown Mass This school is the first in the United States to undertake the teaching of deafblind children The State Department of Education will pay part of the tuition for Isaacs education The American Foundation for the Blind is supplementing the allot ment with a 1500 scholarship The diagnostic staff at the center in cludes a pediatrician ophthalmologist psychologist and an educator Other spe cialists are called in when needed Staff members examine the children in the in formal atmosphere of playrooms in the Special Education Building at the Uni versityDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga 1 Permit No 935 Aqulsitions Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Georgia ABILITY COUNTS HjjstLnrr jris thde zcommunicabie Disease c for the Blind and the Vocational RehaLitlt on Divisi n xTemanaaT 2 Services six years had the stand in the General Electric Co plant near Chanfh SV S u1011 G Smith who for abt handcapped by defective vision since birth Shown at th 1 fS St hS Sight in 1938 aft having been CDCrtJl SE R Jto Chief of Administrative M g P lhestand 1S a selfservice niit designed especially for the location aJ iiMiSm r Mar ma mar m Jtakabllitatioiv Mws uNWEKSITt Of GEORGIA OCT2760 f fttayet 4Jandi icaiae ppi Be 0d f mercy anrf that rrrpassion Jh3S hed is 0ur7 misfortune ce to see that h Help u by materialistic e Servig Thee In a rieh ind hich ano r6Stre us tsonaiity oiut1 fs pesr scendin stual valUes and equittoath erlCa t0 cord Wh0 ve been sLn SUls g us e gioriogusinavdve charit Gars of the deaf shhaaI be opened and the I11 ame maf topped then e edeemed of 2 11 be free astln Joy shan nbith Praise and everStudent Nurses Learn About Rehabilitation WUdteint nUrSeS at Crawford W Long Memorial Hospital Atlanta W7crSPMTG7endnrCrStCle8 T Mt MSS frothy Pharr naycross Mrs Glendora Robinson Instructor Miss Jov Hearne SkST tha JhnSOn Waycross Miss Patricia Tucker P01 of scenes in four amputee clinics used by Vocational Re the representative of a limb manufacturer Reports show he number SOSla f0WS BWAthieanntat5Z In nursing it is an accepted princi ple that the rehabilitation of the patient begins from the moment he enters the doctors office and continues until he is restored to complete physical mental social vocational and economic useful ness In the hospital the nurse encounters handicapped persons of all types the cardiac the diabetic the paraplegic the amputee and the blind just to mention a few Often it becomes necessary for these patients to change fields of em ployment Change of employment pre sents a major problem to an individual who has spent many years working in a position which he enjoyed and in which he felt secure As a result of this sud den handicap he becomes depressed and moody A patient in this condition pre sents a challenge to the nurse whether she be a student nurse or a graduate and offers her an excellent opportunity for patient teaching Another accepted principle in rehabili tation nursing is to gain the confidence of the patient and let him know that whatever his disability he is an accept able person and can live a normal life within certain specific limitations The faculty at Crawford W Long Me morial Hospital School of Nursing feels that this should be taught to the student at the beginning of her clinical experi ence and continued throughout the cur riculum In her experience dealing with Ortho pedic patients the instructor in Ortho pedic Nursing Mrs Glendora Robinson discovered that when she mentioned the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Divi sion many patients felt that the facili ties offered by this service were limited to those people who could perform man ual skills As this fact became more and more apparent Mrs Robinson introduced a unit in Rehabilitation Nursing into the course using teaching devises provided by the Vocational Rehabilitation Divi sion Among these teaching devises are various pamphlets and the motion pic ture films which have been used in teaching Orthopedics since the summer quarter of 1959 JTlf6 after studying the unit in renaomtation nursing reviewing the lit erature and seeing the film each stu dent in orthopedics is assigned to a pa tient on the wards who might require the services of the Vocational Rehabili tation Division At this time under the direction of the instructor the student discusses the facilities available to the patient the value of these facilities in future employment and how they may be obtained y Evaluation of this unit indicates that the students have shown increased inter est in rehabilitation nursing and have been able to utilize material learned in this course in many other areas of nursiiiifV Lieutenant Governor Garland Byrd standing was the principal speaker at the annual dinner during the Voca tional Rehabilitation Divisions recent staff training conference in Savannah Others shown from left Henry Stewart Sr of Cedartown Vice Chairman of the State Board of Education E B Whitten of Washington Executive Director National Rehabilitation Association Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services and Mrs Jarrell Lieut Gov Praises Rehabilitation Record Here are some excerpts from Lieuten ant Governor Garland Byrds address at the Vocational Rehabilitation Divisions staff training conference in Savannah I want to congratulate you for Geor gias outstanding performance in reha bilitation during the fiscal year which ended June 30 Our state thanks to your tireless efforts is again at the top of the list of states in the number of disabled persons rehabilitated to successful employment and happy life The states record of 154 rehabilita tions per 100000 of population I am told is a mark that has never been at tained before Another remarkable achievement is that you helped to effect the rehabilitation of 5914 disabled men and women during the past fiscal year I note with pride and interest the comment Miss Mary Switzer Director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilita tion Washington had for your new record I as Lieutenant Governor and as President of your State Senate want to assure you that you have had in the past do have nowand will continue to have in the futuremy wholehearted support of any endeavors you might un dertake I am overjoyed with the growing suc cess of your program and unless I am badly mistakenand I dont think I am Miss Switzer can expect many more miracles from Georgia in the future Georgia is rapidly making a transi tion from an agricultural to an indus trial state We still have a definite need for agriculture and agriculture will al TELEGRAM Honorable Ernest Vandiver Governor of Georgia Atlanta Georgia It gives me great pleasure to congratulate you and the people of Georgia once more this year on the outstanding performance of your State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation during the fiscal year that ended June 30 1960 Again Georgia is at the top of the list of states in the number of disabled people rehabilitated to successful employment and satisfying life Your States record is 154 rehabilitants per 100000 of population This figure had never been at tained before Another remarkable achievement is that your State helped to effect the rehabilitation of 5914 disabled men and women during the past fiscal year It places Georgia third among all the States in the total number rehabili tated Georgias record is surpassed only by New York and Pennsylvania both with populations which greatly exceed that of Georgia New York led Georgia by only 651 rehabilitations Pennsylvania by only 100 We have come to expect miracles from Georgia Your State has been one of the leaders for many years and I hope your support that of your Legislature and the continuing approbation of your people will keep Georgia in the forefront for many years to come All in rehabilitation work are grateful for the excellent support of the past You have a highly dedicated and energetic staff whose members display great professional skill and ingenuity in their work with the disabled and I hope that you will share my congratulations with your people I send my personal regards to you and my best wishes for continuance of success in your administration Miss Mary E Switzer Director Office of Vocational Rehabilitation ways play a big role in the economy of Georgia We still must have the farmer to produce the food and fibre Butdue to modern machines and methodsagriculture no longer employs a majority of the states work force as it has in years past The main body of the work force is now in industry That creates a problem because not nearly enough of our people are trained to meet the needs for industrial work That is where Vocational Education comes inand that is where you in the field of Vocational Rehabilitation come in It is plain to see that we must in crease the scope of the industrial arts or trade and industry phase of the Vo cational Education program to meet the increasing industrial demandsYo 6covoJNoooXotvcCV Mabilitdtiori Afews Vol 10 JulyAug 1960 No 8 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 6 1509 Americus S Ga Vocational School Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville 126 N Main St LEnox 47201 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey Hospital Rome Phone 7773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome 314 West Building Phone 8438 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone Fairfax 21904 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 Brunswick Way Building Phone AM 66541 More Help forgDisabled By JOSEPH R MURPHY District Manager Social Security Administration FOR THE fourth time in six years Congress has passed amend ments to the Social Security law which liberalizes the protection afforded disabled workers and their dependents Under the 1960 amendments approximately 250000 people disabled workers under 50 years of age and certain of their depend entsare now eligible for Social Security benefits Until now only those disabled workers between 50 and 65 and their dependents were eligible for monthly Social Security payments Younger disabled workers are more likely to have families de pendent on them than older workers age 50 and over Before the change in the Social Security law many of them were dependent upon Public Assistance payments which are financed out of general tax funds It is estimated that 28 million will be saved in public assistance payments during the next year now that many of these disabled workers and their families are eligible for disability insur ance benefits based on their past earnings and Social Security tax contributions It is expected that savings will be even greater in the years to come when fewer people who become disabled before age 50 will need help through public assistance Severely disabled workers under 50 who have worked under So cial Security but have never applied to have their Social Security records frozen should get in touch with their nearest Social Security district office now to inquire about their rights to payments To qualify for disability insurance benefits a disabled worker must be so severely disabled that he is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity In addition he must have worked under Social Security for at least 5 years out of the ten years before he became disabled Benefits for disabled persons under 50 and their families can start with the month of November 1960 The benefit checks payable for the month of November 1960 will be mailed out early in De cember Under the new law beneficiaries who go to work despite severe handicaps can continue to be paid their benefits for 12 months whether they go to work under a Vocational Rehabilitation plan or on their own Not until after the first nine months not necessarily 9 consecu tive months of this 12month period will a decision be made as to whether the work done by the beneficiary in those 9 months shows that he has regained his ability to work If he is found able to engage in substantial work and therefore is no longer disabled within the meaning of the law he will still be paid his benefits for three months longer Beneficiaries who recover from their disabilities before they have worked in each of 9 months as well as beneficiaries who recover before they have tested their ability to work will have their benefits paid to them for 3 months after they recover Another change in the disability provisions will help disability beneficiaries who regain their ability to work but become disabled again within 5 years after their benefits have been stopped These people will not have to wait another six months after the beginning of their second period of disability before their benefits can start againA goldstamped album of 50 Employ the Handicapped 4cent commemorative stamps was presented to Governor Er nest Vandiver by Atlanta Postmaster B F Sanders at the Governors press conference on August 29 Similar ceremonies were held in many other states at the suggestion of the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped The stamp was released nationally on August 28 in New York City at the opening session of the Eighth World Congress of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples Postmaster Sanders said he was mak ing the presentation in behalf of Post master General Arthur E Summerfield Governor Vandiver said he appreci ated the album and the idea back of the issuance of the commemorative stamp The new stamp printed in blue car ries a picture of a man confined to a wheelchair capably operating a drill press The central design was adopted from an actual photograph by Carl Rob erts New York artist Issuance of the commemorative stamp was intended to call attention to the na tionwide program to provide equal job opportunities for qualified handicapped workers Governor Ernest Vandiver sec ond from left accepts an album of the new 4cent Employ the Handicapped commemorative stamp from Atlantas Postmaster B F Sanders Shown in the pic ture from left to right Bruce Hall Secretary of the Governors Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped and Voca tional Rehabilitation Division staff member Governor Vandiver Mar ion Williamson Director Employ ment Security Agency Georgia Department of Labor Postmaster Sanders C C Cole Jr President of the Atlanta Stamp Collectors Club and Miss Reba McCrary Re ceptionist Secretary of States Of fice and member of the Physical Wrecks Social Club At rightre production of the stamp Magazine Features Georgia Project How two State projects have reduced dependency increased earnings and pre vented family breakdowns by restoring handicapped parents to employment and personal independence is described in the JulyAugust issue of Rehabilitation Rec ord a bimonthly publication of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation says a news release from OVR Doubling Income Through Rehabili tation reports on a 3year project in Fulton County Georgia which employed a team approach of various public agencies to restore 141 disabled parents whose children had been public assist ance recipients to a wide range of occu pations According to Dr A P Jarrell direc tor of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Wellborn R Ellis administrator of the Fulton County De partment of Public Welfare total in come of those helped to employment was nearly double their income from both limited earnings and from Aid to De pendent Children grants prior to the project By the end of the project more than 80 percent of this doubled income was in earnings In 119 instances em ployment of the parent resulted in com plete ending of ADC grants and in 11 others the amount of the grant was re duced Writing on a Florida project Opera tion Hope Bruce Thomason of the Uni versity of Floridas J Hillis Miller Health Center reports that this commu nitywide cooperative project resulted in the rehabilitation of about onefourth of the 411 disabled fathers assisted He esti mates that if all the rehabilitated fath ers remained employed for 50 weeks STATtS PO 6 0B 0k their earnings for the year would be more than 206000 whereas total re habilitation costs came to less than 43000 Of the work of the 15 local and State agencies who collaborated in Operation Hope under direction of the State reha bilitation and welfare agencies the au thor states The money saved by giving these troubled families some sympathetic concentrated and skilled help is just part of the picture when we think fur ther of the unseenbutreal savings in terms of the health problems crime de linquency and other manifestations of family disruption that can be prevented Use of Orthetic Devices in Rehabili tation by Robert L Bennett executive director Georgia Warm Springs Foun dation describes new devices for the physically handicapped which aid recov ery and increase functionUsefulness Need Not End With Retirement By Dr J Gorham Garrison That part of the day just before sunset many times is the most serene and beau tiful of the entire day And so can the days of ones retirement from the active duties and chores of life be the most satisfying Certainly that period of life called retirement need not be one of entire relaxation uselessness nor bore dom It can be useful Just a year ago when I retired from the responsibilities of Area Representa tive State Department of Education there were indeed some misgivings as to what retirement would be like since I had been quite active all my life and had never experienced a single season with out employment But now after a year in this new phase of life I can say that it is a pe riod filled with joy peace and satisfac tion never before experienced Some friends have commented Instead of re tiring I have just reTIRED with new treads The most difficult thing in retirement for me was the relinquishment of ties and relations with friends with whom I had been associated in religious and edu cational endeavor for 48 years That was like a nightmare But with a desire to stay in the har ness I soon found that there were many opportunities for activity and I was soon engaged in many services in which I could extend my life in usefulness to others I was unlike so many others who have said upon retirement I will now catch up with my fishing Not that I have any antipathy for the fine sport of fishing but I yet do not find time for that Modestly and gratefully I can say that I am preaching about as much as I ever didsomewhere nearly every Sun day There are more calls for public speaking and addresses than ever Many invitations have come for addresses at fraternal orders and conventions civic clubs and educational meetings I try to accept all that my time and schedule will permit I find it a satisfying hobby to serve as news correspondent for three daily newspapers And more or less as a regular employment I edit and publish a 16page monthly religious and educa tional magazine which has a circulation in Georgia and 12 other states One can imagine I am sure that with these chores and opportunities there is not much time for boredom I will not undertake to evaluate the usefulness of my activities but I can testify as to the great joy and satisfaction of a retired life There are many factors that have con tributed to the opportunities enumerated herein for which I am very thankful and to many persons and agencies I am indebted no little Although beginning a state of retirement a year ago I am glad the people would not let me alone Many opportunities hitherto not thought of have presented themselves My friends and associates are familiar with the physical misfortunes and handi caps that have been mine in recent years Indeed such misfortune probably hast ened the time of retirement But with the Dr J Gorham Garrison Ochlochnee A retired minister and area rep resentative of the State Depart ment of Education he made the keynote address at the recent staff conference of the Vocational Re habilitation Division in Savannah kindness sympathy and helpfulness of friends the task of overcoming difficul ties has been made easy The assistance and encouragement of Masonic brethren Kiwanians and other friends has been material and most stimulating Not the least of my gratitude is for the counsel and helpfulness of Georgias Vo cational Rehabilitation Service of the State Department of Education But for their help I would have been rendered useless years ago Fifteen years ago I was threatened with the loss of my left leg Indeed local doctors had said that an immediate amputation would be ad visable It was while I was engaged in the dread and preparation for such an ordeal that a representative of the Rehabilita tion Service came along and gave coun sel and help He advised and recom mended a specialist in Atlanta and in sisted that I go to him for a diagnostic examination I went and as a result I lost only a portion of the great toe My leg was saved for a period of eight years before actual amputation became neces sary With the ravage and development of an incurable disease for six more years in January 1959 the amputation of my second leg became necessary in order to save my life With this double amputation friends and relatives expressed the fear and opinion He is through now But not so in the providence of God With the expert care and services of a wonderful surgeon and physicians and good hospital attendants I was soon able to come home for further recovery Now again comes the wonderful serv ice of Vocational Rehabilitation that I might be rehabilitated for normal activi ties In a very short while by this help I was again serving as a fulltime em ployee of the Department of Education While still in a wheel chair at my home Carl Fox President of the Geor gia Rehabilitation Association pre sents the caseoftheyear award plaque to Mrs Jane M Connell of Waycross The award is made annually for outstanding counsel ing service to a sighted client Mrs Connells case report also won the Southeastern Regional Award BelowCounselor Tommy Mc Collum receives a similar award for work with a blind client The presentations were made at the Vo cational Rehabilitation Divisions staff training conference in Sa vannah Nathan B Nolan District Supervisor Albany office visited me knowing that I would need physical therapy at an Albany clinic in order that I might be able to properly use the prostheses neces sary to walk again Mr R Watt Jr too was most helpful and considerate The instruction and help received there is probably the difference between sitting at home in a wheelchair the remainder of my days and walking and that with out the use of crutches I can not say too much in praise of these men of the Vocational Rehabilitation Service Finally let me give this brief testi mony With the grace and strength of God together with implicit confidence and faith in Him and with the assistance of benevolent agencies and friends plus selfwill and determination theres no telling what one can doBlind Youth Reprint From Atlanta Constitution Sammie Arnold opened his eyes and got a good look at his mother for the first time in eight years I want to thank the Lord and Dr Smith for this said Sammies mother Mildred And I want to write to the family of the one who died and willed his eye so my boy can see again Sammie suffering from a rare cor neal dystrophy was totally blind in his right eye and 80 per cent blind in his left eye The 17yearold Negro youth has been suffering from this condition since he was three years old For the past eight years he was able to dis tinguish only light and vague shapes But Saturday Sammie could see again just three days after Dr William A Smith Jr performed a corneal trans plant on his right eye It will be several weeks before we know whether the sight in his right eye has been permanently restored Dr Smith said Although corneal transplants are fair ly common Dr Smith said Sammies condition was rare I could complete practice and never see another case like this he said Dr Smith said Sammies left eye may get better now that his right eye has been repaired But if it doesnt Dr Smith says he hopes to perform a transplant on the left eye The money for Sammies delicate op eration and hospital care came through the Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion of the State Department of Educa tion The division learned about Sammie through Douglas County social workers who reported that the youth was at tempting to get odd jobs but couldnt hold them because of his handicap When a human cornea became avail able through the death of an undis closed donor last week Sammie was rushed to Atlanta and the transplant was made The Record Rehabilitations under the StateFed eral program in the US in fiscal 1960 were 88300 in 1959 80700 in 1958 74300 Each of the last four years has been a new record year The people rehabilitated in 1960 alone added an estimated 130 million more manhours to the Nations production effort Of the 1960 total 18000 were originally on relief at a cost to the tax payers of 17 million I Sammie Arnold after his eye operation is happy over the pros pects of being able to see again Shown with him is Vocational Re habilitation Counselor George Mau III Sammy will return to work in a service station in Douglasville At rightHoward Bennett dou ble amputee on his bicycle in front of his Buford home Atnputee Rides Bicycle Bufords 39yearold Howard Bennett has been a double amputee since he was 21 He lost his legs below the knees in a train accident Through Vocational Rehabilitation services he was recently aided in get ting a new pair of artificial limbs re placing his worn out prostheses Through the years he has become not only a good walker as the limbmak ers say but an accomplished cyclist Bennett rides his bicycle over the two mile route between his home and the Buford Dry Cleaners plant where he works and anywhere else he has to go in and around Buford He recently demonstrated his riding skill for a photographer It is estimated that 270000 Americans annually become disabled to a degree re quiring Vocational Rehabilitation These must be added to the 2150000 backlog who need rehabilitation and a job oppor tunity Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aquisitions Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Georgia Class at Crawford W Long Memorial Hospital School of Nursing Atlanta gets insight into Vocational Rehabili tation Services through lectures films and literature At right the instructor Mrs Glendora Robinson See story on page 2 cKabllitatlotv Mws AJeeAjiia on PaceA salesman in a department store until he lost his vision about three years ago Charles H Mc Hugh 36 of Lilburn is well on the way to a successful career as a greenhouse operator Records indi cate he has a 98 percent loss of sight in one eye and a little vision in the other The impairment re sulted from an eye infection Single and a high school grad uate McHugh was enrolled in the adjustment center for adults con ducted by Vocational Rehabilita tion Services at the Georgia Acad emy for the Blind Macon Later he was provided with training in greenhouse operations He was aided by Vocational Re habilitation in establishing his business at the family home in Gwinnett County McHugh raises flowers for the retail trade He plans to develop a nursery His plastic greenhouse is shown in the center panel At left in lower panelJames Blair 25 of Columbus paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an automobile accident is shown at Warm Springs Foundation learning to use crutches Before the accident he had worked as a meat cutter in a grocery store At Warm Springs he is receiving phys ical and occupational therapy un der the Vocational Rehabilitation program Later he probably will be provided with training in a new vocation At right in lower panelThirty seven yearold James Attaway Rt 4 Carrollton is a Vocational Re habilitation trainee enrolled in the watch repair class at North Geor gia Trade School Clarkesville A textile mill hand and diesel engine mechanic he lost the use of his limbs from a spinal tumor the rec ords indicate He is married and has four children and had service in the Armed ForcesBlind Typists Work in Hospital By MARY FORTSON Reprint from The Macon News Three blind stenographers who work daily in the medical record department of Macon Hospital are pioneers in a new field of usefulness for persons without sight Mrs Mary Johnson the first trainee came to the hospital about a year ago soon after the plan for using blind stenographic help was initiated by Mrs Thelma Van Norte administrative medi cal record librarian Mrs Van Norte had witnessed such a stenographic pool in action at hospitals in Indianapolis Ind where she had worked with blind typists in similar work With the help of Hospital Administra tor James Griffith and the Macon Hos pital board of trustees who gave per mission for the experiment and the Vo cational Rehabilitation Office in Macon which located Mrs Johnson for her Mrs Van Norte and her staff got the plan rolling Within the past year two new trainees have been added both of them totally blind They are Bill Flynt and Mrs Na dine Yarbrough The output of these typists is amazing as they transcribe dictation containing complicated medical terms with an accu racy and neatness that would put many sighted typists to shame Because there are no braille medical dictionaries of any detail the three medi cal record workers are developing a card file of their own in braille filling it with new and unfamiliar words and informa tion used in the medical profession They get some help from a medical secretarys handbook in braille and an English braille dictionary supplied by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division They also make use of a Talking Book ma chine supplied by the Federal govern ment and at the present time are study ing an anatomy textbook put on record by volunteers at the University of Geor gia who make records for the use of blind students To illustrate the skill with which the three typists work Mrs Van Norte pointed out that Macon Hospital is one of the few metropolitan hospitals in the nation that can boast of a record depart ment that is completely up to date with its files A summary of each operation per formed at the hospital here in the morn ing will be found on the hospital chart by afternoon thanks to the diligence of the blind stenographic pool who are respon sible for the accuracy and timeliness of the records As soon as a physician sees a patient or performs an operation he immediate ly dictates his observations on dicta phones placed throughout the hospital It is by listening to these dictating ma chines that the typists copy the records The importance of accurate up to date records is shown in the method of ac creditation for hospitals which are strictly rated on the quality of their records Mrs Evelyn Wesley an experienced medical secretary who has been with Ma con Hospital for the past seven years helps the trio of typists with unfamiliar words and keeps current on advanced techniques new drugs and similar changes A great deal of help especially in the placing and financial aspects of the stenographic pool has come from local Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors John L Lewis and W L Flanagan who have taken a great deal of interest in this unusual method of staffing All three of the medical record secre taries carry on a full schedule of activi ties in addition to fulltime work at the hospital Mrs Johnson is married and is the mother of two sons She has proved an inspiration to all according to Mrs Van Norte who said the talented worker was typing operations like a veteran just a short time after coming to the hospital Mary Johnson studied at Wesleyan College for two years after her gradu ation from the Georgia Academy for the Blind Nadine Yarbrough is the most recent trainee having come here on a tempo rary basis from her home in LaGrange Her husband a skilled factory worker has been seeking employment in Macon so that he and their two little girls may move to the city permanently and his wife can retain her position with the hos pital Bill Flynt was the second recruit hav ing been in the department since April He studied at Mercer University for two years after graduating from the Georgia Academy for the Blind Just as are his two blind coworkers young Flynt is an accomplished pianist and organist MabiliUteAws Three stenographers at Macon Hos pital Mrs Mary Johnson second from left Mrs Nadine Yarbrough and Bill Flynt Standing in rear Mrs Evelyn Wesley Not satisfied with turning out near perfect records the blind youth bakes most of the birthday cakes for the medi cal records department birthday celebra tions he confessed His mother Mrs W G Flynt who has been a great help to the blind workers in helping them with spelling and new words says she just gives her son the run of the kitchen and lets him concoct what he will These three persons are determined to prove their own worth which they have done Mrs Van Norte said so that the field for blind secretarial help will be broadened not only in medicine but in other commercial endeavors as well One of two window displays in the Fulton Federal Savings and Loan Association offices in Atlanta during National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week October 28 MabilitatioriiVews Vol 10 SeptOct 1960 No 9 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 6 1509 Americus S Ga Vocational School Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville 126 N Main St LEnox 47201 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Rome Battey Hospital Phone 7773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome 314 West Building Phone 46259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone Fairfax 21904 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 Brunswick Way Building Phone AM 56541 Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Says GEORGIAS schools have made tremendous progress even though we still have problems The Georgia school dollar is buying more education than ever before We have better qualified teachers a better curriculum more attractive school buildings safer transportation and better textbooks Georgia stands first in the nation in Vocational Rehabilitation services Nearly five thousand school buses make it possible for every child in Georgia to reach a school from his own front door and get 12 years of free public school education Of course we still have big problems to solve But Georgians always have had the courage and ingenuity to solve their prob lems when they work together There were enrolled in Georgias 1931 schools in 197 local systems last year 1000 578 children To teach these children the state allots some 32000 teachers and the local systems hire about 2000 more Since the State has been providing grants to help teachers finance a return to college for summer study and others have received grants through the Na tional Defense Educational Act 88 percent of Georgias teachers now hold 4 or 5year certificates and have Bachelors or Masters degrees We would like to have a professionally qualified teacher in every classroom in Georgia and that need is our biggest problem at present We are now offering scholarships to finance the education of future teachers who can cancel these loans by teaching in Georgia There are 200 of these bright young people who were granted these scholar ships this year and the General Assembly and the State Board of Education have authorized investing at least 150000 a year in this paying investment from now on Some new and progressive steps taken in education in recent years are these television teaching the doubling of enrollment in language increased interest in math and science plans for about 20 area trade schools that will bring training in highly skilled vocational courses within the reach of all Georgians and plans for another school build ing program to relieve a shortage of some 4600 classrooms The progress Georgia has made in recent years in education has been the result of many people working together Georgians invest not only their money but their time and energy in helping us to have good schools for our children We have two good reasons for putting quality education as our top priority in Georgia today First and most important is that our children must be well educated it they are to cope with the current complexities of the world Chil dren in school now will live a large part of their lives in the next century They will have problems we cannot even envision But we can give them an excellent education to help them solve whatever problems they may have Second Georgia puts more than half its total revenue into educa tion We must be sure we are buying quality education This invest ment pays dividends As proof you have only to look at those coun tries with little education No matter how rich they are in natural resources their income is low and their living standards meager Education has played a big role in enabling Georgians to develop our resources and attain our present standard of livingBy W A Hopkins M D Open heart surgery is a new name coined in the past ten years This term connotates to the average layman an op eration on the heart in which a heart lung machine is used Actually this is the exact fact For many years it was impossible to open the heart to repair defects within the chambers because of the blood loss Not too many years ago it was found that by the use of a donor or another person that a cross circulation could be established between the donor and child so that the heart could be opened The donors heart could pump oxygenated blood into the child while its heart was being repaired However this was cum bersome and actually was not practical in great numbers of cases Soon a machine was devised that could do two things First of all it could take over the pumping action of the heart and secondly it could take over the oxygena tion of the blood that is accomplished in the lungs When this became practical for use the heartlung machine became a reality At first this was only delegated to use in certain centers for experimental pur poses etc but as generally in medicine this developed into a process that could be made available for all people in all parts of the country Soon centers for open heart surgery began to spring up all over the country and a few years ago it began in our own state The first such machine in our state was developed by a group in Cleveland Ohio and was known as the KayCross heartlung machine This machine was brought to Atlanta by surgeons at St Josephs Infirmary and the first success ful open heart case was done at St Jo sephs Infirmary Soon thereafter the machines began to become more common in use and then one was developed by the group over in the Medical College of Georgia Augus ta and soon they were doing open heart surgery In a short period thereafter another center opened up at Emory Uni versity here in Atlanta At the present time there are three main centers in the state that are doing open heart surgery One is the Medical College of Georgia one at Emory and one at St Josephs Hospital in Atlanta Georgia As time goes on one can be certain that other centers will develop this Now what does open heart surgery do It opens up a field of surgery that has for many years been unavailable By the use of the heartlung machines we can bypass both the heart and lungs and in a dry field open the heart up and perform operations that were pre viously impossible This ability to open the heart in a dry field gives us an advantage of being able to repair these defects under direct vision and therefore are able to do a much better job Not all defects in the heart require open heart surgery Such things as mitral stenosis can be repaired without open heart surgery The mitral stenosis is a process caused by rheu matic fever It produces obstruction to the mitral valve one of the main valves inside of the heart In addition to that Continued on Page 7 I Scene in operating room during open heart surgery procedure Is Typist By Jane Gullat Reprint from The Columbus Enquirer Mrs Evie Barron 25 knows what it is like to be totally blind then recapture enough eyesight to see only blurred images and finally regain 20 per cent vision The cycle took nearly seven years a series of operationsand a lot of spunk and faith But the future looks bright now and pretty secure for Mrs Barron and her two children Donnie 4 and Dianne 5 The family lives at 808B Riverview Apts Phenix City There are many things Mrs Barron cannot do such as drive a car or sew and read as she used to but she can and does work She is employed now as secretary of the XRay Department at Cobb Memorial Hospital She is among the physically handi capped who can understand a need for National Employ the Physically Handi capped Week now in progress Mrs Barrons trouble began when she was 18 and a senior at Central High School The cause glaucoma The attack of glaucoma robbed her out of her sight and left her totally blind about a week Limited vision enough to let her see blurred images was restored after a first and then a second operation at a Fort Benning hospital Later she underwent surgery at Wal ter Reed Army Hospital in Washington and there regained 20 per cent vision At that time Mrs Barron says she was told glasses would not help her and she bought a magnifying glass to help her see That was in 1954 In August 1958 Mrs Barron visited the Columbus office Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation State Department Mrs Evie Barron at work as secre tary in Xray department at Cobb Memorial Hospital StandingDr L G Barraza radiologist of Education She says she sought as sistance there at the suggestion of a friend and because she needed to make a living for herself and her two children The future began to look brighter after that Continued on Page 7 They Learn to Talk Again An East Point automobile salesman who learned to talk again after the surgi cal removal of his larynx and vocal cords now counsels and teaches others going through similar ordeals James Buddy Hammond underwent an operation for cancer of the larynx in 1957 He knew that permanent loss of his voice doubtless would end his career as a car salesman He was determined to overcome the handicap It was largely through his own efforts that he learned to say a few words in about three months after the operation Afterwards he mastered the esophageal speech method of talking It is ac complished by swallowing a stomach full of air and then expelling it so vigorously that it vibrates in the throat Out of this experience came a desire to help others faced with the same prob lem Under Vocational Rehabilitation sponsorship Mr Hammond went to the University of Miami School of Medicine for a course in speech therapy and quali fied as an instructor in postlaryngec tomy speech Throat specialists say it is reassuring to patients faced with a laryngectomy to be counseled by a qualified instructor be fore the operation Mr Hammond now is on call state wide in Georgia for service to patients before and after surgery Speech therapy begins as soon as the doctors say the patient is ready for it And usually it isnt long before the patient is able to carry on a normal conversation Mr Hammond is active in civic affairs in Atlanta He helped to launch the 1960 fund crusade of the Fulton County Unit of the American Cancer Society At that time he made what the newspapers termed a moving address to some 400 crusaders He received an award from the cancer society He also has been cited by Radio Station WQXI as Citizen of the Day for outstanding community service He is Secretary Treasurer of the Georgia Laryngectomy Association Mr Hammond is connected with the Ed Voyles Motor Co East Point Geor gias largest Rambler dealers His as sociates at the motor company say Buddy can outtalk anybody on this car lot First interview after surgery The patient is James A McGaughey Others in the group are Mrs Louise Garrett nurse at the Ponce de Leon Infirmary and Buddy Hammond Above Speech therapist Ham mond begins instruction in esopha geal speech At leftMr McGaughey is shown back on the job as truck driver for Roadway Express Inc At right Buddy gets award from American Cancer Society for outstanding contribution to the fund crusade Making the presen tation at left Lon Sullivan Direc tor of the Georgia Chapter HEART SURGERY Continued from Page 5 certain congenital defects may also be repaired without the use of open heart surgery The future holds a great deal of prom ise It is in the future with the replace ment of valves that open heart surgery will have its greatest effectiveness There are many diseases and processes that damage the heart and make the heart unable to do its job at the present time Some of the valves of the heart may be repaired The main ones have not had satisfactory replacement At this time there are many artificial valves being worked on and research is developing newer types of these plastic valves for insertion within the heart As yet we have not had a completely satis factory valve replacement for the major valves within the heart However I am certain that with the work that is being done before many years have passed this will be feasible The only way that these valves can be replaced is by resort ing to open heart techniques using the heartlung machine The ultimate of course in repair of the heart would be total replacement of the heart and although this sounds rath er farfetched at this time it is not A few years ago if we had said that we had a machine that could take over the function of the heart even for a small period of time we would have thought that also was impossible The horizons are unlimited and I think that the future is indeed very bright GLAUCOMA VICTIM Continued from Page 5 It was suggested that she brush up on her typing and she did so at the Elev enth Street School in Columbus where she lived until six months ago Then in October she visited the Opti cal Aid Center at Grady Memorial Hos pital in Atlanta for sight evaluation She was fitted with glasses thereglasses with 800 plus magnification she points out The last and perhaps most important step in 1958 came Dec 1 1958the day she started training as a darkroom tech nician at Cobb Memorial Hospital She learned to develop XRay films and later ran the darkroom She advanced another step in Febru ary 1960 when she became department secretary and began working for Dr L G Barraza radiologist Now she does dictaphone typing writes up patient cases keeps the books and makes up financial statements among other things She also operates the darkroom on Tuesdays Mrs Barron recalls having eye trouble even in her younger years but points out doctors could not diagnose the trouble until the attack of glaucoma in 1954 She quotes a doctor at Walter Reed Army Hospital as saying glaucoma usual ly doesnt occur in a person of 18 and says she was never told the cause or origin A recurrence is possible she says but I dont think it is likely After the attack Mrs Barron was concerned not only about her vision but over whether she would be able to grad uate with her class at Central High School That worry ended when she was permitted to attend classes listen to lec tures and then take oral final examina tions Mrs Barron compensated for her vi sion loss in many ways Instead of making all her clothes as she once did or reading a lot she says she became a fanatical housekeeper would learn to cook new dishes and take care of her children She feels now the future is pretty sure Presidents Committee To Work With Mentally Handicapped The Presidents Committees NEPH Newsletter says it is estimated there are 750000 persons in mental hospitals on a given day and that 425000 persons will be admitted or readmitted to such hos pitals In addition 1500000 persons includ ing children are seen yearly by private psychiatrists or in psychiatric clinics Noting the enormity of the problem of placing mentally restored and mentally retarded persons and noting that many Governors Committees have incorporated placement of such persons in their pro grams the Executive Committee of the Presidents Committee at a recent meet ing decided to incorporate employment of the mentally and emotionally handi capped in its program Robert L Davis of Rt 4 Jack son a double amputee is shown at Warm Springs Foundation where he is receiving treatment under the auspices of Vocational Rehabilita tion services The amputations be came necessary from diabetes He has been fitted with prostheses and is receiving training in the use of the artificial limbs A second year student at More house College James Maner Jr 21 became paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an au tomobile accident He was hos pitalized at Atlantas Grady Hos pital for emergency treatment He is shown receiving therapy at Warm Springs Foundation through Vocational Rehabilitation services He wants to continue his college education after being discharged from the Foundation Disability From Diabetes Although diabetes is eighth among the leading causes of death in the US it is a relatively minor cause of physical dis ability since the discovery of insulin in 1922 A new report on diabetes by the U S National Health Survey showed only 2 million lost work days last year by the nations 15 million diabetics 90 percent of whom said they had no chronic physical limitations Robert L Davis James Maner Jr Cost To Nation The cost to the Nation of Public As sistance to disabled persons and their dependents is over a billion dollars an nually says the NEPH NewsletterDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aquiaitions Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Georgia This is the attractive window display at the King variety store Broadview Plaza Atlanta during NEPH Week October 28 The mannequins costume was furnished by the Goodwill Industry store DOLLS As Priced JtakabllLtatloiY Mws g iAndrew Gazaway of Aragon is shown in top panel getting occu pational therapy at the Warm Springs Foundation under the aus pices of Vocational Rehabilitation Shown with him is Miss Beverly Alexander Occupational Therapist Gazaway a former mill worker is paralyzed in the lower extremities He has a wife and four children R D Carroll 46 of Dalton left in lower panel lost his left leg as the result of an injury by an earth grading machine He is shown here at an Atlanta amputee clinic where he is receiving training in the use of the prosthesis Carroll father of three children worked for the City of Dalton Lucius D Overstreet 19 of Bu ford Rt 3 was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an au tomobile accident in February 1960 He is shown at right in lower panel standing in braces for the first time at the Warm Springs Foundation where he was sent by Vocational Rehabilitation services for evaluation and training Regional Meeting Planned The Southern Regional meetings of the Presidents Committee on Employ ment of the Physically Handicapped is scheduled to be held in Atlanta on May 25 1961 Clifford Clarke Jr Chairman of the Governors Committee has an nounced The states in the region are Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi South Carolina and Tennessee The planning committee will meet in Atlanta on February 16 It is expected that chairmen and secretaries of Gov ernors Committees from each state will attendFair Chance Vincent P Hippolitus of Washington Director of Field Operations of the Pres idents Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped was the keynote speaker at the second annual conference of the Georgia Rehabilitation Association in Atlanta on December 9 Here are some excerpts from his speech The major purpose of the Presidents Committee the corresponding Governors Committees in the states and their coun terpart Mayors Committees in the com munities is to impress all employers with the importance of giving equal op portunity for employment to handicap ped workersto impress them effective ly and in a manner that will cause them to adopt realistic hiring practices for the disabledthe kind that permit the handi capped to compete with the nonhandi capped for available jobs and under their own steam This of course is not a program of charity and we try to make that point clear to every employer Every execu tive in competitive business and industry is saddled with a relentless monkey on his back known as the monthly and an nual profit and loss statement The executive must show a profit if his com pany is to survivetherefore he must have efficient and safe employees This means that he cannot be expected to em ploy the handicapped simply out of chari ty Such employment must be economi cally justified Consequently we have neverand we shall neverask any employer to be a good Samaritan and give the handi capped jobs despite their disabilities We urge employment of these competitive workmen solely on the basis of ability their ability to do the work that needs to be done Consideration of emotion either for or against employment of the handicapped has no part in this en deavor Our national program of vocational rehabilitation prepares disabled citizens for occupations they can perform safely and efficiently And the end of this vo cational rehabilitation road is in the in dustrial plant the store the office on the construction job on the farm Gain ful employment is the object of vocation al rehabilitation Therefore and this is obvious the employer is the key to the successful end of the vocational rehabili tation processbecause without job op portunities such rehabilitation is im practical While we must have job opportunities for our rehabilitated handicapped work ers we disapprove of all legal compul sion such as have been adopted in certain European countries to force employment of their disabled We want them to open up the voluntary waythrough the pri vate initiative of the American employer Also we question seriously the wisdom of motivating employers as has been advocated by some by offering a cash re turnsuch as a business tax deduction on the salaries of handicapped employees Our program is based on the prin ciple that a sound and lasting solution to the problem can be attained through public and employer understandingand cooperation the kind that leads to the intelligent resolution of any problem Our product is the handicapped worker Panel on employment problems of special disability groups LeftDr Joseph H Dimon Atlanta Mrs Margaret V Camp Battey State Hospital Rome W C Petty Vocational Rehabilitation Mil ledgeville John W Forrest Assistant Regional Representative of OVR mod erator Virgil G Saylor Veterans Ad ministration Atlanta Miss Evelyn Brockington Crippled Childrens Divi sion State Department of Public Health and Linwood Beck Georgia Heart Asso ciation Atlanta a worker who can produce and work safelya worker who can contribute to the employers profit objective just as well and in many cases better than the nonhandicapped The problem is to cor rect vision We still have many employ ers who have myopia when it comes to seeing abilitybut they have perfect 2020 visual acuity when it comes to see ing disability The Presidents Committee is inter ested in all factors that affect the em ployment of our disabled For example we urge workmens compensation offi cials to speed up referrals of injured workmen to rehabilitation agencies These early referrals help to result in early rehabilitationwhich is most im portant to the individualand they re sult in the early return of the injured worker to his job which is most import ant to our national economy We urge physicians to see the whole man and his vast potentialities for work to know rehabilitation procedures and the physical requirements of the jobs in his areato seek community assistance in the rehabilitation of the injured work man to communicate effectively with the employment officer so that the handi capped worker can be placed properly We urge employers to adopt employ ment policies favorable to the handi cappedthe kind that accepts the prin ciple that an individuals ability and not his disability should be the first consid eration in determining his capacity for employment We ask plant physicians to place the preemployment physical evaluation in its proper perspectiveas a device to encourage the employment of the handi capped not as an instrument for reject ing them We try to gain the understanding and cooperation of safety engineers be cause an intelligent plant safety pro gram is an important factor in employ ment of the handicapped Foremen and supervisors can block the handicapped if they are not in agree ment with the advantages to be derived iekabilltatioivVews At GRA conference front row left to rightVincent P Hippolitus Theodore D Wheaton of Oklahoma City Person nel Director of Tinker Air Force Base and President of the Oklahoma Rehabili tation Association Donald Davis of Ok lahoma City Executive Secretary Gov ernors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped Back rowCarl Fox Ex ecutive Director of the Georgia TB Asso ciation and President of GRA and Geor gia C Beckmann Jr of Warm Springs Presidentelect of GRA Don Davis fulltime Executive Secretary of the Oklahoma Governors Committee spoke on the work of the Governors Committee in a yearround program pro moting job opportunities for handi capped workers Ted Wheaton spoke on