The Georgia vocational rehabilitation news [vol. 14-15 (1965-67)]

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VR Clients at North
Georgia Technical
Priscilla Edmondson top panel
22 of Monroe enrolled in the prac
tical nursing training course at the
North Georgia Technical and Voca
tional School is shown taking the
blood pressure from acting patient
Hazel Thomas
Priscilla a diabetic since she was
15 months old leads a normal ac
tive life and controls her diabetes
with proper medication
Referred to vocational rehabilita
tion by her high school counselor
Priscilla applied for VR services
and the local VR Counselor con
tacted her and found that she was
eligible VR is furnishing room and
board maintenance books and
uniforms
Dwight Isenhower left in second
panel 19 from Crandall who has
a congenital speech deficiency was
referred to Vocational Rehabilita
tion by his high school counselor
Dwight is enrolled in the masonry
course and VR is furnishing room
and board and maintenance
Born with a congenital hearing
deficiency George W Leavell of
Chickamauga right 2nd panel is
enrolled in a small engine repair
course at the North Georgia Trade
School
Vocational Rehabilitation is fur
nishing him room and board main
tenance and batteries for his hear
ing aid
Dale Clark of Atlanta left in
3rd panel who suffered an attack
of polio when he was three years
old is studying courses in frontend
alignment and balancing brakes
and engine tuneup at the North
Georgia Technical and Vocational
School
Referred to vocational rehabilita
tion by his high school counselor
Dale is receiving room and board
from vocational rehabilitation
John Strozier 21 right in 3rd
panel from College Park is taking
the general photography course at
the North Georgia Technical and
Vocational School
Born with cerebral palsy John
also contracted polio when he was
seven and his drive and determina
tion have enabled him to get up
and around by himself
Referred to vocational rehabilita
tion by his school counselor John
is receiving room and board and
necessary supplies from vocational
rehabilitation
Michael T Chrystal of Gaines
ville who suffers from a lymph
gland problem in his legs contacted
the local Vocational Rehabilitation
Office to see if he was eligible for
VR services
Economically ineligible Chrystal
received counseling and guidance
from the local office and a plan was
laid out for him to attend the body
and painting course at the North
Georgia Technical and Vocational
SchoolGRC DEDICATION ANNOUNCED
The dedication of the Georgia Rehabili
tation Center at Warm Springs has been
set for Monday November 22 1965 at
330 pm
Governor Carl Sanders will deliver the
dedicatory address and James S Peters
Chairman State Board of Education will
preside at the ceremony
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Su
perintendent of Schools in Charge of Vo
cational Rehabilitation Services stated
that the work being done at this modern
new facility has greatly increased the
services available to the seriously dis
abled of our state and is opening the door
to job opportunities for those heretofore
who have had no employment possibility
A tour of the facility will be available for
all who wish to view this modern com
prehensive rehabilitation center before
the dedication ceremony
Nathan Nolan Director of the Center
has extended an invitation to all Geor
gians who are interested in the services
being afforded to the seriously disabled
of our state to attend the ceremony and
learn at first hand the advances being
made in the rehabilitation of the serious
ly impaired
Pictured above are the complex of buildings that comprise the com
prehensive Georgia Rehabilitation Center
The building at extreme left serves as the recreational cafeteria
and 133bed dormitory area the center building houses the vocational
training area where evaluation aptitude testing work experience and
training are conducted and at extreme right the administration
building
The Governors Committee on Employ
ment of the Handicapped conducted one
of the most successful NEH Weeks in the
history of the program in Georgia
Pictured above from left to right
during the signing of the proclamation by
Governor Sanders declaring October 39
as National Employ the Handicapped
Week are William A Sims Jr Chair
man Governors Committee on Employ
ment of the Handicapped J K Strain
Director Georgia State Employment
Service Rogers Hutchinson Supervisor
Special Services Employment Security
Agency Department of Labor H E
Van Orden Executive Secretary Gov
ernors Committee on Employment of the
Handicapped and seated Governor Carl
Sanders
Governor Sanders stated The Georgia
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and
the Georgia Department of Labor work
cooperatively in rehabilitating and plac
ing qualified handicapped workers in a
variety of trades throughout the state
This past fiscal year the Vocational Re
habilitation Agency under the leadership
of Dr A P Jarrell rehabilitated 7221
back to remunerative employment This
was an alltime high and ranked the
Georgia Agency 4th in the nation in the
total number of rehabilitations
Shown at a recent meeting of the Georgia Cooperative Services for
the Blind Inc are from left to right Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State
Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation
Services Gene Patterson Editor Atlanta Constitution Mr Sartain
Lanier of Oxford Manufacturing Company Inc Norman Elses Presi
dent Nemo Industries and President Board of Directors Georgia Co
operative Services for the Blind George Craft President Trust Com
pany of Georgia Glenn Boggs Consultant Georgia Cooperative
Services for the Blind W B Gaines Supervisor Program for the
Blind and J C Camp Assistant Supervisor Business Enterprises
Business Enterprises Program Advances
The Business Enterprises Program
continues to make a significant contribu
tion in the rehabilitation of blind persons
who are capable of operating vending
stands in public and private buildings
hospitals and other facilities
Vocational Rehabilitation in coopera
tion with the Georgia Cooperative Serv
ices for the Blind Inc a nonprofit or
ganization is presently supervising the
operation of 104 stands employing over
140 blind individualsJJBrtnSpJErNrage
salary earned by ySjflg MliAMftr3
for the year 196Afvas 4117 arM
total gross salef for the year amount
to 2185024
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EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR
Vol 14 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
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services
State Office Annex
ALBANY DISTRICT
Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg
4360347
Americus104 E Forsyth
Phone 9245148
Bainbridge218 S West St
Phone CH 64274
Thomasville518 N Broad St
Phone CA 62587
Valdosta305 University Dr
Phone CH 26820
Waycross706 Jane St
Phone AT 30788
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW
Phone 8759941
165 Central Ave SW
MU 80525
Newnan44 Jefferson St
Phone AL 32408
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT
Gainesville311 Green St
LEnox 61311
Athens110 Hancock Avenue
Liberty 33865
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 2349481
ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia
Trade and Technical School
Phone 7542922
Rome314 West Building
Phone 2346259
MACON DISTRICT
Macon707 Pine St Suite 1
Phone SH 27321
Columbus305 Fifteenth St
Phone FAirfax 26755
Dublin105 N Franklin St
Phone BR 22230
Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking
Co Bldg
Phone GL 28691
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah35 Abercorn Street
Phone AD 46666
Augusta828 15th St
Phone 7240381
Brunswick 209 First Federal Savings
and Loan Bldg
Phone AM 56541
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State
Superintendent of Schools in
Charge of Vocational Rehabilita
tion Services was named as the
GEX 1965 State Employee of the
Year by the Government Em
ployee Exchange Advisory Council
Awards were given to the oustand
ing Federal State City and Coun
ty Employees who were selected
through the following four main
criteria Significant contribution
to parent service Significant con
tribution to unit in which em
ployed Significant contribution to
the community and personal quali
fications such as industry re
sourcefulness initiative loyalty
and attitude
Dr Jarrell was selected from en
tries submitted from all Depart
ments of State Government
Marion T Nunn Buildings Man
ager General Service Administra
tion Atlanta received a citation
from the Presidents Committee on
Employment of the Handicapped
for Meritorious Service in Appre
ciation for Exceptional Contribu
tions for Furthering Employment
of the Handicapped
William A Sims Jr Chairman
Governors Committee on Employ
ment of the Handicapped made the
presentation in behalf of the Presi
dents Committee Chairman Sims
stated that Mr Nunn had made
every effort possible to see that
the Federal buildings were easily
accessible to handicapped people
and that service areas and rest
areas within the buildings were
designed for easy use by those with
handicaps
From left to right above Dr
Allen C Smith Associate State Su
perintendent of Schools Adminis
trative Services making the pres
entation in behalf of the Depart
ment of Education to Dr A P
Jarrell
Seated at extreme right is Joe
Lerner Jr Assistant Manager At
lanta GEX
Marion T Nunn shown receiving
citation from William A Sims Jr
Scott Allen is shown receiving
congratulations from Dr Jarrell
during the final delegate assembly
as Dr Jarrell turns over the NRA
Presidency
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Su
perintendent of Schools in Charge of
Vocational Rehabilitation Services pre
sided over the 1965 Annual NRA Confer
ence held at the Schroeder Hotel Mil
waukee Wisconsin September 29Octo
ber 1 and turned the presidency of the
national organization over to Scott Allen
during the last delegate assembly In his
address on the opening day of the confer
ence Dr Jarrell spoke on the theme
The Courage to Change and challenged
the NRA members to have this courage
and to better lead the movement of re
habilitation
During the last day of the conference
word was received that the 1965 voca
Continued on page 6
Scenes during the 1965 Annual Na
tional Rehabilitation Association Meeting
in Milwaukee
Top panel left shown at the Georgia
exhibit featuring the Georgia Rehabilita
tion Center at Warm Springs are from
left to right Harold Harpe Rehab Spe
cialistPsychiatric Cases Bill Tomlin
Counselor Georgia Rehabilitation Center
Second panel left from left to right
Adrian Towne Director of Rehabilitation
Services in Wisconsin is shown receiving
a deskpen set for the leadership in the
1965 membership campaign from Dr A
P Jarrell
Second panel right from left to right
Dr Lillian Moller Gilbreth is shown re
ceiving the NRA Presidents Award from
Dr Jarrell
Third panel shown during one of the
sessions of the delegate assemblies are
from left to rightE B Whitten Execu
tive Director NRA C Esco Obermann
author of History of Vocational Re
habilitation and Dr A P Jarrell Pres
ident of NRA
Bottom panel left shown receiving his
award for outstanding counselor of the
year from Williams Elkins is John Pan
za Counselor West Virginia Others in
picture seated from left to right are
Mary Sweitzer commissoner VRA Dr
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Bottom panel right Dr Jarrell re
ceives a 3 piece luggage set from Scott
Allen to replace the set he wore out
during the year
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Jarrell Signs Agreement With EOA
The Georgia Division of Vocational Re
habilitation signed an agreement on Oc
tober 4 1965 with the AtlantaFulton
County Economic Opportunity Authority
to establish and operate the Atlanta Em
ployment Evaluation and Service Center
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Su
perintendent of Schools in Charge of Vo
cational Rehabilitation Services signed
the contractual agreement for the re
habilitation agency and C O Emmerich
Administrator Economic Opportunity
Atlanta Inc signed for EOA Dr Jar
rell stated that the Center is designed
to provide a comprehensive and system
atic method of determining the training
work potential capacity attitude apti
tude and other motivating factors as well
as social and related financial needs of
the unemployed underemployed and eco
nomically needy youths and adults be
tween the ages 16 and 65
The main objective of the program is
to place the client in a job or in training
or subsequent job placement as deemed
appropriate with complete and system
atic followup of the client throughout
the entire placement process continuing
for a minimum period of six months as
employment is secured This will be ac
complished by the establishment of a
multidisciplined service program with
adequate facilities whereby the functions
of work evaluation accompanied by medi
cal andor psychological examinations
casework service vocational counseling
job training and job placement and sub
sequent employment can be so coordi
nated as to result in such persons earn
ing wages which will remove them from
the poverty group in the Atlanta metro
politan area
The Georgia Rehabilitation Agency will
develop the programs and methods nec
essary for the evaluation and followup
process establish specialized systematic
evaluation for those individuals whose
work potentials are difficult to determine
by use of normal routine methods co
ordinate the various services provided by
the Center with training and job place
ment programs that are available from
other agencies eliminate duplications of
services that may already be in operation
allow other agency potential or present
employees of the Center and staff of
other governmental and voluntary organ
izations opportunities to observe the pro
grams being conducted in the Center in
order to better prepare them for partici
pation in other similar work programs
providing a basic maintenance grant dur
ing evaluation phase of the project of
persons accepted provided they are not
eligible for similar financial assistance
under programs administered by other
organizations with whom working agree
ments will be entered into participation
in a systematic program for which the
Georgia State Employment Service ac
cepts responsibility to organize and to
make surveys of job opportunities in dif
ference trades or professions cooperate
in research and program evaluation ac
tivities establish a program within the
organizational structure of the Center to
determine what other appropriate train
ing work experience and job placement
programs should be established provide
opportunities for those who are deemed
especially poor that participate in the
operations of the Center and demonstrate
Above from left to right during the signing of the contract between
Fulton County Economic Opportunity Authority and the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation are Charles O Emmerich Administrator
EOA Dr Paul West Superintendent Fulton County Schools Dr A
P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of
Vocational Rehabilitation Services and Dan Sweat Associate Director
EOA
Pictured above is the site of the Atlanta Employment Evaluation and
Service Center at 1599 Memorial Drive S E Atlanta
S Cantey Gordon Jr has been ap
pointed Director of the Atlanta Employ
ment Evaluation and Service Center
Mr Gordon a native of Kingstree
South Carolina is a graduate of the
School of Business Administration from
The Citadel Charleston South Carolina
He is also a graduate of the School of
Public Health University of Pittsburgh
in hospital administration and completed
his administrative residency in Green
ville General Hospital in Greenville
South Carolina He has been superin
tendent or administrator of various hos
pitals in the South Carolina area and
prior to coming to Georgia was hospital
administrator for Whitten Village Clin
ton South Carolina