personnel policies in employment of the handicapped Tink er Air Force Base has won national recognition for its sound policies in pro viding equal job opportunities for handi capped workers by giving them employment We seek their understanding and cooperation And then there is the small employ er It is important to reach him effec tively because out of the nations 4 million companies fully 4 million are in the category of small business Through our educational and infor mational program we hope that some day the physically handicapped and the mentally restored will receive equal em ployment opportunities as a matter of courseand with full employer realiza tion that there is no financial risk in volved when these workers are properly selected and placed in the jobs they can do safely and wellAekabilitation Ve ws New Grants for Research Vol 10 NovDec 1960 No 10 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmloek 6 1509 Americus S Ga Vocational School Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville 126 N Main St LEnox 47201 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 7773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome314 West Building Phone 46259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Phone PA 23639 Bldg T he Office of Vocational Rehabilitation on December 1 an nounced the award of 110 grants totaling 3461699 to finance the cost of research and demonstration projects Grants for 56 new projects amounted to 1767699 and for 54 continuing projects 1694000 In making the announcement Miss Mary E Switzer OVR Di rector called the initiation and growth of the research program one of the major highlights of her 10 years as head of OVR The grants just announced brought the number to 424 and the total amount to 23 Million since unanimous passage by Congress in 1954 of a new vocational rehabilitation law This law authorized a program of research for the first time Other OVR highlights of the past decade included the following The number of successful rehabilitations of disabled people to productive and satisfying life exceeded the number in the first 30 years of the programs operation by almost 100000 The totals were 589399 from 1921 through 1950 and 686150 for the past 10 years A total of 351 rehabilitation facilities have been constructed expanded or improved These are centers in which services are pro vided for severely disabled people At the same time 153 sheltered workshops in which handicapped people can develop work tolerance work habits and a chance to compete in the open labor market have been established or improved The training of professional personnel to provide services to dis abled people in an expanding program has increased markedly from 77 teaching grants and traineeships for 200 students in 1955 to 212 teaching grants in 150 universities and colleges and traineeships for 1400 students BrunswickWay Building Phone AM 56541 Vet Training Extended A training program for disabled World War II veterans that ended in July has been brought back to life for another five years A W Tate Manager of the Veterans Administration Regional Of fice in Atlanta has announced Some 1000 veteransmost with serious disabilitiesstand to benefit They were undergoing training when the program Public Law 16 came to an end on July 25 A new law permits virtually all of them those who were in training on June 1 to resume their courses at Government expense Also the law established a new deadline of July 25 1965 Mr Tate explained that the vocational training program for most disabled World War II veterans ended four years ago But a special fouryear extension was granted in certain exceptional cases mainly veterans so badly disabled they couldnt possibly have come in under the original deadline It is this four year extension that expired in July and to which five more years have been added by the new law The law does one thing more Mr Tate said It keeps open the doors of the vocational training program to disabled World War II veterans classed as exceptional cases They now have the right to begin training so long as they can complete it by the new 1965 deadlineWins Fight After 12 Years At 22 James E Phillips had his first job after battling for 12 years with crip pling illnesses that at times nearly took his life Though seriously handicapped he was keeping books and doing general office work for the Faulk Plumbing Heating and Air Conditioning Company Tifton where he had on the job training He was also contributing to the support of his parents four brothers and a sister It was James courage and determina tion plus good medical care and the help of many agencies and individuals that made it possible for him to live and work says Prank Harmon the Vocation al Rehabilitation Counselor who worked with the young man for four years James was 18 and in the 11th grade when referred to Vocational Rehabilita tion by his chemistry instructor Records showed that at 10 he had had rheu matic fever and meningitis A cerebral hemmorrhage left him partially para lyzed on his right side He was in a coma for eight days and had temporary loss of speech and memory Doctors held out little hopes for his recovery He was in bed for three months At the time of referral James wanted to complete his high school education but had to give up the idea when heart specialists warned him against attempt ing to walk up the stairs at the three story school building He still had im pairments of the right arm and leg and in his speech A medical examination revealed that Phillips physical condition was worse than it appeared Doctors ordered com plete bed rest and medication Arrange ments were made through the Welfare Department for hospitalization as a stateaid patient He was in the hospital for two months went home for Christmas had a relapse and was readmitted to the hos pital for three weeks Again it appeared he would not live It was seven months before he was well enough to think about training for a job He wanted training as a parts man in an auto supply store or garage but there was some doubt about his phy sical ability to stand up under this type of work He and the Counselor talked about training in commercial courses Tests had shown that he was weak in spelling math and business English Arrange ments were made with a high school commercial teacher to tutor Phillips at night It was a slow process but the young man was making some progress even in typing with one hand Then an other illness delayed his training for about nine months At the end of this period doctors reported Phillips health was better than it had been in years It was then that he was placed with the plumbing establishment for on the job training which led to permanent em ployment Tennessee Leaders Visit School of Deaf Georgias coordinated program of services to the deaf through the Georgia School for the Deaf and the Vocational Rehabilitation Division was studied re cently by two administrators from Tennessee Dr Lloyd Graunke of Knoxville Su perintendent of the Tennessee School for the Deaf and Earl Oldham of Nash ville Director of Tennessees Vocational Rehabilitation Division visited the Cave Spring school on November 28 They were accompanied by Louis Schubert Atlanta Regional Representa tive of the Office of Vocational Rehabili tation Henry Stewart Sr of Cedar town ViceChairman of the State Board of Education Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services and Counselor J B Cheatham of the Rome VR office They spent the day inspecting the fa cilities at the school and discussing the program with Superintendent S A New ton and the staff members The visitors from Tennessee were particularly inter ested in the method by which the school staff and Vocational Rehabilitation Visit print shop Left to rightDr Lloyd Graunke a student Woody Crider shop superintendent and Earl Oldham Counselors work together in guiding deaf children through school and into advanced training if needed to prepare them for successful careersNew Buildings At Mrs Beatrice Stover Homebound Worker Excerpts from story in Gainesville Daily Times Mrs Beatrice Stover of Gainesville was born with muscular dystrophy a dis ease which eats away at the muscle tis sue slowly usually but always steadily But physically and mentally Mrs Stover is a remarkable woman She has fought back against the work of the dis ease In the meantime Mrs Stover has made her life full and meaningful Through her own efforts she has learned how to sew She does not now have the use of her legs but her hands and arms are still strong Physically she is unique because in most cases muscular dystrophy works progressively upon the tissues never letting up its work of deterioration Not so with Mrs Stover The disease is tem porarily static She will have use of her hands and arms for possibly three to five years Because of this the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Division was able to look into and eventually take on her case Said Vocational Rehabilitation Coun selor Ralph Hampton Most times we cannot take on muscular dystrophy cases we must wait until the disabling condition has become permanent and static We observed her about six months before we were able to officially deter mine the disease had become arrested and then we were able to give her some help In addition Hampton said there was no problem in teaching Mrs Stover a trade She already knew one Through the auspices of Vocational Rehabilitation Mrs Stover has a sewing machine and is building up something of a clientele Said Hampton She does fine work so we recommend her when ever we can The State Board of Education has authorized a contract for the construc tion of new dormitory and dining facili ties for boys in intermediate and high school grades at the Georgia School for the Deaf Cave Spring Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Vocational Rehabili tation Services has announced Plans call for three cottagetype build ings with living quarters in each for 48 boys and two house parents The fourth building of similar design will be a dining hall with a recreation area and living quarters for the Dean of Men and a house parent Each dormitory will have two play rooms equipped with TV sets The buildings will be of brick struc tural tile and steel construction They will be connected by 10ft covered walks which can be used for skating The new facility will relieve the over crowded condition that has existed at the boys dormitory for several years The present boys dormitory will be modernized to provide additional accom modations for girls Rules for Essay Contest Clifford Clarke Jr Chairman of the Governors Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped has an nounced the theme rules and closing dates of the 1961 National Essay Con test among 11th and 12th grade stu dents in Georgia schools The theme for this years contest is Jobs for the Handicappeda Commu nity Challenge Five prizes ranging from 100 to 10 will be awarded Georgia students These prizes have been provided by the Asso ciated Industries of Georgia Inc The firstplace essay in each state will be entered in the National competition sponsored by the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Physically Handi capped The first place winners in each state will get an expensepaid trip to Washington as guest of the AFLCIO to attend the annual meeting of the Presidents Committee The Georgia contest will close March 1 1961 The essays should be mailed to Mr Clarke at 680 West Peachtree street N W Atlanta Architects drawing of the proposed new dormitory and dining facility at the Georgia School for the Deaf Cave SpringWillie Fred Williams 43 of Eaton ton Rt 1 is shown in top panel at the Warm Springs Foundation where he was sent by Vocational Rehabilitation for physical evalu ation and therapy Williams was unable to use his lower limbs and was limited in all body movements Anill Lockett 39 of Plains is shown in the center panel before and after surgery for the removal of a large tumorous mass on the side of her face The facial de formity was affecting her eyesight and making it difficult for her to carry on her work as a fish bait grader and packer The operation was performed without cost to Vo cational Rehabilitation services She is employed by the Carter Worm Farm which has been oper ating about 11 years Mr Hugh Carter said her earnings were well above the minimum wage The Carter farm last year shipped about 30000000 worms according to reports The enterprise was fea tured recently in an article in a national magazine Products of the arts and crafts classes at the Negro unit of the Georgia Academy for the Blind were on display recently at a lo cal fair See lower panel They attracted widespread interest Children at the Academy get aca demic training through the high school level together with selected vocational courses THE GEORGIA ACADEMY FOR NEGRO BLIND fiBSSQpii Mm CHAIR J f INDUSTRIAL RTS Mams II MB m cHAFag t lw jF t MBKl ABILITY COUNTS HIRE THE HANDICAPPED Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 kqilzitionz Division University of Georgia libraries Athens Georgia Ft Beriming PX Gets Citation The Fort Benning Post Exchange was cited recently by the Presidents Com mittee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped for its outstanding record in providing equal job opportunities for qualified handicapped workers in civil ian personnel The nomination was sponsored by the Columbus Committee on Employment of the Handicapped the Georgia State Em ployment Service and the Vocational Re habilitation Division The Employers Merit Award was pre sented recently to Major General Hugh P Harris Commanding General of the Infantry Center at a luncheon in the Officers Club The presentation was made by Georgias Commissioner of La bor Ben T Huiet representing the Governors Committee Major General Hugh P Harris center Commanding General of the Infantry Center Fort Benning receives Employers Merit Award for the Post Exchange The presentation was made by Georgias Com missioner of Labor Bent T Huiet right At left Marion William son Director of the Georgia Employment Security AgencyveeorV0caVIOtVcc iMabllltatioiv Jkws Je on Pace 3Will Roberts 45 and his wife shown behind the counter clients of Vocational Rehabilitation serv ices operate a neighborhood gro cery store and grill at 1074 Ada Avenue N W Atlanta after a long period of unemployment growing out of disabilities He had a congenital impairment of the back arthritis and other disabilities She had arthritis and a lung condition They have five children ranging in age from 17 to 4 and were referred to VR by the Fulton County Welfare De partment He received some physi cal restoration services including surgery She received some medi cal treatment They also were giv en financial assistance in equip ping and stocking the establish ment Before becoming disabled Roberts had operated a restaurant at Cumming Electrician Brooks Jackson ex treme left in center panel at 40 was forced out of his job in 1959 by a stroke which left him with limb impairments He has a wife and nine children ranging in age from 15 to 3 He too was referred by the Fulton DPW Through Vo cational Rehabilitation services he was aided in getting new tools and equipment to go in business for himself The Jacksons live at 1156 Gordon Street S W Atlanta He did the electrical work for the Roberts enterprise He is shown here with Will Roberts Fortyyearold Mack McGee right in center panel is back in the service station business after being out of work for a long time because of arthritis He also has a visual disability in one eye McGee operates the Little Oil Company station off Main street in East Point He has a wife and five chil dren in age ranges 14 to 4 and came to VR through the Fulton DPW He received treatment and was aided in getting needed equip ment and stock for his station For years J B Shealey 43 left in lower panel had been a truck driver for commercial lines A stroke and a heart condition forced him to give up his job Married and the father of five children 16 to 3 he needed help to get back on his feet He was referred to VR by the Fulton DPW and was provided with some treatment for the heart condition Then he was aided in opening a service station at 826 Bankhead Avenue Atlanta Handicapped by curvature of the spine and other disabilities Mrs Dorothy Springer right in lower panel a widow with three children under 12 was aided by Vocational Rehabilitation in getting training in beauty culture and equipping her own shop at 1112 Delaware Avenue S E Atlanta She was awarded one of three prizes for her class at school She too came to VR through the Fulton County DPWProject for MentallyIll Approved A project to determine the effective ness of Vocational Rehabilitation serv ices in the treatment of psychiatric pa tients has been undertaken at Milledge ville with a grant of Federal funds Its the latest of seven research and demonstration projects authorized for Georgia under the 1954 amendments to the Federal Vocational Rehabilitation laws For nearly three years the Vocational Rehabilitation Division and the State Department of Public Health have been working together in a team approach to the rehabilitation of mentally ill pa tients receiving shortterm intensive treatment in general hospitals The new project will involve some patients with longterm illnesses The Federal funds granted through the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation will provide for a special staff and services The teams will include Vo cational Rehabilitation specialists psy chiatrists psychiatric social workers psychologists psychiatric nurses and therapists Records show that about 3500 pa tients are discharged annually from the Milledgeville State Hospital It is esti mated that between 500 and 700 would be eligible for and could receive sub stantial benefits from vocational re habilitation services The patients accepted for services un der the project will be given trial work experiences in real work situations At Milledgeville there are shops and other facilities of types usually found in small cities Permission has been granted to use these facilities in the vocational pro gram such as woodworking carpentry sheet metal electric motor repairs elec tric wiring automobile mechanics up holstery sewing air conditioning and refrigeration The project at intensive treatment centers was inaugurated at Eugene Tal madge Memorial Hospital Augusta in 1958 When the center was opened at Atlantas Grady Hospital a Rehabilita tion Specialist was assigned to the team tliGrs As of January 1 this year 264 pa tients at the two hospitals had received services Eightysix of them were back at work thirtythree on their former jobs In many instances the Rehabilita tion Counselor interceded to get the tension creating operations of the jobs Some of the major job classifications were Industrial clerical sales waitress truck driver service station attendant farm labor beautifician At the same time 18 clients were in training in schools and on the job The jobs objectives for which they were training included clerical work business administrator cosmetology dry clean ing auto mechanics barber teacher cabinet maker practical nurse elec trician and bookkeeper Many of those in training were re ceiving psychotherapy to support them during the training period Twentyone others were ready for employment when suitable jobs could be found for them The other Georgia projects are The Bobby Dodd Workshop for the mentally retarded sponsored by the Greater At lanta Chapter of the Georgia Associa tion for Retarded Children a similar workshop in Savannah sponsored by the WNHt MAlt MAY SlTtHMUMI EOTUL ttt Robert M Long right Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist for psychiatric cases at the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital Inten sive Treatment Center Augusta shows some of the occupational information available to clients Bringing together the occupational information with the clients measured aptitudes and interests leads to possible solutions of the clients vocational problem Shown above is a client back to camera being interviewed by the team at the Grady Hospital Intensive Treatment Center Atlanta In the picture I to r are Lewis Morris Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist Mrs Marjorie Scott RN Miss Sara E Cooper RN Miss Jackie Daugherty HN Dr J M Perkins Ward Administra tor Dr P M Templer Jr Resident Psychiatrist and Dr W L Maden Chief Resident Psychiatrist Chatham County Association a project sponsored by the Medical College of Georgia to evaluate the effectiveness of medical services provided to persons with orthopedic disabilities in relation to their vocational adjustment the optical aid clinic at Grady Hospital and the greenhouse project at the Georgia Acad emy for the Blind Macon to expand employment opportunities for blind per sons in greenhouse and nursery occupa tions Occupational therapists plav an important part in the rehabilita tion of emotionally disturbed pa tients Shown here is Miss Betty Hodges OT right demonstrat ing the supervision of the work of a VR client in a creative activity at the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital Intensive Treatment Cen ter MabtlitatiotViAWs 0Vo GoovioVooooo MabilitatioriiAWs Vol 10 JanFeb 1961 No 11 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 6 1509 Americus S Ga Vocational School Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville 126 N Main St 126 N LEnox 47201 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 7773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome314 West Building Phone 46259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 BrunswickWay Building Phone AM 56541 Problems of Aged Viewed HT JL he workshop on Vocational Rehabilitation at the White House Conference on Aging made some definite recommendations to the Section on Rehabilitation for use in the preparation of the full report They were 1That Vocational Rehabilitation services be improved and ex panded so that older disabled persons may maintain or regain their ability to work and secure suitable employment 2That staffs be increased to provide specialized services to older disabled persons through the establishment of special pro grams in the national Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in state offices in other public and voluntary agencies 3That additional funds both public and voluntary be allocated for program development and services in behalf of Vocational Rehabilitation for the aging 4That local State and national organizations interested in and concerned with the problems of the aging initiate programs of edu cation to create more job opportunities for qualified older workers 5That there is great and urgent need to more fully implement the existing Vocational Rehabilitation laws so that older persons may receive their full share of the authorized services 6That legislation be enacted and funds appropriated to encour age the establishment expansion and support of communitybased clientcentered rehabilitation workshop opportunities for the aging which shall provide under sound professional and administrative standards vocational diagnostic and therapeutic services and termi nal employment for those who cannot be moved into competitive employment 7That a program be developed and supported under national standards to provide such services for the aging as are presently available and authorized under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act that will lead toward achieving increased capacity for selfcare and independence 8Although progress has been made in improving the imple mentation of the disability benefit features of the Social Security Act it is recommended that in the interest of the individual and the community at large that the national and state agencies con cerned with this law continue to explore the methodology for the maximum utilization of their respective skills in order to carry out the intent of the law 9That every effort be made through a cooperative program at the national and local level to bring to the attention of the com munity at large the opportunities for professional careers in all phases of rehabilitation work and that appropriate steps be taken at all levels to maintain a competitive position for attracting quali fied prospective employees to the rehabilitation fieldHelp for Older Disabled Urged Rehabilitation of disabled persons in the older age brackets was one of the major topics discussed at the White House Conference on Aging January 11 12 attended by about 3000 delegates and observers Georgia was represented at the con ference by a delegation of 40 recom mended by the Governors Commission on Aging and 10 representatives of na tional agencies with headquarters in the Dr Howard A Rusk head of the New York Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation was Chairman of the Section on Rehabilitation This section like the others came up with a policy statement and recom mendations The policy statement said Rehabilitation is the only hope for those afflicted with and disabled by chronic or degenerative conditions until such time as specific means are found to prevent and cure them The rehabili tation program must be dynamic and total designed to meet the physical emo tional social and vocational needs of the chronically ill and disabled Only a fraction of those needing these services can secure them due to lack of facilities personnel financial re sources and knowledge as to the oppor tunities available through such dynamic rehabilitation In an effort to meet these deficiencies and promote understanding the following recommendations are of fered by the Section on Rehabilitation Vocational rehabilitation services must be improved and expanded so that older disabled persons may obtain or regain their ability to work and secure suitable employment This requires staff increases greater public understanding of career oppor tunities in rehabilitation additional funds specifically allocated for the voca tional rehabilitation of the aging crea tion of more job opportunities for quali fied older workers continued explora tion of methodology for maximum utili zation of the work skills of beneficiaries receiving Social Security disability bene fits the enactment of Federal grantsin aid legislation to help communities es tablish rehabilitation workshops meet ing acceptable standards to provide diag nostic and therapeutic services and terminal employment for those not capa ble of competitive work Such workshops should be eligible to secure Federal surplus property on the same basis as schools and hospitals Qualified teachers must be provided and well structured units concerned with the teaching of rehabilitation principles need to be established or expanded in schools of medicine dentistry nursmg and in departments of psychology edu cation and other related disciplines both on the graduate and undergraduate level Hospitals and rehabilitation centers should have adequate outpatient and in patient facilities for the rehabilitation of the aging Rehabilitation services could well be a condition of accreditation for hospitals particularly those with ap proved internship training programs Facilities offering longterm care should be required to have minimum re habilitation services to be licensed or otherwise approved Staff training pro grams should be available The fee struc ture should be such as to encourage the provision of rehabilitation services These facilities should be encouraged to affiliate with organized and approved training programs for the improvement of their nonprofessional staff Persons with practical knowledge may serve a useful purpose to supplement the serv ices of professional workers Geriatric rehabilitation must begin with the first professional exposure and persistently continue in the institution or institution to which the patient is subsequently admitted Prompt and com prehensive rehabilitation evaluation must be made at the earliest possible time to determine the patients future needs Admission of emotionally disturbed older people to psychiatric institutions should be preceded by a thorough evalua tion by qualified medical personnel A Federal grant in aid program should be established to help states de velop programs designed to inculcate rehabilitation practices in governmental nonprofit and proprietary institutions providing longterm services to handi capped older people This would involve research demonstration and training of personnel Communities should develop addition al supporting services and facilities such as home care programs homemaker services day hospitals patient clubs halfway houses foster homes and pre ventive clinics for well older people Careful attention to the training of the aging in the use of prosthetic and self care devices would enable many of them to lead more independent lives State councils of representatives of public agencies concerned with rehabili tation services to seriously handicapped older persons should be established Lo cal councils should be organized also to serve as centers for public information referral and planning services Public assistance agencies should be given the financial resources to imple ment the provisions of their laws for selfhelp and self care to include persons who are not recipients of public assist ance They should strengthen the re habilitation concept in their medical care programs State rehabilitation agencies should utilize existing authority to provide more rehabilitation services to older people Arbitrary age limits where they exist should be removed Public health agen cies should be more adequately financed in order to allow them to assume a greater responsibiliy in the field of re habilitation and related services Voluntary and other health insurance plans should provide inpatient plans as well as outpatient coverage for rehabili tation services in hospitals and in re habilitation centers As one means of strengthening re habilitation efforts consideration should be given to the establishment of a Na tional Institute of Rehabilitation Research should be encouraged to identify administrative and organiza tional patterns through which rehabili tation services can be provided effec tively for older people In this and other fields voluntary effort must be encour aged at all levels and individual com munity initiative emphasized Churches schools libraries and other public and private institutions should be alert to the needs of older handicapped people with in the scope of their own activities There should be a Federal grantinaid program to help communities establish rehabilitation facilities as well as work shops To promote the wellbeing of per sons suffering visual loss and maintain their integration as members of society there are available a considerable array of valid processes These consist of two major kinds 1 means of sight preservation and restoration including visual aids and 2 means of selfmanagement as blind individuals For the first of these the combined talents of medicine optometry and so cial work require special facilities and training under the ageis of properly constituted public health programs For the second resources of rehabili tation are required particularly skills in selfmanagement as developed in re habilitation centers for the blind as well as the liberal use of such motivation measures as reader and guide service Pragmatically sanctioned treatment and care as developed in various exist ing programs for the blind can be serv iceable to the aged population if ex panded There is need to learn more about the true function of work leisure and recreation in the lives of aging per sons with visual loss There is both ignorance and com placency with respect to the serious problems presented by hearing loss among the aging There is great need therefore to point up the problems of the hard of hearing and the deaf and to stimulate public concern We need to establish a system for casefinding in both urban and rural areas and to promote the training of professional and technical personnel Hearing aids and training in their use should be provided as needed We need also to devise special plans for the job placement and job maintenance for our older people with hearing impairments Appropriate safety provisions for these older individuals with hearing loss should be incorporated in housing plan ning Deaf persons requiring institu tional care should be provided appro priate accommodations in institutions serving the aged Several million of our older citizens are dependent on others for meeting the normal demands of daily living They cannot travel feed themselves dress communicate adequately or move about without aid If they were provided mod ern rehabilitation services many could once again learn to live their lives in independence and with greater dignity Some could return to work The benefits from rehabilitation services would extend not only to these disabled persons alone but to their fami lies and society as a whole A Federal grantinaid program should be estab lished to provide the rehabilitation serv ices they need that would lead to inde pendent living The recommendations of the White House conference if followed not only would change the course and tempo of the present program of rehabilitation of the aged but would make possible new lives of dignity for a considerable seg ment of our populationRegional Job Meeting Planned Three hundred representatives of agencies concerned with the rehabilita tion and employment of physically dis abled persons are expected in Atlanta on May 25 for a regional meeting of the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped The Georgia Governors Committee on EPH will be the host agency It will be the first time a regional meeting of this type has been held in Georgia Similar sessions have been held in Biloxi Miami and Montgomery The states to be represented besides Geor gia are Alabama Florida Mississippi South Carolina and Tennessee Clifford M Clarke Jr Executive Di rector of the Associated Industries of Georgia and Chairman of the Governors Committee said the program is de signed to focus attention upon the eco nomic importance of giving qualified handicapped persons equal opportunities for employment There will be panel discussions of re habilitation and placement services pre employment medical examinations which set up barriers to the hiring of persons with heart conditions and other types of disabilities Governor Ernest Vandiver is sched uled to welcome the visitors Maj Gen Melvin J Maas USMC Ret Chairman of the Presidents Committee will speak at the morning session Dr G Roy Fugal Manager of Em ployment Practices of the General Elec tric Company New York will be the principal speaker at the luncheon Topics for discussion during the after noon session include The Tennessee Approach to promoting job opportuni ties for the handicapped YearRound programs of Service to the handicap ped Workshops Placement of the Severely disabled South Carolinas Program for the Mentally Retarded and How Workmens Compensation Af fects Employment of the Handicapped All sessions will be held at the Bilt more Hotel School for Deaf Services Featured Romes NewsTribune Columnist Ber nard Street featured the services of the Georgia School for the Deaf Cave Spring in a recent issue of the Rome daily Here are some excerpts from the column The important role played by the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Spring is often overlooked even by resi dents of Floyd County and it is good to see that the State Board of Education has approved 350000 in funds for the construction of three badly needed new dormitories at the school The institution which has been serv ing Georgians for 113 years has an en rollment of 336 white students and 150 Negro students from all sections of the state Allocation of the money to the School for the Deaf recommended by Dr A P Jarrell Director of Vocational Re habilitation will enable Supt S A New ton to authorize completion of architect drawings and bids probably can be taken in April Coinciding with the announcement of the fund allocation is the current issue of The School Helper official publica tion of the Georgia School for the Deaf produced by a joint facultystudent staff and printed in the schools printing de partment The current edition of The School Helper places special emphasis on the widespread vocational program for students although the school also stresses an academic program Students at the School for the Deaf including boys and girls of all ages are given an opportunity to learn to work with their hands as well as their minds developing skills which enable many graduates to step into jobs immediately following their graduation And most of the vocational subjects being taught pre pare the graduates for skilled wellpay ing jobs The vocational program at the School for the Deaf ranges from subjects as cosmetology to power sewing for girls to home economics and other fields For the boys the school offers complete courses with proper tools and equip ment for mastering such trades as printing shoe repair woodworking and masonry with courses being offered for both white and Negro students New Vending Stand Another unit soon will be added to Georgias chain of vending stands for the blind operated by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division and the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc The 1961 session of the General As sembly passed a bill authorizing the Secretary of State as keeper of the Capitol building and grounds to provide space for the stand in the Capitol The stand probably will be located on the ground floor of the building There are stands in several other stateowned buildingsS t a t e Office Agricultural Department State High way Department and Public Safety De partment Charlie Call 49 of Douglasville Rt 1 had a congenital spinal im pairment which became a job handicap after a back injury He had worked as an automotive parts man and learned the fundamentals of motor mechanics After the ac cident he was unable to work for a long period He came to Voca tional Rehabilitation through the Welfare Department and was aid ed in getting needed surgery tools and equipment Now he operates his own business dismantling and rebuilding wrecked cars selling parts and doing repairs The Calls have two children Sewing is a popular vocational course offered at the Georgia School for the Deaf Cave Spring It prepares the trainees for jobs in garment industries and for homemaking duties Shown in the top panel are Cornelia White of Savannah and at right Estelle Long of Mt Zion Brick masonry is a popular course for boys at the Georgia School for the deaf Students are taught the basic skills of the trade In practice classes they develop the speed necessary for jobs in the trade after graduation Shown in the picture center panel are from left Horace Parrish instruc tor Jerome Buchanan LaFayette Grady Payne Toccoa Ralph Jack son Bartow Willie Donalson Bainbridge Russell Williams Cairo and Robert Crockett Doug Boys and girls at the Georgia School for the Deaf have oppor tunities to learn the skills required for jobs in the laundry and dry cleaning business Seniors must be able to master operations on both laundry and dry cleaning equip ment before receiving vocational certificates Shown in the picture lower panel are from left Clar ence Reese Atlanta James Hutch ins Hogansville Henry Kennedy Cobbtown Clarence Jones Hape ville Patricia Gibson Atlanta and Valeria McClendon Cuthbert Other vocational courses at the Negro unit include woodworking shoe repairing cosmetology and home economics 11iDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aqui3lticms Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Georgia Woodworking is one of the vocational courses offered at the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Spring Students are taught to follow printed directions and mechanical drawings how to use hand and power tools and machines They also have opportunities to gain experience in making various types of articles and in doing minor repairs on furniture Shown in the picture from left are Emmet Lewis Cartersville Delmar Shealy Tallapoosa and Roland Swanson Atlanta clvobllitatioiv Mws UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA 6 Despite a visual disability Willie B Collins operates a cabinet shop at Carrollton He was attempting to support his wife and eleven chil dren on a farm when referred to Vocational Rehabilitation He was sent to the adjustment center at the Georgia Academy for the Blind Macon where he discovered an apti tude for woodworking Arrange ments were made for the shop loca tion and Collins built the walls and poured the cement floor Voca tional Rehabilitation provided the equipment Thomas Lee Huckaba left in center panel was disabled for more than four months by what was diagnosed as hysterical blindness Through counseling he regained his confidence and sight and found a suitable job in a Carrollton soft drink bottling plant He says he is making more money than he did before his handicapping experience and seems happy with his present situation A veteran of the Korean conflict Frank Rinaldi right in center pan el lost an eye in an accident while working on the fan belt of a car He received treatment at a Vet erans Hospital and was referred to Vocational Rehabilitation Through VR services he was aided in getting initial stock for a service station in Augusta Delmar Shealy left in lower panel learned woodworking while attending the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Spring Upon graduation this spring he was placed in the Quality Furniture Manufacturing Company plant at Tallapoosa Jerry Cosper right in lower panel who has impaired lower limbs resulting from a spinal in jury in a motorcycle accident now operates a watch repair shop at Bowdon Before the acident he was a shipping clerk in a rubber plant He received treatment at Warm Springs and training at the North Georgia Trade School Clarkesville Vocational Rehabilitation also aid ed him in getting tools and equip ment for his shopRehabilitations Reach Record High In making public the telegram repro duced on this page from Miss Mary Switzer Director of the Office of Voca tional Rehabilitation Washington Gov ernor Ernest Vandiver said This is an enviable record one which amply demonstrates Georgias determina tion to rehabilitate the maximum number of its disabled citizens But we have not and will not slacken our efforts merely because of what we have achieved in the past Before us lie even greater goals in the field of con servation of our human resources During the year which ended June 30 more than 12800 disabled persons were provided with one or more services 6014 were restored to jobs and 6111 were on the active rolls preparatory to placement At the end of the year 7955 applications for assistance were pending The number of rehabilitations in 1960 61 fiscal year represented an increase of 100 over the previous years record The major types of disabilities in the cases rehabilitated included Orthopedic impairments except ampu tations 1162 amputations of upper ex tremities 111 amputations of lower ex tremities 359 amputations of upper and lower extremities 4 blind 332 other vis ual impairments 347 emotional disorders 252 deaf 55 hard of hearing 151 ar rested tuberculosis 140 cardiac diseases 110 mental retardation 100 epilepsy 81 and speech impairments 39 Records show that 411 were removed from welfare rolls at an estimated annual savings of 414041 of tax funds The job classifications in which these men and women were placed were pro fessional 167 semiprofessional and man agerial 151 clerical and sales 606 serv ice occupations 1436 agricultural 703 skilled 524 semiskilled 743 unskilled 362 sheltered workshops 16 and home making 1306 Another Record The OASI Disability Determination unit which reviews applications for dis ability benefits under the Social Security program processed a record number of cases during the year Records show that 15833 applications were received an increase of 5083 over 195960 fiscal year Determinations were made in 15169 cases an increase of 3870 over the previous years record Counselor for Deaf J H Whitworth who for the past three years has been associated with the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Spring has been appointed Voca tional Rehabilitation Counselor to work statewide with deaf persons Dr A P Jarrell Director of Rehabilitation Serv ices has announced Mr Whitworth will make his head quarters at Cave Spring and continue to counsel students at the school TELEGRAM Honorable S Ernest Vandiver Governor of Georgia Atlanta Georgia Once again I have the pleasure of congratulating you on the per formance of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation during the year that ended June 30 1961 This Agency set a new alltime record for the state in the number of disabled men and women restored to productive employment and satisfying life with 6014 rehabilitations This ranks Georgia third among all states in total rehabilitations be hind New York and Pennsylvania respectively in both of which the population vastly exceeds that of Georgia In addition Georgia rehabili tated 152 disabled people per 100000 of population which is three times as great as the national average of 51 This ranks Georgia second only to West Virginia in this respect West Virginia rehabili tated 188 per 100000 of population This is a record to be proud of one in which all of the people of Georgia can share the great economic and social benefits that result and one which your leadership and support and that of your Legislature made possible Not only were the overall results of your Rehabilitation program outstanding but they result from as wellbalanced a program as any state can boast with great emphasis placed on restoring those with such severe dis abilities as mental illness mental retardation blindness and many crippling diseases and disorders Further your programs of research and training are exceptionally wellbalanced and effective All who are concerned with the betterment of the lot of the disabled are grateful to you for your support of your Director Dr A Polk Jarrell and the dedicated intelligent and indefatigable staff that he has assembled to serve the disabled in all parts of the state Certainly you have my gratitude and my highest commendation Miss Mary E Switzer Director Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Department of Health Education and Welfare siciati s Dr Fred H Simonton of Chickamauga President of the Medical Association of Georgia spoke on the Role of the Family Physician in Rehabilitation at the re cent Vocational Rehabilitation staff train ing conference in Savannah Here are some excerpts from his ad dress Until recently physicians have devot ed their major attention to the cause diagnosis and treatment of acute ill nesses However the amount of chronic illness among aged persons is constantly increasing and there is a need to abandon the traditional attitudes of passive accep tance and neglect of this group of people There is a need to place the physical psychological social and vocational re habilitation of the chronically ill on the same level with medicine and surgery for the acutely ill and thus restore them to the highest degree of vocational pro ductivity and usefulness One of the major responsibilities of a physician who has prevented the death of an extensively paralyzed patient or otherwise chronically ill person is to restore such patient to selfrespecting citizenship by every means possible Physicians as humanitarians should be striving to assist in the great social endeavor of rehabilitation of the disabled which is being made by the StateFederal program and other agencies The goal 111 of this program is the rehabilitation of 200000 persons each year The rehabilitation process requires the combined efforts of a wide variety of professional groupsphysicians physical therapists speech pathologists audio logists social workers vocational coun selors and many others Serious shortages are apparent in all of these professional fields For eample there is a total of 8000 practicing physical thera pists in the United States at the present time and it is estimated that 5800 more are needed in hospitals and rehabilitation centers across the country There are only 38 approved physical therapy schools in the United States which produce 500 graduates a year Currently only about 300 rehabilitation counselors are being trained each year when the figure could be as high as 1200 without producing more than could be profitably employed While we have made tremendous strides in recent years in the treatment and management of disability and we know more about how to restore these people to active lives than ever before we are confronted with a tragic paradox we have several million disabled persons in the older age brackets who constitute the largest group of disabled people in the nation and who are not receiving the services which would enable them to lead full and useful lives3Ho Ooorqi oOoooooX AekabilitatioiY AWs Vol 10 JulyAugust 1961 No 12 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 61509 Americus105 E Forsyth Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville 126 N Main St LEnox 47201 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 7773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome314 West Building Phone 46259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 BrunswickWay Building Phone AM 56541 New Superintendent at GSD Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools has an nounced the appointment of Fred L Sparks Jr a former resident of Columbus as Superintendent of the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Spring Mr Sparks succeeds S A Newton who had been superintendent at the school for three years Mr Newton asked to be relieved of his duties as administrator because of health He has joined the Voca tional Rehabilitation staff in the Augusta area The changes became effective August 1 Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Rehabilitation Services who directs the school for the Deaf and the Georgia Academy for the Blind said We are fortunate in getting such a wellqualified person as Mr Sparks to accept the appointment A graduate of Clemson College South Carolina Mr Sparks received the MA degree from Gallaudet College for the deaf Wash ington D C and devoted several summers to postgraduate work He served on the faculty of the school for the deaf in Morganton N C and was vocational principal of West Virginia School for the Deaf For 14 years he had been superintendent of the Central New York School for the Deaf at Rome During World War II he was an officer in the Armed Forces stationed at Fort Benning He is a Colonel in the Army Reserves Mr Sparks is the author of numerous articles on specialized education for deaf children He is married and the father of two daughters etvoblUtatlotv Mws COVER Shown here are views of the vending stand opened recently on the ground floor of the State Capitol Atlanta by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division and the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc a nonprofit organization working with the Division Installation of the stand was authorized under legislation passed at the 1961 session of the General Assembly The equipment was designed especially for this location Shown in the picture from left to right are William P Cribb Jr Assistant Supervisor of Business Enter prises Jack Minter Director of the State Department of Commerce Dr A P Jar rell State Director of Rehabilitation Services Dr Claude Purcell State Super intendent of Schools and Ben Fortson Secretary of State and Keeper of Public Buildings and Grounds and William Wat kins stand operator Watkins is a grad uate of the Georgia Academy for the Blind Macon and operated a stand in Gainesville before being transferred to the new unit Another stand employee is Mickey Smith who graduated from the Academy last year There are now 67 stands employing 98 blind persons in operation in the state Sales last year exceeded 1191000 Rehabilitation Faces New Challenges By Dr A P Jarrell Director Rehabilitation Services Excerpts from address at staff conference in Savannah For the first time as a nation we are recognizing the unmet needs of several important popula tion groups which have always been with us but are now growing to propor tions which demand action These severe ly disabled the men tally ill the mental ly retarded and the aged disabled have been deprived of the capacity to live com petitively on a de cent level Each of you in childhood youth and maturity has seen someone fall victim to a serious disease or disabling injury Sometimes we remember them as shutin others we hazily recall as being in the hospital for a long time Some get around a bit trying to work occasionally at odd jobs Many just seem to disappear from our personal lives They join that army of disabled people who fill the chronic dis ease hospitals the back bedrooms of thousands of homes the mental institu tions the nursing and convalescent homes the institutions for the aged and infirm and homes for the poor These and other victims of handicap ping conditions make up the millions of disabled men and women in this country who could be rehabilitated and returned to places of usefulness in our society No one knows the actual numbers of their heartaches or their suffering But with proper services thousands could leave their wheelchairs their beds in hospitals and homes able to care for themselves and with renewed interest in the world in which they live Estimates by responsible national or ganizations shed some light on the extent of disabling conditions among our citi zens They indicate there are in the Unit ed States some 260000 blind persons ap proximately 6000 in Ga 2000000 with diabetes appromixately 45000 in Ga 500000 with tuberculosis approximately 12000 in Ga more than 200000 ampu tees approximately 6000 in Ga who require artificial limbs more than 50000 multiple sclerotics approximately 1500 in Ga more than 750000 have epilepsy approximately 18000 in Ga About 10500 new cases of cerebral palsy appear each year approximately 250 in Ga It is estimated there are 220000 cardiacs in Georgia out of 10 million in the United States There are approximately 38000 persons in Georgia now suffering from mental illness There are in Georgia more than 78000 mentally retarded of all ages considered educable and 36906 in the age group 15 to 49 These are only part of the picture There are dozens of other disabling ill nesses and accidents and their victims number into the millions Not all of them can be rehabilitated Some have conditions beyond the reach of medical science today But there are in the nation at least 2000000 disabled who can be rehabilitated more than 50000 in Ga and we as individuals and as a nation must bring them back into useful places in society The challenge they present is both a responsibility and an opportunity for to day we are in a position to do more to master the disabling effects of illness and accidents than ever before in history The new medical knowledge which has been added to our scientific arsenal in recent years has made it possible to offer hope to thousands of disabled men and women who even twentyfive years ago would have been beyond help Yet the strong arm of science which has opened these opportunities for deal ing with disabling conditions has at the same time been phenomenally successful in its lifesaving mission and thereby has contributed to the number of disabled persons who survive today Thanks to wonder drugs vastly improved surgery better hospital facilities and a host of other advances thousands of our people are alive today who with the same illness or injury fifty years ago would have died However many of them who leave the hospital cured also leave with a serious disability Each of them represents a precious human life savedyet each raises the question of whether the same society which can save a life can also give meaning to it We are becoming a nation of older people with all the physical and other problems which go with advanced years Two thousand years ago mans average life expectancy was about 25 years At the beginning of the twentieth century it was fortynine in this country At present the average for our entire popu lation is above sixtyeight and the figure promises to keep rising As our population becomes older it can be expected that chronic disease and its resultant physical disability will in crease correspondingly Studies show that the higher the age group the greater the percentage of chronic disease and dis ability Lacking a cure for many of the chronic diseases that produce disability we must depend on rehabilitation to teach the dis abled to live within the limits of their disabilities and to the full extent of their capabilities We pay for disability one way or another Along with the human factors there are economic considerations which touch every taxpayer in our country Each year we spend large sums of state and federal money to maintain thousands of persons who have been forced onto public assistance rolls because they are disabled and unable to support them selves and their families Most of us can readily understand the personal tragedies of these men and women but few of us have realized that thousands of these people can be rehabilitated and returned to productive satisfying lives at a saving of millions in public funds The future of our Nation and of the World depends on those who are willing to prepare for tomorrow and accept what tomorrow brings To effectively serve our economy Re habilitation must be geared to face chang ing time and to meet new challenges The whole manpower picture is undergoing drastic changes Mechanization and auto mation are ever replacing competent experienced workers Dr Walter Heller President Kennedys chief economist re cently said Automation will take the tremendous toll of 10 million U S jobs in the next five years In this dynamic changeover in which all things are characterized by expansion and growth we need people who are prepared to move and grow In the economy of this nuclear powered missile age we need soundly educated and highly trained optimistic people as rehabilitation personnel to think and lead Individuals who never worked because of disability or who have worked but become unemployed by automation we must assist New problems demand new ideasnew action We must dedicate our selves and reevaluate our assets so that we can be of more assistance in training retraining and rechanneling disabled workers to industry old and new where worker abilities and skills can be utilized and where they can earn a living wage After a disabled person with or with out your help obtains work he could build for the future by doing for his employer what he said he would do Noth ing speaks so clearly as a job well done There is no business trade or profes sion that is not hungry for men and women who will face problems and solve them There are few if any citizens of this country who do not wish to see that handicapped men and women get a chance to master their disabilities and take up active lives Yet wishing will not make it so The problems of our handicapped fellow citizens make themselves felt throughout our communitiesin taxes in medical talent in building costs in lost manpower and in broken homesand therefore are problems which concern all of us Solving them requires action by individuals who understand and feel keenly the importance of this need by communities which accept their civic re sponsibilities for their neighbors and by state and federal governments which eive their wholehearted support in bring ing more handicapped individuals into full and active roles as American citizens The handicapped people of our country ask no more than the opportunity to com pete on an equal basis for the privilege of living in a democratic society Provid ing this opportunity will demonstrate to the world the value and the emphasis that we in a democracy place on human worth and the dignity of menInfirmity tepping Stone to Better Thin By Dr Scott B Appleby Excerpts from address at staff conference in Savannah George Washington once said We were created not for ourselves but to help others It seems that statement is a perfect explanation for the creation of your Agency Your works your aims and purposes in fact your entire program encompasses no other purpose You seek nothing for yourselves but to labor live and have your being in the service you are able to give to your fellowman I like to think of you as a group who day after day journey down the Jericho Road seeking to be a good Samaritan to some fellowman who has fallen victim to a crippling accident or to some devas tating virus You are in no sense messengers of charity but if such a name should attach to any of your actions please know that such actions must be wrapped in kindness and delivered without condescension Strictly speaking you are distributors of an economic welfare a common good from a common fund If this service has not been directly earned by its recipient it has been earned for them by their forbears their friends and their community We are living in the most complicated physical era which the world has ever known Never before in the history of man has it been so easy to live and at the same time so easy to die Never before has man received so much from mechanics from medicine or from science to add to life and its comforts yet never before has man been beset by so much disease or so many deplorable accidents These are the conditions with which you are asked to deal They are your challenge Fortunately every physical infirmity is not a handicap You have learned that such an apparent liability can be con verted into an asset We know that many a physical infirmity has been made a stepping stone to higher better things God and Nature often hide a genius behind a broken frame The significant success of such a large number of these people is a tremendous encouragement and a continual inspira tion to their fellows and such successful lives demonstrating to us their accom plishments should help us to realize the worth and the importance of our rehabili tation program The fact that our Federal and State Governments are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in this work empha sizes its importance The further fact that hundreds of pub liclysupported crippled children cere bral palsy and muscular dystrophy clinics are coming into being evidences its hold on the hearts of our people These facts should give to each of you a deep sense of pride that you are an active part of such an enterprise In choosing your life workit seems to me that you have selected one of the most exacting one of the most demanding of all the professions I think you must have Financier industrialist philan thropist Dr Appleby has made generous contributions to educa tion through college endowments and scholarships to deserving stu dents A native of Georgia he has served for many years as Chair man of the Board of Trustees of Young Harris College His inter est in handicapped youths led to the establishment of the Appleby Scholarships to supplement the grants through Vocational Re habilitation to needy boys and girls eligible for college training in Georgia unlimited faith in God faith in yourselves and faith in your fellowman You must be possessed by love and kindness and by sympathy finally you must be the em bodiment of faith hope and courage To use a business expressionthese virtues are your stock in trade they are the tools with which you work Long ago we were told The proper study of mankind is man The passing years have demonstrated to us the wis dom and the truth of that injunction But this man we are asked to study is the most complex the most inscrutable or ganism ever created There is so much about man that we do not know so much about him that ap parently cannot be understood nor un ravelled by our finite minds that we soon feel helpless in our attempts to learn about him On the other hand there is much that we do know and a great deal more that can be learned Our scientists ontologist and every day student of hu man beings and their actions and re actions have told us a great deal and all such knowledge will serve us well in our daily labors We know that this complex man like ancient Gaul is divided into three parts the physical the mental and the spiritual entities living together in a physical body so interrelated as to be nondivisible yet each performing its own particular functions in its own realm of being Let us attempt a simple analysis of this complex man by beginning with the physical man Some one has said that the purpose of our body is to provide a resi dence place for the soul St Paul in writing to his followers some two thous and years ago said Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit given to you by God I am sure that each of us accepts without any reser vations that our body is the residence place of our mind and of our spirit but it is something more than that It exe cutes the orders of our minds and hearts and it serves as their messenger and performs the actions dictated to it by them So this physical body in which you are interested must have health and strength It must live and remain a residence and then it must be well and strong in order to do its work and render proper service to its fellowman under the direction of the mind and heart which lives within it So your efforts to build a sound body to be a proper home for a sound mind and an active spirit become a work of great importance It would be almost impossible for a healthy active mind or a cheerful spirit to live and work successfully within a very sick body So you seek to overcome every physical handicap in order that this body may successfully run the race that lies before it Knowing as you do that knowledge is the life blood of all civilizations you seek more knowledge for your clients through education It being the purpose of this education to enable them to think clearly deepyl and constructively but it is your hope and mine that they will also think optimistically confidently and courage ously Education as you know is not a gift it is a task You provide the opportunity and no doubt often the incentive but the work the study and the learning must come from the efforts of your students You also know that this knowledge which comes from education is the foun dation stone upon which modern civiliza tion is built So your educational program is vitally important May I say here that our mental lives are terrific Their powers are beyond our human comprehension We know that they dictate our earthly living and at the same time they store our subcon scious mind with material both for its current and future uses We not only live within the frame work of our thinking but this continued thought makes us what we are It will be weil if you give full faith and credit to that fact in all of your work Right thinking will certainly produce right liv ing but more than that it will give to Continued on Page 7Physical Infirmity Continued from Page 6 your clients power over their handi caps The wisest men of ancient Greece believed that values did not lie within things themselves but in the human mind Such a thought is worth your full consideration in your daily labors While our mental life has vast far reaching powersto create to construct and to develop it also has many limita tions These limitations lie mainly in the field of there being no feeling in the mind and also because our mental life is not a life within itself instead it is a segment of the life of the spirit and must be lived in association with that spiritual life I am sure that your working manual gives you no instructions to deal with this spiritual life In speaking of our spiritual life we have no thought of religion or a religious life A religious life is a segment of a spirit ual life a segment which we cultivate or leave undeveloped as we choose that being purely a personal decision which plays little or no part in your rehabili tation program To some extent you must deal with the emotional life of your clients Their hopes and desires their faith and feelings all live within their spirits and play a large part in their progress recovery and success Geneially speaking your clients live only in one tensethe futureand my little knowledge of psychology tells me that this future must be projected as a bright cheerful and happy existence Each and every one of your people has a desire an urge I might say a constant longing to be more than they are I believe that urge to be the spirit within them seeking expression seeking growth and development While our spirits cannot be described nor can they be defined we know that they are the seat of all our emotions our desires and of our longings for nobler better things We know too that they possess power over all material things and over all life The more we love the more deeply we feel the more we live Our leading thinkers over the decades have believed that love is of paramount significance in human affairs that what gives life dignity and importance is the amount of the right kind of love expended in per sonal relationships Life and its lasting accomplishments are not measured by physical or mental results not by time but by eternity I am convinced in order to achieve the best results in dealing with both the physical and educational parts of your program that you must begin at the top In short you must begin by appealing to the spiritual powers of your clients You must instill and develop faith hope and courage and their many allied spiritual values For a sick person to believe he cannot get well is a roadblock which must be removed For any client to be lacking in faith or hope or the courage to strive to win is a handicap of serious proportions and that is just as true in our mental as in our physical lives In facing any of lifes handicaps or problems we must have the will to win and I ask you to remember that will power is spiritual power Possessing A 60 yearold woman owns and operates a neighborhood grocery store in Decatur She is Louise Kirkland of 342 White Street who worked as a maid at the First Methodist Church for 15 years until she lost her vision about two years ago Vocational Rehabilitation aided her in getting fixtures and initial stocks of merchandise In the background Counselor W H Fargason will power add to that an unyielding faith and you have success If you would bring your efforts to their finest results if you would carry your labors to the pinnacle of success you must above all recognize and employ these spiritual powers Use them yourselves and insist that they be used by your clients The two basic requirements for a successful earth ly life are character and personality both of these qualities are individual personal developments Every one may possess them through cultivation and de velopment I hope you will feel disposed to assist each one with whom you work in fostering a charming gracious per sonality There is a great deal of satisfaction in the thoughtwhen we help another person up the hill we get closer to the top ourselves What Others Say Under the caption Rehabilitation Record Makes Georgians Proud the Atlanta Constitution of August 31 said editorially Georgias Vocational Rehabilitation Division continues its splendid perfor mance and deserves full credit for it It has just set a new record for the number of disabled men and women restored to productive employment one of many such records in the past few years The total restored to employment and various degrees of selfsufficiency was 6014 for the year It has brought con gratulations from the Federal govern ment In a wire to Gov Vandiver Miss Mary E Switzer Director of the Federal Willie Pearl Seamore who had a con genital deformity of her right arm is shown here in training at Luvenias School of Beauty Culture in Augusta The girl was referred to Vocational Rehabili tation by the principal of the Gough school She has a 10th grade education Vocational Rehabilitation provided sur gery to improve the condition of the im paired arm and then placed her in train ing Office of Vocational Rehabilitation de clared This is a record to be proud of one in which all of the people of Georgia can share the great economic and social benefits that result and one which your leadership and support and that of your legislature made possible We heartily concur Only two states with far greater populationsNew York and Pennsylvaniaexceeded that totalDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aqi litions Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Goorjia Governor Ernest Vandiver recently appointed two new members of the State Board of Education David Rice of Atlanta to succeed John McDonough who resigned and Zack Daniel of Lavonia to succeed Mrs Julius Y Talmadge who retired Shown here are the members of the 1961 Board Seated left to right Mrs Bruce Schaefer Toccoa Henry Stewart Sr Vice Chairman Cedartown Chairman James Peters Manchester Francis Shurling Wrightsville and Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Standing from left Paul Stone Waynesboro David Rice Atlanta Thomas Nesbitt Cordele Robert Wright Moultrie Zack Daniel Lavonia and Lonnie Sweat Blackshear BJff i 1 Jtakabllitatioiv Mws SOME IMPLICATIONS OF MENTAL RETARDATION By W J Clark PhD Consultant Psychologist Within a certain range the amount of intelligence the individ ual has seems to have relatively little to do with how successful his job adjustment may be Other fac tors than intelligence enter the picture and these may be more im portant than the capacity to reason and remember In some ways the people at the low end of the IQ range about 50 and less are perhaps more fortu nate than the higher grade retard ates Those below 50 usually look and act differently than other peo ple They may be frankly recog nized as intellectually limited and society makes at least some pro vision for their care They do not tend to be subjected to the intense competitive pressures of our so ciety They do not become person ally involved with families of de pendents and in employeremployee relationships In many institutions for the retarded these persons are referred to as children as long as they live Not so lucky are the higher level retardates who tend to look and behave very much like normal peo ple They are therefore expected to obey societys laws and to plan their lives sensibly Not realizing their intellectual limitations we expect these people to stay on the job and out of debt and to get along as well as everyone else does Professional contact with higher grade retardates impresses one with the fact that their greatest disa bility may not be an intellectual one Lifelong experiences of fail ure and frustration take a very real toll in terms of loss of self respect and lack of confidence in them selves We are reminded of the lines of A E Housman la stranger and afraid in a world I never made Environmental manipulation ade quate overall assessment and real istic job placement combine to make this a much less threatening world for the retarded person With the help of the professional team these people can enter competitive re munerative employment Trained at the Bobby Dodd work shop this 17yearold boy top left is employed by an office sup ply firm The 20yearold at right is an elevator operator in an office building After training in a trade school the 18yearold at left in center panel is an auto body and fender repairman The 23yearold at right clerks in a supermarket The 19yearold at left in lower panel works fulltime in the work shop where he was trained He is shown spray painting soft drink bottle crates At right Wilson Harry Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor See story on page 7Mentally Retarded Get More Help 0 By Dr A P Jarrell Director Rehabilitation Services Three per cent of the population of Georgia test and function within the bounds of mental retardation This esti mate made by responsible national and state organizations means that 118293 citizens are handicapped by impaired mental development President Kennedy has been quoted as saying he considers mental retardation the most important and most neglected health problem in the nation today This disability which may be caused by factors that affect the child before during or after birth may manifest itself in subnormal intel lectual functioning subnormal academic achievement and a slower rate of learn ing The prevalence of mental retard ation on a population basis is no higher in Georgia than in other states How ever the extent of this disability has a number of social economic educational and vocational implications for every Georgian Although mental retardation always has been present in our society urbani zation automation compulsory school attendance laws emphasis on scholastic achievement and advances in psychology have served to identify individuals with the disability and intensify their prob lems The solution of these problems will not be easy However if every individual who has an interest in or responsibility for the mentally retarded should do his part ultimate rehabilitation can be achieved for a larger number of this disability group Actually the retarded individuals vocational rehabilitation be gins the day he is born or injured Some of the key people who will exercise a tremendous influence on this individual include parents friends teacher coun selor trainer and employer The parent must somehow overcome the shock disappointment heartbreak and feelings of guilt come to accept the child as he is and seek professional help in planning realistically for the childs future The child cannot be expected to follow in his fathers footsteps as a doctor teacher banker businessman or tradesman However he may be capable of becoming an excellent helper un skilled or semiskilled worker Since attitudes are formed early in life par ents should help the child develop favor able attitudes toward the types of jobs he may be able to perform during his adult life Friends mean as much or more to the retarded individual than they mean to the average person Retarded children adolescents and adults need to associate with peer groups in order to learn how to get along with people Teachers of retarded children have the overwhelming responsibility of preparing them to take their place in society For these pupils instruction must be more concrete and repetitious and deal with actual situations This approach to teaching requires a high degree of com petency The forgotten child is grown When the retarded individual reaches his upper teens or completes a secondary program for the mentally retarded his parents earlier fears and feelings of guilt are Planning project in which Vocational Rehabilitation and Instruction Division of State Department of Education are cooperating in the secondary school program for the mentally retarded From leftDr Mamie Jones Coordinator Services for Exceptional Children Dr H S Shearouse Director Division of Instruction Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Rehabil itation Services W A Crump Vocational Rehabilitation Supervisor of the program for the mentally retarded replaced by anxiety for their childs fu ture Can he work support himself and get along without us when we are gone These are reasonable questions which are asked by reasonable parents In an effort to answer some of these questions serve a larger group of Ment ally Retarded persons and encourage the development of secondary programs for this disability group in public schools the Division secured a Federal grant which will enable the agency to extend Vocational Rehabilitation services to ado lescent retarded pupils This program will operate in cooperation with the Di vision of Instruction and local school systems Three Vocational Consultants have been assigned to seven systems They will evaluate the vocational potential of pupils assist in the selection of prevo cational training experiences and the provision of supervision on the job en courage the utilization of community re sources and the development of specific vocational training opportunities and as sist local Vocational Rehabilitation coun selors in the selection of specific voca tional training opportunities and job placement Unfortunately opportunities for spe cific vocational training for the mentally retarded are almost nonexistant in the state The vocational training which we have secured for some of our clients at facilities in other states has enabled them to be rehabilitated The employer is the team member who makes the final decision regarding em ployability of a client Therefore the efforts of other team membersparents friends teachers psychologist trainer and Vocational Rehabilitation counselor must be directed toward the vocational preparation of the individual Adequate personal habits attitudes social skills and basic worker traits and skills are determining factors in the vocational success of the mentally retarded We have learned that a large number of them can engage successfully in com petitive gainful employment become loyal and dependable workers maintain long periods of employment and become contributing members of society A review of the records of 100 clients who were served on the basis of mental retardation discloses that they are per foming successfully in more than fifty different types of jobs These job clas sifications include helper service un skilled semiskilled clerical and agri cultural occupations Their salaries ranged from 6 per week for parttime work up to 88 per week for skilled work The average income for this group be fore rehabilitation was 316 per week The average income of this same group after rehabilitation was 2888 Their total weekly earnings amounted to 2609 A comparison of their total for a three months period before rehabilita tion and three months after rehabilita tion reveals a net gain of more than 30 000 in earning capacity The average case service cost for these 100 clients was 40136 exclusive of the cost of counsel ing guidance and placement services performed by the Vocational Rehabilita tion counselor This figure is about one fourth of the annual per patient cost in an institution for the mentally retarded Dr Collins State Superintendent of School Emeritus points out that educa tion does not costit pays This truism applies to the vocational rehabilitation of the mentally retarded Although the economic benefits of Vocational Rehabil itation are obvious the accrued intrinsic values of this process to clients parents and members of the team defy compu tation4Ho GeowvoVoocofcCV Mabilitata Vews Vol 11 SeptOct No 1 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 61509 Americus105 E Forsyth Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2327773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome314 West Building Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 BrunswickWay Building Phone AM 56541 VR Consultants for mentally retarded visit Goodwill Industries Atlanta From leftS G Youngblood Goodwill Director W A Crump Supervisor of Vocational Rehabilitation program for men tally retarded Howard Wright Goodwill Director of Training VR Consultants Robert Long Albany Howard Bright Savannah Leonard Young Atlanta and Wilson Harry Atlanta By S G Youngblood Director Atlanta Goodwill Industries Goodwill Industries began in Boston about the turn of the century when a Methodist minister Dr E J Helms envisionary in the problems of the handicapped recognized the need for sheltered employment in his missionary work Dr Helms was able to persevere and establish this new workshop although hampered with the difficulties any new and revolutionary idea experiences This activity was for many years a function of the Methodist Missionary Organ ization but became a part of the community welfare structure when the need for its services was recognized by Methodist leaders Since that time it has been a partic ipating agency in Red Feather Community United Fund and United Appeal Organizations and has grown to about 125 autonomous Goodwill Industries situated in the key cities of the nation The national organization is headquartered in Washington D C and assist the local Goodwill Industries in problems of operation management and standardiza tion An executive training program is financed by the national office so that adequate leadership is available The Atlanta Goodwill Industries receives about two per cent of its budget from United Appeal Funds contributing the remaining ninetyeight per cent from its salvage and sale operations while employing handicapped persons The philosophy of every tub on its own bottom prevails at Goodwill and its growth and success is attributed by its leaders to the spiritual motivation of a Christian environment on the job and in the home Chapel services are held thrice weekly and church pastors from the community conduct services Services are nonsectarian and attendance is voluntary During the past three years we conducted a work evaluation and training program for the mentally retarded at Goodwill Industries in another state Sixty per cent of the trainees accepted in cooperation with Vocational Rehabilitation were successful in job placements in private industry AckabllitatioiY Mws We are entering a similar coop erative program with the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion I view this evaluation and pre vocational training program for the mentally retarded as a needed service to the handicapped of Atlanta and the State of Georgia COVER Vocational Rehabilitation Coun selor R C Calloway left admin istering test for evaluation of vocational potential of patient at GracewoodEvaluation of the Mentally Retarded By W A Crump Assistant Supervisor During the past three years the Geor gia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation has engaged in activities designed to extend and improve Vocational Rehabili tation services to the mentally retarded Although numerous retarded individuals had been served on the basis of some physical disability specific techniques facilities and services were indicated for this disability group An experienced Vocational Rehabilita tion counselor was selected to specialize in work with the mentally retarded His primary responsibilities were 1 the development of better techniques for evaluating the vocational potential of mentally retarded individuals 2 the development of facilities for training and job preparation and 3 the provision of necessary Vocational Rehabilitation sevices to a larger group of clients In order to gain firsthand experience and accomplish these objectives the spe cialist carried a caseload worked with teachers of mentally retarded pupils evaluated selected patients at Grace wood worked with clients and officials at the two workshops and assisted coun selors in the selection of feasible voca tional objectives for mentally retarded clients Most of the conventional objective in terest aptitude and vocational tests were found to be inaDpronriate for use with the mentally retarded Therefore a combination of objective and subietive techniaues were developed and utilized With the assistance of Vocational coun selors teachers psychologists and psy chiatrists a subjective vocational ap praisal form was designed A statewide vocational evaluation clinic was established This clinic utilized the team approach When a client was referred to this clinic his counselor fur nished the clients case file which con tained a social history medical reports and a completed Vocational Rehabilita tion appraisal form The specialist who coordinated the clinic reviewed available information interviewed the client and one of his parents registered his im pressions of client on a vocational ap praisal form and administered appro priate vocational tests A clinical psychologist administered intelligence and projective tests The specialist and the psychologist reviewed accumulated information and discussed its possible vocational implications The counselor was provided a written report which contained a review of the factors involved and their implications for the clients vocational rehabilitation The vocational potential of 304 mentally re tarded clients was evaluated in this clinic over a threeyear period The statewide vocational appraisal clinic demonstrated its effectiveness to appraise the vocational potential of men tally retarded clients However it be came apparent that this service needed to be brought closer to the client There fore a vocational appraisal clinic was established for each of the five districts in the state These clinics are operated by local Vocational Rehabilitation per sonnel in Albany Atlanta Augusta Ma Planning program for mentally retarded in Atlanta area public schools SeatedMrs Sarah Reading Consultant in program for Exceptional Children State Department of Education Miss Virginia Bussey Coordinator Special Education Fulton County Schools Back rowF E Wynn District Supervisor Vocational Rehabilitation VR Consultant Leonard Young Floyd McDowell Coordinator Special Education DeKalb Schools and W A Crump Supervisor VR program for mentally retarded con and Savannah Referral to the clinic is made by the local Vocational Rehabil itation counselor Insights and impressions gained in the vocational appraisal clinic have proved helpful in the vocational rehabilitation of a number of clients However it was found that some clients needed some pre vocational training which would prepare them for onthejob training formal training or job placement Therefore Vocational Rehabilitation assisted non profit organizations in the establishment of the Occupational Training Center in Savannah the Bobby Dodd Sheltered Workshop and Goodwill Industries in Atlanta These workshops provide experiences designed to help the individual improve attitudes social skills and worker traits and skills About 100 clients are trained each year in these workshops Approxi mately 60 per cent of the clients who attend develop to the point where they can be rehabilitated The number of mentally retarded pu pils who have been referred from the public school system has continued to increase Most of these clients were re ferred at age sixteen Experience with this group disclosed that only a small percentage were mature enough to bene fit fom Vocational Rehabilitation services at this age Therefore the Division entered a cooperative program with the Division of Instruction in an effort to encourage local school systems to de velop secondary school programs for ado lescent retardates Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants will be provided to assist local school officials plan and provide work exper ience opportunities within the school setting and in the community These work experiences will be designed to identify vocational interests and apti tudes and provide practical prevocation al training Vocational rehabilitation appraisal evaluation and work experiences are de signed to identify the individuals strengths which can be utilized in helping him and his parents plan a realistic vocational objective This approach has resulted in a substantial yearly increase in the number of mentally retarded clients who have been rehabilitated in Georgia The extent to which the Division will be able to expand its services to the mentally retarded will continue to be dependent to some degree upon the cali ber of academic and prevocational in struction provided in public and private schools the availability of formal voca tional training the development of com munity workshops and other facilities community attitude toward this group and employer acceptance of them as workersVR Staff Works With Schools By Dr Mamie J Jones Coordinator Services for Exceptional Children The statement has been made that the young retardate may be retarded at 16 but he need not be retired at 16 We who work in the educational program for mentally retarded children and youth have been too often an observant of the retired retardate at 16 For years we have asked Vocational Rehabilitation to assume responsibility for placement of our pupils after they have completed their schooling It is as though the magical age of 16 meant that he was ready for employment and that it was Vocational Rehabilitations responsibility to place him in a job There have been Georgia State ap proved classes andor units for mentally retarded children in our public school program for the past nine years During this time there has been a gradual un derstanding and acceptance of the fact that an educational program in itself is inadequate unless the end goal is pro jected into adult life and into job place ment of the individual It is unrealistic for the girl or boy who is retarded mentally to look for ward to college and to preparation for a job during college days For the ma jority of these youth their schooling is over when they leave the public school program Recognizing this fact our teachers have earnestly striven to de velop the best educational program pos sible for these children and youth Ad hering to a curriculum designed to meet the individual needs of their students by providing them with as much academic learning as possible the teachers at the same time have tried to build into the student such personal attributes as would help him to hold a job Many teachers have become familiar with Vocational Rehabilitations apprais al form which they use with prospective clients and have used the topics as guides in helping them develop part of their curriculum They have worked in units on personal habits attitudes special skills worker traits and skills and have attempted to give experiences to the individual which would make him feel a measure of suc cess and which at the same time would aid in giving him emotional stability Leaders in Atlantas school system program for exceptional chil dren From leftMrs Louise Loudermilk Area IV Resource Con sultant Mrs Carolyn Cline West Fulton Mrs Katherine Conner OKeefe Mrs Lucy Butler Grady Mrs Amelie Davis Coordi nator Mrs Martha Kilpatrick OKeefe Mrs Mary Boatenreiter Smith In rearMrs Doris Gaskins OKeefe Mrs Margaret Dyer Bass and Miss Winnie Hamby School Counselor However more and more the teachers of the older retardates and the State consultants for exceptional children rec ognized the need for closer liaison with the Vocational Rehabilitation Division if they were to adequately prepare their students to lead a productive adult life Because of the vision of Mr W A Crump Assistant Vocational Rehabilita tion Supervisor and the encouragement of the State consultants for exceptional children a cooperative demonstration project was proposed by the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Division and approved by the Office of Vocational Re habilitation in Washington As a consequence three consultants have been added to the State Vocational Rehabilitation staff to work in assigned geographical sections of the State under the direction of the Supervisor of the project Through the combined efforts of these Vocational Rehabilitation staff members the staff of the Unit Services for Exceptional Children the Coordina tors of local public school programs and the teachers of the educable mentally retarded it is envisioned that a more practicable and realistic curriculum for the adolescent mentally retarded can be developed It is hoped that in addition to the enriched curriculum there will be the expanded vocational training opportuni ties and the organization of onthejob training programs in vocational areas suitable for individuals who are men tally retarded and development of work school programs in secondary schools Because of the interest and knowledge of the Vocational Rehabilitation con sultants and their coordinated efforts with the local school exceptional child personnel there should be greater un derstanding and acceptance of the per son who is mentally retarded Of prac tical concern this should bring about more job placement possibilities in the local community The cooperative efforts between Vo cational Rehabilitation and school per sonnel should be the beginning of a new era for the adult retardate in Georgia We who have the responsibility of the educational program of children and youth who are retarded mentally are grateful that in this age of automation there are people concerned with the needs of the individual We want to ex press our appreciation to Vocational Re habilitation for their foresight in recog nizing a job to be done and for their willingness to activate this worthwhile cooperative project Rehabilitation Program at Gracewood By Dr Norman Pursley Superintendent Gracewood State School and Hospital The Gracewood State School and Hos pital staff is pleased that Dr A P Jar rell Director of Vocational Rehabilita tion has assigned a Vocational Rehabili tation counselor to aid in developing this institutions rehabilitation program R C Calloway Vocational Rehabilitation counselor who has been assigned to the institution is doing a good job He is responsible for consulting and partici pating with the staff in evaluating the vocational potential of resident patients rendering Vocational Rehabilitation serv ices to selected patients and interview ing applicants who offer vocational po tential The counselor serves in a liaison ca pacity between the institution and Vo cational Rehabilitation and refers pros pective clients to local Vocational Re habilitation counselors in the various parts of the state Patients at Gracewood are given work assignments which are designated to provide them with prevocational and vocational type training The counselor may recommend a particular type of work experience for a patient who is a prospect for Vocational Rehabilitation services The Federal Office of Vocational Re habilitation recently approved a grant of funds for construction of a compre hensive outpatient rehabilitation center at Gracewood We feel that this center will be an embodiment of the institutions philoso phy It will be designed to give rehabili tation services to patients already here in the institution and to retarded persons in the general population who may never need institutional care This institution in recent years has made tremendous strides in improve ments in both physical facilities and in the training and care of the patients The population has more than doubled since 1950 The current population of Gracewood is 1513 There has been a transition from a mere custodial type institution to an institution where pa tients are receiving maximum medical care and training to the limit of their abilityWorkshops Report Progress By Dr Therese Hite Psychologist and Director The Bobby Dodd Sheltered Workshop for the Mentally Retarded was sponsored by the Greater Atlanta Association for Retarded Children and was financed jointly by the Office of Vocational Re habilitation and the Greater Atlanta Association for Retarded Children It is located at 1100 Sylvan Road SW From its modest beginnings in Janu ary of 1960 the workshop has grown into a bustling facility which provides voca tional evaluation and prevocational training to an average of 45 to 50 re tarded young adults throughout the year The facility in cooperation with the local Vocational Rehabilitation office assesses vocational assets and liabilities of the young retardate provides him personal adjustment training introduces him to the demands of the working world by providing work experience in the shel tered setting and aids him in finding and holding competitive employment Thirteen clients have so far been placed on jobs in the community eight other clients have been placed in shel tered employment and two clients who displayed unusual potential are now receiving training to attain specific occu pational goals Probably the greatest service the work shop provides for the rehabilitation coun selor is the multidimensional evaluation program which takes place within the cients first two months in the workshop During this period the client is given a battery of twelve psychological tests These tests provide data on intellectual capacity academic abilities emotional adjustment and manual locomotor and visualmotor coordination Concurrent with the psychological evaluation the social worker gathers data on home and family adjustment school experience developmental history and personal ad justment Also during this period data on work habits and attitudes are gathered by the workshop supervisor and his assistant The client is given the opportunity to work at several different kinds of sub contract operations and careful record is kept of his production ability to work under pressure and attitudes toward staff and coworkers At the end of the eightweek evalua tion period the workshop staff meets with the clients counselor to present these data and in cooperation with the counselor to develop a realistic voca tional aim Plans to implement the se lected goal are also made at this meeting and recommendations for shop placement specific workshop programs and training program needs are outlined for the indi vidual client The training program is organized in the light of its basic goal eventual place ment of the client in competitive em ployment It includes a personal adjustment training to improve appearance develop more mature social habits and skills and aid in the development of mu tually satisfying interpersonal re lationships b work adjustment training to aid the client in the acquisition of at titudes and skills necessary in the working world Trainees at Bobby Dodd workshop Atlanta assembling charcoal fire starters and packaging toys Standing from leftDr Therese Hite Psychologist and Director VR Counselor Wilson Harry i HI s8i ttefe l m AboveOccupational training center Savannah c prevocational training to assist the client in meeting basic educational requirements necessary to obtain and hold a job d and work experience in the shel tered setting to develop good work habits and attitudes knowledge of the use and care of tools and spe cific work skills Most of the work done in the shop is of the subcontract type Fortunately Atlanta industry has taken an interest in the workshop program and the shop is thus able to provide a variety of work experiences for the young retardate Subcontract jobs include soft drink crate repair lead packaging flower arranging sorting of nuts and bolts packaging of window hardware toy assembly and packaging and assembly of charcoal fire starters Assignment of a halftime counselor from the Atlanta Vocational Rehabilita tion office to work specifically on the placement problem was of major assist ance in this regard Mr Wilson Harry who is now working with the shop hopes that his new halftime position will per mit him to provide vocational counseling for clients in all phases of their work shop enrollment Foremost among the staffs plans for the coming year are the renovation of a neighboring building to permit expan sion in terms of number of clients served and number of client services offered and exploration of the feasability of establishing some sort of residential fa cility to serve as a halfway house for clients whose home situations are not conducive to emotional and social growth The need for shortterm housing ar rangements for any number of clients has been clearly demonstrated in the past year and a half There is yet much to be learned in habilitation of the retarded and many problems remain to be solved It is evi dent after a year and a halfs experience that most retardates can attain economic independence social and emotional sta bility and assume appropriate roles in community living Some will require more help than others the needs of each will be quite different failures as well as majority of retardat portunity to do socn 1fcJ0R6fl1f1pC C capable and willing vlorkferli nntICo Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aquisltions Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Georgia Left Trainees at Bobby Dodd workshop packaging leads for mechanical pencils Below Special Education class at Savannah High School Standing from left Mrs Juanita Wall Special Edu cation teacher Howard Bright VR Consultant Lester Herman Assistant Principal Mrs Dorothy Ayers Coordinator Special Edu cation Chatham County Schools ckttbllitatloiv Mws 1 8S8 jwr w 3ww I Jem f 9r 3 i n 5s u i i i I I J 1M 1 vr 1 5 ti Above at leftA Vocational Rehabilitation client in training at Augusta Beauty College Augusta Above at rightMrs Elizabeth Noel Occupational Therapist Eu gene Talmadge Memorial Hospital Augusta instructs patient at loom At leftA Vocational Rehabilitation trainee seated in radio and TV repair class at SmithHughes Vocational School in Atlanta The instructor is C H Krueger Lower leftA Vocational Rehabilitation trainee left learning machine shop practices at SmithHughes Vocational School Joe Seller Instructor center and C R Townsend Principal BelowPatient in industrial therapy at Milledgevile State Hospital The BIG STORY in personnel management and employment today is the discovery of the ABILITY in the disABILITY of handi capped workers Theyre proving again and again they are safe steady reliable and highly productive workers Hire qualified handicapped workersProgram for Mentally 111 Goes Forward By Dr A P Jarrell Director Rehabilitation Services Georgias program for the rehabilita tion of mentally ill patients was given fresh impetus recently by the approval of a Federal HillBurton grant of 250000 for equipping the new facility at the Milledgeville State Hospital The 500bed in tensive treatment center is now under construction by the State Department of Public Health at a cost of about 3000000 of State and Federal funds It will be what is known as a compre hensive center pro viding 1 psychi atric treatment 2 psychological evaluation 3 complete social evaluation 4 vocational evalu ation and 5 some vocational training The Vocational Rehabilitation unit will occupy the first floor of the building Meanwhile the Vocational Rehabilita tion Agency has a group of specialists working with the hospital staffa su pervisor and four fulltime Counselors together with parttime psychologists and psychiatrists The program at Milledgeville grew out of a research and demonstration project undertaken about three years ago by the two state agencies with Federal grants through the Office of Vocational Reha bilitation It involved the team approach to the rehabilitation of emotionallydisturbed patients in intensive treatment centers in general hospitals It was the feeling that the addition of a vocational rehabilitation counselor to the traditional psychiatric treatment staff would enhance the patients chances not only of a more rapid recovery but of a better adjustment to community life upon discharge Teams were organized first at Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital in Augusta then at Grady Hospital Atlanta and later at the Medical Center in Columbus The experience gained at these insti tutions justified undertaking a similar program at Milledgeville to serve not only newlyadmitted patients but some longterm patients Since the first project was organized there has been a steady increase year after year in the number of mentally restored persons returned to employment In 1958 the number rehabilitated was 137 In 1959 it increased to 176 and last year reached 275 With the new services and facilities at Milledgeville it is expected that the number of patients restored to productive jobs will continue to increase this year and in the years to come It is realized that any program for emotionallyill patients in institutions will be limited in extent and scope with out support and cooperation by com munity groups at the local level The re habilitation of the posthospitalized pa tient is not complete until he has been adjusted socially and vocationally in his home community For that reason the Rehabilitation forces welcome the support of the Junior Chamber of Commerce Hire the Mental ly Restored program and stand ready to cooperate with community groups inter ested in mental health Authorities point out that many pa tients on returning home find them selves shunned by old friends prospec tive employers and even their own fami lies It is a tremendous task to break down the barriers to acceptance of the mentally restored person by the people of his own Vocational Rehabilitation Counsel or W L Tomlinson administers vocational test to patient at Mil ledgeville State Hospital community The program at Milledgeville and else where in the State has had the whole hearted support of Governor Vandiver Rehabilitation counselors at the State Hospitaland at the general hospitals have had the full cooperation of institu tion staff members The Presidents Committee on Employ ment of the Physically Handicapped after long deliberations has undertaken a national program designed to create more job opportunities for the mentally restored and the mentally retarded The extent of the problem nationally is shown by a report of the National Association for Mental Health reveal ing that an estimated 790000 persons are in mental hospitals and that each year nearly 1 million people receive psychi atric treatment in hospitals Normal Life Is Goal of Treatment By Dr E J McCranie Chairman Department of Psychiatry and Neurology Talmadge Memorial Hospital Augusta The goal of modern psychiatric treat ment is to help individuals with mental illness adjust satisfactorily to a normal life situation In achieving this goal and in preventing the debilitating effects of institutionalization psychiatric hospital ization can and should play only a limited role in the total treatment process To return the critically disturbed patient as soon as possible to the com munity requires not only intensive use of the time spent in the hospital but also aftercare and rehabilitation Be cause of the pres sures and complexi ties of this task it has become increas ingly necessary for psychiatry to aban don its professional isolationism and to cooperate with other professional groups in dealing with problems of mental health The integration of psychiatrists nurs ing personnel psychologists social work ers and occupational and recreational therapists into a treatment team has be come the accepted approach in modern psychiatric hospitals The Psychiatric Service of Talmadge Memorial Hospital was organized late in 1957 on this concept of the therapeutic milieu With this approach it is possible to get the patient over a critically dis turbed state in a reasonably short time But the future course of the patient is hazardous without followup care and rehabilitation Consequently it was with open arms that we accepted the overtures of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to cooperate in our treat ment program The result was a pioneer project begun in 1958 in which a vocational counselor was assigned to the Psychiatric Service at Talmadge Memorial Hospital It was our conviction that the better under standing the counselor had of the pa tients personality assets and liabilities and the earlier he began the counseling process with his client the better the chances of success Consequently it was from the first decided that the Vocational Counselor would function as a full fledged member of the psychiatric team Since the project started there have been three different counselors assigned to the service All of them have entered into this new and sometimes strange set up with an attitude of interest and co operation They have been fully accepted by the other professional staff Their contribution has been much broader than preparation of the patient for vocational readjustment after leaving the hospital Their detailed occupational histories and aptitude testing have contributed im portantly to the evaluative process Their counseling has had therapeutic benefits beyond that of vocational guidance All in all the project has been eminently successful It has paved the way toward a much broader cooperative program on a state level The value of this cooperation to the future of the mental health program in Continued on Page 4OKo GcowvoJVoooXxotNoX ekabilitatiorv Mws Vol 11 NovDec 1961 No 2 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 61509 Americus105 E Forsyth Phone 5148 Bainbridge218 West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2327773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 34841 Rome314 West Building Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 Jobs Vital to Rehabilitation By Dr John H Venable Director State Department of Public Health When a patient is discharged from Milledgeville State Hospital he faces some of the most difficult problems of his illness as he seeks reentry into community life How readily he is received and accepted by his family his friends and per haps most of all his employer will determine how quickly he will be fully rehabilitated Perhaps the greatest factor in regaining status in the community is the ability to secure and hold a position of gain ful employment All of us in the Georgia Department of Public Health are deeply grateful to the staff of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and particularly the Vocational Re habilitation Counselors understanding of the problems their acceptance of this responsibility and their reaction in helping businesses and industries appreciate the abilities instead of the disabilities of these workers has made a remarkable contribution to the States mental health program The physician the psychiatrist the social workers and the therapists who work with the mentally ill can do only so much toward their complete recovery The role of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation as a vital part of this team working to restore those who have suffered this illness to regain their places as productive citizens cannot be overestimated F M Jaycees to Help The Georgia Junior Chamber of Commerce with the cooperation of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation is this year sponsoring a plan for the vocational rehabilitation of the discharged Milledgeville State Hospital patient The Georga Jaycee Mental Health Committee headed by Dr Ronald Goldstein is presently in the organizational phase of a Hire the Mentally Restored Com mittee which will by