His activities include participation in
church and civic activities and being a
member of many local state and na
tional organizations closely related to
his work
S Cantey Gordon Jr
the feasibility of establishing similar
evaluation Centers as components parts
of community action programs in other
areas of the United States1966 Ability Counts Contest
The Presidents Committee and the
Georgia Governors Committee on Em
ployment of the Handicapped have an
nounced the theme of the 1966 Ability
Counts Contest Governors Committee
Chairman William A Sims Jr stated
that the participation is open to any
Junior or Senior high school student in
a public private or parochial high school
and includes those students at an equiva
lent educational level in public or private
institutions such as handicapped students
taking separate training or courses
Parchment Awards signed for the
President will be given to the first five
winners in Georgia in addition to cash
prizes First place winner in Georgia will
receive 100 Second place 50 Third
place 25 Fourth place 15 Fifth
place 10 and national winners will re
ceive 1000 first place 600 second
place 500 third place 400 fourth
place 300 fifth place The Georgia win
ner will also receive an expensepaid trip
to Washington for the annual meeting of
the Presidents Committee plus 100 for
personal expenses in addition to the first
place cash award
A special award will be presented to
the teacher of the firstplace winner in
recognition of her contribution and lead
ership in the efforts of the Annual Re
port Contest Reports should be mailed
to H E Van Orden Secretary Gover
nors Committee on Employment of the
Handicapped 129 State Office Building
Atlanta Georgia30334 so as to arrive
no later than March 1 1966
Reports should not exceed 750 words
and should be typed doublespace on
82 x 11 white paper with the students
full name age home address school ad
dress and teachers signature on a cover
sheet stapled to the report The report
must be original in all respects and re
flect the ingenuity and resourcefulness of
the writer in gathering pertinent in
formation and relating it to the theme
of the report Short quotes and excerpts
may be included in the report if an exact
source is given in a footnote reference
Personal interviews and quotes will be
effective and should also be fully identi
fied as to the source
The theme and title of this years re
port is What Handicapped Workers are
Contributing to my Community
Local offices of the Georgia Division
of Vocational Rehabilitation State Em
ployment Services Veterans Administra
tion public libraries handicapped indi
viduals and employers may be contacted
as a resource for gaining information or
insight into the program of rehabilitation
in job placement The reports will be
judged on their originality content or
ganization clarity of expression signifi
cance of content evidence of research
and relation to the report theme
Participation in the 1966 Ability Counts
Contest must come from a participating
high school with no limit as to the num
ber of students entering from a school
Schools may only participate through
the Georgia Governors Committee on
Employment of the Handicapped
State judges for this years contest
will be Clifford Clark Executive Direc
tor Associate Industries of Georgia W
H Montague State Director American
Federation of LaborCIO Marion Wil
liamson Director Employment Security
Agency State Department of Labor Dr
A P Jarrell Assistant State Superin
tendent of Schools in Charge of Voca
tional Rehabilitation Services State De
partment of Education William A Sims
Jr Chairman Governors Committee on
Employment of the Handicapped
The 1965 Ability Counts Contest as in
previous years has been placed on the
approved list of national contests and
activities for 196566 by the National As
sociation of Secondary School Principles
Previous Georgia winners are Miss
Rebecca Ethel Hair Jordan High School
Columbus Georgia196465 Miss Pa
tricia Ruth Lumpkin A L Miller High
School Macon Georgia196364 Miss
Audrey Dell Hammerich Baker High
School Columbus Georgia196263
Winners of the Ability Accounts
Essay Contest pictured above are
from left to right Rebecca Ethel
Hair Jordan High School Colum
bus and Patricia Ruth Lumpkin
A L Miller High School Macon
In his speech to the Conference Dr
Jarrell stated This year the Association
has made an all out social action effort
to make major changes in the rehabilita
tion in this country
Let me begin by saying that I subscribe
to the view that the only thing constant
in all life is change itself The greatest
minds in the world concerned with biolo
gy physiology physics chemistry as
tronomy emphasize to us again and
again that constant change is taking
place not only in ourselves and in our
world but in our universe as well The
short life span of man perhaps gives
him the illusion that things are relatively
static but viewed from even a short per
spective of time the essence of life is
changeconstant irrevocable unending
limitless change and more change
Modern concepts of education and psy
chology have well documented the fact
that there can be on learning or growth
within the individuals without change
Although it is true that change ultimate
ly results in mans biological degenera
tion it is equally true that change is
essential to mans creation his develop
ment and his fruition
Relatedly change in our society does
not just happen It is developed and
evolved by imaginative pioneers by peo
ple who have vision the will and ambition
to try something new the ability to break
away from a statusquo existence the
capacity to reach out to new frontiers
and to lead others to want to change for
the better
In the history of the development and
growth of our great country the facts
clearly indicate that during critical peri
odsour system of government along
with our free enterprise system have
survived because of the willingness of
our people to follow leadership offering
a program of change to alleviate what
then appears to be often almost insur
mountable problems and conditions We
now in rehabilitation are faced with a
very critical period in our program of
services to the disabled The handicapped
of our nation are pleading for more ade
quate and more comprehensive services
for new opportunities and for a chance
to become contributing members to our
society The questions we must answer
immediately are Have we the will to
change our methods and seek new tech
niquesDo we have the courage the
perseverance and the willingness to be
a leader in this revolution in rehabilita
tion Or will we be like Rip Van Winkle
who slept twenty years to wake up in
a world he hardly recognized It will
indeed be tragic and unfortunate if any
of us were to sleep through the oppor
tunities of this revolution in rehabilita
tion which is now moving so rapidly and
which provides such great opportunity
for progressive changes In the first five
years of this decade of the 60s we have
witnessed more favorable changes in
legislation to improve health education
welfare and employment than happened
between 19401960 a score of years With
the present positive rehabilitation cli
mate we may hopefully anticipate equal
ly rapid changes in rehabilitation to rival
the changes in the areas stated above
that will provide us with the wherewith
all to substantially improve or correct
many of the medical psychological so
cial and economic problems faced by our
present disabled population
Changes are occurring so rapidly in re
habilitation that what is innovation to
day is common place tomorrow It would
appear that we must take calculated risks
when there is little opportunity to STOP
LOOK AND LISTEN Our times demand
leadership in the immediate implementa
tion of a broad comprehensive program
of service much more adequate to meet
the needs of all the disabled people
This conference program was designed
to stress change in rehabilitation on all
levels and in many ways ranging from
programming and finances to organiza
tional structure to facilities to the pro
fessional person serving the handicapped
and to the handicapped themselves
Each one of us in our own private
happy or quietly desperate lives as the
case may be must somehow find and
summon the necessary courage to face
the changes in ourselves and the world
around us
Continued from page 4
tional rehabilitation act amendments
were passed by congress and this made a
fitting tribute to the leadership of Dr
Jarrell and a highnote on the closing day
of the conferenceDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation
Georgia Department of Education
257 State Office Annex
Atlanta 3 Georgia
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REHABILITATION NEWS
THE GEORGIA REHABILITATION CENTER STORYftfajf
EVALUATION
The evaluation program at the
Georgia Rehabilitation Center is de
signed to help severely disabled
individuals seek out and find what
potentials abilities and aptitudes
they have and to capitalize on these
traits in planning training pro
grams leading to employment
Many times the handicapped in
dividual is unaware of his abilities
and needs guidance and direction
in seeking out the proper vocation
to follow
The staff at the Georgia Re
habilitation Center uses every re
source available in pinpointing the
most appropriate vocation taking
into consideration the individuals
handicap past experience educa
tion aptitude and may evaluate an
individual in several areas before
a field is chosen that both the
GRC staff and the individual feel
most appropriate
Illustrated in the pictures to the
left are some of the many phases
which the client goes through in
the evaluation process
The client is tested to seek out
certain basic traits and skills to see
what direction an individuals apti
tude may point
Counseling with the client en
ables the staff to evaluate and
make sure the individuals attitude
personal feelings and program
planning are all compatible so as to
afford the client the greatest pos
sible chance of developing a mar
ketable skill that will lead to em
ployment
To assist the client to realize
what his own capabilities and
potentials are and to help in eval
uating those areas in which the
client has the greatest potentials
the client works in several different
job situations during the evaluation
process
Physical therapy is an important
aspect in the evaluation process for
many of the clients may be able to
reduce their disability to such an
extent that other vocations and job
situations that are not possible now
would be possible as the client im
proves his physical condition
To evaluate fully the program as
outlined for each client the eval
uation staff meets regularly to de
termine the progress each client is
making and discuss thoroughly any
improvements or necessary changes
in their evaluation programTHE RESIDENCE
BUILDING
The residence building at the
Georgia Rehabilitation Center is a
fivestory beautifully designed and
planned structure with accom
modations for 133 clients Architec
tural features incorporated into the
residence building as well as all
other buildings on the Centers
ground include easy access to all
areas automatic doors wide halls
and doorways providing easy acces
sibility for wheelchairs and clients
on crutches light switches placed
within reach of those in wheel
chairs bathroom facilities recrea
tion areas and study areas all
designed for use by the severely
disabled
Many activities are in operation
each day in the residence building
A canteen or snack area is located
on the lower floor Here clients
can relax and talk about the days
activities and accomplishments Ad
jacent to the snack shop is the
active recreational area and an arts
and crafts area During their free
time clients can play ping pong
shuffle board chess pool and many
other recreational activities
A quiet recreation area is located
on the first floor for those who
would rather watch television read
or participate in quiet games In
the arts and crafts area students
enjoy creating some of their own
pieces as well as using the ceramic
molds or other designs that are
available for them
The rooms in the residence build
ing reflect the thoughtful archi
tectural features that are designed
to give the severely disabled clients
an easy opportunity for adequate
comfort in the normal routine of
daily living
Clients eat their meals in the
cafeteria on the first floor of the
residence building The food is de
liciously prepared and all guests
and visitors to the Center should
always plan their schedules to be at
the residence building at serving
time
The Centers library and informal
meditation and prayer room are in
adjacent rooms to the right of the
lobby as you enter the residence
building

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SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Training
Training an individual in an occupation
in which he has the best possible chance
of success is the endresult of proper
evaluation and placing the client in a
job is the endresult of proper training
The Georgia Rehabilitation Center has
developed a curriculum of courses that
will best fill the overall needs of the
severely disabled and as the needs change
both from the labor demands from within
the community and the needs from the
clients changes in curriculum will be
made to meet these needs
Vocational training at the Georgia Re
habilitation Center includes courses in
the following areas
Business Education
Clerk Steno
Secretary
Bookkeeper
Receptionist
PBX Operator
Accounting
General Drafting
Mechanical Drawing
Small Instrument and Watch Repair
Small Gasoline Engine Repair
Duplicating Machine Operator
Radio and TV Repair
Small Electronic Engine Repair
E
INING

Placement

Sewing
Garment Alteration
Power Sewing Machine Operator
Slip Cover and Drapery Construction
Reweaving
Homemaking
Small Business Management
OntheJob Training
Placement
In top center panel above a Georgia
Rehabilitation Center client is performing
onthejob training at a local store in
the community as a hardware salesman
A customer is shown making a purchase
while the store manager supervises the
transaction
In bottom center panel we see the
culmination of the effects of the Georgia
Rehabilitation Center Staff as a client
is placed in employment During his
evaluation the client demonstrated suf
ficient knowledge to be considered for
training in business education and en
rolling in the courses in accounting office
machines and small business manage
ment The client is now employed by the
Federal Government and is supporting
himself his wife and one child
Mr
BUSINESS EDUCATIONThe Georgia Vocational
REHABILITATION NEWS
Vol 14 NovDec 1965 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
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services
State Ofbice Annex
ALBANY DISTRICT
Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg
43G0347
Americus104 E Forsyth
Phone 9245148
Bainbridge218 S West St
Phone CH 64274
Thomasville518 N Broad St
Phone CA 62587
Valdosta305 University Dr
Phone CH 26820
Waycross706 Jane St
Phone AT 30788
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 1430 W Peaehtree St NW
Phone 8759941
165 Central Ave SW
MU 86525
Newnan44 Jefferson St
Phone AL 32408
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT
Gainesville311 Green St
LEnox 61311
Athens110 Hancock Avenue
Liberty 33865
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 2349481
ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia
Trade and Technical School
Phone 7542922
Rome102 West 5th Ave
Barron Bldg
Phone 2346259
MACON DISTRICT
Macon707 Pine St Suite 1
Phone SH 27321
Columbus305 Fifteenth St
Phone FAirfax 26755
Dublin105 N Franklin St
Phone BR 22230
Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking
Co Bldg
Phone GL 28691
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah35 Abercorn Street
Phone AD 46666
Augusta828 15th St
Phone 7240381
Brunswick 209 First Federal Savings
and Loan Bldg
Phone AM 56541
Mary E Switzer Commissioner of Vo