various techniques encourage employers on the local com munity level to hire discharged Milledgeville State Hospital patients who have been carefully screened by the Vocational Rehabilitation department at Milledge ville State Hospital and certified as ready for employment The exact details of referral will be worked out later but it is anticipated that Jaycee Committees will be formed on the local level to implement the re inception of the discharged restored Milledgeville State Hospital patient into the ranks of the fulltime gainfully employed 0 MabilitatiotViAWs COVER Dr I H MacKinnon Superinten dent of Milledgeville State Hospi tal and members of Vocational Rehabilitation staff inspect con struction progress of the Y H Yarbrough Rehabilitation Center Insetarchitects drawing of the new building From left Dr Mac Kinnon W C Petty W L Tom linson and W A Hargrove See story on page 3 BrunswickWay Building Phone AM 56541 Normal Life Is Goal of Treatment Continued from Page 3 Georgia cannot be overestimated Since normal social adjustment usually includes among other things doing a job of some kind the vocational aspect of rehabilitation is of obvious importance For too long the concept known as Rehabilitation meant restoration of the physically handicapped Although the same word applies to the restoration of the emotionally and mentally disturbed official rehabilitation services have been slow to recognize and accept responsibility in this area We in Georgia are fortunate indeed to have a progressive Division of Vocational Rehabilitation that not only early recognized this responsibility but has largely taken the initiative in planning and organizing vocational rehabilitation programs for psychiatric patientsJob Evaluation at Hospital By Dr I H MacKinnon Superintendent Milledgeville State Hospital Programs in Mental Hospitals have been organized around the treatment of patients by psychiatrists nurses attend ants occupational therapists social workers and recreational people All of these approaches are a combined team procedure to assist in getting the patient well as rapidly as possible The preparation of the patient for his return home as well as the family for the proper re ception of the pa tient has been found to be another important proced ure Likewise the abil ity of the patient to reestablish social relationships so that he can return to his former asso ciates is another factor for promoting stability The third situation namely occupa tional acceptance can be readily recog nized as contributing greatly to the suc cess of the individuals adjustment as well as maintaining it Assistance in finding occupations for patients formerly was instituted by so cial service departments of the hospital Recently the Rehabilitation Division of the Department of Education has taken over this function and located their staff in this hospital setting This department now has become a part of the hospital team and interviews each new patient at a screening board A survey of the patients assets are made and a plan is organized as to what course will be taken in preparing the patient to return to his environment and be employed This at times may require additional training upon leaving the hos pital in some rehabilitation center Plans are now in preparation to insti tute organized trade training in the mental hospital setting A large number of patients fall into the unskilled labor groups and those who have the poten tialities and abilities to be rehabilitated in skilled positons could be better train ed to make an occupational adjustment upon return to their environment These individuals would likewise be assisted through this Vocational Division in being placed in suitable positions While in the hospital these patients will be evaluated personalitywise to de termine their conflicts and attitudes which may be reflected into their work habits and interfere with a proper appli cation Attitudes towards authority ac cepting responsibilities and the advan tages derived from doing satisfactory completed work will be investigated Development of confidence in ones abilities feeling capable and competent furnishes pleasure and satisfaction in not only pleasing ones superiors but the personal gratification of ones own ego as well Explanation of the problems of passivity and dependency and factors responsible for these reactions release wasted energies from infantile and emotional patterns that can be directed Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Harold J Harpe left and Dr Earl McFadden are shown interviewing patient in the Vocational Rehabilitation office at the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital intensive treatment center Augusta Economic By Dr Robert Wildman Psychologist Milledgeville State Hospital The Vocational Rehabilitation Depart ment is a new asset to our hospital Prior to the establishment of this Department many patients re mained in the hos pital because they had no jobs and no relatives who would take care of them fi nancially until they found employment Many patients re turned to the hospi tal because they be came sick again and often an important factor was their dif ficulty in finding suitable and satisfying employment Psychologists and psychiatrists at tempt to treat patients by altering their personalities in a favorable direction Frequently marked personality change into constructive and creative channels To compete successfully not only has its economic values but also eliminates anxiety and insecurities that interfere with positive approach to healthy work habits It is hoped that with the combinations of all of these approaches that our pro gram will contribute better results in the future rehabilitation of our patients We are pleased and fortunate that the Rehabilitation Division of the State De partment of Education has approved this type of trade training program and we are looking forward to successful re sults in the initiation of this project is either impossible or impractical In many cases factors such as proper voca tional guidance can improve selfesteem family relationships etc to such an ex tent that total adjustment is so improved that more intensive therapeutic manipu lations are not necessary This means shorter hospitalization which is very im portant to the patient his family and to the State of Georgia It would be impossible to know how many patients are affected by vocational maladjustment It is probably an im portant factor in 1000 patients that we deal with each year All of these pa tients have families so in reality 5000 citizens of Georgia are involved each year in this maladjustment The happi ness of 5000 people is highly important and cannot be treated lightly For those who can only think in terms of money it should be noted that it costs the state one million dollars to hospitalize 1000 patients for a year Many of these pa tients may become chronic and remain at Milledgeville year after year Add to this welfare assistance to the families loss of income to the state in taxes and the cost is quite staggering There is a cultural factor involved also who knows how many of these patients might have made an outstanding contribution to so ciety in science social welfare etc Because we have a Vocational Re habilitation Department we will be able to discharge more patients each year and have fewer returning to the hos pital If former patients are well ad justed vocationally we will have happier expatients happier families and more productive citizensRole of Counselor in Mental Health By Trawick H Stubbs MD MPH Director Community Mental Health Service Georgia Department of Public Health The modern vocational rehabilitation counselor is in a unique position to make a substantiial contribution in the field of Community Mental Health Each year the case load of the counselor includes a larger percentage of persons who have been mentally ill or emotionally disturb ed The close work ing relationship among state and lo cal health depart ments the psychi atric service in the hospitals on the In tensive Treatment Program and the State Vocational Re habilitation Program has contributed to Georgias position of leadership among the states for this type program The new program at Milledgeville State Hos pital will further increase the number of mental patients served by Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors But helping people who have been labeled mentally ill is only one of sev eral important mental health activities of the Vocational Rehabilitation Coun selor Equally important is his role as a supporting person and growth help er with every client regardless of his handicap Restoration of functional ca pacity and selfesteem in any individual is most emphatically a part of the total mental health effort A third major area of contribution of the vocational rehabilitation counselor and the program he represents is the role in assuring coordinated effort among the various community agencies programs and pro fessional personsand there are many that share opportunities and responsi bilities for raising the level of emotional wellbeing for total populations The common challenge is to increase the ef fectiveness of using total community re sources to meet the total existing need and to prevent future suffering debility or inappropriate dependency Changing the name of the Intensive Treatment Program to Community Hos pital Psychiatric Program last July 1 is a reflection of an increasing emphasis in the Health Departments Community Mental Health Service on reinforcement of community resources The opening of scheduled outpatient clinics at Albany and Athens this fall will be followed by similar additional service located in community hospitals all over the state These will be a focal point for cooperative efforts of state level programsboth CHPP formerly Intensive Treatment Program and Mil ledgeville State Hospital and the local health departments The suggested functions of the voca tional rehabilitation counselor will be described in more detail in statements worked out jointly by the several agen cies involved In general the expanding program will provide continuing oppor tunity for our two agencies Vocational Rehabilitation and Health Department Casestaffing team shown in action at the Milledgeville State Hospital From leftMrs Beatrice Tribble Instructor of Psychiatric Nursing Dr Robert Wildman Chief Psychologist Dr C A Stewart Director of Social Work Dr J J Word Psychiatrist Dr Murray Cook Psychologist W L Tomlinson Vocational Rehabilitation Coun selor and Mrs Grace Smith Psychiatric Aide to work together effectively in coordi nating state level and local level services around the needs of patients and their families Locally the joint activitv involves not only the vocational rehabilitation coun selor the local physician and the public health nurse but numerous other local helping persons and agencies We mut constantly be on guard that the attention reauired for such coopera tive effort doesnt lead us to neglect the patients responsibility It is easy to in crease dependency as a result of inter parency competition to see who can do the most good The vocational rehabi litation counselor is in an excellent posi tion to help all the other helpers re member to place approoriate responsi bility on the client and his family In a very real way the entire Voca tional Rehabilitation effort is a com munity mental health job Dr S W Ginsberg says about concepts of mental health My coworkers and I have set tled for some such simple criteria as these the ability to hold a job have a family keep out of trouble with the law and enjoy the usual opportunities for play The whole rehabilitation concept con tributes not only to the first criterion helping a person hold a jobbut influ ences in a crucial way a persons feelings about himself his selfconcept In the counselors every day activities with per sons recovering from any type of dis abling condition or in the help he gives to any person in accepting the reality situation and using the positive elements rather than being overwhelmed by the negative the vocational rehabilitation counselor is an effective worker for men tal health The opportunities for preventive ac tivities in the mental health field are as tangible in the vocational rehabilitation counselors work as in any I know of Usually the counselor develops a rela tionship to the client which involves sharing the feelings of the person he is helping over and beyond the most spe cific job of preparation for gainful em ployment Firsthand experience with problems of motivation interpersonal relation ship and the balance of individual and social dynamic factors place the voca tional rehabilitation counselor in a stra tegic position to contribute to the emo tional growth of those he serves The final report of the Joint Commis sion in Mental Illness and Health Ac tion for Mental Health emphasizes bet ter use of present knowledge and experi ence In the absence of more specific and definitive scientific evidence of the causes of mental illnesses psychiatry and the allied mental health professions should adopt and practice a broad lib eral philosophy of what constitutes and who can do treatment within the frame work of their hospitals clinics or other professional service agencies particu larly in relation to persons with psy choses or severe personality or character disorders that incapacitate them for work family life and every day activ ity p 2489 Certainly the Vocational Rehabilita tion counselor is one of those nonmedi cal helping persons whose activities in clude some elements of psychiatric treatment client counseling someone to tell ones troubles to and love of ones fellow man which can obviously be carried out in a variety of settings and institutions No mental health program can be the resource each program is a re source and Vocational Rehabilitation Service is an important community men tal health resource Vocational Rehabil itation counselors share with other pro fessionals the crucial responsibility of recognizing the limits within which ones training and capacities equip him to work He shares with all other helping persons in this field the combined con tribution to others that come from him self as a person and his functioning in his professional role In Georgia building further on the past record of cooperative effort we will undoubtedly see an increasingly close working relationship between Vo cational Rehabilitation and Public Health Mental Health Programs We are all growth helpers whose work aims at increasing peoples capacity to withstand the stresses of life without developing behavior that will be labeled mental illness and more important to increase every persons capacity to make his best potential creative contributionW C Petty Supervisor Vocational Rehabilitation Center Milledgeville It has been roughly estimated that psychiatric illness accounts for over one half of all vocational handicapping con ditions in the United States This esti mation among other things is based upon studies which indicate that one out of every ten people in the United States will need psychiatric treatment at some time during his life and that 54 per cent of all hospital beds in the country are devoted to mentally ill patients Were we in Vocational Rehabilitation agencies as proficient in the rehabilita tion of the psychiatrically handicapped as we are in other categories of the handicapped it would seem that the psy chiatric group should represent at least 50 per cent of our rehabilitants each year This of course isnt true and would appear to be a farfetched dream Probably a more realistic goal is sug gested by studies done in the last decade which indicate that approximate ly 25 per cent of all patients being dis charged from State Mental Hospitals need and are able to positively use Voca tional Rehabilitation services All of us are aware of the fact that despite this glaring need for the reclamation of pro ductive human resources only about 2 per cent of the rehabilitants on a na tional basis are those with a psychia tric diagnoses Vocational Rehabilitation agencies over the nation have not been oblivious to nor unconcerned about this tremendous need but have felt helpless to deal with it due to the shortage of trained and psy chiatrically oriented personnel with the knowhow and effective techniques of offering Vocational Rehabilitation serv ices to this group Added to this weak ness has been the appalling shortage of personnel representing other disciplines in mental health necessary to a team approach to this problem Recent increased interest and devel opments in the field of mental health in cluding legislation providing funds for staff development and expanded pro grams of rehabilitation have offered encouragement and a challenge to Voca tional Rehabilitation agencies to develop programs to cope with this unmet need As of July 1 1961 partially supported by an OVR Research and Demonstration Grant a program was officially launched with a staff consisting of a supervisor three special counselors the equivalent of a fulltime consulting psychiatrist a parttime consulting psychiatrist and a parttime research psychologist Soon to be added are an additional counselor and a psychiatric social worker Some of the specific objectives of this project are 1 To confirm and extend the major factors which promote success in the Rehabilitation of the hospital ized mentally ill through the com prehensive team approach involv ing total psychiatric care 2 To test extend and improve the rehabilitation services necessary for the preparation of the hospital ized mental patient for successful adjustment and remunerative em ployment in a competitive society Psychiatric treatment team at the Medical Center in Columbus From leftMrs Nell Scruggs Psychiatric Social Worker Alton Ray Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Dr Luther J Smith III Psy chiatrist Dr Charles R Smith Psychiatrist and Harry E Hall Clinical Psychologist More specifically these services in clude a Evaluation of personality assets and liabilities as they pertain to job demands and satisfactions b Identification of vocational inter ests and potential c Stimulation of motivation for ad justment d Stimulation and formation of work tolerance work attitudes work habits and interpersonal re lationships conducive to training andor job placement e Vooational apprenticeship train ing concurrent with other thera pies 3 Mobilization and preparation of community resources for tne re ception and integration into so ciety of the posthospitalized client who has or is receiving total psy chiatric care including compre hensive vocational rehabilitation services A recent development which consid erably brightens the future outlook of this Project is a Federal grant of Re habilitation funds which the hospital has received on a matching basis for equip ping the Y H Yarbrough Rehabilitation Center now under construction sea front page This will be a five hundred bed facility devoted to the psychiatric social and Vocational Rehabilitation of patients The vocational section is to be equipped for prevocational evaluations using the job sample technique of evaluation and also for work conditioning and vocational training in a wide variety of occupations Clients experiences in this setting will be supplemented through apprenticeship training in the various trades and indus tries of the hospital The Orkin Exterminating Co Atlanta was among the first firms to pledge cooperation with the Junior Chamber of Commerce Mental Health Committee in the statewide Hire the Mentally Restored project At leftSanford Orkin President and Dr Ronald Goldstein Chairman of the Jaycees committee discussing plansDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 AqalsStlona Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Gecrgtl Georgias Junior Chamber of Commerce Mental Health Committee plans a Hire the Mentally Restored program to cooperate with the Vocational Rehabilitation Division in placing patients discharged from Milledgeville State Hospital and certified as ready for employment From left Dr William Rotters man Chairman Governors Committee on Mental Health Atlanta A W Shockley Westinghouse Elec tric Company Athens W A Thompson Vicepresident Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co Atlanta standing Dr Ronald Goldstein Chairman of the Jaycees Committee Atlanta E G Mat tison Industrial Relations Representative Lockheed Aircraft Corp Marietta L H Singleton Presi dent Sing Oil Co Pelham and J M Moore Jr District Sales Manager Ford Motor Co East Point On the placard Arent you ashamed of what we do to former mental patients Through your lack of understanding you send back 1 out of 3 recovered patients to Milledgeville Hire the emotionally restored Jtokabilltatioiv Mws With a modern artificial arm Albanys Shelby Sanders right has learned to operate a motion picture projector despite the handi cap For nearly a year he has been employed by the Albany Theatre It was through the cooperation of George Eitel Theatre Manager that Sanders was given an oppor tunity to return to gainful employ ment Sanders lost his left arm as the result of a shotgun blast in Jan uary 1960 Afterward it was dis covered that he also had sustained some hearing loss in the accident The shock caused some emo tional problems which required hospitalization and treatment Through Vocational Rehabilita tion services Sanders was pro vided with the artificial appliance and training in its use at an ampu tee clinic and then placed at the theatre Speak To Doctors Dr A P Jarrell Director and Dr T P Goodwyn Chief Medical Consultant Vocational Rehabilitation Services were among the speakers at the Atlanta Graduate Medical Assembly in Atlanta February 20 Dr Jarrell spoke on the philosophy and administrative phases of the State Federal program Dr Goodwyn discussed the medical aspects of the service Marvin C Yarborough 32 displays two examples of his crafts manship at the Hallmark Custom Furniture Shop at East Point A skilled woodworker he enrolled in a correspondence course in draft ing while a patient at Battey State Hospital Records show he made A in the advanced course At top he exhibits a record player cabinet and below a table produced for customers He had received onthejob training with a Danish craftsman in Atlanta and went into business with two silent partners He is able to make drawings from pictures or rough sketches brought to the shop by customers The shop is in a new building which Yarborough designed It is of masonry construction Yarborough has a wife and three children two girls 9 and 3 and a boy 6 Changes At GAB F G Nelms Superintendent of the Georgia Academy for the Blind at Ma con died on January 28 after an illness of several months He was 58 Mr Nelms had been Superintendent of the Academy since 1952 He joined the Vocational Rehabilitation staff in 1945 as a Counselor for the Blind in the Atlanta area Earlier he had served as teacher principal and superintendent in public schools Lee Jones Principal of the Academy has been named Superintendent Mr Jones joined the Vocational Re habilitation staff in 1945 as a Counselor for the Blind after serving as teacher and administrator in public schools He was a counselor in the central Georgia area when appointed principal at the Academy in August 1961 New Welfare Plan In a message to Congress President Kennedy has proposed to reorganization of the Public Welfare program to put more emphasis upon rehabilitationin cluding Vocational Rehabilitation Bills to implement the program have been introduced in the Congress They pro pose among other things to make spe cial grants to the state to rehabilitate disabled recipients of Public Welfare benefits The purpose is to get at the roots of the problems of dependency growing out of disabilities The soundness of such an approach to the welfare problem has been amply demonstrated not only by the number of welfare recipients rehabilitated into jobs each year but by the results of special projectsBlind Main Broadcasts News A 27yearold blind man has made good as news Director of a Georgia radio station He is Lauren Nobles a Nichols native who was hired by WSIZ at OcillaFitz gerald when the station went on the air about a year ago Nobles also solicits and writes com mercials and puts on a onehour record party each afternoon It is intriguing to watch this budding radio personality as he handles with perfect ease the station controls an nounces and plays his own records and skillfully reads from Braille the com mercials between musical numbers said a local newspaper article Station Manager Joe Vincent gave Nobles the job after observing the blind youths work during an internship at a Douglas radio station Nobles says he enjoys his work and thinks other persons with similar handi caps might explore the field But he says they must love the job and be willing to work longer than 8 hours a day He reached his goal after nearly two years of discouraging experience follow ing graduation from the University of Georgia in 1959 with a major in radio and television advertising While he and his Vocational Rehabili tation Counselor Tommy McCollum of Bainbridge were looking for a job op portunity for the blind youth Nobles played some engagements with a dance orchestra in Athens It was between his Junior and Senior years at the University that he served his internship at Douglas and attracted the attention of Mr Vincent He made high grades and was chosen the outstanding senior in the Journalism Fraternity Before going to the University at Athens he had two years of College training also under Vocational Reha bilitation sponsorship at South Georgia College There he was chosen boy of the month during his Freshman year Vocational Rehabilitation provides reader service tuition maintenance books and supplies needed by the blind student Nobles says he always had a keen interest in radio and television Soon after graduating from the Georgia Aca demy for the Blind at Macon he decided he wanted to enter the radio broad casting field He knew of no other blind person doing that kind of work so he talked with radio station managers his Coun selor and others who encouraged him to undertake it At the Academy he had been Valedic torian in the class of 1955 His high LAUREN NOBLES school record psychological tests and his native intelligence indicated he was capable of succeeding in college and in his chosen field Nobles has total loss of vision in one eye and 51 per cent loss in the other He may be the only blind radio an nouncer and news director in the coun try If so he is blazing the trail for others to follow in the years to come A new Division of Medical Care in the Department of Public Welfare was announced by Alan Kemper Director effective December 1 1961 At the same time he appointed James J Segars for merly Supervisor of Physical Restora tion in the Division of Vocational Reha bilitation to the position of Director of the new division This expansion was necessary because of the initiation of the Medical Assis tance for the Aged Act enacted by the Legislature in 1961 implementing the Kerr Mills bill The law authorizes seventeen different medical services for the indigent over 65 years of age Serv ices began January 1 1962 in Georgia with a restricted program of services This was necessary because of limited State funds In the beginning only hospitalization for acute conditions and nursing home care for both chronic and acute condi tions for Old Age Assistance recipients will be provided Hospitalization in ap proved hospitals is provided for ten days per admission not to exceed thirty days per calendar year Nursing home care is provided for as long a period as needed for the ap proximately 100000 people on the Old Age Assistance rolls It is estimated that there is near this same number of J J SEGARS elderly citizens in the State who need assistance with their medical bills but are not on welfare rolls at present It is hoped that the services can be ex panded in the future Mr Segars announced on March 1 1962 that 103 hospitals and 85 nursing homes had been approved for participa tion in the program He stated further the program had already caused great improvement in nursing homes stand ards and shown the need for construc tion of additional nursing homes In the future Mr Segars will receive cost statements of all hospitals from which State agencies purchase hos pitalization and approve their all in clusive per diem rate Medical consultation is provided by the Medical Association of Georgia Dr John T Mauldin General Surgeon and member of the Panel of Specialist of DVR is Medical Director M A A Dr Mauldin has taken an active interest in the problems of the aged for several years and is chairman of the Governors Commission on Aging Included in the Medical Care Division of the Welfare Department is the Medi cal Review Team Mrs Mariebeth Turn er is Medical Social Worker Supervisor of the team She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Re habilitation AssociationKo GcorqoJNoooXoiNoV Mabilitatiorv Mm Vol 11 JanPeb 1962 No 3 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 61509 Americus105 E Forsyth Phone 5148 Bainbridge 218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2327773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 7544841 Rome314 West Building Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 BrunswickWay Building Phone AM 56541 Here are some excerpts from President Kennedys statement on a national program dealing with the problems of mental retardation Progress in the natural science during the past 15 years has been impressive but achievements in the prevention and therapy of mental retardation can be even more spectacular and can bring important benefits to mankind We must undertake a comprehensive and coordinated attack on the problem of mental retardation The large number of people involved the great cost to the nation the striking need the vast area of the unknown that beckons us to increased research effortsall demand attention It is for that reason that I am calling together a panel of outstand ing physicians scientists educators lawyers psychologists social scien tists and leaders in this field to prescribe the program of action I am sure that the talent which has led to progress in other fields of medicine and the physical sciences can enlarge the frontiers of this largely ignored area It shall be the responsibility of this panel to explore the possibili ties and pathways to prevent and cure mental retardation No relevant discipline and no fact that will help achieve this goal is to be neglected The panel will also make a broad study of the scope and dimensions of the various factors that are relevant to mental retardation These include biological psychological educational vocational and sociocul tural aspects of the condition and their impact upon each state of development marriage pregnancy delivery childhood and adulthood The panel will also appraise the adequacy of existing programs and the possibilities for greater utilization of current knowledge There are already many devoted workers in this field trained in diagnosis treat ment care education and rehabilitation The panel should ascertain the gaps in programs and any failure in coordination of activities The panel will review and make recommendations with regard to 1 The personnel necessary to develop and apply the new knowl edge The present shortage of personnel is a major problem in our logistics More physicians nurses social workers educators psy chologists and other trained workers are needed 2 The major areas of concern that offer the most hope and the means the techniques and the private and governmental structures necessary to encourage research in these areas 3 The present programs of treatment education and rehabili tation 4 The relationships between the Federal Government the States and private resources in their common efforts to eliminate mental retardation I am asking the panel to report on or before December 31 1962 Staff Changes James J Segars Director of the new Medical Care Division of the State De partment of Public Welfare had been supervisor of Physical Restoration of the Vocational Rehabilitation for six years He joined the Vocational Re habilitation Division staff in 1945 and served as counselor in the Atlanta area before being named supervisor J L Hise Supervisor for the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Disability Determination Unit succeeded Mr Se gars as Supervisor of Physical Restora tion He will continue to have respon sibility for the OASI Unit which he has served since it was organized in 1955 He had been District Supervisor in the Augusta area and earlier had served as Counselor at Battey State Hospital He joined the VR staff after his dis charge from the Armed Forces following World War II Mr Hise is President of the Georgia Rehabilitation Association and past President of the Georgia Tuberculosis Association Counselor M B Bramblett of Savan nah has joined the State Office staff in Atlanta as Assistant Supervisor of Physical RestorationPlans to expand the Warm Springs Foundation into a comprehensive mul tiple disability rehabilitation center for the treatment and training of seriously disabled people have been developed by the Foundation and State and Federal agencies The Foundation has agreed to deed to the State 134 acres adjoining the medical center as a site for a new fa cility which will be operated by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division Governor Ernest Vandiver has ap proved a State Board of Education Budget which includes 502000 to match Federal HillBurton funds for the construction of the facility estimated to cost more than 1255000 In making the announcement Gov ernor Vandiver said When the building program is com pleted we will have in Georgia for the first time facilities and staff for a comprehensive rehabilitation center where seriously disabled persons can get both medical and vocational rehabilita tion services to restore them to produc tive jobs Plans call for several buildings to pro vide space for psychological psychoso cial and vocational evaluation as well as prevocational and vocational train ing services There will be beds for 130 patients in addition to those in the medi cal center For years the world famous Warm Springs Foundation under the direction of Dr Robert L Bennett has had ade quate facilities for medical rehabilita tion and will continue its program of services The new facility to be known as the Georgia Rehabilitation Center will be under the direction of Dr A P Jarrell Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Nathan B Nolan former Dis trict Supervisor in Albany will be ad ministrator Medical services will be purchased from the Foundation The construction program is expected to be completed about July 1 1963 In July the Office of Vocational Re habilitation granted 18000 to the Geor gia agency for planning the facility Dr Bennett Dr Jarrell and Hobert Aiken the architect have visited rehabilitation centers in cities throughout the East and MidWest to get the latest ideas to incorporate in the plans In Washington Miss Mary Switzer Director of the Office of Vocational Re habilitation said the project was a most salutary joining of forces by the State the Foundation and the Federal government a real example of how our states and voluntary groups can and do work together to serve the American people Gets Award Dr Robert L Bennett Executive Di rector of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation and Professor of Physical Medicine at Emory University recently received a Certificate of Appreciation from Secretary of Health Educa tion and Welfare Abraham Ribicoff for outstanding service to the handicapped people of the country as a member of the National Advisory Council on Vo cational Rehabilitation in Washington Dr Bennett retired from the council under statutory provisions for rotation of membership The council has respon sibility for reviewing all applications for research and demonstation projects under a 9000000 program and makes recommendations for action to the Direc tor of the Office of Vocational Reha bilitation The certificate is carried on a handsome laminated plaque Named Supervisor Counselor R Watt of Albany has been appointed District Supervisor of Vocational Rehabilitation Services in the South Georgia areas He succeeds Nathan Nolan who has been named Administrator of the pro posed Georgia Rehabilitation Center at Warm Springs Mr Nolan is working with the architects Warm Springs Foun dation and other agencies in planning the center Mr Watt has been a Counselor in the Albany area for 15 years In his new DR R L BENNETT position he will supervise the rehabili tation program for disabled persons in the Albany Bainbridge Thomasville Valdosta and Waycross areas Before joining the Vocational Reha bilitation staff he was a teacher and principal in elementary and high schools in Sumter and Wilcox Counties Joe Hunt right Assistant Director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Washington was in Atlanta recently to attend a regional conference of Vocational Rehabilitation Administrators While here he talked with Public Welfare officials about the re habilitation of disabled parents of ADC Welfare benefits Shown here with him are Louis R Schubert Regional Representative of OVK Wellborn Ellis Administrator of the Fulton County Department ot Public Welfare and Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation servicesGovernor Praises JC7s Project At the 40th anniversary dinner of the Atlanta Junior Chamber of Commerce Governor Ernest Vandiver paid special tribute to the club for its solid assis tance to his Number 1 programMental Health He said in part In initiating and carrying forward this particular program you are build ing for yourselves personally and for your fine organization an eternal monu ment in selfless service to the State It is the communitys obligation to help the cured patient to find his place in society to find a job to forget any stigma he might have fancied and feared I was impressed deeply by your pamphlet which asks the searching ques tion Arent You Ashamed of What We do to Former Mental Patients I am proud of your answer to that question You have elevated the status of many former patients You have found them jobs You have been a strong right hand for the State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation with your Hire the Ment ally Restored project You are per sistently pushing plans to establish the states first halfway house for former patients and I predict you will succeed Let me join Dr Irville H MacKin non Milledgeville Hospital Superinten tendent Dr John H Veneable State Director of Public Health and Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Rehabili tation Service in welcoming your pro grams and projects and pledging my full cooperation and support Patients dismissed from Milledgeville State Hospital often have returned there partially because of a lack of facilities in their communities to provide neces sary support They have returned there also be cause of a public attitude May I project for you some of the acute needs in the communities There is a need to develop more qualified Public Welfare Workers to develop Homemaker Services where specially trained women actually go into Five members of the State Board of Education recently were ap pointed to new terms Here they are shown taking the oath of office administered by Governor Ernest Vandiver foreground From left Henry Stewart Sr Cedartown Thomas Nisbitt Jr Cordele David Rice Atlanta Robert Wright Moultrie and Zach Daniel Lavonia a home as a mother substitute when there is a crisis in the life of the family There is a definite need for day care services for children the gifted children the physically handicapped the mentally retarded especially and the emotionally maladjusted Yes our needs seem almost endless But we are beginning to meet them especially in communities where public response is quickened It would be splendid indeed if the President and the Congress and every Governor and legislature came out four square for the proper care and very best treatment for people with emo tional disturbances I am sure that the patients in our hospitals and dismissed from them would appreciate knowning that leaders of government are concerned and do ing something about their wellbeing But just as important as thisand perhaps more important is the knowl edge to the mentally ill that their neighbors their employer and fellow employees the groceryman and the serv ice station operator the family doctor the Jaycees the community in general is interested in them Many psychiatrists are convinced that a primary difficulty in emotional illness is a disturbance in interpersonal rela tionships The emotionally ill person badly needs the support and security of other individuals Mr Average Citizen can go to his community hospital for a fractured leg a heart attack a bout of pneumonia and while there he can be visited by his minister family employer and continue to feel a part of his community In fact he feels a special part a little pampered But my friends this is tragically not true of the mentally ill We must make it be true if we are to do our part in their complete restoration to norm alcy In our efforts to keep the mentally ill within their community and to avoid making them second class citizens you and I must keep saying to ourselves I believe in individual freedom in tolerance and in the rights of man This window display in a Peach tree Store was a feature of NEPH Week in Atlanta It was planned and installed by the Muse staff The artificial limbs were provided by the Atlanta Artificial Limb Co and J E Hangers IncEssay Contest Opens The Role of the Community in the Employment of the Handicapped is the theme of the 1962 essay contest spon sored by the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and Governors Committees throughout the nation The contest is open to 11th and 12th grade students in public or private high schools The Georgia competition closes March 1 1962 Five cash prizes amounting to 200 will be awarded to winners in the State The first prize essay will be entered in the National contest for 2000 in awards First place winners in each state will get a trip to Washington to attend the annual meeting of the Presi dents Committee In addition to the cash prizes parch ment awards signed by the President will be given for the five best essays in each state A special award will be made to the teacher of the firstplace winner in the states Georgia high school students have been entering the contest every year since it was begun about 12 years ago and two have been successful in the national competition Help or Hurt Will the growing trend toward auto mation help or hurt job chances for the retarded According to Dr William Fraenkel of the National Association for Retarded Children automation should help His reasoning Retarded persons have found their greatest employment opportunities in the service occupations Automation ac tually brings about growth of the serv ice occupations for automation brings more leisure time for all and persons during leisure make greater and greater demands on the service fields they take more vacations eat more meals in restaurants etc To satisfy the de mands more and more people will be needed in the service occupations In cluding its hoped more and more of the retarded Ability Counts Hire the Handicapped Top picture Lucile Campbell 22 of Augusta mother of two is shown in training at the University Hospital School of Practical Nursing After recovering from tuberculosis she felt she needed to work to help provide for the family Lower picture Eugene Henderson 52 who worked as a carpen ters helper before going to Battey State Hospital is shown in train ing in shoe repair at the Lucy Laney Vocational School Augusta He has a wife and 10year old child Both trainees are being aided by Vocational Rehabilitation Services in preparing for new vocationsDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Nonprofit Org U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aquiailions Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Georgia Fourteen Seniors from the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Spring with the school principal and a teacher visited the Governor and the General Assembly in February They were presented to the Senate by Lieut Gov Garland Byrd and to the House by Speaker Pro Tern Bob Scoggin of Floyd County Shown here are front row from left Dr A P Jarrell Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Billy Brumbelow Lindale Louise Edmondson Canton Brenda Padgett Cedartown Julie Kendrick Lmdale Governor Ernest Vandiver Travis Benton Decatur Felton Lamb Camilla Jerry Johnson Atlanta and Principal John L Caple Back row Joey Spurlin Atlanta Billy McCullough Conyers Larry Lemming Rome John Milford Cumming Dixie Blackwell Rome Joel Center Ringgold Hieh School Teacher M A MacLeod and Dan Ward Cairo Mdbllitatioiv Mws Geometry for Blind Students See Page 4Blind Students Use Records Senior Harry Bates of Griffin a horticulture major uses textbook recording obtained from Recording for the Blind Sponsored by Voca tional Rehabilitation he has made a good record at the University He has 92 percent loss of vision Four blind students currently enrolled at the University of Georgia in Athens benefit directly from the work of Geor gias only unit of Recording for the Blind located there Of the 1100 blind college students in the nation 900 currently use the facili ties of RFB as well as a like number of blind adults who are continuing their studies at home it is reported Recording for the Blind is a national nonprofit organization which supplies to blind persons upon request material necessary to continue their formal educa tion There is no charge for these serv ices Volunteer readers at the 14 units of RFB give of their time and talents re cording on magnetic tapes material re quested Other workers also volunteers check the tapes for errors prepare ink and Braille labels and perform clerical duties At national RFB headquarters in New York City the tapes are embossed onto plastic discs which are mailed directly to the blind person making the request The material is recorded at a speed of 16 rpm and the discs can be played on record players which most blind persons already have Any legally blind person can use the facilities of RFB All he has to do is make the request to national headquar ters 121 East 58th Street New York 22 N Y If the needed book has not been recorded commercially in Braille or through the Talking Books Program of the Library of Congress it is sent to one of the local units and put into production immediately Books on discs have several advantages over those done in Braille for the use of readers Consider the bulky volumes of Braille whereas only fifty 6inch discs weighing less than a pound are required to record an average 300page book These discs can be played over and over at the convenience of the user but read ers can come only at certain hours and there is usually a charge for their serv ices Last year the Athens unit recorded 13860 pages of textbook material Sixty five per cent of this work was by local request either for the four blind students on campus or for blind persons taking courses through the Universitys Home Study Division Other books distributed to the Athens unit by national head quarters were produced for persons in various parts of the nation At one time the unit was recording simultaneously Continued on Page 7 Top at leftRobert Lee Ravan left totally blind a Vocational Rehabilitation client made an A record during his first quarter at the University of Georgia Fresh man Counselor Dan U Biggers looks over a tape prepared for Ra van whose home is on Rt 3 Cleve landPelhani Senior Wins Contest Miss Sue Gandy a senior at Pelham High School Pelham Georgia has been awarded the first prize in the 1962 state wide essay contest sponsored by the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and the Vocational Rehabilitation Division of the State De partment of Education Her essay on The Role of the Com munity in the Employment of the Handi capped will be entered in the National contest conducted by the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handi capped Miss Gandy the daughter of Mr and Mrs Leon Gandy gets 10000 a trip to Washington D C for the annual meet ing of the Presidents Committee and a certificate signed by the President Her English teacher is Miss Rebecca Turner Cash prizes of 20000 in the Georgia contest were offered by the Associated Industries of Georgia Expenses for Miss Gandys trip to Washington will be pro vided by the State Federation AFLCIO More than 400 essays were entered in the final competition The State and National contest is open to Juniors and Seniors in public and pri vate schools Other successful Georgia contestants were second prize 5000 Miss Ange lyn Forester Headland High School East Point Georgia third prize 2500 Miss Connie Caldwell LaGrange High School LaGrange Georgia fourth prize 1500 Miss Jolene Home Appling County High School Baxley Georgia and fifth prize 1000 Miss Janice Matthews LaGrange High Schol La Grange Georgia NATIONAL WINNERS Winners in the National contest later were announced as First prize 1000 Ricki Graef Lawton Okla Second 600 James L Florey Beloit Wis Third 400 Mary Margaret Sharp Perkersburg W Va Fourth 300 Charli Ann Harland Ontario Oregon and Fifth 200 Lynne Elz Tallahassee Fla Miss Graef came to this country from Germany following the marriage of her widowed mother to an American Army sergeant HIRE THE HANDICAPPED ABILITY COUNTS Governor Ernest Vandiver right presents prizes to essay contest winners Miss Sue Gandy left and Miss Angelyn Forester Civil Service Jobs for Handicapped Representatives of Federal agencies in the Southeast meeting in Atlanta on April 24 mapped plans for getting quali fied handicapped persons in more Civil Service jobs They heard Nicholas J Organovic of Washington Deputy Executive Director of the Commission review policies and outline a plan of action We are in the process of hiring a psy chiatrist who will conduct training ses sions for supervisory personnel in Wash ington and in the field he said He will stimulate equal employment opportunities for those who have recov ered from mental illness We have adopted a policy of making every effort to keep on the employment rolls those Federal employees who be come mentally ill through the liberal granting of sick leave annual leave and leavewithoutpay We also have en couraged Federal agencies to reemploy people who have recovered from physical or mental handicaps which led to their disability retirement Federal agencies have been author ized to hire on a 700hour trial basis per sons who have recovered from mental or emotional disorders as well as those whose physical handicap does not prevent them from performing a specific job Candidates who meet the medical and job qualification requirements may be hired temporarily without otherwise es tablishing civil service eligibility If dur ing their temporary employment they become eligible for permanent appoint ment their status may be so changed Such persons earn up to 5355 per year Thus one of the biggest hurdles fac ing the handicapped applicant can be overcomethe crucial point at which the applicant is asked what job experience he had since he became handicapped He can say T worked 700 hours in a Federal agency Here is a report on my proficien cy The conference was arranged by My rah C Bright Regional Veterans Federal Employment Representative of the At lanta Region of the U S Civil Service Commission Other speakers included Hammond Smith Director Atlanta Region USCSC Dr Melvin T Johnson Assistant Chief Medical Division USCSC Washington Carney L Givens Coordinator Brookley Air Force Base Alabama W A Sims President Master Manufacturing Co Inc Atlanta and Bruce Hall Public Re lations Representative Vocational Re habilitation and Secretary of the Gov ernors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped A panel of doctors discussed What the Handicapped Can Do On the panel were Dr Johnson Moderator Dr Shel don B Cohen Dr James Funk Jr Dr William A Hopkins and Dr Joseph MasseeOKo Gacrecio9occXov MabilitatioriVWs Vol 11 MarApril 1962 No 4 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 61509 Americus105 E Forsyth Phone 5148 Bainbridge 218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61811 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2327773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 7544841 Rome314 West Building Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 BrunswickWay Building Phone AM 56541 standard specifications for making buildings and facilities accessible to phy sically handicapped people have been approved by the American Standards Asso ciation Inc The standards were developed in a twoyear study by a committee representing numerous professional and technical societies associations and agencies The Na tional Rehabilitation Association and the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation were represented on the committee The architectural barriers project as it is known was sponsored by the Presi dents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults Printed copies of the standards are being distributed to architects contractors building code officials and others State and local community groups interested in the problems of the handicapped are being urged by the sponsors to initiate action to modify existing public buildings and plans for new ones to conform to the approved standards The most common design and construction of buildings and facilities cause problems for the physically hadicapped that lessen the social and economic gains now evident in the rehabilitation of these individuals says the foreword of the printed standards And it continues These architectural barriers make it very difficult to project the physically handicapped into normal situations of education recreation and employment Here are just a few of the specifications EntrancesAt least one entrance should be usable by those in wheelchairs an entrance on a level giving access to elevators RampsIf ramps are needed the slope should be no greater than one foot rise in twelve feet A nonslip surface at least one handrail a level platform at the top and at least six feet of straight clearance at the bottom are chief requirements for ramps DoorsNeeded are doors at least thirtytwo inches wide with thresholds flush with the floor Double doors are generally too difficult to open from wheelchairs Automatic doors are excellent StairsRisers of no more than seven inches and round nosings rather than square ones which can trip the unwary climber are imperative Rest roomsAt least one stall in each rest room should be wide enough to ac commodate a wheelchair and mirrors and shelves should be set low enough to be used by those in wheelchairs Water fountainsSpouts and controls should be in front Conventional coolers are satisfactory if a small fountain is mounted on the side thirty inches above the floor Geometry is taught in high school grades at the Georgia Acad emy for the Blind at Macon Solid figures and plane surfaces of beav er board help the student in con structing the figure he needs to solve his problemEmployer Gets Jaycee Award The Georgia Junior Chamber of Com merce Mental Health Committee has cited Smart Products Inc of Atlanta manufacturers for extraordinary serv ice in providing job opportunities for mentally restored persons An appropriately inscribed plaque re cently was presented to Max Sophier president of the company by Dr Ronald E Goldstein Chairman of the Jaycees mental health committee In a letter to Mr Sophier Governor Ernest Vandiver said May I congratulate you on this most worthy achievement As you know Mrs Vandiver and I are vitally interested in better mental health for Georgia Much progress is being made through our im proved program at Milledgeville State Hospital where intensive treatment is rapidly replacing custodial care However no amount of treatment or care inside the hospital can substitute for a satisfactory job after the patient is restored provided by an understand ing and receptive employer who will not permit stigma and prejudice to color his appraisal of any employee The award your company is receiving indicates you are an employer of this select nature To Dr Goldstein whose term as chair man was expiring Governor Vandiver said I want to express personal appreci ation to you for the outstanding job you have done in promoting employment op portunities for restored Milledgeville State Hospital patients Through your leadership the Jaycees have sponsored a special Governors Committee on Employment of the Men tally restored composed of some of Geor gias leading industrialists and the va rious Jaycee chapters throughout Geor gia have appointed local committees all working toward more employment op portunities for restored mental patients I have been told that the work of these committees is most effective and many restored patients are entering em ployment where they are rapidly becom ing part of Georgias growing prosperity This is a most worthy achievement The Jaycee committee works closely with Vocational Rehabilitation Counsel ors serving mentally and emotionally disturbed clients CaseoftheYear Asa Barnard Rehabilitation Special ists for Psychiatric cases in the Atlanta metropolitan area received the Case oftheYear award for the Southeastern region at the regional conference of the National Rehabilitation Association in St Petersburg Fla for his counseling achievement with an emotionally dis turbed woman His report was entered in competition with those of other counselors serving sighted clients in this region The Case oftheYear competition is an annual event at the regional conference of NRA Max Sophier center President of Smart Products Inc Atlanta gets citation from the Georgia Junior Chamber of Commerce Com mittee on Mental Health At right Dr Ronald Goldstein Chairman and at left Asa Barnard Rehabilitation Specialists for psychiatric cases in the Atlanta area David Amato Rehabilitation Advisor of the U S AID Agency for Interna tional Development mission to Mexico and a former Atlantan recently de scribed at a Vocational Rehabilitation supervisors staff meeting results of U SMexican cooperation in the field of rehabilitation which are now attracting attention of other Latin American coun tries The Mexican Government has estab lished a Division of Rehabilitation in the Ministry of Health and Welfare with ten rehabilitation facilities under its di rection It has helped voluntary efforts in the establishment of the Mexican In stitute of Rehabilitation described by Dr Howard Rusk as the most complete rehabilitation center in all of Latin America and training facilities for tech nicians in a wide variety of disciplines A Mexican Rehabilitation Association similar to our National Rehabilitation Association has been organized to pro vide a meeting ground for the increasing number of persons interested in the field of rehabilitation In August of this year the Mexican Rehabilitation Association is sponsoring in the Fourth National Rehabilitation Con gress together with the Institute of So cial Security and the Fifth Pan Ameri can Conference on Rehabilitation Mr Amato who was previously the Director of the D C Rehabilitation De partment Washington is now devoting much of his time to other Latin Ameri can countries which have taken note of what has been done in Mexico and have requested his services in establishing similar programs On April 2 the Honduran Institute of Rehabilitation was inaugurated by Presi dent Ramon Villeda Morales Tegucigal pa Honduras In June the Third Insti tute of Rehabilitation to be established thus far in Latin America will be inaugu rated in Lima Peru by President Manuel Prado There are seven other countries Mr Amato points out which are in va rious stages of program development Helping Latin American countries in developing programs for the restoration of disabled persons to productive useful ness according to Mr Amato is not only important in the economic development of these countries but also in helping to change the image of the U S as an en tirely materialistic nationAthens Leader Gets Citation Front row from leftMrs Chick Lewis Chick Bruce Hall Secre tary of the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and Victor Nicholson Manager Athens area Georgia State Employ ment Service Back rowHoward Weeks Public Relations Repre sentative Georgia Department of Labor and Kirby Strain of Atlanta Assistant Director GSES Joe Sosby Joe Sosby Dies Joseph F Sosby of Augusta a Voca tional Rehabilitation Counselor since 1943 died of a heart ailment on April 26 For years he served counties in the Augusta area In 1958 he was assigned to the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hos pital to work with patients sent there by the Agency A native of Franklin County he was educated at Young Harris College and the University of Georgia He taught in public schools and served as Superin tendent at Royston and Millen before joining the Vocational Rehabilitation staff Mr Sosby is survived by his wife a son Thomas who is a student at the Medical College of Georgia and a daugh ter The Cadaver student publication at the Medical College said It is the unanimous opinion of those who worked with Mr Sosby that he was the ideal man for his job A man of infinite kind ness and tact he endeared himself to patients and medical staff alike His ex tensive experience in all phases of his work with his professional knowledge of people made it possible for him to solve many apparently unsoluble problems We are all proud to have worked and to have been friends with such a man Library Dedicated To Dr M D Collins The new library facility Union Coun ty high school at Blairsville recently was dedicated to Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Emeritus who was Georgias School Superintendent for 25 years A portrait of Dr Collins was unveiled by his 12yearold great niece Donna Reed Dr Claude Purcell State Superintend ent of Schools referred to Dr Collins as Georgias Mr Education and said he had an unbroken record of fighting for better education for Georgias children over a span of more than sixty years Dr Collins started his career teaching in a oneroom school in Union County Lewis P Chick of Athens blind head of piano stores and longtime chairman of the Clarke County Committee on Em ployment of the Handicapped has been cited by the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped for out standing leadership in providing job op portunities for qualified handicapped workers The citation sponsored by the Georgia Department of Labor was presented to Mr Chick at a meeting of the Athens Lions Club on April 13 A graduate of the Georgia Academy for the Blind at Macon and the Uni versity of Georgia Law School Mr Chick served in the Georgia House of Representatives For years he has taken a leading part in civic affairs in Athens He has provided onthejob training opportunities for many blind youths who wanted to become piano technicians Barna Jones Barna Jones Dies Barna C Jones Vocational Instructor at the Georgia Academy for the Blind at Macon died on April 13 He was a graduate of the Academy and was appointed manual training teacher there in 1924 a position he held for ten years For two years he was In dustrial Placement Specialist for the Vo cational Rehabilitation Division section for the blind From 1946 to 1951 he was engaged in the piano and tuning repair business Although blind Mr Jones was regard ed as a capable instructor in shop prac tices He had a high degree of skill in using hand tools and operating power machinery He held the respect and esteem of his associates on the faculty at the Academy He had a keen sense of humorNew Hiring Policy The U S Civil Service Commission re cently announced a change in policy which permits Federal agencies to hire on a 700hour trial basis persons who have recovered from mental or emotional disorders as well as those whose physical handicap does not prevent them from performing a specific job In many cases physically handicap ped applicants would be employed by the Federal government if they could point to a successful period of employment following treatment for a mental or emo tional disorder says the announcement Securing this initial employment is the most difficult phase of returning to an active career In order to carry out the Presidents employment policy and in recognition of this initial hesitation you Federal agencies are urged to assist physically handicapped applicants by providing this initial or trial temporary employment Agencies are to accomplish this objective authorized to make tem porary limited appointments for not to exceed 700 hours even where the posi tion filled is a continuing one Title Changed President John F Kennedy recently signed an Executive Order removing the word physically from the title of the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped In announcing the change the Presi dent explained We want to emphasize the great importance of hiring people who may have suffered some degree of difficulty mentally These people de serve our wholehearted support and co operation in making it possible for them to live useful and fruitful lives h Augustas 48yearold J P Cofer who has a disabled left leg was aided by Vocational Rehabilitation in establishing a neighborhood business For years he had worked as a cook in a cafe Cofer was dependent upon his parents when accepted for service by Vocational Rehabilitation Succeeds Dr Bennett Appointment of Dr James Vernon Luck of Los Angeles Calif to the Na tional Advisory Council on Vocational Rehabilitation has been announced by Health Education and Welfare Secre tary Abraham Ribicoff Dr Luck succeeds Dr Robert L Ben nett Jr Director of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation Warm Springs Ga and will serve a fouryear term Blind Students books for blind California Continued from Page 3 persons in Maine and HIRE THE HANDICAPPED This window display in Davisons on Atlantas Peachtree street was a feature of the annual observance of NEPH Week to promote equal job opportunities for qualified handicapped workers It was planned and installed by Davisons display staff The quality of the work produced in Athens is evidenced by the fact that the Library of Congress has requested for its permanent collection four books re corded locally One of these is Uncle Remus His Songs and Sayings record ed by Dr David F Barrow for thirty years professor of mathematics at the University a faithful reader for the Athens unit and widely known for his Uncle Remus dialect Although all the workers at the units are volunteers each unit must meet its own expenses for equipment and sup plies It is felt that the present produc tion figure attained on only two tape recorders could be doubled if funds were available for two additional machines Nationally known personalities in the arts and other fields are among the sup porters of RFB Some are volunteer readers others help through contribu tions But for its continued operation and expansion the Athens unit depends large ly upon friends within the state Cost of production is roughly a penny per re corded page The basic objective of RFB is to help the blind become useful productive citi zens One way of achieving this goal is to assist the sightless in continuing their formal education Letters from blind persons who have achieved success in varying fields attest that they could not have completed their training without the facilities of RFB Such messages en courage the units to work harder than everDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Mi33 Carroll Hart General Library Univ of Ca Athens G8 Amputee Carl T Perkins 50 a former policeman in Sylvester now earns a living maintaining lawns and grounds for churches and schools His left leg was injured by a shotgun blast in a hunting accident in 1958 He had insuiance through the Peace Officers Asso ciation He had several surgical operations and was provided with a modern prosthesis Vocational Rehabilitation also aided him in getting tools and equipment need ed in his new occupation BSXj j ckabllltatloiv Mws Patients and therapists work together at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation See page 2New Rehabilitation Center Architects drawing of the proposed Georgia Rehabilitation Center to be constructed by the State Board of Education on a 13acre tract deeded to the State by the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation Three units are shown from left the 130bed dormitory evaluationtraining section and the adminis tration building The project estimated to cost more than 1255000 will be financed with State and Federal HillBurton funds Wise Simpson Aiken Associates of Atlanta are the architects Shown above is a view of the worldfamous Georgia Warm Springs Foundation property and the site of the Georgia Rehabilitation Center These facilities will provide comprehensive rehabilitation services to disabled persons The services include medical treatment and consultation physical therapy speech and hearing therapy artificial appliances braces nursing vocational counseling psychological counsel ing and testing social casework vocational training workshop therapy and work experience A coordi nated clientcentered approach will be maintained to assure that individuals receive the proper service at the proper timeProgram Advances on Many Fronts By Dr A P Jarrell Director In the fiscal year ending June 30 1962 another new record was established in the number of disabled persons helped to overcome their handicaps and placed in satisfactory employment through the services of the Georgia Rehabilitation Agency The program for the sighted disabled and the program for the blind had 14386 persons referred of which 7486 were accepted for services As of June 30 1962 6105 were re habilitated into satisfactory employment and 6582 were receiving major services 554 of those rehabilitated during this period were unemployed when the reha bilitation process began About 700 of those rehabilitated were receiving Public Assistance at acceptance It is estimated that those rehabilitated will pay in taxes during the remainder of their working lives from 700 to 1000 for every dollar invested in their rehabilitation so that the conversion of 6105 persons from taxconsumers into taxpayers is of pronounced economic benefit to the state and nation Areas in which services were expanded to a larger group of disabled persons were 1 The Agency has provided services during the past year to many indi viduals with severe cardiac neuro muscular and respiratory condi tions who were formerly denied assistance With new medications improved surgical procedures and better facilities the Agency was able to rehabilitate 113 clients who were severely handicapped in one of these categories 2 Mentally Retarded Experience in the rehabilitation of this group indicated that a more extensive program of services with better coordination of all who are con cerned in the welfare of these people was necessary To meet the needs of the educable retard ed services were expanded in this area The Georgia Agency reha bilitated 134 this past fiscal year 3 Emotionally 111 Services in in tensive treatment centers in gen eral hospitals and at the State Mental Hospital were expanded A better coordinated program with related private and public agencies in the placement and followup of these clients was developed The Agency rehabilitated 326 4 Epileptic Improvement in medi cation and adequate staff and fa cilities have demonstrated that more than 60 of these disabled people can gain control of this con dition and be placed in full time jobs 5 Blind The Agency rehabilitated 342 blind clients and placed in varied types of employment more than in any prior year Services were provided to clients formerly denied in cases where new oper ative techniques may retain limit ed vision The number of vending stands was increased to 76 with 106 operators 6 Aid to Parents of Dependent Chil dren The pilot project in Fulton County demonstrated that a sub stantial percentage of the dis abled people could be rehabilitated and become contributing members to society Steps were taken to initiate similar ADC projects in other urban areas in an attempt to carry out the provisions of new Federal legislation to rehabilitate a much larger number of Welfare recipients This year 393 were taken off the States welfare rolls and with an average payment per family of 8684 this amounts to a saving of nearly 400000 a year 7 Older Disabled Workers Census reports indicate an increasing number of persons in the older age group Many of these are disabled and can be rehabilitated and re stored to employment This past fiscal year the Agency rehabili tated approximately 2000 who were age 45 and older Nearly 100 were age 65 and older 8 Old Age and Survivors Insurance An increase of 535 was reported in the number of applications for dis ability benefits processed in the past year A total of 15638 was processed and 8999 was allowed Those allowed received an average monthly payment of 8000 which increased the economy in the state by 8639040 per year Approxi mately 400 of the referrals were accepted for rehabilitation of which 62 were rehabilitated It is to thi advantage of the indi vidual to be returned to employ ment through rehabilitation as he should receive higher income for his family and this in turn will be a saving to the Social Security Trust Fund 9 Evaluation Centers Three voca tional evaluation centers were es tablished for individuals with spe cific disabilities emotionally ill mentally retarded and deaf 10 Comprehensive Rehabilitation Cen ter Plans have been completed for the construction of the first comprehensive rehabilitation cen ter for Georgia with construc tion beginning first quarter of 196263 fiscal year This makes it possible for the severely dis abled individual to receive medi cal psychosocial work evaluation and vocational training within the same facility 11 Georgia School for the Deaf During the past scholastic year the school had the largest enroll ment in its history464 Addi tional vocational courses were add ed and curriculum strengthened Construction is now in process on three cottage type dormitories for 48 students each along with dining and recreation room 12 Georgia Academy for the Blind Dr Claude Purcell seated State Superintendent of Schools and Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Re habilitation Services review re ports on years work The enrollment this past scholas tic year was the largest in the his tory of the school226 The cur riculum was strengthened and ad ditional staff employed The fa cilities were improved For fiscal year 196263 plans have been formulated to expand services to certain categorical disability groups so that a larger percentage of these people may be rehabilitated Much attention has been focused on services for the severely disabled during the past fiscal year With experience and additional facilities the opportunities will be better than ever for serving a larger number of people in these groups New federal legislation stipulates that the Rehabilitation Agency will provide expanded services to disabled people on public welfare and social security in or der to raise their standard of living and help them become contributing members to society To meet this challenge will require the active support of every mem ber of the staff along with the assistance of related agencies etc The areas in which we expect to render greater services are 1 emotionally ill 2 mentally retarded 3 the se verely disabled 4 welfare recipients 5 older disabled person To provide effective services for these groups requires additional facilities such as 1 evaluation centers 2 transi tional workshops 3 a sound program of staff training The disabled people of our state are entitled by law to be helped to the point of employability It is our responsibility to help the individual get his rightful chance in life and I am sure that every employee of the Agency will do all within his power to see that those who are eligible for rehabilitation service will be assisteds Work Together By John S Prickett Jr Assistant Director Georgia may be proud of one of the outstanding Vocational Rehabilitation programs in the entire nation The number of persons rehabilitated into employment has increased each year for the past twelve consecutive years This increase would not have been pos sible without the wholehearted coopera tion of many people and many agencies The Governors the Legislatures the State Boards of Education and the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation have provided increases in funds so that more services could be provided to a larger number of disabled individuals The medical profession has given un stinted support to the program in many ways Guidance in the physical restora tion phase of the program has been carried on since 1944 by a Medical Ad visory Committee composed of leading physicians in the various specialty fields throughout the State In the various health agencies both public and private working agreements have been developed and as a result the handicapped citizens have been better served In some instances research and demonstration projects have been under taken in cooperation with health agencies At the Milledgeville State Hospital a project has been developed in cooperation with the hospital for the rehabilitation of patients there This project should increase materially the number of pa tients rehabilitated into employment County Departments of Health have rendered valuable services in the rehabili tation effort Many referrals come to Vocational Rehabilitation through public and private welfare agencies Projects have been organized in cooperation with welfare organizations A project which has been recognized nationally is the one developed in cooperation with the Fulton County Department of Public Welfare In this project Welfare and Vocational Rehabili tation are working together in the re habilitation of disabled fathers and mothers receiving Aid to Dependent Chil dren grants This project has demon strated that this group of people may again become productive citizens Public and private schools have been a good source of referrals for young people Recently a project was begun in conjunction with selected school sys tems and the Special Education Section of the State Department of Education for evaluation and rehabilitation of mentally retarded children in selected school systems This project is just get ting under way but should prove to be very fruitful There has been enthu siastic support from all concerned Other projects have been developed in cooperation with the Warm Springs Foundation the School for the Deaf at Cave Spring the Academy for the Blind at Macon the Bobby Dodd Workshop in Atlanta the Goodwill Industry in Atlanta Battey Hospital at Rome the Georgia State School and Hospital at Gracewood and other organizations Space does not permit even naming the various organizations which have cooperated with Vocational Rehabilita tion in rendering more adequate services to the handicapped individuals of this State but there are many It is only through this cooperation that the Di vision has been able to rehabilitate over 82000 Georgia citizens since the program began Georgia will not rest on laurels of the past but will continue to press forward in the preservation of the greatest of all assets the working usefulness of human beings st oration Is Mai or Service By J L Hise Supervisor Physical Restoration Physical Restoration is one of the major services provided to the disabled citizens by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division Public Law 113 passed by Congress in 1943 authorized states to include physical restoration services in their programs and Georgia was one of the first states to move forward in this area Under the leadership of Dr A P Jarrell now Director of Rehabilitation Mabilitatiorv Mxvs Vol 11 MayJune 1962 No 5 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex Services and Dr T P Goodwyn Chief Medical Consultant Georgia was recog nized as one of the leaders in developing and providing physical restoration serv ices The cooperation of the medical pro fession was sought and obtained Today most of the physicians in the State are involved in this part of the Rehabilita tion program The general practitioner makes many of the general medical examinations There are 1246 physicians on the Panel of Specialists representing every spe cialty group who perform surgery and treatment and the other necessary physi cal restoration services in helping restore the disabled to their maximum physi cal capacity This has played a tremen dous part in placing disabled Georgia citizens in employment Hospitalization is purchased in 103 hospitals There are 10 medical con sultants employed on a parttime basis to assist Rehabilitation Counselors in the regular program and 8 medical con sultants assist in making disability de terminations for the Social Security ap plicants Approximately eighty per cent of the individuals who receive rehabilitation services undergo physical restoration in some form along with other services such as guidance and training as a part of their rehabilitation plan For many years severely disabled in dividuals had little opportunity to return to employment Georgia again was one of the leaders among the states in work ing with paraplegics guadriplegics epileptics severe heart disabilities and other severe impairments that heretofore had been neglected so far as Vocational Rehabilitation was concerned Many of these people were given new hope new opportunities for employment and a return to a productive life through Vocational Rehabilitation services Many were sent to the New York Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Warm Springs Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Fishersville Virginia where they were given treat ment training hope and a new chance for employment The future holds even greater possi bilities for these severely disabled people Rapid advances are being made in the techniques of open heart surgery and in all other phases of medical treatment and surgical care The Vocational Rehabilitation Division welcomes new opportunities to serve severely disabled people so that more of them can be afforded opportunities for meaningful happy productive lives as contributing members of societyProgress In Region By Louis R Schubert Regional Representative Office of Vocational Rehabilitation The one outstanding advance in re habilitation in the Southeastern Region during the past year has been the greatly increased activity in the establishment of new rehabilitation facilities and im provements of programs in existing facilities The Regional Rehabilitation Center which the Georgia Vocational Rehabili tation Division is developing in conjunc tion with Warm Springs Foundation is an example of two organizations work ing closely together to establish a voca tionallyoriented center and typifies the urgency to establish badlyneeded serv ices The rehabilitation center at Ellisville Mississippi for epileptics is another ex ample This is the first center program in the country specifically geared to meet the needs of epileptics Another outstanding accomplishment has been the tremendous improvement effected by State Rehabilitation Agencies in their inservice training programs Practically all agencies have a well planned year round staff development program Major emphasis was given to improving counselor understanding and skills in the rehabilitation process More training for supervisors was noted as a definite trend One of the most important pieces of work conducted by the Regional Office in fiscal year 1962 was a review in every State Rehabilitation Agency of the quality of casework services rendered to clients The State Agencies studied the results carefully with interest and many improvements in casework practices are expected There has been keen interest in de veloping of special projects and State Agencies designated a member of their State Staff to coordinate this activity The same person in most instances also has workshop and facility development as his responsibility In February research personnel from universities in Region IV and rehabilita tion personnel participated in an insti tute in Atlanta to explore ways of work ing together to realize improved research and demonstration projects to find new and better avenues to the rehabilitation of the disabled Two disability areas in particular re ceived a great deal of attention and made major advances Georgia and Alabama have moved forward in programs for the rehabilitation of the mentally re tarded Georgia and South Carolina have both developed extensive rehabilitation center services for the mentally ill with in State Mental Hospitals Goals for the future are shaped and pursued on the basis of past progress Aspects of vocational rehabilitation which made the most progress in fiscal year 1962 are still areas of concern and will get the major part of our attention Additional workshops and rehabilita tion facilities are needed We need speech and hearing centers rehabilitation houses for the mentally ill also for the mentally retarded We must find new approaches to the rehabilitation of the mentally re tarded the aging worker the mentally ill the blind and persons otherwise severely disabled who need a wide range of adjustment services Research and demonstration and State Agency Inservice Training will continue to receive major emphasis Job place ment will receive new emphasis In fiscal year 1963 the Regional Of fice hopes to provide more and better consultation to State Agencies to assist them in rehabilitating more disabled people A major objective will be to aid State Directors to establish better systems of studying their own agency programs We expect to assert more active leadership in helping agencies determine needs and in planning for long range goals Other objectives for the coming year will be to a help State Agencies secure enough State Funds to match Federal Funds available b work more closely with public welfare agencies to effect rehabilitation of a greater number of welfare recipients c explore addi tional means of working with public health agencies the schools and the Old Age Survivors Insurance Program to bring the best rehabilitation services possible to the disabled By W B Gaines Supervisor Services for the Blind Rehabilitation services for blind clients made progress during the past year in both quality and quantity In fiscal year 196061 332 blind persons were rehabili tated and in fiscal year 196162 342 cases were closed employed A wider range of services as to job objectives has been accomplished with out an increase in the staff Some of the areas in which clients were provided services including training and place ment consist of the following Thirtyone clients attended eighteen different colleges Six students graduated in June One student received a scholar ship in the graduate school at Yale University Another received a teaching scholarship Three gradutes have pros pects for employment in September The Agricultural Specialist and Coun selors for the Blind assisted seventeen clients in rural areas in developing eight different types of projects The Adjustment and Orientation Cen ter at the Georgia Academy for the Blind enrolled thirty clients for diagnostic evaluation and training during the sum mer months The Metropolitan Atlanta Association for the Blind has provided similar training for sixteen clients The Optical Aids Center located in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Grady Memorial Hospital Atlanta operated cooperatively with the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation has made lowvision examinations for the purpose of improving visual acuity with optical aids for 595 near blind persons during the last four years One hundred and thirtyfour have been examined and evaluated during 196162 Recommenda tions for visual improvement with optical aids have been made for approximately sixty per cent of all those examined The Greenhouse and Nursery program at the Georgia Academy for the Blind is in continuous operation and has pro vided training and placement for a num ber of blind clients in nursery and re lated occupations The Vending Stand Program provides an excellent means of permanent rehabili tation for blind clients During the fiscal year eleven new stands were opened Sales increased 128000 with total volume of 1139000 The operators earnings increased 32000 making a total operator earnings of 315338 or an average of 3250 per operator At present 106 blind persons are employed in 76 vending stands The Home Employment Counselor who assists blind housewives in homemaking has provided services to 19 women Many of these are now able to do their shop ping cooking and housekeeping Many supplement the family income with craft projects which the Home Employ ment Counselor has helped them to de velop Some of the varied occupations in which blind clients were employed are stand operators store operators sales men elevator operators piano techni cians janitors housekeepers carpenters medical transcribers recreation directors farmers teachers and ministersMentally 111 Get More Help By W C Petty Supervisor Due to the complexity of the problems involved effective programs for the vo cational rehabilitation of the mentally ill like Rome are not built in a day Despite this fact tremendous strides during the past fiscal year have been made by the Georgia agency toward the solution of this longneglected national problem The first specialized efforts directed toward the vocational rehabilitation of the mentally ill in the state were initiated July 1 1958 at which time in coopera tion with the State Health Department and general hospitals a special VR Coun selor was added to the treatment team on the psychiatric ward of the Talmadge Hospital Subsequent to this beginning two other special Counselors have become members of psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation teams in general hospitals one at Grady Hospital Atlanta in 1960 and one at the Medical Center Columbus in 1961 This beginning which was partially supported by a substantial Federal OVR Research and Demonstration Grant proved effective in the rehabilitation of the mentally ill in the state to the extent that the agency was encouraged to accept an invitation from the State Hospital to provide a VR staff in the State Hospital as a part of the team concerned with total psychiatric care This project in the State Hospital was initially launched on July 1 1961 with a staff consisting of a Supervisor three special Counselors a parttime consult ant psychiatrist the equivalent of a full time consultant psychologist and a part time research psychologist Later a fourth Counselor and a prevocational evaluator were added During the year members of this staff have made rapid progress in identifying and filling their roles as members of screening evalu ation advisory and treatment teams Staff personnel have related closely to community resource groups over the state encouraging these groups to mobi lize to meet the transitional needs of the returning discharged patient One special Counselor has been assgined to the metropolitan area of Atlanta to work closely with these groups in addition to working with individual clients in this area As a result of this effort to provide for a thread of continuity of needed serv ices from the hospital into the communi ty a number of community groups in cluding chapters of the Georgia Mental Health Association County Public Health Department State Jaycee Clubs and others have become active and ef fective At the time each client is judged ready to leave the hospital he is referred to the field Counselor serving the communi ty to which the client returns along with a comprehensive vocational evaluation with particular emphasis both upon the clients potential for adjustment and his particular needs to be met during this period of adjustment in the community By the end of the fiscal year the Counselors at the State Hospital had given consideration to 496 patients A followup study on the first 100 patients leaving the State Hospital under spon sorship of the VR program indicated that only 10 per cent of these patients were readmitted to the hospital This compares very favorably with the 39 per cent rate of readmissions of the general population of releases At the time of the study 55 per cent of these had been successfully placed in employment The study also revealed that 35 per cent of this group were successfully competing in vocational training or had successfully completed training courses since leaving the hospital Projected plans for the present fiscal year include an expansion of the present VR staff at the State Hospital to include additional Counselors social workers and prevocational evaluators It is ex pected that the Y H Yarbrough Rehabi litation Center now under construction will be completed and fully equipped and in operation by the beginning of the calendar year This will be a 500bed facility devoted to the psychiatric social and vocational rehabilitation of patients The vocational section is being equipped for prevocational evaluations using the job sample technique of evaluation and also for work conditioning and vocational training in a wide variety of occupations Of paramount importance during this year of progress has been the decided improvement in counselor skill tech nique and knowhow of offering VR services to the psychiatric client This improvement has been accomplished both through inservice training programs and through a closer working relationship with other disciplines in the field of mental health These developments offer promise of more quality and productive rehabilitation of the mentally ill More Training Provided By Otis C Dyer Supervisor Guidance Training and Placement Present trends in industry demand more skilled workers than ever before and there is every indication that this need will increase The Vocational Re habilitation Division is dedicated to the responsibility of preparing physically impaired people for employment and is therefore ever alert to the needs of em ployers as well as the needs of the handi capped individual The agency provides first of all coun seling and guidance services to these citi zens The Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor together with whatever as sistance may be necessary seeks to de termine the vocational potential of the individual and to assist him in choosing the most suitable area in which he will earn his livelihood Once this choice is made the service facility which can meet the needs that have been identified is chosen During fiscal year 196162 approxi mately 2500 persons received training This included all types of training Ap proximately 700 handicapped people have been in the colleges preparing for the professions The others have received vo cational and technical training The state and area trade schools have trained a large number of these people The development of the trade school pro gram in the state has to a large extent eliminated the necessity of sending Geor gia citizens out of state to get training they need The Division also assists in placement The Rehabilitation Counselors and spe cialists in the field of placement con stantly seek employment opportunities for qualified handicapped people They are careful to direct the individual to employment which is consistent with his disability and for which he is well pre pared Although the professional staff is well trained the agency has an inservice training program designed to assist staff members in keeping abreast of current developments in education and industry The Agency has received substantial as sistance from other Divisions of the State Department of Education and the Uni versity of Georgia and personnel of other colleges and universities in the stateW A Crump Assistant Supervisor Experience has shown that a sizable proportion of the educable mentally re tarded disability group can benefit from Vocational Rehabilitation services and become competitive productive citizens As of June 30 1962 staff members were providing services to 762 mentally retarded clients Five hundred and eightyseven of these were on the case loads of Counselors in the regular phase of the rehabilitation program The num ber of mentally retarded pupils being served has more than doubled during the fiscal year 196162 During the year the Agency utilized several approaches to discover new and better ways of providing vocational re habilitation services to the mentally re tarded 1 Vocational AppraisalsThe voca tional potential of 363 clients was ap praised in the seven appraisal clinics This number represents more than a fifty percent gain over the previous year 2 Georgia State School and Hospital During this year the Vocational Re habilitation Counselor at this institution for the mentally retarded has worked with 37 patients 21 received prevoca tional training on jobs at the institution Seven were provided prevocational training at Goodwill Industries in At lanta Four were provided specific voca tional training in an onthejob situation in Augusta and formal trade training at Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center in Fisherville Virginia 3 PreVocational Training for Adults The Agency has secured prevocational training for 97 mentally retarded clients from Bobby Dodd Sheltered Workshop the Occupational Training Center and Goodwill Industries 4 PreVocational Training for Pupils The current Research and Demonstra tion Project A Project to Assist Public Schools to Meet Some of the Major Re habilitation Needs of the Mentally Re tarded is operating in seven public school systems in the state The systems are listed below System Supt VR Consultant Pupils Atlanta City Dr J W Letson Chatham County D L McCormac DeKalb County Jim Cherry Dougherty County J J Cordell Fitzgerald County C V Hodges Fulton County Dr Paul D West Muscogee County W H Shaw L B Young 62 H A Bright 41 L B Young R M Long R M Long L B Young 16 11 23 R MLong 13 Total 175 During the fist year of this project Vocational Rehabilitation personnel pro vided andor assisted in the provision of one or more services to 175 mentally re tarded pupils concurrently with other secondary experiences vocational ap praisal medical and psychological evalu ation pupil and parent counseling schoolwork in and schoolwork out prevocational training workshop evalu ation specific vocational training and job placement Experience indicates that Albany High School Special Education student and Miss Marylyn Foster Occupational Therapist shown at prevocational training station Albany Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center Albany High School Special Education student and Miss Jeanelle Threadgill Registered Physical Therapist are shown at Phoebe Putney Hospital prevocational training station CENTER FOR DEAF An Evaluation Center for the Deaf at Cave Spring soon will become a reality Bids were received and the contract awarded on June 28 to Rogers Construc tion Company Rome Ga for 5109600 If work proceeds as planned the Cen ter should begin receiving clients early in 1963 Clients will be accepted for evaluation upon recommendation from local rehabil itation counselors and will be boarded in a HalfWay House situated in the vi these services are benefiting both the pu pil and the school Only a few of the pupils being served in this cooperative project dropped out of school last year cinity of Cave Spring Evaluation will be vocationally orient ed but will include psychological audi tory intelligence physical capacities achievement and social assessment as well Dr A P Jarrell Director of Rehabili tation Services is also Director of the Evaluation Center at Georgia School for the Deaf Fred L Sparks Jr Superintendent of Georgia School for the Deaf will act as Administrator of the Evaluation Center J H Whitworth Counselor for the Deaf at Georgia School for the Deaf will be the Coordinator Eventually a fulltime Evaluator will be employed along with the needed serv ices of a psychologist an audiologist and a speech clinicianDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aquisitioaa Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Georgia Services At Battey There was a time in the not too dis tant past when the tuberculosis patient at Battey State Hospital faced many months and often many years of treat ment The medical therapy of that era imposed rigorous restrictions on the pa tients physical activities There were a limited number of occupations the doc tors felt would be safe for the recuper ated patientlest he break down again Under conditions prevailing at that time the Vocational Rehabilitation Divi sion sought to institute appropriate measures to aid in the rehabilitation of the patients whose progress toward re cuperation justified the services Through the cooperation of the ad ministration of Battey State Hospital the Division of Vocational Education and the Floyd County Department of Vocational Education an effective voca tional training program was instituted at the hospital As the patients became able to engage in training programs they were admitted to selected vocational courses that seemed best suited to their individual needs They were given training in the selected vocational areas for whatever number of hours the doctor thought best Ultimately many were returned to ap proved jobs on the outside In the past two decades the treatment of tuberculosis has been revolutionized The discovery of new miracle drugs has vastly shortened the patients stay in the hospital and greatly reduced the limita tions placed upon his physical activities It gradually became evident under this new regime that longterm training fa cilities at the hospital were no longer needed It followed that Vocational Re habilitation efforts at Battey became drastically curtailed In the summer of 1961 Dr A P Jar rell Director of VocationaPRehabilita tion Services appointed a committee to meet with Dr Raymond Corpe Superin tendent of Battey Hospital and to study the needs of the patients at the hospital in so far as rehabilitation services were concerned It was found that many pa tients have serious problems of a voca tional nature that confront them while they are in the hospital Many need coun selling and guidance in regard to their work capacities Many need help in find ing suitable job placement Some still re quire training for a new job more suit able to their physical limitations Many need the reassurance that comes from finding that there are those who care and those who will help them to find their place in society when they are able to return The committee recommended that an experienced Counselor interested in work with the tubercular be assigned full time to Battey This committee also rec ommended that emphasis be placed on counselling guidance and placement service Dr Corpe offered adequate of fice facilities in the doctors section of the hospital and full access to the avail able records He also offered living quar ters for the Rehabilitation Counselor on the hospital grounds Every effort would be made to make the Rehabilitation Counselor function as a member of the team Dr Jarrell approved the recommenda tions of the committee and appointed Kenneth Hix as Counselor at the hos pital Mr Hix had been a former patient at Battey a former client of the Division had a Masters Degree in Rehabilitation Counselling from the University of Flor ida and practical experience as a Coun selor in the Rome office In the eight months since he became established at Battey Counselor Hix has recorded 373 initial interviews with pa tients There were numerous other inter views and contacts on the wards Two hundred and twentyfour patients have been placed on the case load Fortyfive cases were accepted for vo cational rehabilitation services during the eight months Twentyseven of these have already been transferred to the home Counselor two were closed as successfully rehabilitated by the hos pital Counselor Reports from patients and observers at Battey indicate that a definite break through has been made in meeting the vocational rehabilitation needs of the patients thereD 7X55 L cr Mabllitatioiv Mws State Officials sign contract for the construction of the Georgia Rehabilitation Center at Warm Springs Front row from left Dr A P Jarrell Director of Rehabilitation Services Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools and Henry Stewart Sr of Cedartown ViceChairman of the State Board of Education Back Row State Board members Zack Daniel Lavonia Paul Stone Waynesboro David Rice Atlanta and Lonnie Sweat Blackshear See Story on Page 3NRA Meets Melvin Bius 46 who lost his left arm in 1935 was provided with onthejob training as desk clerk at the Hotel Colquitt Moultrie At the end of the training period he was given a position and later ad vanced to the post of resident manager Mr Bius formerly was a resident of Sylvester Shown at left is Vocational Rehabilitation Coun selor Hugh Mitchell of Albany priii Thomas Aiken of Buena Vista is shown here receiving gait training at the Albany amputee clinic Formerly a hotel clerk and auto mobile salesman he lost his leg as the result of circulatory condition Mr Aiken is a Senior citizen and has displayed a great deal of moti vation toward becoming employ able his Counselor reports Upon completion of the training Mr Aiken expects to return to the mo tel business By Fred L Sparks Jr Superintendent Georgia School for the Deaf The 116th annual report of Georgias School for the Deaf at Cave Spring reveals that during the 196162 school year 463 boys and girls were enrolled in this delightfully pleasant boarding school with some from the area attend ing as day pupils Deaf pupils from all parts of the State were enrolled They follow regular courses of instruction from kindergarten through high school plus speech speech reading or lip reading and auditory train ing together with vocational courses in just about all of the general practical arts homemaking graphic arts shop and farm business machines and beauty culture Deaf pupils compete in athletics with the public high schools in Georgia The academically successful the able and the ambitious are continuing thsir col lege education in the worlds only college for the deafGallaudet College Wash ington D C Adult education under Vocational Rehabilitation sponsorship was started during the year at both the school for whites and the school for Negroes On an adequate campus of 79 acres plus 428 acres for farm and dairy Georgias School for the Deaf offers a complete high school and trade school education to deafened children who reach beyond the silence that surrounds them toward human communication which opens the doors to their future as successful citizens The School prepares children from a Well over 1000 rehabilitation workers physicians and other personnel from health welfare and related fields are expected to attend the 1962 conference of the National Rehabilitation Associ ation October 2224 in Detroit Michigan Following the conference focus of New Concepts and Challenges for Re habilitation the threeday affair will explore advances in rehabilitation re search community planning for re habilitation rehabilitation of persons af flicted with cardiovascular illness mental retardation neuromuscular disorders blindness and communication disorders rehabilitation of the older worker and of children and young adults and standards for sheltered workshops and rehabilita tion centers Featured at the annual meeting will be addresses by Howard A Rusk MD director of the Institute of Physical Medicine and Re habilitation New York City Walter Reuther president of the United Auto Workers and AFLCIO ex ecutive vice president George Romney president of Ameri can Motors Frank H Krusen MD executive di rector of the Sister Elizabeth Kenny In stitute and John B Swainson Governor of Michigan hushed world for a hearing and speak ing society a service to mankind ably and confidently performed at the school Tomorrow when opportunity knocks for the deaf of Georgia they will be able to hear Thanks to the people of the State the Legislature State Depart ment of Education Division of Vocational Rehabilitation the schools staff and faculty of 127 will be able to perform this service While pointing with pride to accom plishments the annual report pointed out needs which have been approved by reports of Legislative SubCommittees on Education They include a speech thera pist latest equipment for auditory train ing additional teachers and mainte nance staff higher supplements and other benefits needed to attract and hold the best qualified teachers hospital for Negroes modern business eguipment for office and school additional recreational facilities residences for superintendent and principal renovation of old dormi tories an expanded public relations pro gram in the interest of public under standing of the deaf and problems of ed ucating the deaf toward successful citi zenshipRehabilitation Center Contract Let By Nathan Nolan Administrator Georgia Rehabilitation Center To help disabled individuals develop new work skills while receiving medical treatment is the idea that brought a com prehensive rehabilitation center to Geor gia Doctors therapists teachers vocation al counselors and other professional peo ple who deal with disabled people have recognized the need for such a center for many years The Georgia Warm Springs Founda tion which operates one of the worlds foremost medical rehabilitation centers and the Georgia Vocational Rehabilita tion Division a leader in the field of vocational rehabilitation have now for mulated a plan to establish a fully com prehensive rehabilitation center at Warm Springs This brings together two of the na tions outstanding individuals in the field of rehabilitation Dr Robert L Bennett Executive Director of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation an authority and leader among physicians in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation and Dr A P Jarrell Director of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation a recognized national leader in the field of Vocational Rehabilitation The center will offer a wide variety of services that will enable many disabled people to receive medical treatment and many other services such as vocational training work evaluation and job try out at the same time Thus many can reduce the time required to return to work following serious illnesses and in juries and others who might never be able to return to work without these services now will become working citi zens The State Board of Education with the assistance of HillBurton hospital construction funds is erecting buildings on land deeded to the State by the Geor gia Warm Springs Foundation that will make possible these expanded services The buildings are being designed to per mit the convenient use of wheelchairs in all rooms and spaces Various centers throughout the nation have been studied to insure that the best known architec ture and design for this type of facility are included The present design of new buildings includes housing for 133 people areas for vocational training where skills spe cially adaptive to the disabled will be taught work evaluation where many will be assisted in determining the most appropriate field of work to follow a re habilitation adjustment workshop where work experience will be provided Recreation and dining facilities are in cluded This together with the present capacity at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation will bring the total available beds for disabled individuals at Warm Springs to approximately 250 Many peo ple can be served without occupying beds at these facilities making it possible to provide services to a total of about 450 people on any given day A large variety of services will be available as a result of this expanded program They will include medical treatment and consultation orthopedic surgery physical therapy occupational therapy speech and hearing therapy artificial appliance braces nursing vocational counseling psychological counseling and testing social casework vocational training rehabilitation work shop therapy and work experience While all facilities at Warm Springs are designed to enable the seriously dis abled to use them it is anticipated that many people with less serious disabilities will take advantage of the facilities This center will be open to all who can receive help from the services offered The expanded program has been made possible through the cooperation of a number of agencies and individuals in cluding the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation the Governor and the Gen eral Assembly the State Board of Edu cation the State Department of Educa tion the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation the Federal Office of Vo cational Rehabilitation the Georgia De partment of Public Health and the Unit ed States Public Health Service New Chairman for Handica Governor Ernest Vandiver has an nounced the appointment of William A Sims Jr of Atlanta as Chairman of the Governors Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped Mr Sims succeeds Clifford Clarke Jr Executive Director of Associated Indus tries of Georgia Inc who served with distinction for more than three years Mr Clarke resigned because of the press of other business Mr Sims is President of Master Manu facturing Company of Atlanta manufac turers of automobile seat cushions He is a former member of Atlantas Board of Alderman and a leader in many civic activities For ten years the Master Manufactur ing Company has followed a policy of giving equal job opportunities to quali fied handicapped applicants The firm has been cited by the Presidents Com mittee on Employment of the Handi capped for its record in this respect Speaking to a group of personnel offi cers recently Mr Sims said We have foundand our experience is proof that the handicapped worker is more regular