cational Rehabilitation Administration
Department of Health Education and
Welfare
WESTERN UNION
TELEGRAM
Washington DC 112265 1012 AM
Dr A P Jarrell
GRC
Att Mr Nolan
Warm Springs Ga
Warmest congratulations on the dedication of
the beautiful new Georgia Rehabilitation Center
This is a great day for the Georgia Rehabilitation
program and especially significant from my point
of view since it combines forces with the fine work
done by the National Foundation at the Warm
Springs Center Over the years many hundreds of
people have known the benefits of this voluntary
service under the leadership of Basil OConnor
Now we combine this with the leading public pro
gram of vocational rehabilitation This offers great
promise of fulfillment of our dreams under our new
law Greet everyone for me I am with you in
spirit
MARY E SWITZER
Commissioner of
Vocational
Rehabilitation
DHEWTHE DEDICATION
REHABILITATION NEW
The dedication of the Georgia Re
habilitation Center at Warm Springs will
be remembered as a focal point in
Georgias history and will mark an era
in which the severely disabled citizens
of Georgia were able to receive compre
hensive rehabilitation services at a Cen
ter designed and built for their needs
The facilities at the Georgia Rehabilita
tion Center include a residence building
which contains housing for 133 people
a cafeteria active and quiet recreation
areas arts and crafts area library and
prayer area and a canteen area an
evaluation and training building where
skills that are especially adaptive to the
disabled are being taught work eval
uation where clients are being assisted in
training for the most appropriate voca
tional area to follow a rehabilitation ad
justment workshop where work experi
ence is provided and an administration
building where the operational activities
of the Centers functions are carried on
Services available at the Georgia Re
habilitation Center include medical treat
ment and consultation orthopedic sur
gery physical therapy occupational ther
apy speech and hearing therapy artifi
cial appliances braces nursing vocation
al training psychological counseling and
testing social casework vocational coun
seling rehabilitation workshop therapy
and work experience
Governor Carl Sanders in delivering
the dedication address stated that the
Center is expected to roll back the fron
tiers of employment opportunity for the
many who before now could only look
forward to living out their lives as
observers rather than full participants
This facility will offer the opportunity
to many of them to become useful pro
ductive happy citizens who will take
their rightful place in our modern society
Governor Carl E Sanders delivering the dedicatory address at the dedi
cation ceremony of the Georgia Rehabilitation Center Warm Springs
Carl E Sanders
James S Peters
Basil OConnor
Dr A P Jarrell
Governor Sanders
stated I am proud
to point out that
Georgia has provided
and is providing
herenothing short
of the best for its
disabled citizens
James Peters
Chairman State
Board of Education
noted The Georgia
Rehabilitation Cen
ter is indeed a step
forward in providing
the best in rehabili
tation services to the
severely disabled of
our state
Basil OConnor
President Georgia
Warm Springs Foun
dation stated To
day two great insti
tutions stand here to
advance the art of
healing and each
representing an es
sential service each
complementing the
other
Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Su
perintendent of
Schools in Charge of
Vocational Rehabili
tation Services said
The dedication of
this Center has a
dual significance
First this Center
represents the reali
zation of a dream
long nurtured by
those of us who recognize the need of a
modern comprehensive rehabilitation fa
cility in Georgia and second it marks
the beginning of a new era in rehabili
tation services for the severely disabled
of our State
I feel confident that the person re
sponsible for Warm Springs becoming
internationally known in the medical care
of polio victims the late Franklin D
Roosevelt would view with pride and
pleasure this facility we are dedicating
today
It is very fitting that our distinguish
ed Governor has taken time out of a
busy schedule to come here today to
dedicate this facility Governor Sanders
throughout his career as a public ser
vant has not only shown deep concern for
our disabled disadvantaged and under
privileged people of all ages but like
President Roosevelt has taken positive
action in implementing programs of
services to help alleviate the problems
of the disabled and give them the op
portunities to develop their talents to
the maximum potential mentally physi
cally socially and vocationally
During the dedication ceremony the
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation pre
sented Governor Sanders with a plaque
and in remarks prepared by Dr Jarrell
stated in recognition of your personal
interest and support of the disabled serv
ed by the Rehabilitation Division the
staff of this Agency wishes to present
to you a plaque which carries the fol
lowing inscription To Governor Carl E
Sanders for his outstanding dedication
support and action in advancing the
cause of the disabled through the Georgia
Vocational Rehabilitation ProgramDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation
Georgia Department of Education
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Atlanta 3 Georgia
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The work adjustment area at the Georgia Rehabilitation Center teaches individuals to adjust to the work world
schedulalnmg eXperlence m work habits the demands of employers and the many different types of employer production
The professional staff emphasizes the importance and meaning of job situations and presents the clients situations
which are demanding meaningful and within their capabilities Many individuals receive their first experience in work
situations here at the Center and other individuals who have been out of the labor market for a considerable length of time
can readjust and regain confidence through these simulated job activities
t mSEE STORY ON PAGE 5GEORGIA SCHOOL
FOR THE DEAF
The Georgia School for the Deaf
functions as an accredited elemen
tary and high school for resident
and day pupils The school cur
riculum and program provides con
tinuous preparation for deaf boys
and girls to live and function suc
cessfully in a hearing society The
academic program parallels that of
the regular public school program
with special emphasis placed on
speech lip reading language de
velopment and training in the
utilization of residual hearing The
schools curriculum has been de
signed to meet the special needs
of boys and girls who desire to
enter college as well as offering
a strong vocational program for
those who wish to seek employment
in industry after graduation
The staff at the school seeks
continuously to improve the cur
riculum in order to better meet the
needs of multihandicapped children
and to offer the best possible ad
vantages in the learning process
to the children of our state
Students compete with other
schools in both academic and athlet
ic events and rate high in all areas
of participation Extra curricular
activities include participating in
scouting church community and
vocational activities
Pictured at left are some of the
many academic recreational and
fun activities at the Georgia School
for the Deaf Top panel shows stu
dent participation in a math class
and students preparing their as
signment in chemistry Second
panel demonstrates the learning
process in word formation and
speaking and a student demonstrat
ing the color wheel in physics
Third panel shows deaf students
participating in a rhythm band and
a student studying an astrology
problem Fourth panel shows an
English class and a happy child
playing in free time Bottom panel
finds a student learning English
composition and a class in biologyGRA HIGHLIGHTS
The Georgia Rehabilitation As
sociations Annual Meeting is re
viewed with some highlights of va
rious activities
James S Segars Director of the
Division of Medical Care Depart
ment of Family and Children Serv
ices was elected President of GRA
and is shown in top left panel dur
ing his acceptance remarks
Nathan Nolan Administrator
Georgia Rehabilitation Center in
top right panel is presenting the
outstanding Case of the Year
Award to Harold Harpe for the
Sighted Program and to Marshall
Dixon for the Program for the
Blind
In second panel left Shelton
McLellon Associate Regional Rep
resentative VRA is shown deliver
ing his final remarks before turn
ing over the presidency to James
Segars
A D Puth 3rd panel left bet
ter known to most persons as Al
Assistant Director of the National
Rehabilitation Association is
shown delivering the luncheon ad
dress He reported on the impact
of the new 1965 amendments and
how it will affect the rehabilita
tion programs in the various
states
In center insert Nathan Nolan
presents the Georgia Rehabilita
tion Association Professional
Award to Clyde L Pennington
MD in recognition of his out
standing contribution to the reha
bilitation of the disabled As a
physician he has long had a repu
tation for his capabilities in the
treatment of individuals with im
pairments of the ear nose and
throat and his medical skill has
enabled many individuals to con
tinue their work or return to em
ployment
In second panel right Alton
Ray is shown receiving the Elkins
Award as the Outstanding Coun
selor of the Year from a represen
tative of Elkins Radio and TV
In bottom panel left Nathan
Nolan presents the Organizational
Award for Advancement of Reha
bilitation to the Disabled to Mor
risons Cafeteria recognized for
their hiring practices in employ
ing handicapped workers Mr
William A Roughton who has
been the instrumental and influen
tial factor in the establishment of
this policy is shown receiving the
award for Morrisons Cafeteria
In bottom panel right Nathan
Nolan and Dr A P Jarrell As
sistant State Superintendent of
Schools in Charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services are both
shown congratulating Dr Thomas
P Goodwyn in recognition of his
receiving a life membership in the
National Rehabilitation and the
Georgia Rehabilitation Association
Dr Goodwyn was active in reha
bilitation prior to the formation of
NRA and GRA and he has played
an active role in rehabilitation for
many yearsThe Georgia Vocational
REHABILITATION NEWS
Vol 14
JanFeb 1966
No 3
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Jack P Nix
State Superintendent of Schools
Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services
State Office Annex
ALBANY DISTRICT
Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg
4360347
Americus104 E Forsyth
Phone 9246138
Bainbridge218 S West St
Phone CH 64274
Thomasville518 N Broad St
Phone CA 62587
Valdosta305 University Dr
Phone CH 26820
Waycross706 Jane St
Phone AT 30788
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW
Phone 8759941
165 Central Ave SW
6886525
Newnan44 Jefferson St
Phone AL 32408
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT
Gainesville311 Green St
LEnox 61311
Athens110 Hancock Avenue
Liberty 33865
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 2349481
ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia
Trade and Vocational School
Phone 7542922
Rome1102 Avenue C
Phone 2346259
MACON DISTRICT
Macon707 Pine StSuite 1
Phone SH 27321
Columbus307 Fifteenth St
Phone FAirfax 26755
Dublin105 N Franklin St
Phone BR 22230
Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking
Co Bldg
Phone GL 28691
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah35 Abercorn Street
Phone AD 46666
Augusta828 15th St
Phone 7240381
Brunswick 209 First Federal Savings
and Loan Bldg
Phone AM 56541
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Shown during the signing of the Atlanta Federal Offenders Re
habilitation Project are from left to right standing Jack M Tipton
Rehabilitation Specialist W Scott Fulton Rehabilitation Specialist
Lee B Jett Chief Classification and Parole U S Penitentiary
Atlanta Percy Bell National Director Federal Offenders Rehabili
tation Program Seattle Washington J C Taylor Assistant Director
U S Bureau of Prisons Washington D C C J Eckenrode Associate
Warden for Treatment U S Penitentiary Atlanta Seated left to
right John Carbo Chief U S Probation Officer Northern District
of Georgia O G Blackwell Warden U S Penitentiary Atlanta
and Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in
Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Atlanta Federal Offenders
Rehabilitation Project
The Atlanta Federal Offenders Reha
bilitation Project is primarily designed
as a Collaborate Research Study Pro
gram whose purpose is to test and dem
onstrate the effects of providing inten
sive vocational rehabilitation services to
Federal Offenders at specified stages in
the correctional process Clients of this
program will be randomly divided into
demonstration and control groups In
cluded in these groups will be those per
sons normally eligible under Federal
State requirements through physical or
mental handicaps plus those with special
handicaps who are not otherwise eligi
ble
The special objectives of the project
are 1 To determine the needs of fed
eral offenders for vocational rehabilita
tion services according to their physical
mental or social handicaps 2 To pro
vide intensive vocational rehabilitation
services to federal offenders who have
been randomly assigned to demonstra
tion groups 3 To develop a measure
of success in the vocational rehabilita
tion of federal offenders in terms of the
effectiveness of intensive versus cur
rent services 4 To compare the suc
cess of the demonstration groups with
the control groups 5 To study the im
pact of providing intensive rehabilita
tion services upon the attitudes and
practices of the professional staff in
volved in the correctional process 6
To develop recommendations for changes
in administrative procedures and public
laws relating to the correctional and re
habilitation fieldsrehabilitation news
ALTO Rehabilitation
Center
The Vocational Rehabilitation Center
for Handicapped Young Offenders at
the Georgia Industrial Institute Alto
is a pioneering effort on behalf of the
Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili
tation and the Board of Corrections in
reshaping the lives of young public of
fenders Vocational Rehabilitation serv
ices were first introduced at the Geor
gia Industrial Institute on October 1
1963 and these services have been
broadened greatly since that time
Each inmate admitted to the Institute
has been provided with a medical psy
chological and vocational evaluation
with approximately 70 of the inmates
meeting the agencys standards of eligi
bility Services afforded these clients
through eligibility include individual and
group counseling personnel and work
adjustment prevocational and onthe
job training When the inmate is re
leased from the Institute he is trans
ferred to the vocational rehabilitation
counselor for further vocational counsel
ing specific vocational training job
placement and followup services It is
necessary and very essential for many of
the inmates to be placed in foster homes
or rehabilitation halfway houses
The pictures on this page showing vo
cational training counseling and free
time reflect just a few of the many ac
tivities that occur each day at the Cen
ter The Vocational Rehabilitation Cen
ter contains a major work sample unit
diagnostic and evaluation unit offices
for staff members a rehabilitation resi
dence for 132 clients and a cafeteria
Inmates are brought into the residence
during the last year of their sentence
for intensive counseling services de
signed to help them reevaluate them
selves establish more socially acceptable
goals in life and select a feasible voca
tional objective During fiscal year
196465 seven hundred and fortythree
offenders were referred to Vocational
Rehabilitation and each was given a
orientation to Vocational Rehabilitation
b medical examination and c psy
chological evaluation
Followun studies reveal that out of
the first 96 clients transferred to local
counselors 53 were continuing their re
habilitation program in their commu
nity thirtythree were engaged in full
time employment and twentythree were
rehabilitated Only 9 of the first 96
clients had returned to custody
Atlanta Committee Awards
Pictured above during the Annual Metropolitan Atlanta Commit
tee on Employment of the Handicapped Awards Night left to
right Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools
in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Miss Magnoia
Hunt selected as the Outstanding Bind Person of the Year Mrs
Janice Hice selected as the Outstanding Handicapped Individual
in the Sighted Division William A Roughton representating Mor
risons Cafeteria and receiving their award as Employer of the
Year and Dr Irving Goldstein Chairman Metropolitan Atlanta
Committee on Employment of the Handicapped
p B
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant
State Superintendent of Schools in
Charge of Vocational Rehabilita
tion Services congratulates Jack
Nix on his appointment as State
Superintendent of Schools succeed
ing Dr Claude Purcell Superin
tendent Nix pledged his continued
support to the Program of Services
as offered to the handicapped
Georgians through the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
Shown above receiving their 40
year Service Awards from Governor
Carl Sanders are in left panel
Rochester Watt Jr and in right
panel E K Bell Mr Watt and Mr
Bell District Supervisors for Voca
tional Rehabilitation received their
awards in recognition of 40 years of
faithful and devoted service to the
State of Georgia
Mr Watt has served 19 of these years
with the Georgia Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation and Mr Bell has served
23 years with the Georgia Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation Bell is Dis
trict Supervisor for the Savannah Dis
trict and Watt is District Supervisor
for the Albany District
Metropolitan Atlanta Mayors Com
mittee on Employment of the Handi
capped has announced the winner of the
Outstanding Handicapped Metropolitan
Atlantan of the Year and Employer of
the Year For the first time the com
petition was so keen that the committee
decided to give an award to both the
outstanding blind individual and the out
standing handicapped individual in the
sighted division
Miss Magnolia Hunt blind since birth
and an efficient switchboard operator
at the Citizens Bank and Trust Com
pany in Atlanta and Mrs Janice Hice
stricken with polio when she was 12
and paralyzed from the waist down and
with only partial use of her arms were
designated as the recipients of the
awards
The Employer of the Year Award was
presented to Morrisons Cafeteria in rec
ognition of their hiring practices of em
ploying handicapped individuals on their
ability to perform specific jobs Mr Wil
liam A Roughton District Supervisor
for Morrisons Cafeteria who was instru
mental in formulating these policies re
ceived the award in behalf of Morrisons
Cafeteria
Jarrell Elected
To National Post
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Su
perintendent of Schools in Charge of
Vocational Rehabilitation Services has
been elected Secretary of the Joint
Commission on Correctional Manpower
and Training
The Commission was established as
the outcome of an Arden House Con
ference in June 1964 to help resolve
critical shortage of correctional man
power
Representatives and members of over
80 national and regional organizations
have been named to the Joint Commis
sion on Correctional Manpower and
Training Other officers elected were
Ellis C MacDougall Chairman and
Dr Earl H Hanson ViceChairman1965 Amendments In Review
The 1965 Vocational Rehabilitation
Act Amendments Public Law 89333
will enable the Georgia Division to serve
many more handicapped persons pres
ently eligible for service The new law
changes the Federal financial provisions
in the basic FederalState Vocational
Rehabilitation State Program and will
increase the allotments of Federal funds
for Georgia to 10016492 Had the
new amendment not been passed Geor
gias share of Federal funds would have
only been 7156788 The Federal al
lotments for Georgia in 1967 will in
crease to 11685907 and in 1968 to
13355322
Extension and Improvement Grants to
states have now been replaced by In
novation Grants which will cover two
general areas 1 The development of
methods or techniques which are new
in the state for providing services 2
Projects which serve those who have
catastrophic or particularly severe dis
abilities Federal funds for these grants
will be alloted on basis of population
Funds are being increased to conduct
statewide planning for rehabilitation
during the fiscal years 196667 and any
funds appropriated for those two years
which are not spent will remain avail
able to complete the planning in 1968
Federal grants covering 100 of the costs
for statewide planning are authorized
with the amount of any state not to
exceed 100000 annually The Georgia
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
has been designated as the agency to
conduct the statewide planning pro
gram in Georgia The planning activi
ties are designed to accomplish three
general objectives 1 To develop a well
defined picture of state resources for
John S Prickett Director Geor
gia Division of Vocational Rehabili
tation and National Membership
Chairman of the National Rehabili
tation Association
rehabilitating the disabled and formu
late an understandable estimate of fu
ture needs 2 To help assure an or
derly expansion growth and develop
ment with minimum duplication of serv
ices 3 To develop and organize state
wide plans for which all disabled per
sons needing rehabilitation services can
receive such services by the year 1975
Expansion grants designed to expand
and increase vocational rehabilitation
services to facilitate the rehabilitation
of more disabled persons at a faster
rate are available to both state agen
cies and voluntary nonprivate agencies
Both the Administration and Congress
strongly desire to increase the number
of rehabilitants each year and the ob
jectives of the expansion grants must
be the rehabilitation and return to gain
ful employment of larger numbers of
disabled individuals
The organizational structure of re
habilitation agencies in the past has
been required under the previous law
to be located under the State Board of
Vocational Education or organized as a
separate agency or state commission
Under the new act the agency may
be a separate agency or commission it
may be located within the State unit
administering or supervising the admin
istration of educational or vocational
education or it may be part of a larger
State organizational unit which includes
two or more of the following State func
tions Education health welfare or la
bor
Economic need was required pre
viously by Federal law before certain
services of the vocational rehabilitation
NRA Report
National NRA Membership Chairman
John S Prickett reported that as of
February 28 1966 we have 497 more
members and 7684 more total points
than at this same time last year Total
membership as of February 28 was
16303 and 179318 total points
Florida Region IV with 11047
members has passed Pennsylvanias total
of 11030 members Delaware is well
ahead in percentage of membership quota
at 1699 with Tennessee remaining in
challenging distance with 1583 of
membership quota Pennsylvania is still
in the lead on subscriptions display and
classified ads amassing 22037 total
points with Florida far behnd in second
place with 12028 total points Tennes
see the newest chapter in NRA leads
the nation with 2154 of total point
quota followed by Delaware with 1212
of total point quota
Regional leaders have remained the
same with Region IV E G Mander
field Chairman in first place in all
program could be provided without costs
The new law eliminates economic need
as a prerequisite of VR services to
satisfy Government requirements Each
state however is at liberty to apply
such economic need tests as it wishes
or as may be required by State law
Federal funds to help in the con
struction of new Rehabilitation Centers
and Workshops are authorized for the
first time through the new amendments
The new grant program will assist in
the acquisition of existing buildings
and the expansion remodeling altera
tion and renovation of rehabilitation
centers and workshops Funds will be
available also to aid in the construction
with the cost of initial equipment and
the acquisition of land
The new law authorizes Federal ap
propriations of 15 million for fiscal
year 1966 7 million for fiscal year
1967 and 9 million for fiscal year 1968
There is no statutory allotment system
for the construction of new facilities as
funds will be granted on a project basis
In connection with this construction
effort the new Act authorizes Federal
grant assistance in the costs of initial
staffing of rehabilitation facilities and
workshops including not only those con
structed through this grant program
but other facilities and workshops con
structed with other financing after the
date of enactment cf the new law Fed
eral assistance with initial staffing is
authorized at a maximum of 75 per
cent of staffing costs in the first year
60 percent in the second year 45 per
cent in the third year and 30 percent in
the fourth and final year
One of the major objectives of the
1965 Act is to begin the expansion and
improvement of sheltered workshops for
the disabled throughout the United
States The 1965 amendments authorize
appropriation for the two grant pro
grams for workshop improvement train
ing services projects and improvement
grants as follows For fiscal 1966
1500000 for 1967 9000000 and
for 1968 14000000
four categories and Region III F A
Tarbutton Chairman in second place
in all categories with exception of total
points in which Region II Ben Stein
light Chairman is leading
Fourteen states have passed the
100 of membership quota and 14
states have passed their total point
quota
Highlights of the competition in Reg
ion IV show Georgia with 10827
points in second place just 1056 points
behind Florida with a state total of
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Region IV
NRA Conference
Plans Completed
Region IV NRA President Joe Hise
stated that the Annual Conference Pro
gram has been completed and his in
dications are that this years Confer
ence will be one of the most successful
held in Region IVs history The Con
ference dates are Monday April 4
through Wednesday noon April 6 with
registration beginning on Sunday at
200 pm
Atlantas new Marriott Motel has
been selected as the site of this years
Conference and offers fine meeting
rooms good food and is easily acces
sible from and to downtown Atlanta
Atlantas Mayor Ivan Allen will open
the program on Monday followed by
greetings by Jack Nix State Superin
tendent of Schools and the address by
Governor Carl Sanders The keynote
address of Monday morning will come
at 1100 am when Honorable Charles
A Weltner Representative of the Fifth
District of Georgia United States Con
gress speaks to the conferences
Topics covered during the conference
will include Impact of New Legisla
tion On The Total Rehabilitation Serv
ice Programs Opportunities Under
New Legislation for Research and
Training Working with the Disabled
Through Federal Offenders Program
Health Referral Services and Social
Security Administration
Sectional meetings will be held on the
following areas Blind Workshop and
Facilities Special Education Deaf and
the Disability Determination Unit
At the Annual Banquet on Tuesday
evening the banquet toastmaster will be
E B Whitten Executive Director NRA
Washington DC and the Banquet Ad
dress will be delivered by Hubert A
Baldy White Humorist and Lecturer
on the topic Hopping the High Hur
dles
Outstanding individuals from every
area of rehabilitation will be present to
speak at the Annual Conference These
will include Louis R Schubert Region
al Representative Region IV Vocational
Rehabilitation Administration Atlanta
Jayne Shover Associate Director Na
tional Society for Crippled Children
and Adults Chicago Robert E Wat
kins Executive Vice President Elect
Goodwill Industries of America Wash
ington DC O F Wise Director Di
vision of Vocational Rehabilitation
Montgomery Alabama William J Page
Jr Regional Director Department of
Health Education and Welfare At
lanta Paul C Howard Assistant Com
missioner Vocational Rehabilitation Ad
ministration Washington DC Percy
Bell Director Federal Offenders Re
habilitation Program Seattle Washing
ton Dr James C King Chief Health
Referral Section Division of Community
Health Services Public Health Service
Washington DC Alvin M David As
Joe Hise President Region IV NRA
and Assistant Director Georgia Di
vision of Vocational Rehabilitation
sistant Commissioner for Program Plan
ning and Program Evaluation Social
Security Administration Baltimore
Maryland A C Suazo Executive Direc
tor National Association of Sheltered
Workshops and Homebound Programs
Inc Washington DC E B WhHten
Executive Director National Rehabilita
tion Association Washington DC
Scott Allan President National Reha
bilitation Association Boston Massa
chusettsJ
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TION NEWS

John S Prickett Receives Cummings AwardGeorgia Academy
For The Blind
The Georgia Academy for the Blind at
Macon operated by the State Department
of Education Division of Vocational Re
habilitation is teaching the blind children
of our states to live in this fast moving
and dynamic society of ours The Acad
emy teaches any child with visual acuity
of 20200 or less in the better eye with
best correcting lenses provided he is
capable of receiving an education
The Academy a fully accredited school
teaches generally the same academic pro
gram that is taught in the public schools
of Georgia and uses special aids speci
fically designed for use by blind students
to aid them in the learning process A
wide range of both academic and voca
tional courses is taught with special em
phasis on music physical education arts
and crafts and vocational subjects
The picture at the left illustrates some
of the many academic literature and vo
cational subjects taught at the school
At top left a student is shown working
on the wood lathe in a woodworking
At top right students are shown study
ing geography and using the relief map
as an aid to better illustrate the geogra
phy of the world
In second panel left an instructor
works with a student at the braille type
writer By learning the use of this type
writer a student can take notes and write
reports much the same way as a sighted
person would use a typewriter
Second panel right shows an instruc
tor working with a student in the horti
culture and landscaping course
In third panel left a math student
studies her math lesson with the use of
an abbacus
Third panel right shows a group of
children enjoying their course in music
appreciation at the Academy The stu
dents learning music in this class will
eventually be part of the choral glee club
that is well known throughout the state
for its musical contributions
In fourth panel left an instructor in
the primary department works with a
young girl in teaching her to use large
print Students whose eyesight is good
enough to use the large print books for
reading are encouraged to use this
method
In fourth panel right students are
shown enjoying themselves in an arts
and crafts class Here they receive per
sonal instruction in the various ways in
making useful items that may someday
develop into a profitable hobby
In bottom panel left a student in the
typing class is shown in the act of pre
paring her lesson
Bottom panel right shows a class in
biology studying the human anatomy
The use of models that can be broken
down into their component parts is most
instrumental in helping the students