in attendance performs average or better work and stays on the job longer than an ablebodied person Now dont let me mislead you and have you to believe that because a work er is handicapped he will prove out sat isfactory and be a good productive worker This is not at all true You will have the same percentage of failures in job performance of handicapped workers as you will in employing the nonhandi capped worker But those who do prove satisfactory by our experience show that their production the quality of their work and their attendance record is far better than that of the socalled able bodied worker Handicapped workers appreciate their jobs and they have a spirit of company loyalty and a spirit of happiness that seems to rub off on other workers We have found them to be very cooperative They excel in job interest Governor Vandiver seated names William A Sims Jr Chairman of the Governors Committee on Em ployment of the HandicappedtV0 GcorciaocoAOrvo Aekabilitation Mws Another New Record Vol 11 JulyAugust 1962 No 6 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools DR A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg HEmlock 61509 Americus105 E Forsyth Phone 5148 Bainbridge 218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2327773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 7544841 Rome314 West Building Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 BrunswickWay Building Phone AM 56541 A new alltime record for the rehabilitation of disabled men and women through Vocational Rehabilitation services was established in Georgia during the fiscal year which ended June 30 1962 In a telegram to Governor Vandiver Miss Mary Switzer Director of the Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation said I send heartiest congratulations on the accomplishments of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation during the past fiscal year In rehabilitating 6105 disabled men and women to satisfying life during the year Georgia ranks third among the states and her record was surpassed only by the much more populous states of Pennsylvania and New York In addition this is another alltime record for Georgia This rec ord was established despite an extensive realignment and staff training program which has enabled Georgia to place great emphasis on the rehabilitation of mentally ill and mentally retarded persons two areas in which great effort is needed over the nation The ground work laid during the past year will pay dividends in increased results for Georgia over years to come The start of your rehabilitation center at Warm Springs signalized another forward step that will enable Georgia to increase efficiency and effectiveness of her wellbalanced program of rehabilitation for all who need her help I hope that you can convey to Director A P Jarrell and his effi cient and dedicated rehabilitation staff throughout Georgia the appre ciation of their Federal partner for their excellent work In releasing Miss Switzers message Governor Vandiver said This is an enviable record which amply demonstrates Georgias determination to rehabilitate the maximum number of its disabled citi zens We will not slacken our efforts merely because of what we have achieved in the past Before us lie even greater goals in the field of conservation of our human resources In a letter to Dr Jarrell Miss Switzer said Today the President announced another major achievement in our StateFederal programthe rehabilitation of more than 100000 dis abled people in a single year It was my pleasure to join our new Secre tary Mr Celebreeze at the White House and to introduce to the Presi dent a handicapped young man who represented that 100000 rehabili tated last year I wish that you and every State Director could have been with me for no one knows better than I how much credit is due you not only for reaching a new numerical record but also because our Vocational Rehabilitation program today is providing better services to more people who need them Now we set forth upon another taskto develop our programs to the point where 200000 disabled men and women can be rehabilitated each year and the satisfaction we all will have in knowing that our program together with the many fine voluntary agencies is reaching all the disabled people who need our helpNational Authorities Speak Some of the nations outstanding au thorities in the field of rehabilitation were among the speakers at the Voca tional Rehabilitation Divisions annual staff training conference in Savannah in August Various phases of the joint State Federal program were discussed in gen eral sesions and workships Among the speakers were Dr William A Fraenkel of New York Consultant on Workshops and Rehabilitation to the National Association for Retarded Chil dren Inc Fred Schumacher of Wash ington of the Division of Research Grants and Demonstration Office of Vo cational Rehabilitation E B Whitten of Washington Executive Director of the National Rehabilitation Association Wil liam P McCahill of Washington Execu tive Secretary of the Presidents Commit tee on Employment of the Handicapped Dr William Roemmich of Baltimore Chief Medical Officer Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance and R C Thompson of Baltimore Director of Vo cational Rehabilitation Services Dr Claude Purcell State Superintend ent of Schools spoke at the opening session on New Trends in Education after Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Rehabilitation Services had reviewed the years operations and outlines the goals for the new fiscal year Mrs Hazel Lewis of Columbus Presi dent of the Georgia Education Associ ation speaking on Equal Opportunities for the Handicapped called for better cooperation between public education forces and the rehabilitation agencies Teachers should be more alert in dis covering emotional disturbances and poor mental health among pupils she said Lary Robinson right Employ ment Counselor Georgia State Em ployment Service Atlanta received the Presidents Committee on Em ployment of the Handicapped Cita tion for Meritorious Service in fur thering the employment of handi capped workers The presentation was made by William U Norwood Jr Washington D C at the an nual training institute Mrs Julius Y Talmadge of Athens former member of the State Board of Education was honored by the Vocational Rehabilitation staff for distinguished service Shown with her are Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools at left and Dr A P Jarrell Director of Rehabilitation Services Dr James Craig Assistant Superin tendent of the Milledgeville State Hospi tal spoke on new trends in the treatment and rehabilitation of the emotionally ill One highlight of the conference was the annual banquet with Leo Aikman Atlanta Constitution columnist as the principal speaker Another highlight was a dinner honoring Mrs Julius Y Tal madge of Athens a former member of the State Board of Education Mrs Tal madge retired from the State Board last year aftern ten years of service She also served on the Board from 1934 to 1936 A Distinguished Service Award and a portfolio of letters from friends and as sociates in public life were presented to Mrs Talmadge Dr Purcell acted as Master of Ceremonies Henry Stewart Sr of Cedartown Vice Chairman of the State Board spoke on Mrs Talmadges contributions to public education and presented the award The portfolio of 100 letters was presented by Dr Jarrell He said in part Throughout her ten ure on the State Board of Education Mrs Talmadge gave unstinted support to the Vocational Rehabilitation pro gram and to the two schools for handi capped childrenthe Georgia Academy for the Blind and the Georgia School for the Deaf She held firm convictions that the disabled people of Georgia should have every opportunity the State could pro vide to become selfrespecting selfsup porting citizens of their communities Her attitude toward these programs was just one manifestation of her love for Georgiaand all its citizens Speaking on new trends in employ ment of the handicapped and the work of the Presidents Committee Mr Mc Cahill said in part Although we sometimes find our selves engaged in what may seem to be peripheral areas we never take our eyes off the eventual goal employment of the handicapped Decisions of employers are based on facts experience information opinions and attitudes and it has been our purpose in life to provide the employer through a broad public education program with the necessary facts experience and in formation to give him a good opinion of the work potentials of the handi capped and to create the proper attitude leading to acceptance In a word we are attacking not only architectural barriers but attitude barriers We leave the alti tude barriers to the space pioneers We are concerned with breaking through the attitude barrier which still today pre vents too many qualified handicapped from being hired Its Good Business To Hire The Handicapped kVVVNVVVVranns By Dr Rives Chalmers Delete the word physically was the message from a Presidential Executive Order in March 1962 At this time the President stated We want to empha size the great importance of hiring peo ple who may have suffered some degree of difficulty mentally These people de serve our wholehearted support and co operation in making it possible for them to live useful and fruitful lives This action on the part of the Presi dents Committee comes after several years of urging by various members of the Committee who have felt that the use of the word physically was unduly restrictive in regard to those persons who have suffered with some form of mental or emotional disturbance The Presidents Committee has estab lished a special Subcommittee On Em ployment of the Mentally Handicapped and this committee composed of repre sentatives of management labor psy chiatry vocational rehabilitation and re lated professional services meets regu larly to plan ways in which the Presi dents Committee can promote the em ployment of the mentally handicapped This committee is interested in employ ment both of persons who have suffered with mental illness and also persons who are mentally retarded The program for the mentally retarded has developed quite rapidly within the past few years and many employers are finding that the mentally retarded per son is a very capable and faithful em ployee if placed in a vocation in which he is capable of rendering service and if he is given the emotional support necessary in times of stress Most of the problems with employment of the mentally handicapped have devel oped around the problems encountered by industry when a person who has suf fered with mental illness comes into a new job These persons many times pre sent serious personality problems in the early months of adjustment to a new job and it is necessary that the foreman and also the physician in charge of medical services have an understanding of the problems of rehabilitation of mentally ill persons in order to deal with the many issues which ariseboth in terms of the individuals anxiety about his job and the anxiety which develops in fellow employees when they are aware that a person who has had a mental illness is working with them Educational pro grams have been found to be effective in this area and the Presidents Com mittee is presently involved in develop ing pamphlets which will help to educate both employers and employees in the problems of the returning mental pa tient when he comes back to a job Mentally Handicapped Are Being Rehabilitated to Employment in Georgia Vocational rehabilitation and employ ment of the mentally handicapped has been an integral part of rehabilitation services in Georgia for years The Divi sion of Vocational Rehabilitation was Rives Chalmers MD Member of National Advisory Board among the first of our state agencies to develop an active plan for the treatment and rehabilitation of persons suffering with mental illness This program has always been aimed at providing service as early as possible in the course of the illness to persons who are diagnosed as having some form of psychiatric disabil ity whether they be confined to a hos pital or continuing to live in their home or their community The experience in Georgia has been a guide for other states developing similar programs In Georgia we have felt that certain principles applied to the develop ment of our rehabilitation program for the mentally ill both add a breadth of understanding among all the counselors in the division and also improve the general quality of counselling and guid ance provided to all clients of the Divi sion of Vocational Rehabilitation by our counselors These principles have centered around the decision that all counselors would be encouraged to work with persons suffer ing with mental and emotional disturb ance and any specialist developed in the program would be used to work with the other counselors in upgrading their pro fessional capacity in this area This means that the psychiatric disabilities are treated in the same way as other forms of disability and the mentally ill persons are accepted into the normal framework of rehabilitation services rather than being separated and served by a limited group of specialists where they would be isolated from the general rehabilitation program By encouraging all counselors to provide rehabilitation services to the mentally ill the coun selors and clients realize that mental illness is not significantly different from other forms of disability and some of the usual stigma attached to mental ill ness is removed Certain counselors have been given special training in working with the mentally ill by serving as a part of the treatment and rehabilitation team in in tensive treatment centers at Talmadge Memorial Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital These counselors participate in the initial evaluation of the patient when the patient is admitted to the treatment service and where it is feasible a voca tional evaluation is performed As the patient improves under the treatment program the team members communi cate with the Vocational Rehabilitation counselor who in turn helps the patient to develop an understanding of his voca tional potential and the possibilities for training and job placement when he leaves the hospital Cases leaving the hospital and considered ready for con tinued rehabilitation efforts are referred to the counselors in the local communi ties This provides a continuity of voca tional rehabilitation effort from the time of entry into the treatment hospital to the patients home community and his effort to become gainfully employed Georgia Junior Chamber of Commerce Committee Is Outstanding Example The project being developed by the Georgia Junior Chamber of Commerce to promote employment opportunities for returned mental patients is an outstand ing example of the effective work pos sible when business and professional leaders combine their efforts to help this very important activity This program in Georgia is providing an outstandingly successful example in that there are many job opportunities being developed and the men in the Junior Chamber of Commerce are learning about mental ill ness and its effect on human beings through their work They learn not only that this constitutes a serious problem both personally and socially in our com munity but they also learn that persons suffering from mental illness can now find adequate treatment and expect a return to normal living and productive employment if they make use of the treatment and rehabilitation services now available in our state Georgias Mental Health Program Is Gaining Momentum The rapid development of a more ade quate program of treatment and reha bilitation for mentally ill persons in Georgia is one example of a steadily growing mental health movement in the United States which has as its goal a conquest of mental illness as the No 1 health problem of our nation At the time the Division of Vocational Reha bilitation in Georgia undertook to pro vide a rehabilitation program for the mentally ill the limited treatment serv ices at Milledgeville State Hospital were so poor that it was not possible for rehabilitation counselors to consider this treatment as an adequate background Continued on Page 7JI By Win A Craft Assistant Supervisor In Georgia the Vocational Rehabilita tion Division is the agency that makes disability determinations for the Social Security Administration This unit has been in operation since July 1955 The staff now consists of a State supervisor 44 fulltime professional and clerical workers and seven medical consultants on a parttime basis One counselor secretary and parttime medical con sultant are stationed in Savannah Up to July 1 this year 75976 appli cations had been processed During the past year 15553 applications were proc essed and of these 58 per cent were determined to be disabled Fortytwo per cent were determined able to engage in some type substantial gainful activity For some time after the beginning of the program the determinations were made from the medical evidence sub mitted by the claim however experience later showed that in approximately 50 per cent of the applications a more valid determination could be made by pur chasing examinations to be done by specialists These include complete exam inations along with clinical findings laboratory work xrays etc As the program has developed an applicants disability is determined not only from the medical findings but past work experience Age and educational background also are considered in eval uating work potential Each applicant is given an evaluation in deciding the feasibility of Vocational Rehabilitation program Any applicant who seems to have any work potential is referred to Vocational Rehabilitation counselors and along with the referral goes copies of reports of personal interview by Social Security office copy of the disability determination and copies of medical re ports on which the determination is based This information it is felt gives the Vocational Rehabilitation counselor much more complete data on which to base his decision as to whether these people are feasible for a Vocational Re habilitation program Once a person begins receiving dis ability benefits and returns to work either through assistance of Vocational Rehabilitation or otherwise he is allowed one years trial work period if his dis ability still exists This law was passed to help the applicant learn whether he could hold out to work with his disability and to help motivate him to try to return to a productive life If a person becomes disabled a second time from the same disability within five years there is no six months waiting period before Social Security benefits can begin As of December 1961 there were 17 554 beneficiaries in Georgia drawing disability benefits with average amount of 8020 per month This represents a monthly income of 140783080 to dis abled persons as a result of the Disability Program Presently the Disability De termination Unit receives approximately 1 300 applications a month with a total budget of 78712500 for 1962 Programs Continued from Page 6 for planning rehabilitation services for mentally ill persons The majority of patients accepted for rehabilitation were Shown here is a portable vending stand of the type becoming popular for locations in public housing projects This one is located on the property of the Thomson Housing Authority Thomson Ga and is operated by James R Friend who has impaired lower limbs resulting from polio referred to privately practicing psychia trists and in many instances to private psychiatric hospitals With the develop ment of an Intensive Treatment Pro gram in strategically located general hospitals in the state and the more re cent development of an Intensive Treat ment Program at Milledgeville State Hospital it has been possible to sacure most of the inpatient treatment services in state operated facilities Vocational Rehabilitation can then undertake to provide services after patients are re leased from the hospital Many patients continue to be provided services of care and treatment by pri vately practicing psychiatrists and in many instances these patients continua or enter into employment and live at homa during the course of their treat ment The past few years has seen an increass in the depth of understanding both in specialist counselors in the pro gram at the treatment centers and also in the undarstanding of mental illness and the mentally ill by all the counselors in the state We find that each year there is an increasing number of pa tients suffering with some form of psy chiatric disability carried in each coun selors case load and the number of these persons being rehabilitated is increasing A bottleneck of treatment services for certain areas of the state and also for certain clinical categories continues to make it difficult for counselors to find necessary psychiatric treatment services in each case where they are indicated There are more psychiatrists moving into the state and residents are being graduated each year from both the med ical schools and the state hospital who will remain in Georgia to practice There is a decided shift away from the use of electroshock therapy toward the us a of more psychotherapy both individual psy chotherapy and group psychotherapy Many of the counselors and psychiatrists are realizing that it is necessary to treat members of a patients family as well as the patient in order to accomplish the best results in rehabilitation and various ways are being worked out so that the patients family can accom pany the patient to the psychiatrist for treatment sessions This is a trend toward the family treatment of mental illness which is in keeping with general trends across the country and it is prob able that the rehabilitation program will increase efforts to work with the pa tients family in the futureDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aqulalttaas Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Georgia Blind Students Get By Lee Jones Superintendent Georgia Academy for the Blind A few weeks ago Dr A P Jarrell Di rector of Rehabilitation Services re ceived a letter from an official of a uni versity advising that a graduate of the Georgia Academy for the Blind had brought honor to himself and to the school by an excellence of academic achievement that had won a Fellowship for further study at Yale University Recently word was received that an other graduate of the academy had se cured an appointment as a collrge pro fessor after having completed his doc torate These are only two outstanding exam ples of the work being done in providing good educational opportunities for Geor gias boys and girls who are visually handicapped Not all children need col lege training but all children have the right to an education that prepares them for fruitful happy places in our society At the academy for the blind our hope is that we shall increasingly find better ways to help these boys and girls Many people in Georgia are unaware of the services of the school You may have an opportunity to inform parents and oth ers who are interested so here are some basic facts about the school The Georgia Academy for the Blind is operated by the State of Georgia for the education of white and Negro children who are blind or nearly blind It is ad ministered by the State Department of Education Division of Vocational Reha bilitation The school is made up of two units The unit for the white is located at 2895 Vineville Avenue Macon The unit for the Negroes is located at 1030 Shur ling Drive Macon Any child with visual acuity of 20200 or less in the better eye with best cor recting glasses may be enrolled provided he is capable of receiving an education Some children with slightly less loss in vision cannot succeed in regular classes in the public schools If there is substan tial indication that a child with as much as 20100 vision requires the services of special education his application will be considered Children between the ages of 6 and 18 may be accepted For the 196263 school year beginning first year pupils will enter kindergarten from kindergarten they will proceed to the first grade and on through the twelfth grade The school offers the same general subjects that are taught in the public schools in Georgia The children will learn much the same things they learn in the public schools studying the same books generally The school is fully accredited and qual ified graduates are admitted to Georgia colleges without examination In addition to regular literary sub jects special emphasis is given to music physical education arts and crafts and vocational subjects Instruction room and board are fur nished free to all children Minor nursing service is provided as needed but major medical needs are considered to be the responsibility of the parents Excellent medical services are available in Macon and the school will help to arrange for needed medical services of an emergency nature The school furnishes all linens and blankets Laundry service is provided but not dry cleaning Parents will supply clothing major medical services transportation to and from school and spending money Cloth ing needs will be about the same as if the child were in regular day classes in the public schools a suggested clothing list is available School is operated for nine months September to June This is a residential school and for the nine months the chil dren are in school they receive approxi mately the same attention they would re ceive in their own home Anyone wishing to apply may write to the Superintendent Application forms will be sent A school staff member may then visit the home to see the child and his parents or the child may be brought to the school for an interview Students at the Georgia Academy for the Blind learn to transplant young seedlings to individual pots The operation is part of the course in horticulture and greenhouse management HH OK CcovcvoJoooJvotvo iiekabilitatioiv Mxus Vtft GEORGIA REHABILITATE GEORGIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION HON S ERNEST VANDIVER H0 JAMES S PETERS DR A POLK JARRELL Jht IK HON HENRY STEWART PR CLAUDE PURCEU NATHAN a NOLAN h Federal assistance under the c 79 th Congress m tmf The Law and Mr Starnes Richard L Starnes Blind Egg Man Eggsactly the right man for exact ly the right job is Jack Walker of Dah lonega right fast becoming a poultry expert in his new enterprise of raising breeder flocks for broilers Jack is commerciallyindustrially blind losing most of his vision in a mine explosion in 1942 Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors began working with Jack in December of 1960 and had to work fast in keeping up with the energies of his onthego per sonality Working with contractors but building a major portion of his chicken house Jack is in the middle of his first flock and looking forward to his second when he will know most of the ropes Not one to be content looking after only a flock of chickens which is a full time job for a person with vision Jack is beginning to raise a few hogs and some cattle and has some acreage in corn When his chores are done Jack finds time for a family of three a wife and a mother who is almost as energetic as he Richard L Starnes had some problems but he solved them Now he helps others solve theirs Legal problems that is A successful attorneyatlaw during his brief 22 months in practice clients in the Rome Georgia area are becoming more aware of his abilities in legal mat ters Richard contracted polio between his Sophomore and Junior year in high school while vacationing with his parents in the mountains After spending several weeks in a Rome hospital he went to Warm Springs for further treatment While at Warm Springs he met and talked with several lawyers who were also suffering from polio and through these conversations and after taking vocational aptitude tests his mind was made up A career in law was his deci sion He finished most of his eleventh grade work while at Warm Springs completing all the required work during the follow ing summer and was able to enroll on time with his Senior class graduating in 1954 More problems arose when he entered Shorter College as most of his classes were upstairs but friends were always on hand to make sure he got to and from his classes Richard or Dickie as his friends call him operates out of a wheel chair with special balanced supports that allow him to use his arms by applying the little strength and dexterity he still has To prepare himself for dormitory life at Mercer University Law School Dickie decided to spend his last year at Shorter College as a dormitory student to see how the transition from home to campus living would affect him The only noticeable effect if we can call it one was the fact that he graduated from Shorter as first honor graduate with a 28 average receiving an AB de gree in history in 1958 Dickies interest in sports resulted in an untimely setback shortly after he en tered Mercer One afternoon while watch ing a touch football game he was struck by a player on an endrun and was forced to drop out of school for the first quarter He made up this lost time by attending the University of Georgia during a sum mer quarter and graduated with his class at Mercer as scheduled A law student may take the bar ex amination after completing two years of law school and Dickie not to let an op portunity slip by took the examination and passed He became associated with Rome attorney John A Frazier Jr and is in general law practice in their offices in the Masonic Temple Building on Fourth Avenue Appearing in court as the need arises Dickie has handled everything from Civil suits to criminal trials He stated that Mr Frazier advised that a young law year for the first two years is not worth the money he gets if he gets any at all and added that he was out of the red and into the black a little ahead of schedule Vocational Rehabilitation aided him in college trainingOperation SelfRespect Says Governor Here is the text of an address by Governor Ernest Vandiver at the ground breaking ceremony for the Georgia Re habilitation Center at Warm Springs on October 8 I want to give todays program the title Operation SelfRespect For that is what it really is There is nothing more rewarding in rehabilitation work than to see the faces of thousands of men and women standing erect and proud because they are once again selfsupporting citi I am sure that to the majority of those who are forced by illness or dis ability to ask for public assitance there is nothing more debasing to their dignity than to know that they are having to to depend on someone else to buy their groceries pay their rent and support their families Many of them lose spirit and pride They are ashamed that theywho were once strong selfreliant and selfsup portingare now having to live off their relatives or off relief And I am sure that deep in the hearts of those who respond the quickest to the rehabilitation process is a basic drive to regain their selfrespectto once again become productive independent taxpay ersinstead of tax consumers So our aim through the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation has been to encourage the handicapped persons themselves and their families to realize their full employment opportunities and to help them to aspire Georgia has long been a leader in this humane and rewarding field For three years Georgia was first among the states in the number of re habilitations in proportion to population We set a new alltime record in total rehabilitations and ranked third in the nation This record was established despite an emphasis which we placed on services to two major disability groupsthe mental ly ill and the mentally retarded Cer tainly these are two areas in which greater effort is needed throughout the nation During the fiscal year which ended June 30 the agency received more than 14000 referrals Of these 6105in cluding 342 blind personswere restored to jobs This is the highest number of re habilitations in the history of the agency Significantly 719 of those rehabili tated were receiving public assistance when they were accepted for VR serv ices So the savings are not only being made in human feelings but also in tax dollars Thousands of dollars per year were saved by removing these hundreds of people from state and local welfare rolls With the start of this comprehensive rehabilitation center we are taking a forward step that will enable Georgia to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our already wellbalanced program Through the State Board of Education and the Division of Vocational Rehabili tationand with the assistance of Hill Burton fundsthe State of Georgia will build here a center offering all profes sional rehabilitation services at the high est level The center will be a part of the Geor gia Warm Springs Foundation which since its founding in 1927 by the late Franklin D Roosevelt has obtained a worldwide reputation in the field of physical medicine and in the treatment of polio Thirteen acres of land were given to the state by the Foundation as the site for the center and this location should be of great advantage because of the nearness of Foundation facilities With the completion of this center a complete group of services will be avail able to disabled people at this location Here can be accomplished a complete evaluation of an individuals problems be they medical social psychological vo cational or a combination of any or all of these Here professional people who will pro vide services to the disabled will work as a team combining their skills each enabling the other to do his job better In many instances disabled people will concurrently receive medical treatment and vocational training We are building a very adequate phy sical plant to provide these services A modern residence building will contain 133 beds together with a cafeteria and recreational facilities An evaluationtraining building will house the evaluation program vocational training shops and classrooms and a vo cational adjustment workshop An administration building will com plete the group of buildings These buildings are designed for wheelchair living and to make life more comfortable for those walking on When we add the cost of equipping the buildings it will mean that the State and the Federal government have in vested more than one and onehalf mil lion dollars in Operation SelfRespect This is relatively small investment when considered in light of the total amount of services that will be available to our disabled citizens and when we realize that here thousands of people will be restored as productive citizens in our society We will have restored their sell respect In addition this center represents a highly desirable supplement to the ex tensive program of area vocational schools which this administration is com pleting throughout the state Vocational services here are tailored especially for very seriously disabled people The vocational courses taught will be selected from the group of trades where disabled people have proved them selves to be efficient workers Many of the people who will be at this center could not attend any other trade school since they will need specialized medical care at the same time Here through services provided jointly by the State and the Foundation we can offer physical and medical evaluation vocational evaluation medical treatment and consultation physical and occupa tional therapy speech and hearing thera py and artificial appliances and braces In addition the center will have serv ices such as nursing vocational and psy MabilMioivyVews GfORGIA REHA8IUTATIQN CENTER 2 From leftNathan Nolan Center Administrator David Rice At lanta State Board of Education member Dr A P Jarrell Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Serv ices Paul Stone Waynesboro State Board member Governor Vandiver James S Peters Man chester Chairman of State Board Zack Daniel Lavonia State Board member Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Lonnie Sweat Blackshear State Board member and Thomas Nesbitt Jr Cordele State Board member chological counseling and training and other services which have become a vital part of the rehabilitation program All of these things are needed if Geor gia is to maintain her position of leader ship in rehabilitating the mentally and physically disabled Despite our progress there are an estimated 56000 disabled persons who need and deserve help to become selfsupporting taxpaying citi zens of their communities Every year 7000 or more are added to the rolls of the disabled as the result of crippling diseases accidents and other causes Therefore we will notwe cannot slacken our efforts merely because of what we have achieved in the past Be fore us lie even greater goals in the field of conservation of our human resources Knowing the capabilities of Georgia peopleas I do having witnessed over the years as I have their determination to do a job and do it well I am confi dent that Georgia is about to accomplish even greater things in the field of voca tional rehabilitation Given the tools to work with the buildings in which to carry on their work the funds necessary to get the job done and the cooperation and assistance of all concerned Georgians will do their utmost to give their fel low men another chance to live full and useful lives It is with a great deal of pride then that I turn the first shovel of earth to day symbolically breaking the ground for the beginning of construction for this fine facilityekabilitatiori Mws The Challenge Vol 11 SeptOct 1962 No 7 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools DR A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus105 E Forsyth Phone 5148 Bainbridge 218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2327773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 7544841 Rome314 West Building Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Flowers Building Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta 633 Gulf Life Ins Bldg Phone PA 23639 Brunswick Way Building Phone AM 56541 F or the first time in the 42year history of the StateFederal program of Vocational Rehabilitation services the number of disabled persons restored to productive jobs in a single year exceeded 100000 in fiscal 196162 In announcing the accomplishment Secretary Anthony Celebrezze of the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare said the 1962 showing marked the seventh straight year in which a new alltime record had been established He was quoted as expressing pleasure that the new record reflected the determination of the Kennedy Administration to see that the re habilitation of disabled Americans and their return to useful and active lives is expanded as rapidly as possible and the Presidents sup port for increased appropriations for the purpose In Georgia the number of disabled persons rehabilitated through the joint StateFederal program has increased yearbyyear for many years Last year 196162 Georgia ranked third among states in total re habilitations The achievement has been praised by Federal and State officials and administrators of cooperating agencies It could not have been accomplished without the support of Governor Vandiver members of the General Assembly the State Board of Educa tion Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools and the co operation of other agencies and the medical profession We take pride in the record but we realize that we are not reaching all or even a substantial proportion of the people who need and could profit by the services of the agency In recent years marked progress has been made in expanding services to two major disability groups the mentally ill and the mentally retarded But we havent scratched the surface in meeting the re habalitation challenge in these areas Studies indicate that 25 percent of all patients being discharged from state mental hospitals need and can profit by Vocational Rehabili tation services In every community there are emotionally disturbed people who need psychiatric treatment counseling guidance training and other services to restore them to productive and satisfying lives It is estimated that there are 37000 educable mentally retarded per sons between the ages of 15 and 49 in Georgia Experimental projects in Georgia and elsewhere have shown that a substantial proportion of this group can be prepared for and placed in jobs through vocational evaluation vocational training and other services There are seriously disabled persons who cannot readily be placed in jobs but could become selfsupporting in multipledisability work shops in cities and towns if enough such facilities were provided To meet the needs of these and other disability groups will require more funds for case services and more facilities There is no doubt about it costing less to rehabilitate a disabled person than it does to let him remain on welfare rolls or in dependency upon relatives Its good busi ness to make the necessary investment in the preservation of human resourcesDr A P Jarrell Dr A P Jarrell Director of Georgias Vocational Rehabilitation Services has been cited by the National Rehabilitation Association for outstanding achieve ments in behalf of the nations handi capped citizens At the closing session of the NRA con vention in Detroit Michigan on October 23 Dr Jarrell was presented with The Presidents Award for 1962 in recogni tion of his accomplishments in the field of rehabilitation services The Presidents Award is the highest honor bestowed by NRA He is Vicepresident of the States Council of Directors of Vocational Re habilitation the advisory board to the Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilita tion a member of the Board of Good will Industries Inc the Atlanta Cerebral Palsy School and the Georgia Factory for the Blind at Bainbridge Dr Jarrell has been Director of the Georgia Rehabilitation agency for seven years He administers the rehabilitation programs for sighted and blind persons the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Disability Determination Unit the Geor gia Academy for the Blind at Macon and the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Spring A native of Butler he joined the Vo cational Rehabilitation staff in 1940 as Counselor in the Columbus area and was appointed Assistant Director in charge of technical services in 1944 Under his administration the Georgia program of rehabilitation services has expanded in all areas The number of disabled persons restored to jobs has increased annually to an alltime record of 6105 in fiscal year 196162 Reaches Goal Mary Carter right accomplished a life long dream in September She com pleted the requirements for nursing and was ready to start her career Badly burned as the result of a child ish prank when only four years old Marys right side and arm were restrict ed in their freedom of movement During her senior year in high school a Voca tional Rehabilitation Counselor talked with her and she told of her desire to go to nursing school Working through her counselor she received a scholarship for nurses training at Piedmont Hos pital in Atlanta Prior to her first year in training Mary underwent plastic surgery with the aid of Vocational Rehabilitation and was able to use her arm more freely After finishing in September she received ad ditional surgery and now has full use of her arm Wasting no time in plunging into her career Mary began work as a surgical nurse at the new Coweta General Hos pital in Newnan Pretty alert and with a sparkling personality Mary Carter is now actively engaged in the vocation she dreamed of and for which she worked McDonough Named John J McDonough of Atlanta presi dent of the Georgia Power Co and a former member of the State Board of Education was named president of the Georgia Society for Crippled Children and Adults by the board of directors at the recent annual meeting in Atlanta He succeeds Edgar J Forio who was elected a vice president Other officers named were vice presi dent Mrs Kells Boland secretary Ber nard B Rothschild and treasurer Charles E Thwaite Jr all of Atlanta Four new directors were elected They are Frank E Bone Chairman of the Board Oconee Clay Products Co Mil ledgeville John S McKenzie Vice Presi dent of HigginsMcArthur Atlanta Dr James Lieberman Director of the Na tional Medical Audiovisual Facilities U S Communicable Disease Center At lanta and George A Haas of Haas Dunaway Shelfer Haas attorneyat law The seven directors reelected for three year terms are Elmo Ellis Program Di rector of WSBRadio Francis Bridges PhD Professor of Management School of Business Administration Georgia State College Walter L Bloom MD Director of Research Piedmont Hospital Bernard B Rothschild associate of archi tectural firm Finch Alexander Barnes Rothschild Paschal William W Neal President of Liller Neal Battle Lind say Atlanta advertising firm Mrs W Bruce Schaefer Toccoa and Mrs Eugene Epting Athens A feature of the meeting was a panel discussion of the architectural barriers project sponsored by the Society and the Presidents Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped to make public buildings accessible to persons with phy sical limitations Among the panelists was William A Sims Jr Chairman of the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handi capped From leftJoe Sheehan of At lanta President of the Georgia Junior Chamber of Commerce Dr Ronald Goldstein Chairman of the JC Mental Health Committee and William A Sims Jr Chairman of the Governors Committee on Em ployment of the Handicapped JCs Cited On behalf of the Presidents Commit tee on Employment of the Handicapped William A Sims Jr Chairman of the Governors Committee recently present ed a citation for meritorious service to the Georgia Junior Chamber of Com merce The award was made in recognition of the outstanding service rendered by the JCs in creating job opportunities for mentally restored persons Dr Ronald Goldstein of Atlanta is chairman of the mental health committee HIRE THE HANDICAPPEDPreJudgment of Epileptics When an epileptic approaches the average employer he is equivalent to a baseball player going up to bat when the umpire has already called strike three youre out In the case of epilepsy strike one is ignorance strike two is superstition strike three is stigma The facts concerning each individual applicant are not considered because of nonfactual superstitions ovr four thou sand years old The employer seldom realizes that the origin of the word epilepsy comes from ancient Greece and means to seize or to be attacked upon The Greeks gave this name to epilepsy because they thought that one or more of their gods were attacking the victim Ancient nations believed that all actions were the works of gods and demons This misunderstanding of the true cause of epilepsy that connected it with being struck down by the gods is the root of the stigma that has kept epilepsy a hushhush illness for a longer period of time than any other ailment If management wishes to pursue the ancient view that causes the stigma for the epileptic the employer should believe that he the employer any member of his family or any of his friends has been struck by the gods whenever they have a headache toothache skin disease tu berculosis heart diseases appendicitis indigestion or any minor or major dis ease or illness In the ancient world based upon the belief that the gods cause illnesses the religious officials were called upon to cure the sick Illness was connected with religion and not scientifically ap proached The ancient Jews thought epilepsy was a form of demonic posses sion Hippocrates known as the father of medicine realized the antiquity of epi lepsy beliefs to be a misconception of facts and he rejected the idea that the body of a man can be polluted by a god Hippocrates lived in the ancient Greek world some four hundred years before Christ and was too intelligent to believe in the fictional superstitions surrounding the epileptic and followed by medical men of his times The medical profession contributed nothing to relieve epilepsy until the dis covery of the bromides by Sir Charles Locock an Englishman in 1857 The next accomplishment was the using of phenobarbital in 1912 by Haumptmann in Germany A breakthrough in the battle against epilepsy came in 1937 when H Houston Merritt MD and Tracy J Putnam MD codiscovered diphenyhydantoin sodium Dilantin Sodium at the Harvard Medi cal School This was the first in a long list of nonsedative nonhabit forming anticonvulsant to be developed In 1939 also at the Harvard Medical School William G Lennox MD discov ered trimethadione Tridione for the treatment of petit mal epilepsy The research laboratories were steadily at work in turning out new drugs for the total and partial curtailment of epi leptic seizures The drug that is effec tive against one patient may not be the drug to use with another person The medical doctor using his skills adjusts the drugs to each patient The medical By Perry A Abelman Atlanta Epilepsy League profession now had a way of fighting these demons that man had so little understood for thousands of years Medical science also contributed the electroencephalograph to electrically re cord the electric currents given off by the brain A German named Hans Ber ger in 1929 recorded the electrical ac tivity of the brain of a man Using this principle by Berger scientists found that the electroencephalograph could be used to battle epilepsy in a modern twentiethcentury method The new drugs starting with Dilantin should have been enough to wipe away the ignorance of centuries and prove that the cure to neurological diseases will come from chemistry biology and physics instead of superstitutions as old as man Medical sciences have advanced con sistently but the attitude of management and business organizations has been one of following tradition and making few changes to take advantage of the op portunity of the progress made since 1937 The social sciences have lagged behind the true sciences longer than necessary The business executives in personnel should realize that a potential new source of employees that in the past in some cases have been governmental expenses can be changed into taxpayers and good faithful employees The high er executives especially in personnel should look at the new picture that pharmacology has painted for the epilep tic If the research and development policies are changing then it is foolish for the personnel departments to follow beliefs that society adhered to long be fore the discovery of America Some personnel officials have thoughts of hearing the stories about epileptic personality although they do not realize that the patients evaluated to get this misconception of a whole group of people were the ones in institutions and in the worst possible condition Business offi cials should understand that they have contacted a great number of people that they thought to have very pleasing per sonalities who were epileptics Because of the social obstacles placed upon the epileptic by the personnel officials who refuse to hire them many epileptics are started into a vicious circle nonemploy mentlow living standardsostracism nonemployment The number of epileptics who are so cially punished is over 1500000 The exact number is not known because of the refusal to admit this still hush hush illness When the families of those involved are added to the number of epileptics it becomes apparent that many millions of people are involved in this social discrimination The epileptics in institutions represent only about 3 percent of the total epilepsy cases in the United States Many of these are at the institutions primarily because of financial and not physical or mental condition In the book How to Live With Epi lepsy by Carroll Lunt the following paragraph appears When an epileptic is found in a hospital for the insane it is only because he has no other place to live There may be a considerable num ber but a small proportion of patients suffering from convulsions in the coun trys insane asylums but it is not because they are insane informs Dr Tracy J Putnam Where else can the poor chaps go The fact that some epilepsy cases are so bad that they will always be an in stitutional patient cannot be denied but these are a very minute number of the total epileptics It must also be remem bered that because some patients in mental hospitals have falseteeth does not make all falseteeth wearers mental patients The big question is does in dustry and its personnel departments look upon wearing falseteeth and epi lepsy with equal favor Neither of these imperfections make anyone either quali fied or unqualified for the mass of oc cupations It is now time to change a theory based upon no facts but for centuries on ignorance stigma and lack of per ception having at the core superstitions and beliefs that have fear by the non epileptic rather than the epileptic as its driving force In his book Basic Psychiatry Dr Ed ward A Strecker of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine states Too often the epileptic is socially stig matized the mark of the outcast the untouchable is put upon his brow I have wondered whether in some people this archaic attitude did not represent an inner fear that they themselves might become afflicted and that the gods will be so impressed by this condemnation of others that they will withhold the curse from them Scientists have proven that body chemical and physical action rather than gods and demons control this curse The acceptance of the facts liberated by the medical doctors has been an event in which the business world makes a very regretful exhibition Business officials of the United States believe that they should be treated fairly by the government in taxation labor laws patent laws and all regulations of business by the Federal State and local governmental bodies Yet if government treated business firms with the same attitude that the management of com panies treat the epileptic there would not be a chance for business to exist as their licenses would be denied upon ap plication There are some modern factfinding civicminded corporations but the great majority still use too many ideas that their ancient predecessors used when the question of hiring epileptics is consider ed Employers who have not changed their policy on hiring epileptics in the last few years should upgrade their policy to conform with the medical progress that has been made since the pharmacotherapy discoveries made in the last generation The personnel director should realize that in a study by Dr William G Len nox now deceased of the records of 2000 clinic and private epileptic patients the intelligence of 67 per cent was judged to be at average or above 23 per cent was only slightly below average and 10 per cent deficient This survey was made Continued on Page 7Augustas William Stevens 24 right who has a severe deformity of the trunk resulting from polio says he always wanted a business of his own Now he has it Its a thriving little cafe opened last May in an area he picked out The first few months showed a steady in crease in business and William says Im just getting started William was referred to Voca tional Rehabilitation by the Crip pled Childrens Division of the State Department of Public Health after services had been provided by that agency He completed high school grades Vocational Rehabilitation pro vided him with clerical training at the Augusta Vocational School and assisted him in setting up his busi ness enterprise He is now putting his training to use by doing his own bookkeeping and inventory control records Zh A SOi Continued From Page 6 over ten years ago and the new medica tions that have come into being could possfbly raise but not lower the epilep tics intelligence scores The morbid publicity campaign sur rounding epilepsy that started over four thousand years ago and based upon fic tional myths has come to an end The new campaign concerning epilepsy is to be factual and not fictional scien tifically based upon chemists and test tubes instead of mythical gods and demons An important point for each employer to remember is that each epileptic is an Twentysevenyearold James Hughes left of Cartersville is confined to a wheel chair as the result of an automobile accident which left him paralyzed from the waist down ButJames keeps the neatest looking barbershop and gives the smartest shines says barbershop owners Dean and Sinard James accident occurred in 1954 He had services through the Crip pled Childrens Division of the State Department of Pubilc Health and later was referred to Vocation al Rehabilitation He was assisted with a small business enterprise which failed Then it developed he needed more therapy which was provided by the VR In spite of his physical limita tions James waxes floors sweeps washes windows and does other chores individual qualified to do the jobs his personal abilities will allow him to do If the perfect man were the only job applicants then the epileptics could not compete but until the perfect appli cants apply for jobs management and industry leaders have a duty of judging each person by all of his qualifications rather than the three strikes of igno rance superstition and stigmaDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aiaitioas Mvlsion University of Georgia Libraries Athena Georgia Good Morning Im just fine is the cheery greeting to all who ap proach the vending stand of Mrs Katherine Phillips better known as Miss Kay Operating her stand in the lobby of the Rome Post Office since 1949 Miss Kay has made many friends in her 14 years of business The stand is one of the first opened by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division through the Georgia Co operative Services for the Blind Program Miss Kay was saluted by the BartowFloyd Polk Tuberculosis Association for her contribution to the Christmas Seal campaign each year and here we see her making sure the younger generation has plenty of seals for their cards clvobilitatioiyews Frank phones for more food Franks Place on Highway 19 near dimming Former Inspector Becomes FullTime Business Operator Joe Frank Poole formerly an inspec tor for the U S Department of Agri culture in a poultry plant now is serving to satisfied customers the poultry he used to inspect along with a complete menu of other appetizing specialties On July 7 1961 he was carrying some dyna mite which he planned to use in a small pond when it exploded in his arms causing the loss of both hands above the wrist and almost a complete loss of vision in both eyes Frank a little reticent at first soon surprised everyone with his eagerness to receive his artificial arms learn the use of hooks and start training for a vocation After taking evaluation tests it was found that his vocational objective could be that of a storekeeper or cafe operator He purchased a lot erected a small cafe and with the help of Voca tional Rehabilitation Counselors the nec essary equipment was installed and Franks Place as it is called was ready for business He opened in May and thought that with his mother helping they would be able to run the business but before the first day was over he had called for and received help from other relatives as the orders for ham burgers french fries pie and other good food began to pile up Now eight months later Frank han dles the front of the cafe taking orders serving making change and has help from a staff of five His menu offers a wide variety to choose from and no one leaves without being satisfied Franks dexterity and personal accomplishments in the use of his artificial limbs and hooks leave most people a little breath less especially when they see the speed with which he moves Picking up a full 12cup steaming pot of coffee and pour ing it with ease serving pie dialing the phone to place orders and ringing up the cash register when appetites are filled have become second nature to Mr Poole Serves Pie Takes time out to eat Pours Coffee and rings up a salemtlUTATlOH Governor Ernest Vandiver shown receiv ing an award for himself and Mrs Van diver from Joe L Hise president of the Georgia Rehabilitation Association hon oring them for their efforts in furthering Georgias Mental Health Program The following award address was giv en by Joe L Hise president of the Geor gia Rehabilitation Association during their annual meeting December 13th and 14th at the Georgian Terrace Hotel honoring Governor and Mrs Vandiver for their part in furthering Georgias mental health program The Georgia Rehabilitation Associ ation presents this special award to Gov ernor and Mrs Betty Vandiver for their leadership and support of the Mental Health Program which has attracted Nationwide attention It is impossible to inventory all of their accomplishments in this field Of particular significance however was the reorganization of the State Hos pital at Milledgeville to provide more effective service looking to the restora tion of the maximum number of patients to productive living The construction and staffing of the Y H Yarbrough Rehabilitation Center during Governor Vandivers administra tion is one of the major tangible con tributions to the modernization of treat ment of the emotionally ill at our State hospital This center is designed to pro vide comprehensive rehabilitation serv ices to patients Mrs Vandiver has joined with the Governor in promoting the advancement of treatment and care in the field of mental health She has given dedicated leadership to the fundraising drive that has made possible the construction of the Chapel of All Faiths at the Milledgeville State Hospital She has been a guiding light in the annual Christmas gift pil grimage that brings joy and happiness to patients wherever they may be During the Governors administration tremendous progress has been made in the upgrading of treatment services to the mentally retarded at Gracewood The construction of additional physical facili Vocational Rehabilitation exhibit displayed at the annual Exchange Club Fair Augusta ties including a modern comprehensive rehabilitation facility there has contrib uted materially to the advancing of Geor gias program in the field of services to the mentally retarded The intensive treatment program in general hospitals is doing much to bring treamtent quickly and effectively to peo ple who need it The completion of plans for an intensive treatment and training facility on Briarcliff Road in Atlanta in sures that Georgia will continue to make great strides in this field These are but a few of the many con tributions by Governor and Mrs Van diver that will have a lasting influence on the lives of the mentally ill of our state The Governor has shown deep concern for the welfare of all disabled citizens a concern which has been manifested by his support of the State Vocational Re habilitation program he has provided funds to match all Federal money avail able and in general has provided sub stantial leadership in this area The con struction of the Georgia Rehabilitation Center at Warm Springs will bring re habilitation to many who otherwise would not be able to live full useful lives He has given full support both to the Georgia Academy for the Blind at Macon and the School for the Deaf at Cave Spring in terms of improving physical facilities as well as the development of a more effective educational program Time has permitted the recital of only a few of the invaluable contributions of Governor and Mrs Vandiver to the prog ress of rehabiliation in the allimportant and too long neglected field of mental health However over and above all their continuing and heartfelt interest that has been evidenced on so many occasions and to Governor and Mrs Vandiver we in the Georgia Rehabiliation Association express a sincere Thank you as we present them this award Augusta Rehabilitation Office Participates In Annual Exchange Club Fair The Augusta office of Vocational Re habilitation participated in the annual Exchange Club Fair held October 28 through November 3 by preparing an exhibit which told the story of the role Vocational Rehabilitation plays through out the state The exhibit drew much attention from the thousands of Augus tans who visited the fair and many pamphlets and brochures were distribu ted to those who toured the exhibition halls The architects drawing of the Georgia Rehabilitation Center financed jointly by funds provided by the State Board of Education and by Federal funds from the HillBurton Program and now under con struction on a beautiful 13acre tract deeded to the State by the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation was displayed along with charts Visual explanations of the programs for the mentally ill the mentally retarded the epilepsy clinic hire the handicapped and a simulated job situation showing the employer that the handicapped can adequately fill many job opportunities were also shown The Augusta office personnel sched uled themselves to be in the exhibit booth throughout the duration of the fair and were able to explain to those requesting information which division or section of Vocational Rehabilitation could best be of service to them Much valuable information relating to the States Rehabilitation program was thus passed on to interested individuals and the services offered by the Augusta Rehabilitation office more fully explain edehabilitatioi Mws Vol 11 NovDec 1962 No 8 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Stale Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9245148 Bainbridge 218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2327773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 7544841 Rome314 West Building Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone PA 23639 BrunswickWay Building Phone AM 56541 Dr Jarrell receiving Portfolio from John Prickett ne of the highlights of the annual Georgia Rehabilitation Associa tion meeting on Dec 1314 was the presentation of a book of letters to Dr A P Jarrell by Mr John S Prickett Jr in recognition of his national leadership in the Rehabilitation field The portfolio of letters and documents was assembled as a perma nent memento of the distinguished honor bestowed on Dr Jarrell by the National Rehabilitation Association at its annual conference in Detroit Michigan October 23rd of being presented the Presidents Award This is a significant honor and considered the top award that may be conferred by the National Rehabilitation Association to an indi vidual for distinguished service in the field of Rehabilitation The presentation is made annually and Dr Jarrell has the distinc tion of being the first State Director of Rehabilitation Services to be awarded this honor Another highlight of the GRA meeting came when the delegate assembly unanimously endorsed the candidacy of Dr A P Jarrell for Presidentelect of the National Rehabilitation AssociationFourth Annual GRA Meetini Mrs Mariebeth Turner Mrs Mariebeth Turner was elected president of the Georgia Rehabilitation Association at its annual meeting De cember 13th and 14th at the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta This was the fourth annual meeting of the association The program highlighted discussions on the emotionally disturbed the mentally retarded and heart and stroke cases Mr Otis C Dyer was Program Chair man Mr Wallace Petty arranged the session on the emotionally disturbed with the theme Reactivation of the Mentally 111 Through Hospitals and Community Programs Participating on this session were Mr Glenn Calmes Moderator and Panelists Dr Maxwell West Dr Rives Chalmers Dr Robert Wildman Dr Cecil Harbin Dr Charles Stewart Mr Frank McFall Mr W C Petty and Mr Reid Benson The second session had as its theme Developing Vocational Potential in the Mentally Retarded Mr William A Crump was Moderator Panelists were Mrs Louise Stewart Mrs Sara Read ling Miss Aurelia Davis Mrs Lucy But ler Mrs Leonard Young Mr Howard Bright Mr Robert Abell Jr Dr The resa Hite Mr Robert Baxter Mr Steve Youngblood and Mr J D Lee The final session highlighted The Stroke Patient and His Rehabilitation and was moderated by Dr J Gordon Bar row Panelists were Dr Harry W Faulkner Miss Carolyn Morse Miss Ju lia Brown Mr Harold McGrady Mrs Barbara Grant and Mr John S Prickett Jr Officers and board members elected for the Georgia Rehabilitation Associa tion for the coming year were Mrs Mariebeth Turner President Mr Charles Methvin PresidentElect Mr Shelton McLelland VicePresident Mr A E Koch SecretaryTreasurer Board members elected for a three year term were Mr George Beckman Dr Rives Chal mers Mr Otis C Dyer Mr W A Craft Mr B B Sanders Mr J B Cheatham Mr Fred Driver Counseling And Guidance Couse Twentyeight Vocational Rehabilita tion counselors will attend the Counsel ing and Guidance course to be held Janu ary 1417 at the Georgia Center for Con tinuing Education in Athens Georgia The course is being presented by the Di vision of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Georgia State Department of Educa tion Dr Stanley Ainsworth left receives the Georgia Rehabilitation Asso ciations Annual Award from Joe L Hise president of the Georgia Rehabilitation Association Dr Stanley Ainsworth Receives Georgia Rehabilitation Professional Award Dr Stanley Ainsworth was named re cipient of the Georgia Rehabilitation As sociations Professional Award at their annual meeting and was presented a plaque in recognition and appreciation for his outstanding work and contribu tions in the field of Speech Corrections and for his dedication to the Rehabilita tion Program for Exceptional Children A native of Michigan he received his AB degree from Michigan State Normal Col lege in Speech and English his MA de gree from Iowa State in Speech Patholo gy and his PhD from Northwestern Uni versity in Speech Correction and Audi ology and Clinical Psychology He has served as VicePresident Ex ecutive VicePresident and President of the American Speech and Hearing Asso ciation Dr Ainsworths name is listed in Whos Who in the South and South west Whos Who in American Educa tion and Whos Who in America He is a member of the Advisory Panel on Speech and Hearing Office of Voca tional Rehabilitation Professional Ad visory Committee of the Georgia Society for Crippled Children and Adults Profes sional Standards Committee Georgia Re habilitation Association He is on the Board of Directors of the American Hearing Society Speech Foun dation of America Legislative Assembly and Southern Regional Representative Speech Association of America and is the Secretary of the American Board of Examiners in Speech Pathology and Audiology A renowned lecturer and author of Dr Jarrell Appointed Chairman Of National Rehabilitation Association Committee National Rehabilitation Association president Don Russell has appointed Dr A P Jarrell Director of Rehabilitation Services as chairman of the newly form ed StateFederal committee of NRA The function of this committee is to review the present federal legislation governing the operation of the State Federal Rehabilitation program with particular emphasis on eligibility re quirements definition of services and methods of financing rehabilitation pro grams After study the committee will make recommendations with respect to changes in federal legislation that in their judgment will provide the stimulant necessary to enable the state rehabilita tion agencies to accomplish a goal of re habilitating 200000 persons per year at the earliest possible date The first meeting of this committee was held in Washington D C January 34 1963 Those serving on this commit ee with Dr Jarrell are Mr Charles Eby Pennsylvania Rehabilitation Director Mr Seid Hendrix Louisiana Rehabilita tion Director Mr Ray Power West Vir ginia Rehabilitation Director Mr Andy Marrin California Rehabilitation Direc tor Mr Voyle Scurlock Oklahoma Re habilitation Director Mr Norman Yoder Pennsylvania Director Program for the Blind and ex officio member Mr Don Russell Arkansas Rehabilitation Direc tor many articles and books he is presently a professor of Speech Correction at the University of Georgia in Athens Chair man Program for Exceptional Children Chairman Speech Correction Area and Member Graduate FacultyConference Conference attendants during brief Get Acquainted Session Dr A P Jarrell Speaks At VRCCS Conference Dr A P Jarrell director of the State Vocational Rehabilitation Services spoke at a joint meeting of the Vocational Re habilitation Division and the Crippled Childrens Service The conference was designed to assist the staffs of the two Georgia Rehabilitative Agencies to de velop a better understanding of the serv ices that each provides and to stimulate the administrative staffs of these two agencies to develop a more effectively coordinated program Dr Jarrell dis cussed the Organizational Structure of the Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion and explained the growth of the program through the years Mrs Marge Davis of the Atlanta Dis trict Office of CCS speaking on the topic How much do you know about CCS explained how the committee plan ned to measure the two staffs under standing of their program through an exhibit followed by a questionnaire The participants then evaluated themselves on what they already knew and on what they retained from viewing the exhibits Throughout the conference the follow ing areas of concern were discussed Who is eligible for referral to V R how does V R locate clients how should CCS re fer to V R what factors does the counselor consider when determining whether the referred client is accepted for services what modalities does the counselor use in making his recommend ations is there any veracity to the state ment The easytoplace is the readily acceptable client if the counselor re fuses acceptance is there regress to a higher echelon what about the ineligible clients what services does V R provide what about the 1920 year old out of school and finally how do you evaluate the effectiveness of your program Director to Attend States Council Meeting Dr A P Jarrell will attend an Execu tive Committee meeting of the Council of State Directors of Vocational Rehabilita tion in Washington D C January 2425 1963 The meeting will be a planning session for the Annual Spring Conference to be held May 68 1963 Members of the Executive Committee are Herbert R Brown President New York Claud M Andrews Ex Officio Florida A Polk Jarrell VicePresident Georgia Edward J Moriarty Secretary Ohio Virginia Cole Vermont John G King Delaware Norman W Pierson DC Dill Beckman South Carolina Paul G Con Ian Michigan Howard H Hanson South Dakota Aud F Darr New Mexico War ren Thompson Colorado Robert R Wip pel Oregon Harry E Simmons Florida NRA Reorganizes the Dept of Health Education and Welfare The National Rehabilitation Associa tion has announced that under the Re organization of the Department of Health Education and Welfare The Of fice of Vocational Rehabilitation will be come the Vocational Rehabilitation Ad ministration and its head Miss Mary Switzer will receive the title of Commis sioner of Vocational Rehabilitation Jerry Cosper distinguished alumnus left shown receiving award from Dr Robert L Bennett Mr Jerry Cosper of Bowden Ga was honored at Founders Day ceremonies at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation when he was named by Dr Robert L Bennett Executive Director as the re cipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award of 1962 The annual award is made to a former Warm Springs patient whose adjust ment to physical disability is a source of pride to his Alma Mater Cosper a former client of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation was a pa tient at the Foundation in 1958 where he received medical care and physical re habilitation services for injuries sus tained in a motorcycle accident Upon dismissal from the Warm Springs Foundation Jerry enrolled at the North Georgia Trade School under the sponsorship of the Division of Voeation al Rehabilitation and successfully com pleted the watch and clock repair course The Division purchased tools and equip ment to help Cosper establish a business in Bowdon GeorgiaMedical Advisory Committee Meets The Medical Advisory Committee of the Georgia Division of Vocational Re habilitation held its annual meeting at the Henry Grady Hotel December 7 1962 Pictured L to R are Dr Floyd Bliven Jr Chief of the Division of Orthopedics at the University of Georgia School of Medicine in Augusta Ga who spoke to the group on a special Orthopedic project at the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hos pital Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Dr Thomas P Goodwyn State Medical Consultant and Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee and Mr Lewis R Schubert Director of Region 4 of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation The committees function is to formu late medical policy for the DVR agency and to pass on the qualification of appli cants for membership on the DVR panel of specialists A subcommittee appointed from the full committee of thirty doctors and one hospital administrator meets four times a year to take necessary action on mat ters requiring immediate attention From left Dr Floyd Bliven Jr Dr A P Jarrell Dr Thomas P Goodwyn and Mr Lewis R Shubert Amputee Clinic Answers Prosthesis Problems Johnny Sims 18 of Macon Geor gia shown at left attending the bi weekly amputee clinic held at At lantas Georgia Baptist Hospital Sims lost his leg in an on the job accident while working as a de livery boy in January 1960 Voca tional Rehabilitation furnished bar ber training at the Griffin College of Barbering which included books tools and other related supplies Thirtytwoyearold Jimmy Gil ham at right using practice steps during a recent visit to the ampu tee clinic Referred to Vocational Rehabilitation by the Department of Public Welfare Gilham lost half his foot in an accidental gunshot wound A former poultry worker he was not able to return to his former work as it involved con tinual standing Gilham underwent a reamputation to further facili tate the use of his leg and pros thesis and returned to the clinic for a check up and fitting Johnny Sims Jimmy GilhamDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 tions Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Georgia Twentytwoyearold Sarah La Rue referred to Vocational Reha bilitation in 1957 went blind due to bilateral optic atrophy in 1956 caused by meningitis and has no light perception in either eye She had dropped out of public school because of her illness and returned after many months with assistance from Vocational Rehabilitation She used dictating and transcribing units to keep up with her class room work and had special confer ences with instructors Sarah wasv sent to the Summer Orientation and Adjustment Center in Macon Georgia JuneAugust of 1958 and finished high school at The Georgia Academy for The Blind in June 1960 She was fur nished training in typing at a local business school during the summer of 1960 and entered Berry College in the fall In the summer of 1961 she re ceived training in the medical rec ords room of the Macon Hospital as a dictaphone typist and fullfills her work requirements at Berry College as a medical secretary trainee at Batty State Hospital The supervisor of medical secre taries at the hospital has stated that Sarahs work is outstanding Sarah is working hard to maintain her B average while at Berry College Sarah LaRueX 35 O 9 ekablt T ivAfews 1 1 Robert E Durham left wears an artificial arm but it apparently does not interfere with job as ship ping clerk at the Newton Manufac turing Co in Newton He is able to carry out all the duties assigned to him Durham lost his arm as the result of a sausage mill accident Vocational Rehabilitation assisted him in getting a belowtheelbow prosthesis Nineteenyearold Bobby Lee Bar field right in top panel has an impaired left arm resulting from an automobile accident in 1960 Vo cational Rehabilitation aided him in getting surgery to help correct the disability and provided onthejob training leading to employment Bobby works as receiving clerk at Albanys Phoebe Putney Hospital and believes he has a bright future Earl Taylor left in center panel has an impaired right hip He was unable to carry on successfully as a farmer and sought aid from Voca tional Rehabilitation services After training in upholstery and wood finishing at the South Georgia Technical and Vocational School in Americus he was provided with tools and equipment to open his own shop in Boston For more than 20 years Ernest R Sanders right in center panel was a bulldozer operator A heart condition suffered in 1957 forced him to change occupations Through Vocational Rehabilitation services he was provided with train ing in the barber trade and now works in the shop at the Veterans Administration facility in Thomas ville Despite a 98 percent loss of vi sion Mrs Margaret Bass in lower panel learned to make flower ar rangements and displays and now operates her own business known as Margarets Flower Shop in Co lumbus Her creations range from simple corsages to decorations for weddings After losing her vision Mrs Bass was provided with ad justment services and training through Vocational RehabilitationPolio Didnt Stop Her An attractive woman who was para lyzed from the neck down from polio at age 10 has regained some use of her arms and legs and developed marked ability as an artist She is Mrs Audry Williams of Co lumbus whose home studio at 4211 La more Street is filled with examples of her work in oils crayon and other media Since February of last year she has been studying art under the auspices of Vocational Rehabilitation services Audrey went to Warm Springs soon after the polio attack but at that time the institution was overcrowded and she returned home she says Three years later she went back to Warm Springs for treatment which involved 20 opera tions including an appendectomy When the appendectomy was per formed Audrey was in a body cast but this proved to be no problem as the doc tors cut a piece out of the case big enough to remove the appendix and then simply glued that part of the case back into place she says Everybody used to think I would be permanently bedridden Even the then chief surgeon who said I might be able to walk from my chair to the bed but that would be all Then he started operating and liter ally made me over He transplanted mus cles where there just werent any So now Ive fooled him and everybody I can walk all over the house and I stay up all day and half the night sometimes Audrey met her husband Richard while visiting a friend at Warm Springs It happened like this she says I had a boy friend from New York who was Richards roommate He had had sur gery and I went to visit him It was there that I met Richard and we liked each other right off They were sweethearts for nine years during a period of time when they were both in and out of Warm Springs Fi nally they decided to get married and the ceremony was performed in 1951 Getting married was an ambitious un dertaking and has turned out more than satisfactory as Audrey and Richard help each other along as they put it Mrs Williams legs are fairly strong but her arms are rather weak and its viceversa with Richard They prop each other up and work as a welladjusted team around the house climbing in and out of cars and on trips They go any where they wish and often take drives out of town on weekends MabLtttatiorvVWs Mrs Audrey Williams aid of crutches while his wife uses only a back brace She cooks and keeps the house with the help of a woman who lives with them Completing the family picture is Pedro a loyal half Chihuahua and half fox terrier dog who doesnt take too fondly to strangers Their interests around the home are television records reading and art and Audrey has several paintings of her own hanging on the wall of their living room Richard received aid and was trained through the division of Vocational Re habilitation in Alabama and Audrey is receiving tuition aid in commercial art at the Columbus School of Art in Co lumbus Superintendent Lee Jones center confers with Arthur Voorhies left and Dr James R Hastings Visitors At Academy Two prominent specialists in the field of services to the blind recently visited the Georgia Academy for the Blind at Macon to consult with Superintendent Lee Jones and faculty members in plan ning training courses for industrial arts teachers They were Dr James R Hastings head of the industrial arts department State University College Oswego N Y and Arthur Voorhies program special ist with the American Foundation for the Blind Richard is able to get around with the Dr Hastings conducts summer work shops for the training of industrial arts teachers of blind children sponsored by the American Foundation for the Blind Before joining the Foundation staff Mr Voorhies was with the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services for the Blind in Washington Dr Hastings and Mr Voorhies are visiting numerous schools that have had teachers enrolled in the workshops said Superintendent Jones Their visit to Georgia was helpful to us in that they made some suggestions for improving our program here at the Academy4Ho OoovooVoooXofvo AcKabiLitatiotv Mws Vol 11 JanFeb 1963 No 9 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools DR A P JARRELL Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9245148 Bainbridge 218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2827773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 7544841 Rome314 West Building Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone PA 23639 BrunswickWay Building Phone AM 56541 U EPORTS from the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults indicate the Architectural Barriers project to make buildings accessible to physically handicapped persons is gaining momentum throughout the country Plans for elimination of barriers are based on building specifications approved by the American Standards Association in October 1961 In at least 30 states including Georgia steps have been taken by the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and the Easter Seal Society to plan longrange programs to incorporate the standards in new construction and the modification of existing build ings On the national level President Kennedy has issued an Executive order for the use of the standards in new Post Office buildings The General Service Administration has adopted the standards with instructions to architects and engineers to use them in future building designs The standards have been made mandatory for all new government employment office buildings Printed copies of the standards and specifications have been dis tributed to 14000 members of the American Institute of Architects and to numerous other associations and agencies The program has been endorsed by many national organizations It is pointed out that millions of physically disabled persons daily are being deprived of the opportunity to go to school attend religious services to work and play because of architectural barriers which pre vent independent access to buildings and facilities intended for the public For years rehabilitation agencies have been helping physically handi capped persons to prepare for and engage in occupations suitable to their interests and abilities Now people with physical limitations are found in almost every type of jobin the professions service trades commerce and industry Many of them have to face all sorts of obstacles in getting to their places of business and in using the facilities in the buildings The agen cies now are striving to remove the barriers which prevent or restrict the activities of these people An entrance wide enough to accommodate a wheel chair ramps as well as steps a wide stall in each rest room lowlevel water fountains at least one groundlevel entrance to every public building and parking space set aside and identified for use of persons who require wheel chairs braces or crutchesthese are just a few of the things that may be provided by building owners to make their structures usable by all citizens New Air Travel Roles The Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and the Air Transport Association have announced that all U S Scheduled Airlines have adopted standardized criteria for transporting the handi capped on their routes The announcement was made recently by Maj Gen Melvin J Maas USMCR Ret Chairman of the Presidents Committee and Stuart G Tipton President of the Air Transport Association In a joint statement they said The establishment and implementa tion of these criteria are milestones that will benefit the handicapped and the scheduled airlines because they set fair uniform and reason able standards for the acceptance of the handicapped as passengers This will facilitate the use of this countrys scheduled airlines not only by those handicapped persons who must travel long distances in connec tion with their work but by handicapped persons who are traveling for pleasureVending Stand Opened In Project Fiftytwoyearold Ossie Lee Trawick who is industrially blind operates a business enterprise in the Wilson Apart ments a housing project in Columbus The outdoor vending stand is a port able type unit designed especially for lowrent housing project areas The ce ment floor is in sections The walls and ceilings are riveted together The build ing can be dismantled quickly and at lit tle expense Three other similar units have been established recently by Vocational Re habilitation services to provide employ ment opportunities for blind persons The stands are stocked with a variety of merchandise needed by tenants in housing projects Mr Trawick who had been manager of the Fort Benning post exchange for several years came to Vocational Re habilitation in 1960 for assistance in getting eye surgery A second operation was performed last December Before going to Ft Benning he had been foreman of a Columbus concrete company Vocational Rehabilitation provided Mr Trawick with training in vending stand management and initial merchandise stock for the stand Mr Trawick is married and has four schoolage children Reports show that his sales are in creasing week after week and that the income will provide a comfortable liv ing for the Trawick family Contest Closes Mar 1 How my community benefits from the abilities of handicapped workers is the theme of the fifteenth annual Ability Counts report contest for 11th and 12th grade high school students sponsored nationally by the Presidents Committee on employment of the Handicapped and in the States by the Governors Com mittees Winners in the national competition will receive 2500 in cash prizes and expensepaid trips to Washington D C to attend the annual meeting of the Presidents Committee May 9 and 10 The prizes will be presented by the President The firstplace report in state con tests will be entered in the national com petition In Georgia the five successful con testants will receive 200 in cash prizes and certificates signed for the President The first place winner will go to Wash ington as the guest of the Georgia AFL CIO The contest in Georgia closes March 1 A special award will be made to the teacher of the firstplace winner in Georgia One of the objects of the contest is to encourage boys and girls to survey busi ness establishments in their communi ties to see if qualified handicapped workers are given equal job opportuni ties and to report on their findings It is expected that high school students throughout the state will enter the con test At topOssie Trawick arranges stock in store Abovean exterior view of the building P C Meets in May The annual meeting of the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handi capped will be held in the Department of Labor auditorium in Washington May 9 and 10 Many noted figures will be on the program including Mrs Eunice Kennedy Schriver who will address a special luncheon of the Womens Committee says an announcement from the Com mittee President Kennedy is expected to pre sent the awards in the Ability Counts report contest for high school Juniors and Seniors William A Sims Jr of Atlanta Chairman of the Georgia Governors Committee and others interested in the hirethehandicapped program will at tend the meeting Twentyyearold James Kelly who has an impairment of the left arm is purchasing agent at Albanys Phoebe Putney Hospital He was advanced to this position after working as stock clerk Through Vocational Rehabilitation services he was given onthejob training His desire to learn as much as pos sible about the job and his atten tion to duties brought about his promotionBoard Visits Academy Members of the State Board of Education and other education staff members met recently at the Geor gia Academy for the Blind for an inspection tour Shown here from left are James S Peters Chairman Fourth District Manchester Jack Nix State Director of Vocational Education J Brantley Johnson First District Statesboro Thomas Nesbitt Jr Third District Cor dele Mrs Willene B Jones typing instructor at the Academy J York Hudgins Academy principal Mrs Lonnie E Sweat Lonnie E Sweat Eighth District Blackshear and Dr A Polk Jarrell State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation and Director of the Academy for the Blind The Board of Education members toured Academys facilities on Vineville Avenue and Shurling Drive in Macon A program was presented by Academy students demonstrating physical academic and extracur ricular skills and activities New Center Open To Handicapped Did you know that New Yorks magnificent new Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has all en trances at street level every floor accessible from large attendant operated elevators special parking near exits reserved for the handi capped seats that can be removed to accommodate wheelchairs and transistor amplifiers for those re quiring hearing aids Are buildings in your community being constructed with the handi capped in mind If not why not Mrs Nora Lee Ritch who was a patient at Battey State Hospital was aided by Vocational Rehabilitation in establishing a neighborhood grocery business in Thomasville She looks forward to helping with the family income to take care of debts accumulated while she was ill She had worked regularly at a peanut mill before her illness Twentynineyearold Phillip Sel lers above operates a concession stand in the lobby of the New Al bany Hotel in Albany offering ci gars cigaretts and other items to hotel guests Although blind in one eye he had worked at the Marine Supply Cen ter for several years until a chronic blood sugar condition forced his re tirement His pension did not pro vide enough income for the support of himself and family Vocational Rehabilitation provid ed Sellers with training in a busi ness course at the Albany Voca tional School and initial stock for his business enterprise Earlier the agency had provided him with an artificial eye ABILITY COUNTS HIRE THE HANDICAPPEDGeorge Hall left a double ampu tee is night manager at the Gordon Hotel in Albany He had a below theknee amputation of the left leg and an abovetheankle amputation of the other leg Vocational Reha bilitation recently aided him in get ting a prosthesis Mrs Joseph Herndon right who is blind in the right eye and has limited vision in the left eye is rapidly gaining a reputation as a topnotch hair stylist She was aid ed in training in cosmetology through Vocational Rehabilitation services Fiftyyearold William G Love left in center panel recently was aided by Vocational Rehabilitation services in getting a hernia opera tion and treatment for a skin con dition so that he could continue to work He has been a barber at the Veterans facility at Thomasville for more than seven years Through Vocational Rehabilitation services William R Paul right in center panel was aiding in getting surgery for a heart condition Both the mitral and aortic valves were replaced by artificial valves His heart condition resulted from rheu matic fever at age 14 He has re turned to his job as car salesman for a Macon dealer Robert Pharis bottom panel who is blind in one eye and has only limited vision in the other now operates the vending stand in the lobby of the Albany postoffice Robert graduated from the Georgia Academy for the Blind and was aided by Vocational Rehabilitation in going to college For a while he taught in a Forsyth County school HIRE THE HANDICAPPED ABILITY COUNTS Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Sate U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Mr W DeHenne Univ of Ga Library Athens Ga For more than a year Bobby Joe Thompson 26 formerly of Pelham has been operating a vending stand in the Riverside Manufacturing Companys plant in Moultrie despite three physical handicaps He is industrially blind has a hearing impairment and a speech defect Married and the father of one child Thompson had worked for a drug firm in Atlanta and as a cloth inspector in an industrial plant before he lost his vision He attended the adjustment center at the Georgia Academy for the Blind at Macon during the summer of 1961 for orientation training A hearing aid was provided by Vocational Rehabilitation after Thompson had attended the Moultrie Speech and Hearing Clinic T J Vereen shown at right in picture Vice President of Riverside Manufacturing Company gave permission for the location of a vending stand in the plant to serve employees with packaged foods soft drinks confections and other articles While awaiting delivery of the equip ment for the stand Thompson went to Americus for on the job training in the vending stand at the South Georgia trade school His visual acuity at last report was 2050 with slightly more than a 10degree field bilaterally Mrs Thompson is employed in the Riverside plant Below is a view of the attractive installation Aekabilitatioiv Mws TwentyOneyearold Harvey Chance of Augusta right in top panel is shown enjoying one of his favorite pastimes that of col lecting and listening to records Harvey was working on the engine of his automobile one day last fall when another car came by too close and struck him necessitating the amputation of both legs Vocational Rehabilitation is pro viding prevocational training phy sical therapy and his two prosthe ses In top left panel he is shown putting on his prostheses prior to a training session and in middle panel at left he is shown going through a standing session Harvey plans to use his mechan ical aptitude as a basis for choos ing the right vocation Clinton Dorsey Hortman 21 of Taylor County right in center panel was in an automobile acci dent in September 1961 resulting in the paralysis of both legs He lives with his parents and former ly worked for a refrigeration firm in Reynolds Vocational Rehabilita tion is providing a portion of his hospitalization physical therapy and leg braces Joseph Foshee bottom panel a former football player and athlete at Richmond Academy in Augusta is now centering his sights on a de gree in business administration He had polio in 1959 when he was 16 years old Vocational Re habilitation is providing tuition at Augusta Junior College where all of his classes are on the first floor and easily accessible by wheel chair He drives his own car and is considered more careful than most driversBoobleAniputee Leads Normal Life In Richmond County just outside of Augusta lives Janie Andrews a mite of a woman with a might of determination She is married to Elbert T Andrews a fireman and engineer for the Atlantic Coastline Railroad and they have two energetic boys Ira Thomas 10 and Ken neth Wayne 7 At the age of two Janie started the first of her many trips to the Scottish Rite Hospital that lasted over a period of 16 years She underwent operation after operation for bone grafts to her legs and was in casts for 3 to 9 months Once she was in a cast for 3 years and had to have it changed every 3 months When not in casts she was in braces Walking was not for Janie Andrews She and Elbert grew up in the Sue Reynolds Community with Janie living across the street from the grammar school and Elbert living a mile west of it But it was no coincidence that the school was located across the street from her home it was planned that way The local Board of Education and County Commissioners had planned to build a new school about 4 miles from its present site but reconsidered due to Janies handicap and built the school across from her home Her mother or school children would make sure she got to school but when ever possible Elbert would pull her home from school in a little twowheel buggy books and all On special occasions at school such as Fall Festival and the Halloween Festi val a movie would always be shown in the assembly room Elbert would always ask Janie to save a seat for him and what kind of drink and candy bar would she like He would put a dime aside for her for refreshments and when the lights were turned out for the show he would bashfully slip in beside her with candy drinks and all In high school they did not date at all and seldom saw each other as Janie went to Tubman high school and Elbert went to Richmond He joined the navy before he gradua ated and was gone for three years During most of this time Janie was in and out of the hospital When he came back from the navy he entered Tifton College and they saw each other just occasionally during his two years there Then in 1950 they started going iekablittattorvws Mr and Mrs Andrews are shown on the front steps of their home which was recently rebuilt from the shell of an old house that burned Behind the house is the basketball area as shown on the cover Shown here are the Andrews in their family room just before a session with the TV From left to right Mr Andrews Ira Thomas Janie and Kenneth Wayne steady They went together for one year and then were married Elbert says it was a foregone conclusion that I was go ing to marry her I knew I was going to back in grammar school With a pert smile on her face Janie said he asked my mother and father if he could marry me before he asked me Elbert replies I just wanted to be sure that I could get you They lived in a trailer from 1951 to 1962 and were fast outgrowing it El bert bought the shell of a home that had burned and had it rebuilt into the smart looking home they live in now During this time Janie was by no means inactive With the aid of Voca tional Rehabilitation she was taking courses in typing office machines speed writing and shorthand But once again her legs started giving her trouble and she had to stop her classes A big de cision was about to be made and Janie made it Her legs never giving her any support or use and continuously needing operations were going to be amputated below the knees The decision being made the oper ation was performed Her recovery was speedy and it wasnt long before she was being fitted for her prostheses Now Mrs Janie Andrews is experiencing a new feeling that of walking not only by her self but because of herself She plays basketball in the yard with the family enjoys putting puzzles together and likes working in the kitchen A house keeper parexcellence she is second to none Janie walked into the Vocational Re habilitation office in Augusta a few weeks ago and someone in the office was heard to say which leg is artificial Like many people who meet Janie for the first time they could not believe it when they were told both are Services of Vocational Rehabilitation provided Mrs Andrews include diagnos tic examinations orthopedic visits braces surgery and her prosthesesMabilitatiotv jVews Runs China Shop Vol 11 MarchApril 1963 No 10 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools DR A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9245148 Bainbridge 218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2827773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 7544841 Rome314 West Building Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone PA 23639 BrunswickWay Building Phone AM 56541 Lon Buddy Bell a former Vocational Rehabilitation client who was stricken by polio after serving in the Armed Forces in the Philippines during World War II is entering the china painting and supply business China painting is one of the fastest growing hobbies among women in Atlanta says Buddy whose location at 1034 White Oak Ave S W is easily acces sible to all of Atlanta Buddy and his wife Fay import the china from Germany and Japan and handle all types of gold paint china and related supplies They offer a kiln firing service and a special discount to teachers of china painting Menessa Akins one of the fore most teachers in china painting is teaching Buddy and Fay the finer points about the business and they are both becoming quite accomplished in the art J Honored 4 v IT1i Dr Mamie Jo Jones State Super visor of Services for Exceptional Children recently was elected president of the International Council For Exceptional Children The Coordinating Committee of the State Department of Education adopted a resolution calling atten tion to the honor bestowed upon Dr Jones and expressing appre ciation of her services to the StateColumbus Girl Wins Contest Audrey Dell Hammerich a 16yearold Junior at Baker High School Columbus was awarded first prize in the statewide Ability Counts contest for Juniors and Seniors sponsored by the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handi capped and Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Her report on How My Community Benefits From The Abilities Of Handi capped Workers was entered in the na tional competition for 2500 in cash awards and she will receive an expense paid trip to Washington provided by AFLCIO to attend the annual meeting of the Presidents Committee May 910 1963 She is an honor student in an acceler ated class at Baker and a leader in dra matics Her parents are SFC and Mrs Elmer Hammerich and her English teacher is Mrs Alcie Mae Dennis Miss Hammerich said she intends to use her prize money for registering in science courses she plans to take during the sum mer months The winners received Certificates of Merit from the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped The 20000 in cash prizes were pro vided by Associated Industries of Geor gia The awards were presented by Mr D D Barnard Executive Secretary to Gov ernor Sanders National Winners Judith Keith Sikes 16 of Asbury Road Murfreesboro Tennessee is the winner of the 1963 Ability Counts Con test sponsored by the Presidents Com mittee on Employment of the Handi capped Miss Sikes who attends Murfreesboro Central High School will receive 1000 first prize for her winning entry She competed with juniors and seniors from public parochial and private schools in 43 States and the District of Columbia on the theme How My Community Ben efits from the Abilities of Handicapped Workers This contest now in its 15th year is part of the Presidents Committees over all educational program aimed at making more people aware of the problems fac ing the handicapped in obtaining jobs the work being done to help the handi capped help themselves and the admir able accomplishments of many severely handicapped individuals This years contest required the en trants to base their written reports on independent field trips to local places of employment to visit public employment and vocational rehabilitation offices and Winners in the Statewide Ability Counts Report Contest for Geor gia From left Hariette Griffin Monroe Second place 50 Audrey Dell Hammerich Columbus first place 100 Ann Jo Hendricks White third place 25 and Mary Virginia Fessenden Atlanta fifth place 10 Fourth place went to Jack Simpson of Pelham who was not present for the presentation Pictured above from left to right are the contest sponsors with the winners D D Barnard Executive secretary to Governor Sanders Bruce Hall Secretary of the Governors Committee W H Montague President Georgia Council AFLCIO Harriette Griffin second place Audrey Dell Hammerich first place Elbert Forester Assistant Direc tor Employment Security Agency Department of Labor Ann Jo Hendricks third place Clifford Clarke Executive Director Associated Industries of Georgia Mary Virginia Fessenden fifth place Dr A P Jarrell State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services and W A Sims Jr Chairman of the Governors Committee to interview handicapped persons em ployers labor officials and community organizations serving the handicapped Other winners were Second prize 600 Karen Marie Lind 17 Joliet Town ship High School Joliet 111 Third prize 400 Becky Scott Carlton 15 Mullins High School Mullins S C Fourth prize 200 Jeffrey J Radowich 18 Arch bishop Carroll High School Washington D C Honorable Mention Certificates went to Gilbert Edward Brodie 16 Marys School Phoenix Ariz Frank Jones 16 Mt Pleasant High School Wilmington Del Carol Christensen 16 Salina High School Salina Kansas Russell G Smith 17 Chaminade College Preparatory School St Louis Mo Alice Sheridan Burroughs 17 Carson City High School Carson City Nevada and Kathleen Jo hanna Lewis 17 St John the Baptist High School Philadelphia Pa Winners will receive their prizes at the Annual Meeting of the Presidents Com mittee on Employment of the Handi capped in the Departmental Auditorium in Washington D G on the morning of May 9thRehabilitation Pays Big Dividends The Vocational Rehabilitation Divi sions joint project with the Fulton County Department of Family and Chil dren Services formerly the Department of Public Welfare to help disabled pa rents receiving Aid to Dependent Chil dren Grants to return to employment and selfsupport is dramatically and signifi cantly proving its value During 1962 275 referrals were made to the ADCVR project Of these 148 were closed as nonfeasiblereferred 11 were closed as housewives 29 were closed for other reasons and 85 were placed in employment When the program was initiated in August 1956 one Vocational Rehabilita tion counselor and two public Welfare Workers were assigned to work on a team basis and share defined responsi bilities in serving ADC cases Due to its unparalleled success the project has gained permanent status and the person nel and activities increased so that there are currently four Vocational Rehabilita tion counselors and seven Family and Children workers assigned to the pro gram The purpose of the service is to evalu ate all incapacitated parents who have applied for or are receiving ADC Grants in Fulton County to determine if Re habilitative services will enable the per son to return to work The plan is to refer all disabled ADC parents to the project with the realiza tion and understanding that all are not Rehabilitative due to factors that im pede the process either in 1 the client himself those with severe disabilities combination of disability age and edu cational limitations and those with poor motivation or 2 in clients total environ ment that prevent him from focusing on rehabilitative goals such as child care problems marital difficulties acute and chronic family crisis and lack of suitable employment opportunities for persons needing sheltered type employment The following breakdown shows the fi nancial gains of the 85 clients who ob tained employment through the team work efforts of the project staff in cluding the annual income before and after rehabilitation the cost of rehabili tation to Vocational Rehabilitation and the Department of Family and Children Services and the annual reduction of Family Service grants as a result of em ployment Annual income before rehabilitation 11134196 Welfare 10245300 Other 888896 Continued on Page 7 Managing her own grocery store and making sure her customers have a large selection of foods to choose from is a fulltime occupation for Mrs Mae Hearing A former spinner at a cotton mill and a counter girl at a drug store Mrs Hearing now enjoys being her own boss She underwent surgery provided by Vocational Rehabilitation in April 1961 and again in May of 1962 Vocational Rehabilitation also fur nished the initial stock and supplies for the store when it opened She is married and the mother of four children who are all attending school Fortyfiveyearold Luther Rainey right above operates his own laundermat and dry cleaning pick up station in the Capitol Homes Housing project in Atlanta A congenital deformity of his right foot caused Rainey to leave his job as machine operator a position he had held for over fourteen years His condition had grown progressively worse and he was not able to stand for prolonged periods of time as was required of a machine operator After undergoing corrective surgery Vocational Rehabilitation work ed with Rainey in finding a suitable location for the laundermat and furnished the equipment required to begin his business He is married and has four children Three are now attending school Forest Franklin Hammett left above a truck driver from 1937 to 1960 is now launching a new career as a poultry farmer Suffering from a strained back an ulcerated stomach and a severe speech defect Hammett has quickly adapted himself to his new environment in poul try husbandry Vocational Rehabilitation is furnishing counseling surgery medication and the necessary equipment for his poultry project He is married with five children all of school age These clients were dependent upon welfare when they came to Voca tional Rehabilitation for servicesRehabilitation Pays Big Dividends Continued from Page 6 Annual income after rehabilitation 21288036 Earnings 16802540 Welfare 2365200 Other 2120296 Total cost to VR and DFCS 22319254 DFCS assistance while in the project 13276400 Additional cost in DFCS 1000000 VR cost of rehabili tation services 4743937 VR salaries 3298917 Annual Savings in Public Welfare Grants 7880100 If these figures remained stable over a 10 year period the total saving would be 433405500 The explanation of costs income and services points out the financial gain to these 85 clients Their annual family in come doubled as a result of becoming employed and they reversed their status from taxconsuming to tax contributing Public assistance grants were termi nated in 64 cases and 21 continued to re ceive ADC in decreased amounts In comparing annual Welfare funds paid to the group before and after rehabilitation it is noted that attainment of employ ment of these 85 clients resulted in a re duction in the former amount of annual public assistance of 77 In looking at the economy