learn each part of the body1966 Ability Counts Winners Honored
Pictured above attending the 1966 Ability Counts Contest Awards
Ceremony are from left to right Rogers Hutchinson Supervisor of
Special Services Georgia State Employment Service Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services Governor Carl Sanders J K Strain Director
Georgia State Employment Service Ernest Franklin Williams Jr
firstplace winner Clifford Clark Executive Director of Associated
Industries of Georgia Kenneth Rogers secondplace winner W H
Montague President State AFLCIO Thomas Nemetz thirdplace
winner Dale LaFaye Willis fourthplace winner and Randy Jones
fifthplace winner
Governor Presents Awards to the
1966 Ability Counts Winners
Governor Carl Sanders presented the
winners of the 1966 annual Ability
Counts Report Contest their awards and
certificates at a special ceremony held in
the Governors chambers The contest
sponsored by the Presidents Committee
on Employment of the Handicapped and
the Governors Committee on Employ
ment of the Handicapped is for 11th
and 12th grade students
The theme of this years contest was
What Handicapped Workers are Con
tributing to my Community
Ernest Franklin Williams Jr was
awarded first place and received 100
firstprize money plus an expense paid
trip to Washington for the annual Presi
dents Committee Meeting on Employ
ment of the Handicapped A Pelham high
school senior he plans to attend Presby
terian College in Clinton South Carolina
this fall and states that his present choice
for a major in college is personnel man
agement
Other winners and their prizes were
second placeKenneth Rogers Atlanta
50 third place Thomas Nemetz
Athens 25 fourth placeDale LaFaye
Willis Pelham 15 and fifth place
Randy Jones Thomasville 10 In addi
tion to these prizes parchment awards
signed for the President were given for
the five best reports in the state
Williams firstplace entry was entered
in the national competition with over
2500 in cash awards Georgias cash
awards and prizes were provided by the
Associated Industries of Georgia and the
Georgia State AFLCIO
William A Sims Jr Chairman Gov
ernors Committee on Employment of the
Handicapped stated that the participa
tion in this years contest was the best
that we have experienced in recent years
Williams winning report is reprinted
below
What Handicapped Workers Are
Contributing to my Community
How can handicapped people possibly
contribute to my town when they have
to strive to even get a job and lead
normal lives This question can be an
swered with a quotation from the
BhagavadGita the mind is restless
turbulent strong and unyielding
as difficult to subdue as the wind Pel
ham has its share of handicapped people
and they can be listed as assets to the
welfare of the city In this small southern
city people with serious mental and phy
sical defects are contributing to the pulse
of Pelham in 3 areas
1 By participating in various civic
and religious organizations
2 By being conscientious citizens with
their civic minded spirit
3 Through displaying an aggressive
and optimistic attitude
A more detailed look into the individual
accounts of handicapped citizens will give
a greater insight into the extensive areas
of their contributions
Mr W has polio Here is one person
who has indeed gone above and beyond
the call of duty By overcoming this
serious handicap Mr W contributes to
Pelham in a dynamic manner Outside of
his teaching profession he is a leader of
three recognized groups As a YMCA
club advisor Mr W must render pa
tience and discipline for 29 boys If there
was ever an example for young people
who admire courage and a goodnatured
attitude this is it He also provides vast
assistance to the excellent school chorus
and a local church choir by being the
efficient leader of both One of the most
pleasing personalities and open minded
and compassionate dispositions is pos
sessed by Mr W
Mrs X is crippled with infantile
paralysis She works at a local plant and
Above Ernest Franklin Williams
Jr receives his certificate of merit
from Governor Carl E Sanders in
behalf of the Presidents Committee
and Governors Committee on Em
ployment of the Handicapped
has indeed one of the friendlier and more
industrious outlooks of anyone in her of
fice department Mrs X is also a local
church choir member and is very active
in that church
Mr Y crippled also gives a stir
ring example of social interest For this
mans unfortunate confinement he ef
fectively exercises his civic rights By
writing letters to a local daily news
paper Mr Y is showing his interest in
society and how well he is versed on cur
rent affairs Very often the letters of
Mr Y have given people courage and
inspiration
Although Mr Z is considered a mis
fit in this fast moving society due to
substantial shortcoming in his outward
actions he presents valuable benefits to
the consumer Mr Z possesses an asset
of being talented in the field of electron
ics which is utilized by consumers as
they patronize Mr Zs radio and tele
vision repair service
These few individuals reflect the at
mosphere seen in the lives of the handi
capped people of Pelham It can be seen
that the contributions to the city by the
people are numerous and impressive
These people sustain their civic responsi
bilities push aside welfare and neglect
pity Simply by being employed and
having the will to work handicapped
workers are benefitting the city A major
consideration of new industrial prospects
is the labor forces availability strength
and quality Through providing a com
petent business firm a handicapped per
son also helps Pelham grow Trading dol
lars so valuable to a city in an area
closely surrounded by other small towns
are injected into the local economy when
consumers take advantage of these handi
caps competent service These economic
contributions are evident reasons for
tipping the hat to the towns handi
capped working force
Continued on page 7HIGHLIGHTS1966 REGION IV
John S Prickett Jr receives
Cummings Award from Dr A P
Jarrell
The 19th Annual Region IV Conference
of the National Rehabilitation Associa
tion was held Monday April 36 1966
at the Marriott Motor Hotel Atlanta J
L Hise Chairman Region IV NRA
presided during the first general session
Dr Cecil Meyers Pastor Grace Meth
odist Church gave the invocation and
was followed by Atlantas Mayor Ivan
Allen Jr who gave a welcome to the
Conference attendees
Mayor Allen stated that Atlanta itself
has been working through a period of
rehabilitation and the very area in which
the meeting was being held the site of
the Marriott Hotel had been completely
and totally rehabilitated
Jack Nix State School Superintendent
extended greetings to the Conference and
stated that Vocational Rehabilitation is
an enterprise that touches both the heart
and the mind
Top panel left shows E K Bell Sa
vannah District Supervisor and in charge
of door prizes for the convention getting
underway with the drawing
Top panel right shows Van Powell
Counselor from Augusta receiving the
grand prize as E K Bell checks his ticket
to make sure he is the winner
Second panel left shows the banquet
room just prior to dinner
Second panel right Hubert A Baldy
White speaking on his topic Hopping
the High Hurdles
Third panel left Louis R Schubert
Regional Representative VRA and wife
as they leave the banquet with their bowl
of fruit
Third panel right NRA President
Scott Allan speaking to the group on
Where do we go from Here
Bottom panel left Representative
Charles L Weltner delivering the key
note address
Bottom panel right the first general
session in full swingRA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
It touches the heart because all of us
are concerned with the maintenance of
human dignity It is important that we
involve ourselves in making these brave
people who labor under some handicap
aware that we value them as members of
the human community and that we in
tend to exert our utmost effort to giving
them a chance to develop their talent and
their powers We need them They need
us It is a good partnership
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Su
perintendent of Schools in Charge of Vo
cational Rehabilitation Services intro
duced Governor Sanders who delivered
the opening address In speaking of NRA
Governor Sanders said In a very real
sense you the members of the NRA are
pioneers Having chosen to devote your
lives to serving others you have dis
covered that it is not enough merely to fit
yourselves into some niche in an existing
organization or program Rather you
have found that you must create the pro
grams and the projects that you
must break a trail into a new area of
social service and that you must give
every ounce of your energy intelligence
and imagination to discovering the most
adequate methods of rehabilitating the
handicapped
Charles L Weltner Representative
Fifth District of Georgia United States
Congress delivered the keynote address
and touched briefly on the 1965 rehabili
tation act amendments and the growth
of rehabilitation over the years
The Conference program was wide and
varied and included a detailed discussion
of the 1965 amendments and their impact
on the vocational rehabilitation program
new legislation for research and training
working with the disabled through Fed
eral Offenders Program health referral
services and Social Security determina
tions
Continued on page 7
Top panel left E B Whitten Execu
tive Director National Rehabilitation
Association Washington D C speaking
to the group on NRA in the New Era
Top panel right Governor Carl San
ders delivering the morning address
Second panel left Jack Nix State
School Superintendent shown during the
first session extending his greetings to
the Conference
Second panel right J W Cowan re
ceiving the CaseoftheYear Award in
the Sighted Program for fellow Ala
bamian Bob Couch from Dr A P Jar
rell
Third panel left J L Hise Chairman
Region IV for NRA getting warmed up
during the first general session and stay
ing that way for the remainder of the
conference
Third panel right Bill Coleman Flor
ida receiving the CaseoftheYear
Award in the Program for the Blind from
Dr Jarrell
Bottom panel left Dr A P Jarrell
extending the welcome to the 19th An
nual Region IV Conference prior to in
troducing Governor Carl Sanders
Bottom panel right Atlantas Mayor
Ival Allen extending his welcome to the
Conference from the city of Atlanta
The Georgia Vocational
REHABILITATION NEWS
New State Federal Agreement
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Vol 14 MarchApril 1966 No 4
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
A tlanta
Jack P Nix
State Superintendent of Schools
Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services
State Office Annex
ALBANY DISTRICT
Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg
4360347
Americus104 E Forsyth
Phone 9246138
Bainbridge218 S West St
Phone CH 64274
Thomasville518 N Broad St
Phone CA 62587
Valdosta305 University Dr
Phone CH 26820
Waycross706 Jane St
Phone AT 30788
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW
Phone 8759941
165 Central Ave SW
6886525
Newnan44 Jefferson St
Phone AL 32408
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT
Gainesville311 Green St
LEnox 61311
Athens110 Hancock Avenue
Liberty 33865
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 2349481
ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia
Trade and Vocational School
Phone 7542922
Rome1102 Avenue C
Phone 2346259
MACON DISTRICT
Macon707 Pine StSuite 1
Phone SH 27321
Columbus307 Fifteenth St
Phone FAirfax 26755
Dublin105 N Franklin St
Phone BR 22230
Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking
Co Bldg
Phone GL 28691
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah35 Abercorn Street
Phone AD 46666
Augusta828 15th St
Phone 7240381
Brunswick 209 First Federal Savings
and Loan Bldg
Phone AM 56541
Shown signing the new StateFederal Agreement designating the
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation as the agency to continue making
disability determinations for local residents who apply for benefits
under the Social Security Disability Program are from left to right
Paul Webb Director Division of State Disability Operations Jack
Nix State School Superintendent Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State
Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation
Services and Josiah A Flournoy Regional Representative Bureau of
Disability Insurance
The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the State Department
of Education has signed a revised StateFederal Agreement with the
Social Security Administration designating the Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation to continue to make disability determinations for local
residents who apply for benefits under the Social Security Disability
Program
The signing of the new agreement was necessary because of a recent
liberalization of the Social Security law permitting workers with non
permanent disabilities to qualify for payments Dr Jarrell emphasized
that this and other changes in the disability provisions means that
more Georgia residents can qualify for monthly payments Formerly
a person was eligible if he had a severe condition that was expected to
last a long and indefinite time Jarrell said Now benefits can be paid
to an individual whose severe disability has lasted or is expected by his
doctors to last for as little as 12 months Also more liberal qualifying
requirements exist for certain persons who are severely blind
Another important change in the law permits the Georgia Division
of Vocational Rehabilitation to receive funds from social security to
provide vocational rehabilitation services to disabled beneficiaries with
the objective of helping them to return to work
Jarrell pointed out at the ceremony the importance of disability
benefit payments to Georgias economy Today he said more than
50000 disabled Georgia workers and their dependents are receiving
cash disability benefits totaling more than 33000000 per year from
social securityGovernors Committee Meets
J L Head representing Morri
sons Cafeteria receives the Em
ployer of the Year Award from D
Douglas Barnard Executive Secre
tary to the Governor
The Georgia Governors Committee on
Employment of the Handicapped held its
annual meeting March 23 at the Georgian
Terrace Hotel with representatives from
over 40 Mayors Committees in atten
dance William A Sims Jr Chairman
Governors Committee on Employment of
the Handicapped opened the morning
session John S Prickett Director of the
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and
Ben T Huiet Commissioner State De
partment of Labor welcomed the group
to the Conference
The morning session was devoted to
activities and responsibilities of the local
committees within the community Dur
ing the Awards Luncheon Morrisons
Cafeteria was awarded the Governors
Trophy as the outstanding Employer of
the Year because of their recognized
practices in hiring handicapped persons
on their ability to do a specific job
Walter Leroy Abell Jr of Columbus
was awarded the Governors Trophy as
the outstanding handicapped Georgian of
the Year because of his tremendous ef
forts in overcoming his handicap and the
outstanding strides he has made in de
veloping his own business
NRA CONFERENCE
Continued from page 5
Paul C Howard Assistant Commis
sioner Vocational Rehabilitation Admin
istration Washington D C spoke on the
progress vocational rehabilitation has
made and where do we hope to go from
here
Mr Howard said in part the first vo
cational rehabilitation legislation in 1920
carried with it a Federal appropriation
of 1 million Total Federal and State
spending was 2 million until about 1931
The Presidents budget request for 1967
calls for well over 200 million in Fed
eral funds for basic support to be
matched by State funds which should
bring total expenditures to over 300 mil
lion
In the early days of the program
State participation came slowly Not all