factor involved in helping these ADC parents become employed it is noted that the average cost of direct rehabilitative services per client was 55834 as compared to an average an nual savings in public welfare expendi tues of 92707 The ADCVR program is a family centered project designed to strengthen total family functioning Many of the ob stacles impeding vocational rehabilita tion of the client are due to the multiple family problems which must be consid ered in the overall approach to rehabili tation This slows the rehabilitative process but the solution or remedy of many family problems is a slow process and the value of the project service far outweighs the time element in terms of tangible and intangible benefits to fam ilies The tangible benefits are readily meas ured by the familys financial benefits in becoming selfsupporting The intangible benefits of the project service with con centrated and coordinated services of two agencies combining efforts toward a common goal of improving total family function is perhaps the most valuable endeavor The entire family is consider ed and evaluated in terms of family problems involved beyond the individual disabled client Fiftytwoyearold James Rogers left in top panel who started out in a small business enterprise with his basic stock as cosmetics has now added candy peanuts cigars cigarettes and various items of food to his list of resale items Seriously deformed due to a spinal injury and with only one eye he keeps books daily on his small business He has a 75 lim itation of movements of both knees hips and ankles and a 100 lim itation of both wrists His spinal injury was due to a fall in his childhood Vocational Rehabilitation fur nished his initial stock of supplies for opening his small business Roy Chisholm 58 right in top panel is taking physical therapy treatments at Augustas Talmadge Hospital for burns he received while tar spreading on a roof Chisholm a roofer by trade was burned over the entire left side of his body when a barrel of hot tar fell on him He is shown here taking a whirlpool treatment to help restore the use of his muscles in his left hand Vocational Rehabilitation is fur nishing the necessary medication and physical therapy for Chisholm who plans to return to the roofing business as soon as he is able Jack Marshall right a bell hop at the New Albany Hotel for 35 years now performs his duties for the hotel as an elevator operator Jack a diabetic lost his right leg below the knee in 1959 due to a severe infection Weighing over 300 pounds Jack was told to lose weight to prevent any difficulty in the use of a prosthesis During his period of training and adjustment to his prosthesis Jack complied with orders and lost over 100 pounds Vocational Rehabilitation pro vided his prosthesis and gait train ing and counseled with him on his future work opportunities When he had completed his training the hotel management rehired him and placed him in his present job as elevator operator Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aquisitions Division University of Georgia Libraries AthensGeorgia Evie Ann Barron shown above is operating her own business as a vending stand operator in the Manhatten Shirt Factory in Amerieus Evie industriallyblind with a 95 loss of vision in the left eye and 80 loss in the right was formerly a Dark Room Technician and medical secretary She has suffered with glaucoma for 15 years an has had three operations for this condition Her stand one of tw identical stands operating in the plant is a modern well equippe area designed to give maximum service at all times 2oaVoi v ttorvAkws William Laird 48 of Augusta top panel has made a slight change in his occupation He work ed as a carpenter until 1951 when a stove blew up and he suffered severe burns on his legs His right leg was burned so badly that it re quired amputation He received prevocational evaluation from Vo cational Rehabilitation and began onthejob training in furniture re pair Now he specializes in antique restoration and refinishing VR also furnished his prosthesis and gait training Tommy Ragin 19 left and Ran dolph Dukes 23 right in middle panel are recent graduates from the South Georgia Technical and Vocational School in Americus and both boys have something in com mon They are interested in auto motive repair Tommy graduated in body fender repair and Ran dolph graduated in Diesel Mechan ics Both are blind in the left eye and both graduated from the Amer icus Trade School on the same day Tommy is working at the Middle Georgia Parts and Repair Co in Dublin and Randolph at the Coast al Mack Sales Co in Savannah Vocational Rehabilitation furn ished tuition for school and the necessary tools and equipment to begin work Fiftythreeyearold Ivey Taylor of Nichols bottom left is shown during a training session in the use of his prosthesis at the Eugene Tal madge Memorial Hospital in Au gusta His right leg was injured in a shotgun accident in May of 1962 and an above the knee amputation was required Taylor who has been a share cropper farmer all his life is mar ried and has four children Vocational Rehabilitation is fur nishing his training and prothesis Ola Avus DeLoach 24 bottom right is a beautician in the La Marick Beauty Salon in the Belk Griffeth Department Store in Sa vannah She has an 85 hearing loss but has no difficulty communi cating with her customers Voca tional Rehabilitation provided speech training at the WorrillDud ley School of Speech and furnished her hearing aid training supplies tuition for her beauty course and her State License Miss DeLoach attended high school at the school for the deaf at Cave SpringRuns Printing Business Running a printing and advertising business is a full time occupation for most able bodied men but for 26year old Walter Leroy Abell a quadriplegic due to an attack of polio its time and a half That is a day and a half of work comes out of each working day Printing and advertising had not been Abells major subjects in college but he was beginning to find an interest in them when the attack came He was a junior at Auburn University and was majoring in Architectural Engineering and was thinking seriously about changing his major and then the decision was made for him In high school in addition to maintain ing excellent grades Abell was an ath lete of above average accomplishments participating in varsity football and bas ketball and was a member of the golf and track teams He was awarded a trophy for having the highest academic marks for a senior varsity football play er received a first place art award from the student council and a full scholarship to a local art school in competition with high school students throughout the area While at college he earned almost all of the cost of his education by working at various jobs He dressed windows and rendered art displays for local retail trade establishments worked as a cloth ing salesperson and picked up student laundry His laundry pickup service soon developed into the mainstay of his in come and at one time had the willing assistance of thirteen fellow students in this thriving enterprise He created and developed many works of art during his college years ranging from a ceramic tile mosaic table to paint ings and drawings rendered in virtually every artistic technique During the sum mer months he worked as a draftsman for a metal building fabrications plant Abell is 6 3 and weighed 118 pounds when the Vocational Rehabilitation coun selor first talked with him He was con fined to a rocking bed and mechanical respirator and had the use of only two fingers on his left hand He had been to the Warm Springs Foundation and the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital and at first could not breathe without a respirator for more than one or two minutes As he began to think more and more about printing and advertising he found that he could transmit his ideas about art to others and thereby create through them his own impressions and thoughts He uses a hand splint which gives him a fairly good pinch with his thumb and forefinger of the left hand enabling him to grasp and pick up lightweight objects Being a righthander he had to work on becoming oriented to using his left hand He soon was able to write by having a pen taped to his fingers At first he wondered whether his new lefthanded writing would resemble his former style and he became interest in graphology Reading up on the subject he found that his personality not having changed would continue to reflect itself in the same manner in his handwriting style This soon became apparent and his hand writing lefthanded is almost un changed He makes many of the layouts and drawings for his artist to follow Abell first became interested in a re minder service that of reminding indi viduals of birthdays anniversaries and MabllttattotvAWs Walter Abell Jr with three members of his staff From 1 to r Mary Ann Norton artist Fred Alexander typesetter d Douglas Flint printer Not shown are John Suhr Art Director and Tom Walton Sales other important dates He sent out ap proximately 500 inquiries on the service and felt that the 50 replies that he re ceived would not be lucrative enough for the effort and amount of work required so he turned to other areas He began a hard selling campaign and started con tacting local and national department stores and businesses all over the coun try Slowly the jobs started coming in and have been coming in ever since Everything from designing and print ing color letterheads and envelopes ship ping labels business cards and many others He began to get orders from na tional concerns and by now his work has become so competitive in the local market that established advertising firms were taking notice as jobs they had bid on were awarded to Abell He had become particularly interested in printing some bridge tally cards with character sketches on them Some sam ples were printed for him by a friend and they were sent to some stores for possible future orders They caught on and orders came in His business has grown to the stage where he now em ploys five persons three on fulltime The quality of Abells work is easily recognized and more and more potential advertisers are becoming aware of him and his material under his trade name Imagination Inc The Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion provided Abell with counseling and guidance and furnished the necessary equipment to start his small but growing businessVol 11 MayJune 1963 No 11 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9245148 Bainbridge 218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 80788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 58701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2827773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 7644841 Rome814 West Building Phone 2846259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Union Recorder Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 BrunswickWay Building Phone AM 56541 The President Speaks JL HE effect of automation on employment of the handicapped was foremost among the topics discussed at the annual conference of the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped held May 910 in the Labor Departmental Auditorium in Washington with Presi dent Kennedy in attendance Topics of discussion also included the problems of workmens com pensation as they relate to the handicapped progress made by govern ment and private industry in employing persons with severe disabilities and the outlook for the mentally handicapped President Kennedy who spoke at the opening session presented the Presidents Trophy to David Hall of Green Bay Wis who has been named the Handicapped American of the Year Hall 27 is supervisor of the Sheltered Workshop of the Curative Workshop of Green Bay He was paralyzed from the neck down as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident in 1955 He has since dedicated his life to working with the handicapped and to promoting highway and traffic safety He was nominated for the honor by the Wisconsin Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped The trophy is a plaque made for the Presidents Committee by students at the Institute for Crippled and Disabled in New York City Dr David Gelfand a cardiologist for the Philadelphia General Hospital since 1952 was named Physician of the Year and cited for his many contributions to employment of the handicapped in his specialty Dr Gelfand was nominated by the Pennsylvania Governors Commit tee on Employment of the Handicapped and the Uptown Philadelphia Committee on Employment of the Handicapped The Presidents Committees Distinguished Service Award was pre sented to David M Amato a native of Atlanta formerly Director of the Vocational Rehabilitation Department for the District of Columbia Amato is a Vocational Rehabilitation Adviser with the Agency for Inter national Developments Mission to Mexico and is stationed in Mexico City He was named for the award on the basis of his outstanding con tribution to vocational rehabilitation programs of the United States Mexico and Latin American nations enabling large numbers of disabled persons to prepare for and accept gainful employment Speakers at the twoday Conference included John W Macy Chair man U S Civil Service Commission Larry LeSueur Political Com mentator U S Information Agency Henry Loeb Mayor of Memphis Tenn Philip Ryan Executive Director National Association for Mental Health Sen Joseph S Clark of Penn Dr Edward Rynearson Mayo Clinic Robert Adair Executive Director Goodwill Industries St Peters burg Fla Mrs Eunice Kennedy Shriver John S Gleason Jr Ad ministrator of Veterans Affairs and Major General Melvin J Mass USMCR Ret Chairman of the Presidents Committee Approximately 3000 community leaders employers members of Gov ernors and community Committees officials of State employment serv ices and Federal and State Rehabilitation agencies and others from every State in the Union were in attendanceEvaluation Center for Deaf Opened The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Division has opened a new Evaluation Center for the deaf at Cave Spring The new two story brick building is an addi tion to the presently existing vocation building and contains 2000 square feet of area to be used for complete diagnostic evaluation in addition to ample offices for staff members The Center staff will consist of Dr A P Jarrell Director Fred L Sparks Jr Administrator and J H Whitworth as CoordinatorEvaluator Staff positions to be filled within the near future will in clude an evaluator audiologist vocational orientation instructor psychologist on a part time basis and a speech clinician In its initial stages the Center will of fer services to adult deaf referred by Vocational Rehabilitation The clients will be in attendance for six to eight weeks and will reside in halfway houses lo cated in and around Cave Spring The Center will also coordinate its services with the school in providing vocational evaluation to high school students 16 years of age or older on a regularly scheduled basis Service of the Center will include work sample tryouts on machinery equip ment tools etc and activities related to trades in which the deaf may hope to find employment Assessment will also be con ducted in areas of intelligence education al level social interaction communica tion skills and physical capacities Upon completion of the evaluation at the Center the adult client will return home The final written report with the Centers staff findings and recommenda tions will be forwarded to the clients lo cal Rehabilitation Counselor The Coun selor will be provided at least one addi tional report prior to this final recom mendation The basic aim of the Center is two fold in that it will offer diagnostic as well as evaluative services to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation for their clients The Center hopes to orient the deaf client vocationally and broaden his knowledge of the world in which he lives and by so doing to assist him in attain ing the best of which he is capable in life Emory Gets Grant Emory University was on the list of 38 institutions to receive grants from the Federal government for providing and improving courses of training and study for teachers of the deaf The amount allocated in 196263 was 21420 The announcement from the Depart ment of Health Education and Welfare said the grants to the institutions were for two purposes 1 to assist them in establishing and improving courses of training for teachers of the deaf and 2 to establish and maintain scholar ships for qualified persons desiring to enroll in such courses of training and study The allocations initiate a 3000000 program authorized by Congress over the next two years to make better teaching available to children handicapped by being hard of hearing Attending the dedication ceremony of the new Evaluation Center are from 1 to r J H Whitworth CoordinatorEvaluator Fred L Sparks Jr Administrator Dr A P Jarrell Director of Vocational Rehabilita tion and Director of the Center Henry Stewart Sr member of the State Board of Education Louis Schubert Regional Representa tive of Vocational Rehabilitation Administration Dr Claud Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Hobert W Aiken Architect and Rev Sam Daley Cave Spring Methodist Church Georgias new evaluation Center for the Deaf Services offered will include work sample tryouts on various equipment and in activities in fields which offer the best opportunities for placement of the deaf Evaluation will also include areas of intelligence educational level social interaction communication skills and physical capacities Herbert L Henry 51 right manages his own used car business and uses his background as an auto mechanic as the basis for buying and selling cars Henry suffering from heart trouble was first helped by Vocational Rehabilitation in the operation of a small community grocery story but his condition re quired several hours of rest each day so it was decided to look for something else A close friend of Mr Henrys knowing his understanding of auto mobiles furnished the necessary capital and through close counsel ing and guidance Vocational Re habilitation secured his license for business He is married and has one child now attending school Mr Henry received his assistance through the joint Aid to Dependent Children and Vocational Rehabilita tion project being conducted with the Fulton County Department of Family and Children ServicesThe Joseph P Kennedy Jr Founda tion has announced its 1963 International Awards Program The Foundation which engages in a program of support of scientific research care and treatment in the area of mental retardation make in ternational awards in three general areas 1 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AWARD To an investigator who has made out standing contributions to our knowledge of mental retardation in the biological and behavioral sciences 2 SERVICE AWARDTo the indi vidual or group developing outstanding programs in the identification care re habilitation or education of the mentally retarded 3 LEADERSHIP AWARDTo a civic leader public official author or any other person whose activities on behalf of the mentally retarded have awakened the public conscience or led to increased individual and community effort Awards will be in amounts of 5000 to 25000 and up to 50000 will be award ed for the furtherance of current or pro posed programs More than one award may be offered in a single area Institutions organizations and indi viduals working in the field of mental retardation are invited to send nomina tions to the Foundation Employers vol unteers or others who have worked to ward greater job opportunities for the mentally retarded would be eligible for consideration Nominations received by August 1st will be considered for the cur rent years Awards and winners will be announced in December Address nominations to International Awards The Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation 1413 K Street N W Suite 306 Washington 5 D C Kenneth J Jackson second from left president of Ken Lee Inc is shown receiving the Bnai Brith Citation for Outstanding Service Mr Jackson accepted the award for his sportswear manufacturing firms record of hiring physically handicapped persons With him 1 to r are Alan Srochi president Atlanta Lodge Dr Irving Gold stein past president Gate City Lodge and Chairman of Metropolitan Atlanta Hire the Handicapped Committee and Irwin Greenbaum president Gate City Lodge Mr Jackson hires handicapped workers whenever possible and has a genuine interest in their welfare telling other potential employers about their efficiency dependability and loyalty He has been instrumental in making placements in other industries Win Contests Two Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors Tommy McCollum of Bain bridge and James Miller of Milledgeville received awards in the 1962 Caseofthe Year competition at the annual Region IV NRA Conference held at Charleston SC April 2124 Mr McCollum was firstplace winner for the Blind Division and received an engraved watch for this accomplishment In the Sighted Division Mr Miller was first runnerup They were both first place winners in the State contests and Joe K Stendridge right 53 a former laborer and tenant farmer is now instrumental in the manage ment of a large poultry and cattle business near Roswell Stendridge suffered a ruptured disk in his back and was not able to return to hard labor Vocational Rehabilitation provided the operations for his back injuries and furnished the neces sary equipment for a poultry proj ect After two years he accepted his present position and is in full time employment He is married and has four children of school age and two who are married He came to Vocational Rehabilitation through the joint ADCVR project Tommy McCollum left in pic ture Counselor for the blind in Georgias Vocational Rehabilitation program receiving his award from NRA President Don Russell Seat ed is Judge J Hewlette Wasson Judge of Probate court for Lau rens County South Carolina will receive their Georgia Rehabilitation Association awards at the Georgia Voca tional Rehabilitation annual Conference in August The Vocational Rehabilitation agencies in this region sponsor two caseofthe Year Contests one for Counselors serv ing sighted clients and the other for Counselors working with blind persons The Counselors submit reports on cases they consider best illustrate rehabilita tion techniques The cases are reviewed by a committee and the judges decisions are based on the completeness of the in formation showing professional compe tence on the part of the Counselor in serving the clientActive In Wheel Chair William A Sims Jr Chairman of the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped has appointed Sidney Clifford Herring of Conyers to coordi nate activities and help create job oppor tunities in that area Herring a quadriplegic due to a polio attack while serving in the navy has played an important role in many activi ties He was Chairman of the Fifth Dis trict Democratic Executive Committee served as Rockdale County Chairman in the Chapel of All Faiths Drive is treasurer and a member of the Vestry of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd past president of the Rockdale County Jaycees and engages in many other civic activities He married the former Kit Freeman of Rockdale county in March of 1956 and they now have four children Herring graduated from Richardson High School now known as College Park High School in College Park in 1943 and received his BBA Degree from Emory University Atlanta in 1949 He has completed two semesters at the Uni versity of Florida toward a Masters De gree in Business Administration While in the navy he served as Avi ation Radioman Seaman First Class from July 1 1943 to May 6 1946 and later served as Personnel Officer of the VF 671 Fighter Squadron at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville Florida with rank of Ensign from February 1 1951 to July 31 1952 He operates a small farm in Rockdale County where he is establishing a com mercial beef cattle operation The Rockdale Citizen newspaper of Conyers in a recent article referred to Sidney Herring as The Little Man in the Chair and it was emphasized that he was still a mighty tall man and a man of motion He has shown by action and example that its ability and not dis ability that counts Their home located on Gees Mill Road outside of Conyers was built and designed so that Sidney could move about in it without difficulty His wheel chair has a small electric motor which operates off the current received from a 12volt battery attached to the underside of the chair He is able to move from room to room by pressing a button on a control box on the left arm of the chair CONTEST APPROVED The Ability Counts writing contest sponsored by the Presidents Committee was approved for the 16th consecutive year by the National Association of Sec ondary School Principals The official list of approved contests will be distrib uted to all secondary schools in the US when schools open in the fall Action was taken in Washington at their annual meeting in May The Catholic Education Association will cooperate as in the past At top Sidney Clifford Herring pushes a wall light socket that was placed so it would be easily accessi ble to him from his wheel chair Light sockets throughout the home have been lowered so that he would have no trouble in reaching them William A Sims 1 in center pic ture Chairman of the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped talks with Herring about the needs in creating job op portunities for handicapped persons in the Conyers area In lower picture Herring shows how halls and doors have been widened so that he can pass through them in his wheel chair The entire home has been planned and built so that he can move about it unassisted Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aijulsitions Division University of Georgia Libraries Athens Georgia ABILITY COUNTS Twentysixyearold Sam Bonner operates a grocery store in Macon and is gradually building a profitable business although he has a 100 percent loss of vision in his right eye and 80 percent loss in the left Sam a reliable hard working young man has some good ideas about operating his store and is beginning to put them into practice Vocational Rehabilitation furnished necessary equipment counseling and training and the initial stock for the store eeooaV0 Mabllitatioiv Mws SEE STORY ON PAGE 5James Ashley of Thomson who is paralyzed from the waist down recently opened an exclusive mens wearing apparel shop in the Thom son Shopping Center called the Stag Shop Shown with James at left is his mother Mrs Olie Ashley James had just passed his final exams at college and was on his way home when he had an automo bile accident He received his de gree while he was still at the hos pital Services received from Voca tional Rehabilitation included phy sical restoration counseling and guidance shelves and other neces sary equipment for the store and his initial shoe stock Mrs Muriel Roberson left mother of a 7 year old son and Miss Mildred Payne right are stu dents training as medical transcrip tion secretaries in the medical rec ords section of the Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany al though both are blind Miss Payne lives with Jean Kea a former student and now an em ployee at the hospital Vocational Rehabilitation is pro viding tuition and training at Phoe be Memorial Hospital and neces sary supplies At the Orientation and Adjustment Center for the Blind in Macon Leon Watson instructs student Vinson Brogdan in a woodworking class The Orientation and Adjustment Center is conducted at the Georgia Academy for the Blind during the summer months for blind adults who need instruction in self care unaided travel the fundamentals of homemaking nursery and green house training and the use of hand tools Blant Addison who is industrial ly blind and a former vending stand operator at the Toccoa Furniture factory is now a full time employee at the factory working in the pack aging division Addison folds corru gated cardboard corners for rein forcement for the furniture boxesRehabilitations Reach Record High The Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion held its Annual Staff Training Con ference at the General Oglethorpe Hotel August 710 with over 300 staff mem bers guests and representatives of other professional and related agencies in at tendance Dr A P Jarrell State Director in his opening remarks to the conference said the Georgia Rehabilitation Agency had completed another record year of services to disabled citizens of the state The agency provided services for 14715 disabled persons 6503 were satisfacto rily employed during the fiscal year representing a gain of 498 over the num ber rehabilitated in 196263 a record 7870 new plans were written and 10495 applications were awaiting investigation as of June 30 1963 Continuing Dr Jarrell mentioned the record established by some units of the Agency such as the unit for the blind rehabilitated 342 individuals the business enterprise program opened eleven new vending stands bringing the total to 87 now in operation and giving 120 blind persons fulltime employment with an average income of 330000 per year the unit for the emotionally ill provided serv ices to 585 and 435 were rehabilitated the unit for the mentally retarded pro vided services to 1288 and rehabilitated 103 the OASI disability determination unit received 15275 applications of which 8389 were allowed with payments aver aging approximately 8000 a month add ding slightly more than 8000000 a year to the states economy The Georgia School for the Deaf had an enrollment of 463 with capital im provements as follows construction of an evaluation center at a cost of approxi mately 100000 for adults out of school and students above sixteen in school and construction of four cottage type domi tories at a cost of 400000 to house 144 boys from the fifth grade through the twelfth The Georgia Academy for the Blind had an enrollment for the past year of 215 with capital improvements including a recreational building for the girls at the negro school a shed for housing equipment trucks tractors painting and renovation on a number of buildings and development of park and lights for the campus Dr Jarrell stated that many forward steps were taken during the year to ex pand facilities for the disabled citizens of the state These include the comple tion of approximately two thirds of the construction of the Comprehensive Re habilitation Center at Warm Springs for the seriously disabled It is to be finish ed the latter part of this year and will be opened during the month of January 1964 The cost of this center will be ap proximately two million dollars and will require an initial staff of 60 employees The Comprehensive Center for the Mentally 111 at Milledgeville was com pleted with September set for the open ing The cost of the facility will be near three million dollars and will be operated jointly by the State Health Department and the Division of Vocational Rehabili tation with the latter agency having a staff of thirty to forty The Comprehensive Center at Grace wood costing about one million dollars is scheduled to open in September with a staff of 16 It will be operated jointly by the Vocational Rehabilitation agency and the State Health Department The Evaluation and Prevocationai Training Center for the Mentally Retard ed in Atlanta costing close to 350000 for James Miller of Milledgeville re ceives his award from Nathan No lan top picture at right as first placewinner in the state 1962 CaseoftheYear competition for sighted clients Bottom picture shows Tommy McCollum of Bain bridge receiving first place in the CaseoftheYear contest for blind clients Mr McCollum also was first place winner in the Region IV competition The awards were made at the banquet program during the annual staff training conference in Savan nah Banquet speaker D G Phillips and State Rehabilitation Director Dr A P Jarrell discuss program building and equipment is designed to provide evaluation services to 650 mental ly retarded individuals a year Joseph Hunt Assistant Commissioner of the U S Vocational Rehabilitation Administration speaking on the subject Rehabilitation Looks at Itself said that due to the vision and pioneering foresight of Georgia Directors Paul Barrett and Dr A P Jarrell and the support of the Board of Education the Governor of Georgia and the General Assembly the Georgia rehabilitation program has been the leader in the country since its origin He said a big reason for Georgias leader ship in rehabilitation has been its recog nition that many public and voluntary agencies must cooperate to have an ef fective program Dr Claude Purcell State Superinten dent of Education speaking on the voca tional education program in Europe said European students learn their specific skills in onthejob training rather than in the classrooms as do Americans and that they attend class only one day a week after age 15 Jack Nix Director of the Division of Vocational Education said Regardless of the raw materials a state or nation may have if the development of human resources is neglected it will be most dif ficult to sustain the society itself The vocational educational goal is that of pro viding educational opportunities for each individual to develop his potentialities to their fullest capacities for useful employ ment and for personal happiness No longer is it going to be possible for every boy and girl to become an efficient pro ducer and successful citizen without de veloping a salable skill and the knowl edge that it is necessary to obtain em ployment and successfully pursue their chosen occupations We as Americans have largely intrusted the future of this nation to the public schools of today We profess universal education What is Continued on Page 5tKo OovcO0ooceCoto Mabilitation Vcws Vol 11 JulyAugust 1963 No 12 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools DR A P Jarrell Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany 416 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9245148 Bainbridge 218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville 223 S Crawford St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta 805 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 80788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone TR 68701 165 Central Ave SW MU 86625 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens 110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 83865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2827773 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 7544841 Rome314 West Building Phone 2846259 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone SH 27321 Columbus 305 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin 105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah 35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 209 First Federal Savings and Loan Bldg Phone AM 66641 Honorable Carl E Sanders Governor of Georgia Atlanta Georgia I take great pleasure in congratulating you and the people of Georgia on the performance of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation during the year that ended June 30 1963 This Agency during the past year surpassed all previous records for the State in the number of disabled men and women rehabilitated to productive and satisfying life The number rehabilitated was an alltime high of 6503 against the previous years total of 6105 itself a new high up to that point in time This ranks Georgia fourth among the states in total rehabilitations behind Pennsyl vania New York and North Carolina each of which has a larger population than Georgia In the number of rehabilitations per capita Georgia ranked second with 159 per 100000 of population against a national average of 58 West Virginia ranked first with 212 This is a record of which you can be immensely proud Georgia has always been in the forefront of the Vocational Rehabilitation movement and the social and economic gains accruing to your people and your state far outweigh the cost of the services provided them The consistent performance of the agency of course has been greatly strengthened by a wellplanned attack on disability of all types Georgias program is as wellbalanced as that of any State since not only those with visible disabilities that have pre vented them from earning a living have been served well but also those with such severe disabilities as mental illness mental re tardation blindness and deafness Your physical plant and the value of services to your people has been greatly enhanced by the wise management and planning of the State Director of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division Dr Albert Polk Jarrell and his extremely able and effective staff who are distributed over the State in positions where they can be of the greatest service A further enhancement will materialize upon completion of the Rehabilitation Center at Warm Springs another vision that Dr Jarrell is bringing into actuality Your strong support and that of the legislature have enabled Georgia to continue to move forward and those of us who bear national responsibility for betterment of conditions for the disabled are most grateful to you and the enlightened lawmakers of Georgia I send my highest commendation Miss Mary E Switzer Commissioner of Vocational RehabilitationThey Lead Similar Lives For Helen Rose left on front cover and Peggy Jean Thompson right all of the important events in their lives were similar in nature and occurred within a month of each other with one exception Helen was born a month and four days after Peggy Helen was born in Richmond Va June 20 1942 and moved to Fairburn when she was 5 months old living only about two miles from Peggy who was born in Union City May 17 1942 They went to different elementary schools so they never had an opportunity to know each other during their early schooling Then things began to happen Helen contracted polio June 7 1952 and Peggy on July 3 1952 They were both in Grady Hospital at the same time but still had riot met Helen went to Warm Springs and Peggy followed in two weeks and they finally met as room mates They were surprised to find they had been living just two miles from each other and were meeting for the first time Both attended Campbell High School with Helen going a half day during the tenth grade and a full day her final two years Peggy kept up with her school work at home and attended classes a half day during her senior year graduating at the same time with Helen They attended the North Georgia Vo cationalTechnical School together tak ing the business education course Peggy specialized in business and office manage ment and Helen in secretarial training They graduated within a month of each other Helen went to work at the South Fulton Hospital May 8 1963 and Peggy at TriCounty Concrete Company in Fair burn May 13 1963 Helen works as a surgical secretary taking dictation from the surgeons at the hospital and Peggy as a one woman office manager answer ing the phone operating the adding ma chine calculator and typing In her spare time Peggy enjoys read ing She prefers mysteries but as she puts it Ill read most anything She goes to work in a taxi and her father usually picks her up after work Helen likes to listen to music in her spare time especially classical music and enjoys reading about art A few weeks ago Helen got her drivers license and now drives to and from work and goes anywhere she pleases Over the Labor day weekend she drove with her mother to South Bend Indiana a round trip of over 800 miles and shared in the driving Her car is equipped with special hand controls She is able to get in and out of her car without help Her wheel ekabLlitatiov Mws Hi sumy ON PACE 5 chair weighs only half as much as a standard one and she has no trouble in placing it between the seats Peggy says that Helen is a good driver and she enjoys riding with her Its about time we stopped doing the same things within a month of each oth er said Helen unless of course we plan it that way Continued From Page 3 taking place in these schools will deter mine the character of our people and the character and future of our nation Harold Parker director of the Division of Social Administration of the Depart ment of Family and Children Services said We have a new advisory State Board of Family and Children Services with a member from each Congressional district These civic leaders lend localized moral and social support throughout Georgia to our intensified positive public welfare program Because of better com munity acceptance and more local re sources as well as more cases with de fined problems some county welfare staffs will expand more quickly to a broader scope and fuller range of serv ices In the important job of intake we will identify and study the potential for improved individual and family function ing We will reduce or eliminate de pendency for new applicants at the earli est possible opportunity To do this we will bring to bear the full resources of the Department and the community through meaningful referral services Mrs Louise Stewart Executive Direc tor Georgia Association for Retarded Children Atlanta said It has been said that rehabilitation of the mentally retarded must begin at the earliest pos sible stage of the individuals chronologi cal development If we consider the needs in accordance with the chronological age we would of course think first of the infant The greatest need here may be in supportive guidance and counseling to the parents In the case of the more severely re tarded the physical needs may take pre cedence over other needs As the division of vocational rehabilitation becomes more involved in serving the mentally retard ed the counselors will be looked upon as persons of knowledge in this field and they should give their professional sup port and advice to these parents As the child grows older he may be in need of a selfcare program which will enable him to become less dependent and a more useful person to himself his family and the community Mrs Doris Sausser Regional Repre sentative Division of Community Serv ices American Foundation for the Blind New York said The needs of people who are blind are basically the same as those of their sighted peers For example in planning for the education of the blind child the same standards and education principles as those for sighted children are used Lack of mobility is one of the most serious detriments to securing and holding a job but this has been an area in which the residential school has not pro vided much help for the students in the past and public schools provided almost none Through special short term courses sponsored jointly by AAIB and VRA teachers are being trained in premobility and orientation techniques and there is now a trend to provide this basic training in the public schools Seemingly how ever the residential schools are still lag ging behind in providing quality mobility training Many people believe these skills should be mastered by the time of en trance to the Senior High School and cer tainly before referral to a vocational counselor since they are basic require ments for job placement Fifty years ago it was taken for granted that the only jobs for the blind were piano tuning chaircaning broom making or begging Practically every residential school taught the first three Now the trend is to train and place blind persons in all types of work for which the individual has aptitude Jobs for the blind are disappearing Dr Cecil Myers Pastor Grace Meth odist Church Atlanta gave the inspira tional address to the conference and D G Phillips Director of Admissions at Erskine College South Carolina was ban quet speaker PLAN JOINT PROGRAM The Vocational Rehabilitation and the Georgia State Employment Service staff members in Atlanta recently held the sixth of a series of joint meetings to co ordinate agency services in restoring handicapped persons to gainful employ ment The conference was held in the Com munity Room of the Bank of Georgia Building at Pershing Point with Ed Sha bek Mgr Atlanta Industrial Office of the Georgia State Employment Service presiding Attending the conference were some 50 members of the two departments from the Atlanta area Similar meetings have been held in Macon Albany Athens Sa vannah Rome and have proved success ful in opening up new areas of under standing between the agencies Addressing the group were Giles G Batchelor Assistant Director GSES F E Wynn District Supervisor for the Di vision of Vocational Rehabilitation John S Prickett Assistant Director of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Rogers Hutchinson Supervisor of Special Services The group discussed actual cases and suggestions for improving the systems were madeThe President Attending a recent award presentation from The Presidents Com mittee on the Employment of the Handicapped are 1 to r Fred B Woodward Manager GSES Cedartown G T Greene Vocation Re habilitation counselor Mrs Margaret T Montgomery award recipient William A Sims Jr Chairman Governors Committee on Employ the Handicapped and Rogers Hutchinson Supervisor of Special Services Department of Labor Atlanta Cited for Service The Presidents Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped has awarded Citations for Meritorious Service to Mrs Margaret Thomason Montgomery super visor and instructor at Unique Corpora tion of America in Cedartown and Dr Otis H Stephens Jr Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia Southern College Statesboro in recognition of their outstanding example and inspira tion to handicapped persons Mrs Montgomery shown above re ceiving her citation from William A Sims Jr Chairman of the Governors Committee on the Employment of the Handicapped is afflicted with rheuma toid arthritis She was instrumental in helping to charter organize and super vise the Unique Corporation of America a sheltered workshop and a nonprofit organization for the purpose of providing employment for the handicapped She is now serving as a member of the Board of Trustees and Secretary of the Unique Corporation Her contributions have also been in many other fields such as the PTA the DeMolay WSCS and circle meetings of the Methodist Church She has been Polk County Home Furnishings Chairman of the Home Demonstration Club for the past two years and has just been made president of the DeMolay Mothers Club Mrs Montgomery graduated from Hamil ton High School Hamilton Georgia is married and has one son Dr Stephens at right received his award at a meeting of the Statesboro Ki wanis Club from Rogers Hutchinson Supervisor of Special Services Georgia Department of Labor of the Atlanta office Blind since birth Dr Stephens has demonstrated that a vocational handicap need not be a vocational barrier by achieving a life long goal that of be coming a college professor Dr Stephens graduated from the Geor gia Academy for the Blind and was aided in his college training through Vocational Rehabilitation Services He received his PhD Degree from Johns Hopkins Uni versity Baltimore Maryland In 1957 he Dr Otis H Stephens Jr associ ate professor of political science at Georgia Southern College graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia with an AB Degree While attending the University of Georgia he was elected a member of the national honor societies of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi He served as president of Phi Sigma Alpha a national political science fraternity He played the piano for the Georgia Bulldog Orch estra and participated in such sports as swimming and bowling He has gained recognition as a public speaker and fre quently addresses civic groups Through his determined efforts many honors have been extended to him In the summer of 1961 he received a Pub lic Affairs Grant through the Ford Foundation a special Fellowship through the Department of Political Science of Johns Hopkins University 196162 and a general scholarship through the Amer ican Foundation of the Blind 1961 In May of 1962 he received the Aca demic Achievement Award from Record President John F Kennedy speaking at the annual meeting of the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handi capped in Washington said one of the most impressive things that I have seen as I have traveled across the country is employers who have gone to great pains to bring into their establishments dis abled men and women who are then able to make a living not because of the sup port of others but by their own efforts which have contributed to their rehabili tation This is the kind of work which comes not from the top down but from the in side out We are hiring today at the White House a young man who is handi capped to work on the grounds at the White House and I am hopeful that peo ple all across the country in the next year will make a special effort to bring into their lives in one way or another by assisting by hiring by working with men and women who are handicapped either physically handicapped or mentally handicapped This is an area in which in recent months and years we have made a particular effort We are making a particular effort in the national Govern ment this year to bring up to date and really move ahead in the whole treat ment of those who are mentally retarded and mentally disabled as well as our ef forts among those who are physically disabled So this effort which we are all making in the Government in the cities in the States in the employees in the unions this great cooperative effort to make a part of our community a part of our country a part of our lives for those who have been less fortunate is deserving of the best you have I want to congratulate all of you who are doing something about it not merely talking about it All the problems that this country has could be solved in a whole variety of ways if all of our citi zens would just pick one project and give their time to it whether it is help ing those who are mentally or physically retarded whether it is entertaining for eign students whether it is holding out a hand to one group or another This can be done much better by our citizens than by the national Government I want to express my commendation to one group of our society here today who are doing something about it and who deserve the appreciation not of the country because they deserve that but I think that most of all they get the satisfaction themselves of recognizing that the obligations of citizenship pride in their country makes them want to look out beyond their own lives ings for the Blind Inc as one of the top three students in the nation Mrs Lyndon B Johnson wife of the Vice President presented this award to Dr Stephens at the White House He also received a personal gift from Mrs John F Kennedy the First Lady Dr Stephens was born at East Point and his father is serving as Mayor of that city He is married to the former Miss Linda Duren who is also a native of East PointThe Vocational Rehabilitation Agency is directing special efforts toward the rehabilitation and placement of mentally ill and emotionally disturbed persons The Georgia Junior Chamber of Com merce which works closely with the Agency in the employment program for emotionally restored persons has cited Airways Service Inc as Employer of the Year for outstanding services ren dered in the employment of emotionally restored persons Dr Ronald E Goldstein Chairman of the Jaycee State Mental Health Com mittee commented that Airways Service had employed more emotionally restored persons than any other business estab lishment in Georgia The personnel man agement policies of this company are conducive to high production regular attendance and good job adjustment of these employees He further stated that the employees are aware of what is ex pected of them and are treated like any other employee The Jaycee Mental Health Committee and the Division of Vocational Rehabili tation work cooperatively in this pro gram Each applicant is carefully screen ed and provided extensive medical and vocational evaluation by specialists to determine what employment is most ap propriate Industries throughout the state are learning that these people when selectively placed become success ful employees More than 200 persons throughout the state have been placed since the Jaycee effort with Vocational Rehabilitation be gan in 1961 As new evaluation facilities are opened and professional staff in crease the number of restored persons to reenter employment in Georgia is ex pected to attain a rate of 800 employees per year PROJECT AT ALTO Governor Carl Sanders at a recent press conference announced the Vocation al Rehabilitation Division and the State Department of Corrections Fred Hall ford Director will cooperate in establish ing and staffing a new facility at the Georgia Industrial Institute at Alto Included will be a PreVocational Eval uation Building and a QuarterWay House to be built at an estimated cost of 446497 These funds will come from Vocational Rehabilitation in the amount of 312548 and from the Board of Cor rections in the amount of 133949 There are also plans for a Vocational Building at an estimated cost of 221760 of State funds The project will begin on October first and will be staffed by a coordinator of rehabilitation services evaluators coun selors and medical psychiatric and psy chological consultants Additional per sonnel will be assigned in January and again in July of next year Governor Sanders said the need for the program was pointed out by Warden Joseph Ragen and through specific vo Governor Carl Sanders presents to C H Flynn manager of Airways Service Inc an appropriately inscribed plaque for his personal efforts and understanding leadership in hiring emotionally restored persons From left to right William A Sims Jr Chairman of the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped Dr A P Jarrell Director of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Elbert Forester Assistant Director Georgia Department of Labor Employment Security Agency C H Flynn Dr Ronald E Goldstein and Governor Carl Sanders cational rehabilitationsponsored surveys Warden Ragen stated that vocational re habilitation services should be provided at the Georgia Industrial Institute at Alto if many of the inmates there are to be prepared for useful purposes in society The surveys were conducted by teams composed of psychologists soci ologists psychiatrists criminologists and vocational rehabilitation specialists and showed that approximately 70 per cent of the 900 inmates at Alto would be eligible for vocational rehabilitation serv ices because of physical limitations or mental disabilities As a result of these surveys a cooper ative and comprehensive program has been drawn up consisting of medical diagnosis psychological and vocational evaluation prevocational evaluation physical restoration prevocational training vocational training social eval uation counseling guidance and job placement The new program will begin its operation in October HUIET CITED Georgia Commissioner of Labor Ben T Huiet has been cited by the American Veterans of World War II AMVETS for his outstanding efforts in the field of reemployment and rehabilitation of former prison inmates His humanitarian and practical ap proach to the need for aggressive actions to help former inmates has been ex ceptionally noteworthy because of its value to the individual and to our State according to State Commander John E Brown The award was made to Commissioner Huiet at the recent AMVETS State Con vention held in Atlanta John F Warren ONE ARM MECHANIC Fortyeightyearold John F Warren above is a first class truck mechanic service station attendant and automo tive repairman even though he only has one arm Mr Warren was working in a textile mill on December 16 1955 when his left arm was caught in the belt of one of the machines necessitating amputation below the elbow Throughout his life Mr Warrens fa vorite pastime has been working on mo tors and rebuilding them He spent all of his spare time doing just that In my younger days he said I use to enjoy building hot rods for the boys This background was instrumental in Vocational Rehabilitations placement of Mr Warren Services provided by the Division included a prosthesis set of mechanics tools counseling and guid ance and placementDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Aquiaitlono Division University of Georgia Libraries Atheri3 Georgia ABILITY COUNTS James Edward Isham left behind counter a diabetic who is commercially blind and has a hearing deficiency operates a vending stand in the new Clayton County Courthouse The stand has a steady stream of customers and is especially busy when court recesses Mr Isham s helper at right behind counter is his wife who is on the go all the time serving drinks packaged and hot foods and other small items Vocational Rehabilitation Services furnished Mr Isham included medical services training m vending stand operation equipment initial inventory installation and stand supplies iMtel IfffflHfff Ir f