States participated until 1939 and for
many States participation was a real
Walter Leroy Abell Jr of Columbus receives the Governors trophy
as the outstanding handicapped Georgian of the Year from D Douglas
Barnard Executive Secretary to the Governor William A Sims Jr
Chairman Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped
is shown standing behind Mr Abell
struggle Today we have 50 States three
Territories and the District of Columbia
participating fully In addition we now
have as partners in the program a wide
array of private voluntary agencies
The number of people rehabilitated
grew very gradually to 5825 in 1925
Last year there were 135000 rehabili
tantswe hope to have 168500 this year
and over 200000 next year and we can
look forward to the day when we will
rehabilitate 300000 persons a year
When the program started the focus
was primarily on training Gradually
physical restoration and other services
were added to make up the broad scope
of service which we offer for the handi
capped today
We become used to change and so it is
easy to forget how dramatically the pro
gram has grown We can take pride in
this growth Many of you have helped
in bringing this about and many of you
in NRA have helped in shaping a situ
ation under the new legislation in
which we have even greater opportunity
In fact the growth projected under the
new legislation is impressive to the point
of making one run scared
The challenge that lies ahead is per
haps most clearly underlined by the plan
ned growth in rehabilitations Over the
past several years there has been a nor
mal growth of about 10 or 11 a year
in rehabilitations To achieve our goals
of 168500 in 1966 requires a 25 growth
and similarly in 1967 another 25
growth will be required if we are to re
habilitate 210000 people These figures
reflect the imperative of a quickened pace
and a greater rate of achievement said
Howard
Sectional meetings were held covering
specific areas in rehabilitation programs
and topics discussed were Program for
the Blind Workshops and Facilities Spe
cial Education Deaf and the Disability
Determination Unit
E B Whitten Executive Director Na
tional Rehabilitation Association Wash
ington D C served as Toastmaster for
the annual Conference Banquet at which
Hubert A Baldy White Humorist and
Lecturer was guest speaker on the topic
Hopping the High Hurdles
The H B Cummings Award for the
outstanding individual in rehabilitation
during the past year was presented to
John S Prickett Director of the Georgia
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
CaseoftheYear winners were Bob Cole
man Program for the Blind and Bob
Couch Sighted Program
Continued from page 3
Most essential to a survey on this
groups contributions is the moral and
social benefits When a normal individual
sees the manner in which a handicapped
person overcomes his barriers he in turn
is inspired to do his utmost The list of
economic and social contributions is end
less Realization should now prevail of
the contributions of handicapped citizens
lives by their profound personal achieve
ments in society and their manner of
channeling unyielding spirit into con
tributions of sizable dimensionsDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation
Georgia Department of Education
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Dr Herschel C Crawford Passes Away
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Dr Herschel C Crawford Atlanta
physician for 46 years and former Presi
dent of the Geogia Medical Association
passed away recently and will be long re
membered for his invaluable work in the
field of rehabilitation with the Georgia
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
He was one of the original members of
the Medical Advisory Committee when it
was organized in 1943 and served as an
officer as well as a member of the Execu
tive Committee He was instrumental in
formulating and developing the policies
pertaining to the physical restoration
program when it began in Georgia Until
recent years Dr Crawford had attended
every meeting of the Executive Commit
tee and the Medical Advisoy Committee
His major area of concern was in the
field of visual and hearing disabilities
and played an importnat role in the de
velopment of services to handicapped in
dividuals within this area of disability
As a result of the policies which he helped
to develop a great many handicapped
Georgians received services which en
abled them to resume employment
Dr Crawford a native of Toccoa grad
uated from Emory Medical School in 1919
and did postgraduate work in Vienna
Austria and New York City
He was past president of the Georgia
Baptist and Piedmont Hospital staffs and
also served on the staff of Crawford W
Long St Joseph and Henrietta Egleston
hospitals
Dr Crawford was past president of the
Fulton County Medical Society past
president of local and state Eye Ear
Nose and Throat societies and a member
and officer of the board of trustees of
Piedmont Hospital since 1932
He was a member of the board of di
rectors of Blue Cross past president of
Blue Shield member of the American
College of Surgeons and officer and
member of the advisory board of the
State Vocational Rehabilitation Service
Dr Crawford was a member of the
Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church
the Capital City Club Piedmont Driving
Club Homosassa Pishing Club a Scot
tish Rite Mason a Shriner a member of
the Phi Chi medical fraternity and Ca
duceus honorary medical fraternity
Dr Crawford resided at 3000 East Pine
Valley Road NWX
REHABILITATION NEWS

mi
4ik Stroke Victim Proves Himself
Top panel left Mr Fussell lacquers one of his finished articles
Top panel right Mr Fussell points out his calliope circus wagon
Second panel left he stands in the middle of his parade of circus
wagons
Second panel right he is shown carving and putting the finishing
touches on one of his articles
Third panel left Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor T G Louder
milk looks at circus pictures as Mr Fussell explains what they
represent
Third panel right Mrs Fussell stands in all her radiance behind a
displaycase during the grand opening
Bottom panel left an exact scale replica of one of the well known
circus wagons
Bottom panel right from left to right Mr M Ringle owner of the
building Mr Fussell and Mr Loudermilk stand in front of the circus
sign at the shop
James E Fussell owned and managed
his own prosperous Insurance Agency
in Columbus Georgia in early 1958
During that year he suffered a stroke
and was forced to become inactive This
was heightened in 1959 when he suffered
an additional stroke which paralyzed all
extremities
He had gone from leading an active
life as an insurance agency owner and
manager to the inactive life of being an
invalid He remembers now how he used
to be placed in a wheelchair in front of
the TV set and left to watch the pro
grams One one particular day he saw
a program on physical restoration The
program illustrated what could be done
if a person had the determination and
willingness to strive to overcome his
handicap Watching the program so
moved him that he forced himself out of
the wheelchair and fell on the floor and
struggled and strived with utter determi
nation to move
The program had emphasized that a
person should try to develop some trait
or ability He got a 984 knife some
blocks of wood and began to carve He
had decided that his therapy would come
through the use of the knife in carving
articles out of wood He only had the use
of two fingers on one hand when he be
gan and he would hold the knife with
the paralyzed hand and push the blade
along with the two good fingers of his
other hand
Slowly but gradually his eagerness
and determination to be able to move by
himself began to pay off He was re
ferred to vocational rehabilitation in
1964 and when the VR Counselor came
by to see him he was sitting in the mid
dle of the floor whittling By now he was
able to walk with the use of a crutch on
one side and the help of a person on the
other side After examinations voca
tional rehabilitation found him eligible
for services and furnished him the nec
essary tools and equipment required to
advance himself in a career of wood
carving
All his life Mr Fussell had been in
terested in circuses and the big parade
when they came to town As a boy in his
home county of Telfair he would climb
up in a tree to watch the parade and
would help the circus people by putting
up their tents in order to earn money to
buy a ticket to see the show Because of
this deepseated interest in the circus he
decided to carve the circus parade that
would enable all of those children of to
day who had never seen real honest to
goodness circus parades an opportunity
to see one through his carvings
While he was recuperating he read up
on the various circus wagons that be
longed to circuses all over the country
Continued on Page 7AEESC Holds Formal Opening
The Atlanta Employment Evaluation
and Service Center held its formal open
ing May 3 1966 During the formal
opening ceremony S Cantey Gordon
Program Director at AEESC acted as
moderator Reverend Lee Branham Bel
vedere Methodist Church gave the invo
cation and John S Prickett Jr Direc
tor Division of Vocational Rehabilita
tion introduced the guests Charles 0
Emmerich Administrator Economic Op
portunity Atlanta Inc and Dr A P
Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent
of Schools in Charge of Vocational Re
habilitation Services spoke on the pur
pose and meaning of the Center
Mr Emmerich said that the new Cen
ter is an indication of what can be ac
complished when agencies with similar
interests coordinate their efforts and
join together to bring about community
action to get the desired results It is
significant to note that this Center re
flects the work of many for many
In his remarks Dr Jarrell stated
Today marks the culmination of the ef
forts of many dedicated individuals who
have worked diligently to secure better
opportunities for their fellowman The
opening of the Atlanta Employment
Evaluation and Service Center is just one
step in the ladder of progress that we
have seen our city take during the past
few years This step could not have been
taken by any one individual but was
made possible by the pooling of thoughts
and the joining of energies of many
agencies all striving for the same unified
objectivea central evaluation center to
service the needs of all metropolitan
Atlanta
We are not beginning with easily at
tainable goals but we have set our
sights high and hopefully reachable This
year alone between 4000 and 5000 peo
ple all from families of low income in
the metropolitan Atlanta area will re
ceive help toward achieving selfreliance
and productivity in this unique program
which begins full scale operation to
day
The purpose of the Center has been
structured and designed so as to provide
a comprehensive and systematic method
of determining the work potential ca
pacity aptitude training attitude social
and financial needs of the unemployed
underemployed and economically needy
In top left Boisfeuillett Jones President Woodruff Foundation
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge
of Vocational Rehabilitation Services and Charles O Emmerich Ad
ministrator Economic Opportunity Atlanta Inc officiate at the rib
bon cutting
Bottom left evaluators are shown working with clients at the
Center
Top right John S Prickett Director Division of Vocational Reha
bilitation is shown introducing the guests
Second panel right an overall view of those attending the formal
opening
Bottom right shows a counselor two evaluators and a social worker
working with client center in the team approach
youth and adults within the age range
of sixteen to sixtyfive 1665
The end result of the Centers overall
operation is suitable and satisfactory em
ployment and the program is geared to
place the client in an employment situ
ation or training for subsequent employ
ment A complete and systematic follow
up of the client will be underway for a
minimum period of six months following
employment so as to insure proper and
satisfactory adjustment
The operational divisions of this com
prehensive Center are composed of
counseling work evaluation work ad
justment casework education psychia
try researeh statistical and medical
Each division works as an integral part
in the attainment of a complete picture
of the needs problems and goals of the
client
The Atlanta Employment Evaluation
and Service Center holds the distinction
of being the first of its kind in the na
tion and we can be justly proud that
Atlanta was chosen as the location to
initiate such a venture The programs
conducted at the Center will serve as a
demonstration project for other states
to follow in rehabilitating this allim
portant segment of our population and
also aid in determining the need for simi
lar Centers in other areas of the coun
try
Following their remarks Boisfeuillett
Jones President of the Woodruff Foun
dation Dr Jarrell and Mr Emmerich
participated in the ribbon cutting mark
ing the formal opening of the Center
A tour of the facilities followed the cere
mony and was conducted by the staff of
the CenterThe Georgia Vocational
REHABILITATION NEWS
Superintendent Nix Speaks At Cave
Spring Commencement Exercise
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Vol 14 MayJune 1966 No 5
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Jack P Nix
State Superintendent of Schools
Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services
State Office Annex
ALBANY DISTRICT
Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg
4360347
Americus104 E Forsyth
Phone 9246138
Bainbridge218 S West St
Phone CH 64274
Thomasville518 N Broad St
Phone CA 62587
Valdosta305 University Dr
Phone CH 26820
Waycross706 Jane St
Phone AT 30788
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW
Phone 8759941
165 Central Ave SW
6886525
Newnan44 Jefferson St
Phone AL 32408
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT
Gainesville311 Green St
LEnox 61311
Athens110 Hancock Avenue
Liberty 33865
Battey HospitalRome
Phone 2349481
ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia
Trade and Vocational School
Phone 7542922
Rome1102 Avenue C
Phone 2346259
MACON DISTRICT
Macon707 Pine StSuite 1
Phone SH 27321
Columbus307 Fifteenth St
Phone FAirfax 26755
Dublin105 N Franklin St
Phone BR 22230
Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking
Co Bldg
Phone GL 28691
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah35 Abercorn Street
Phone AD 46666
Augusta828 15th St
Phone 7240381
Brunswick 209 First Federal Savings
and Loan Bldg
Phone AM 56541
In top left Superintendent Nix delivers the commencement address
while Fred Sparks Superintendent of the Georgia School for the Deaf
signs for the students
Top right Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services introduces
Superintendent Nix as John Bull Minister to the Deaf First Methodist
Church Tulsa Oklahoma signs
Bottom left Henry Stewart Cedartown member of the State Board
of Education congratulates the students and delivers their diplomas
Bottom right Fred Sparks Henry Stewart Jack P Nix and Dr
A P Jarrell are shown after the commencement exercises
State School Superintendent Jack P Nix gave the commencement
address for the graduating class at the Georgia School for the Deaf
Cave Spring
In his remarks Superintendent Nix said in challenging the group
to greater attainments Let us go forth The torch has been passed
to a new generation born in this century tempered by war dis
ciplined by a hard and bitter peace Proud of our ancient heritage
and unwilling to permit the slow undoing of those human rights to
which this nation has always been committed
These are words spoken by the late John Fitzgerald Kennedy on
the event of his Inauguration as President and I believe they are
most appropriate here tonight The torch has been passed to a new
generation you who are graduating here tonight will be the torch
bearers You must hold your torches high and light the way to a
better world for those who will come after you
Can you do this Are you prepared to be a torchbearer It can
be as simple as A B C I am referring to my own set of ABCS
a accept yourself b better yourself c consecrate yourselfThe Yorks Are
Truly A
Remarkable Family
They say lightning never strikes twice
in the same spot but for the York family
it has struck four times Maggie Alvin
Ava and Jimmy were all healthy babies
when they were born but after several
months for some and several years for
the others they all developed Muscular
Dystrophy
The Yorks are becoming well known as
a gospel singing group and are constantly
becoming more and more in demand
throughout the Southeast They sang as
a quartet up until a few months ago when
Ava who sang tenor for the group
passed away second from left in cover
picture They have had to completely
reorganize and start all over as a trio
Maggie left in cover picture who
formerly sang alto has now switched
over to tenor and Alvin second from
right in cover picture who used to sing
bass is now singing lead and soprano
Jimmy extreme right in cover picture
fills in as baritone They say that they
dont necessarily sing the same part in
all of the songs in their repertory but
swap around to get the best possible
effect while singing
The Yorks are appearing in gospel
concerts and allnight sings churches
and other groups and are quite exhilarat
ing to see and hear
Vocational Rehabilitation and the
Yorks first came together when Maggie
was just a little girl and was referred to
VR through the Summerville Department
of Family and Children Services Voca
tional Rehabilitation furnished her a
course in sewing through the mail and
later sent her to the South Georgia Voca
tional Technical School for training in
leather work and additional training in
sewing Unfortunately she was only able
to stay for eight weeks because a nurse
was not available for services on the
campus during the late 1940s
The Yorks have had no steady means
of support and have been receiving as
sistance from the Department of Family
and Children Services They had sung
together for many years as a group but
had never thought about doing it as a
Continued on Page 7
In top panel Alvin Maggie and
Jimmy are shown during a re
hearsal at their home of some of
their gospel singing
Middle panel left Alvin is shown
with part of his coin collection
Middle panel right Maggie
whose hobby is sewing and crochet
ing is putting the finishing touches
on a beautiful crocheted table cloth
In bottom panel Jimmy is shown
with Mrs York as they display
Jimmys first oil painting which
was drawn from a picture post card
sent to Mrs York 50 years ago by
her brother

AAWB Holds First Regional Conference
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Miss Mary Switzer Commissioner
Vocational Rehabilitation Administra
tion Washington D C delivered the
keynote address on Monday May 9 1966
at the first Southeastern Regional Con
ference of the American Association of
Workers for the Blind
The threeday Conference was designed
to exchange ideas for better understand
ing and for improved development of
programs and services to the blind In
her address Miss Switzer said With
the help of new legislation passed by
Congress that will make possible great
expansion and improvement of vocational
rehabilitation services for people with
various types of disability we confident
ly expect that the State rehabilitation
agencies will double the 5450 blind
individuals they are now rehabilitating to
suitable employment each year
Only 1293 of this 5450 total were
placed in professional occupations semi
professional managerial and official
jobs and other skilled work Miss Switzer
noted The rest went into service oc
cupations agriculture or forestry clerical
or sales work unskilled or semiskilled
jobs sheltered workshops and home
making or family work
In the coming years we will place
more emphasis on preparing blind persons
for higher grade employment Miss
Switzer said Many more than the po
tential for creative work and jobs carry
ing important responsibility than are
presently being placed in such positions
Even today more than 2000 blind men
and women are enrolled in about 400
colleges where they are training for all
kinds of professions Approximately 95
percent of these people are being trained
with support from the Vocational Re
habilitation Administration
Twelve blind students at the Univer
sity of Cincinnati are graduating soon as
trained computer operators Eleven of
them have jobs waiting for them
Blind people who are not fortunate
enough to go to college are entering the
service occupations in increasing num
bers The 704 placements in this kind of
work in 1965 were the largest number in
any category except homemaking and
family work
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State
Superintendent of Schools in Charge of
Vocational Rehabilitation Services wel
comed the group to its first conference
during the opening session and chal
lenged the group to continue to advance
in its program of services to this dis
ability group
Mrs Mary K Bauman CoDirector of
the Personnel Research and Guidance
Center Philadelphia Pennsylvania dis
cussed psychological evaluation and ser
vices for the blind Mrs Bauman is a
leading authority on the development of
scientific methods and techniques for
evaluating the aptitudes and abilities of
the blind individual
Chief of the Division of Services to the
Blind in the Vocational Rehabilitation
Administration Douglas C MacParland
who is blind himself spoke on the voca
tional rehabilitation act amendments of
1965 and Frederick G Storey of Atlanta
reported on the work of the commission
on standards and accreditations of agen
cies serving the blind
The subject of medicare and its effect
Vocational Rehabilitation Commissioner Mary Switzer is shown
addressing the first southeastern regional conference of the American
Association of Workers for the Blind Inc in top left photograph
At top right Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services is shown wel
coming the group Sitting Dr Norman M Yoder President American
Association of Workers for the Blind Inc
on state programs for the blind was
discussed during the Conference
Georgia served as host state to the
Conference at which representatives from
nine states were present These included
Kentucky Virginia North Carolina
Florida Georgia South Carolina Ala
bama Mississippi and Tennessee
Pictured above are students from Atlanta University who are doing
college work to prepare themselves for special education teachers
Through a cooperative agreement with the A P Jarrell PreVoca
tional Center for the Mentally Retarded Dr Mildred Barksdale head
of the Special Education Department at Atlanta University sends her
special education students to the Center as part of their practicum
They supervise and work with students in all phases of the Centers
activities under the supervision of the evaluators in each unit at the
Center At extreme right in picture Kenneth Reynolds Coordinator
of Services at the Center discusses with the students the proper
approach and teaching methods for best results at the CenterSTROKE VICTIM
Continued from Page 2
and wrote a brief history on each wagon
that he decided to carve Mr Fussell had
decided to carve a circus parade out of
wood Georgia pine was used in all of
his carvings a fact that makes Mr
Pussell very proud
When he completed carving his circus
parade VR assisted Mr Fussell in get
ting material with which to build show
cases for each of the wagons Mr Fussell
now carves with great accuracy and
speed and the results of his work are on
display at his business location on High
way 41 three miles north of Marietta
near the town of Kennesaw He is located
in the former Battlerama Building which
was built as a model of the old Hurt
Building the landmark of the war be
tween the states where much of the bat
tle of Atlanta was fought
The big beams which run through the
ceiling of my store remarked Mr Fus
sell came from the old Kimble House
in Atlanta and the walls are made of
old handmade bricks The front door to
his shop also came from the famous
Kimble House When entering the room
where Mr Fussell has his circus parade
on display you come into contact with
an atmosphere of the real oldtime cir
cus By working slowly around the room
you can actually see a complete circus
parade pass in revue while all the time
you hear circus music and a clear narra
tive of the bygone days of the circus
Mrs Fussell works with her husband
in the shop and is a great asset to him
in his work It is indeed a great thrill
and a wonderful experience to visit and
review the circus memories of the past
As Mr Fussell so aptly puts it you re
ceive a history and first hand knowledge
of a mode of life that has come and gone
a mode of life that many of the chil
dren of today do not see There are many
souvenirs for sale in the front of the
shop and it is awfully hard not to buy
something to remind you of the days of
the circus history of the past and the
craft that Mr Fussell has developed and
so aptly uses
YORK FAMILY
Continued from Page 5
profession For ten years they used to
sing for local groups but the man who
acted as their driver moved away and
they no longer had transportation For
over seven years the Yorks were unable
to travel as a singing group and only
sang occasionally at their own church
One night while attending their church
a lady asked them if they would sing for
the group as it had been some time since
she had heard them The Yorks sang
and one individual was so impressed that
she came forward and asked if she could
have a friend of hers contact them about
the possibility of making a record Sure
enough in a few days Chester Capps
came to their home to hear them sing and
could hardly wait to contact his partner
to come hear them also In June of 1965
they cut their first record and have just
recently cut their first LP record for
Chescamp Enterprises
In the fall of 1965 Jimmy contacted
the VR Office in Rome to see if they
would possibly be eligible for services as
they needed sound equipment when they
made their singing appearances They
were pleased to find that they were
eligible for services and vocational reha
bilitation furnished them the necessary
sound equipment which included tape re
corders microphones amplifiers speak
ers and other necessary component parts
for good sound reproduction
They realized they needed some form
of transportation to get them to the
various churches civic groups and gospel
sings so they decided to see what they
could do about getting a small van In
Summerville they applied and received
a small business loan from the County
Agent and were told that this was the
first time that they had made a loan to
help in the purchase of a transportation
vehicle but they felt that it was for a
good cause
The Yorks all have hobbies and spend
much of their spare time cultivating
these interests Alvin paints and the re
sults of his labor are shown in the picture
with his mother holding one of his recent
paintings He first started to paint by
taking a correspondence course in paint
ing and has progressed rapidly for a
person who has had no personal instruc
tions
Jimmy has been a coin collector for
many years and sold the major portion
of his collection a few years ago and is
just starting back again It is best not
to have any loose coins jingling in your
pocket if Jimmy is around as he will want
to know the date and condition of the
Maggies favorite passtime is crochet
ing and she has become quite adept at
all the intricate patterns
The Yorks grew up in the Chattooga
County area in the Harrisburg communi
ty Maggie was eleven months old when
she started walking and at 15 months

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Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State
Superintendent of Schools in
Charge of Vocational Rehabilita
tion standing is shown extending
a welcome to the Regional Training
Conference on Heart Disease Can
cer and Stroke sponsored by
Emory University Rehabilitation
Research and Training Center and
Region IV Vocational Rehabilita
tion Administration held May 11
13 1966 Representatives from
Florida South Carolina Alabama
Tennessee and Mississippi were in
attendance at the threeday con
ference
she suffered a severe fever that was
later diagnosed as Muscular Dystrophy
She went to the ScottishRite Hospital
in Atlanta at the age of six and con
tinued going for different intervals of
time until the age of 14 They all went
to Lexington Kentucky in 1938 and to
Warm Springs in 1940 for examinations
to see if any physical therapy could
alleviate or help their condition Jimmy
and Alvin were able to move about by
themselves by crawling Jimmy until the
age of 13 and Alvin until the age of 17
All of the Yorks have the talent of
writing songs and each has written some
of the songs they sing at some of their
performances The Summerville Depart
ment of Family and Children Services has
recognized the effort that the Yorks are
putting forth in utilizing their talents to
the best of their ability in becoming self
supporting independent citizens The
Yorks realize that if and when they
receive a substantial income that the
assistance which they are now drawing
from the Department of Family and
Children Services can be used elsewhere
to help other needy citizens
The Department of Family and Chil
dren Services is giving the Yorks every
opportunity to gain their selfsupport
and is continuing their assistance until
such time they feel the Yorks are self
sustaining
If you ever hear about a gospel sing
be sure and check to see if the Yorks
are on the program for if they are you
had best plan to be in the audience or
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Open House Held At Gracewood
Rehabilitation Residence
The Vocational Rehabilitation and Gracewood State
School and Hospital staff held an Open House Friday
June 3 1966 at the Rehabilitation Residence Mod
erator for the Open House Program was John S
Prickett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilita
tion Ruben V Johnson Chaplain Gracewood State
School and Hospital delivered the invocation and
William A Crump Program Supervisor Services for
the Mentally Retarded and Handicapped Young Of
fenders introduced the guests Remarks were heard
from Lewis Davis Assistant Regional Representative
VRA Dr Norman Pursley Superintendent Grace
wood State School and Hospital and Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge
of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Dr Jarrell in his remarks stated that this reha
bilitation residence was made available through a
cooperative agreement between the Department of
Public Health and the Georgia Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation and represents one of many joint
ventures being conducted by the two state agencies
He stated that this gathering of individuals dedi
cated to the rehabilitation of their fellowman
portrays a vivid picture to me of the untiring efforts
that are culminating here today with this offical
opening of this Rehabilitation Residence
A tour of the Rehabilitation Residence was
conducted at the conclusion of the ceremony and
refreshments were served This is the second
transitional rehabilitation residence for the mentally
retarded The first residence was opened in Atlanta
in March of 1966 and similar residences are planned
for Augusta and other areas throughout the state
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Above left to right Lewis R
Davis Asst Reg Rep VRA
Ruben V Johnson Chaplain GSSH
Dr A P Jarrell John S Prickett
Jr William A Crump and Dr
Norman Pursley
Bottom right Dr Jarrell and
Dr Pursley cut the ribbon at the
openingREHABIL
NEWS
hronic alcoholic court offenders receive
VR SERVICES under new project
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SEE STORY ON PAGE 5Top picture shows members of the group therapy project discuss
ing similar problems with Dr Norman Kaplan Psychological Counsul
tant Savannah District and Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist Pete
OMillian as another vocational rehabilitation counselor sits in to
observe the sharing of ideas within the group
In bottom picture Mr OMillian left in picture and Dr Kaplan
discuss the progress that is being made by the group They are plan
ning similar group therapy sessions in other vocational rehabilitation
programs where they feel that this will be an invaluable tool in helping
the clients readjust to employment situations
Group Therapy
Project In Savannah
The Savannah District has under
taken a rather unique approach in
helping some of the vocational re
habilitation clients gain selfconfi
dence and the proper attitude to
ward employment Dr Norman
Kaplan Psychological Consultant
to the Savannah District suggested
that it might be advantageous to
offer group therapy to the AD
AFDC clients as well as VR clients
The suggestions of this idea came
in September of 1965 and it was
presented to the Savannah District
for approval The project actually
got underway in May of 1965 and
has been working extremely well
since that time
Some of the members of the
original group who were receiving
group therapy are still with the
group Others have gone on to ac
cept employment and work in a
confident manner In all 14 voca
tional rehabilitation and ADAFDC
clients have received services
through the group therapy ses
sions
Vocational Rehabilitation Speci
alist Pete OMillian who works
closely with Dr Kaplan with the
group stated that the sessions offer
a tremendous learning situation
They represent a good inservice
type training and give the VR
Counselor an opportunity to gain
insight into the dynamics feelings
and thoughts of the group and give
the counselor an opportunity to see
how he relates to the group
Many clients do not feel compet
ent or feel that they are ready for
employment The group therapy
sessions give the client an oppor
tunity to express himself and talk
about these problems that tend to
make him unemployable by discuss
ing what they feel to be inadequa
cies They are able to alleviate
tensions and anxiety that might
keep them from obtaining a job
These discussions help them to de
termine and accept the fact that
they are employable and competent
and have the ability to seek em
ployment and maintain a proper
attitude toward their work
The group therapy sessions offer
good motivation to the client and
help him understand his own per
sonal situation By hearing other
clients in similar situations talk
about their problems and how they
have overcome them all the clients
are able to benefit from these ex
periences and realize that they all
have similar obstacles to overcome
The sessions have been so well
accepted that in the near future
others will be started so as to offer
the client every possible opportun
ity to gain satisfactory employment
through understanding that the
right attitude toward employment
must be evident before he can make
a satisfactory and competent em
ployeeAlbany Rehabilitation Residence Dedicated
Georgias third rehabilitation residence
for the emotionally ill was dedicated
Friday July 1 1966 Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in Charge of Rehabilitation Ser
vices Dr Addison Duval Director Divi
sion of Mental Health Department of
Public Health Dr James Craig Super
intendent Milledgeville State Hospital
and Mrs G Frank Dye Chairman Re
habilitation Residence Community Advis
ory Committee and Vice President Geor
gia Association of Mental Health deliv
ered brief remarks during the dedication
ceremony
Dr Jarrell said in part The dedica
tion of this rehabilitation residence
marks another milestone in our efforts to
provide adequate aftercare and reha
bilitation programs in the communities
of our great state Today more than 100
rehabilitation residences are operating
successfully throughout the United
States with the majority of these having
been developed within the last 10 years
This illustrates the rapid and widespread
acceptance by communities of the nead
for such specialized aftercare facilities
Living in a Rehabilitation Residence
permits people to maintain continuity of
life secure jobs keep jobs friends con
tacts while escaping from domestic
tensions with which they or their families
cannot cope Upheavals on both ends
cutting ties with the community to enter
the hospital and problems of rehabilita
tion and reemployment on leaving may
be prevented by moving into a Rehabili
tation Residence
Our first Rehabilitation Residence
opened November 1964 and the second
one became operational in April 1965
Unquestionably these programs have
proven the value of transitional facilities
in the rehabilitation of chronic mentally
ill individuals As of this date 118 clients
have had the benefit of services offered
through the Rehabilitation Residence
Program and seventyfive per cent have
been placed in employment or training
This effective demonstration is an incen
tive for other communities in the State
to request similar facilities A fourth
residence will be dedicated in Columbus
July 28 1966 and one is scheduled to
open in Augusta within four months and
within two years one in Savannah Ma
con and Rome
Dr Duval outlined a threepoint pro
gram for solving many of the problems
now facing the state mental health pro
gram 1 To develop a fine modern and
dispersed state hospital system with
facilities located in seven to nine of the
larger populated Centers in Georgia 2
The development of community mental
health programs which is an integral
part of any health program 3 The
development and training of qualified
professionals to work in the mental
health field It may be necessary Dr
Duvall said to build our own training
and research centers to produce the re
quired number of qualified personnel
Mrs Dye spoke of the local people who
cooperated to help make the rehabilita
tion residence possible and spoke of the
outstanding cooperation among the many
committees commissions and civic or
ganizations who assisted in bringing the
residence into a reality
Continued on page 7
Albanys first Rehabilitation Residence is pictured above which
will house up to 16 women and will serve as a transitional residence
while they are being reorientated into community living The Residence
is located at 518 Oglethorpe Avenue Albany Georgia
Participants in the dedication of the rehabilitation residence in
Albany are from left to right Albany Mayor James V Davis Daniel
Mowrey Dr James Craig superintendent Milledgeville State Hospi
tal Dr David M Wolfe director Public Health Department District
No 20 Mrs Frank Dye vice president Georgia Association of Mental
Health Dr Addison Duval director Division of Mental Health De
partment of Public Health Dr A P Jarrell assistant state super
intendent of schools in charge of rehabilitation services and R Watt
Jr district supervisor Vocational RehabilitationThe Georgia Vocational
REHABILITATION NEWS
Vol 14 JulyAugust 1966 No 6
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
A tlanta
Jack P Nix
State Superintendent of Schools
Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services
State Office Annex
albany district
Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg
4360347
Americus104 E Forsyth
Phone 9246138
Bainbridge218 S West St
Phone CH 64274
Thomasville518 N Broad St
Phone CA 62587
Valdosta305 University Dr
Phone CH 26820
Waycross706 Jane St
Phone AT 30788
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW
Phone 8759941
AtlantaGrady Hospital
5234711
Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE
8735341
DECATUR DISTRICT
ADCUR OFFICE
Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW
6886525
Decatur Room 255 New First
National Bank Bldg
3783671
Carrollton116 Rome Street
8328204
East Point 1777 West Washington
Ave Room 108
7664711
Marietta Professional Arts Building
644 Cherokee St NE
4276521
Newnan44 Jefferson St
Phone AL 32408
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT
Gainesville311 Green St
LEnox 61311
Athens901 CS Bank Bldg
Phone 5491241
Cave Spring7773319
ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia
Trade and Vocational School
Phone 7542922
Dalton132 W Gordon
2261322
Rome1102 Avenue C
Phone 2346259
MACON DISTRICT
Macon707 Pine StSuite 1
Phone SH 27321
Columbus307 Fifteenth St
Phone FAirfax 26755
Dublin107 N Franklin St
Phone 2726700
Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking
Co Bldg
Phone GL 28691
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah35 Abercorn Street
Phone AD 46666
Augusta828 15th St
Phone 7240381
Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5
Phone AM 56541
State Representative And Rome
Commissioner Visit Rome Office
Above pictured during a recent Open House at the Rome Voca
tional Rehabilitation Office are F L Hancock Rome 1st Commis
sioner Richard L Dick Starnes Jr Representative District 13
Post 3 Floyd County P D Bush former Gainesville District Su
pervisor who retired June 30 and C L Zipperer Counselor Rome
area
State Representative Richard L Starnes and Rome 1st Com
missioner F L Hancock visited the new Rome office of Vocational
Rehabilitation during a recent Open House
Representative Starnes a former Vocational Rehabilitation client
himself exemplifies what can be accomplished through determination
drive and a personal will to succeed He graduated from the Mercer
Law School and began practice in Rome His capabilities allowed him
to handle everything from civil cases to criminal trials
Mr Starnes felt the call to represent Floyd County in the State
Legislature and he was elected as Post 3 Representative from District
13
Representative Starnes will be an asset to the Vocational Re
habilitation Program in Georgia and to other agencies whose primary
purpose is increased services for the disabled citizens of GeorgiaAlcoholics Receive Expanded Services
REHABILITATION NEW
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State
School Superintendent in Charge of Re
habilitation Services and Dr Bernard
Holland Chairman of Emory University
School of Medicine jointly announced a
grant in the amount of 338853 to ex
pand vocational rehabilitation services to
the chronicdrunk court offenders The
Federal share for the first year of the
three year grant from the Vocational Re
habilitation Administration is 304968
with a local matching share of the grant
coming from Fulton County and the City
of Atlanta of 33885
The need for such a project was de
monstrated viiJn officials representing
the City of Atlanta Fulton County and a
group of interested business leaders a
greeing to provide the funds for a one
year study of chronicdrunk problems in
the City of Atlanta The study was de
signed to gather pertinent data and make
necessary recommendations based upon
this information as to methods in which
the problems of the chronicdrunk of
fender could be handled more effectively
and efficiently The study began on July
1 1962 and was completed on June 30
1963 The study covered the year 1961
The study was continued in 1963 by Ful
ton County and the City of Atlanta on a
5050 basis until January 1 1966 when
Fulton County financed the study by
itself until initiation of the current pro
ject on June 15 1966
The study revealed that 30000 court
cases for drunkenness were accounted
for by 12000 individuals Of these 12000
individuals onehalf appeared in court
only one time and the other 6000 in
dividuals accounted for the remaining
20000 court appearances Thus the study
clearly demonstrates that the role of a
small number of people in Atlanta could
be considered in the class of chronic
drunk court offender More than 650
appeared in court five or more times and
nearly all came from homes of social dep
rivation and economic needs Many came
from broken homes but a majority of
these individuals suffered from past or
present crippling illness andor injuries
Practically all suffered from neurosis of
one kind or another and approximately
10 were psychotic Those suffering
from tuberculosis in this group was ap
proximately 10 higher than those of
the general population During the four
Above Dr A P Jarrell Assist
ant State School Superintendent in
Charge of Vocational Rehabilita
tion Services Project Director
James A Alford and Dr Bernard
Holland Chairman of Emory Uni
versity School of Medicine look
over the current status of the pro
ject
At right Dr Holland and Dr
Jarrell discuss the plans for the
project during the first year The
first year budget for the three year
project will be 338853
year period from 19571960 the number
arrested from public intoxication in At
lanta increased by 14 from 40821 to
46650 In 1964 records of the Atlanta
Police Department show that 12650
fewer arrests during 1964 than in 1960
A 27 decrease in number of arrests
from 46650 to 34500 This decrease in
arrest came during the period which the
Emory University Alcoholic Project car
ried out the study and experimental
treatment in rehabilitiation services and
shows clearly that the upward trend in
arrests for public intoxication has been
stopped and actually reversed for a signi
ficant decrease
The new project will directly expand
and provide a full range of rehabilitation
services to the chronicdrunk court of
fender who heretofore received very
limited services Project objectives will
be to ascertain which applicants for re
habilitation services have the greatest
potential to return to and remain with a
job comparable with their ability and
based on their physical mental social
and vocational conditions
Site of the new project headquarters of
the Emory Vocational Rehabilitation
Center will be the Kemper Building 41
Exchange Place and will occupy 9500
square feet on the Third Floor The space
occupied by the present alcoholic study
personnel in Grady Memorial Hospial
will also be utilized and afford additional
space These two facilities located only
three blocks apart will make it conveni
ent for the medical staff and other per
sonnel to work close with the staff at the
Kemper Building
The Georgia Division of Vocational Re
habilitation will furnish an associate
director and five vocational rehabilitation
counselors to work in conjunction with
this project The Vocational Rehabilita
tion counselors will provide specialized
VR service throughout the rehabilitation
need of the patient and until he has been
Continued on page 7Annual Staff Conference Preview
Plans for the 1966 Annual Staff Train
ing Conference to be held at Jekyll Is
land Georgia August 1418 1966 have
been announced by Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in Charge of Rehabilitation Ser
vices
Dr Jarrell stated Each successive
conference has been one of the highlights
of each years activities and have proved
highly educational and informative Al
though they have reached such a high
level the program planning committee
somehow manages to find ways for im
provement and offers an even more out
standing group of conference partici
pants
Some of the program highlights this
year will include Corbett Reedy Region
al Representative Vocational Rehabilita
tion Administration Charlottesville
Virginia who will deliver the inspiration
al address Vocational Rehabilitation
Faces New Challenges Dr A P
Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent
of Schools in Charge of Vocational Re
habilitation Services The Status of the
Disability Program Today Paul Webb
Director Division of State Operations
Bureau of Disability Insurance Balti
more Maryland A New Approach to
the Rehabilition of Alcoholics Dr
James A Alford Director Vocational
Rehabilitation Emory University Al
coholic Project Atlanta Banquet speak
er Dr George P Donaldson Executive
Secretary of the Georgia Agriculture
Commodity Commission for Peanuts
Tifton Georgia as well as many other
outstanding and informative panels and
speakers
A copy of the Conference program fol
lows
August 1418 1966
Aquarama Jekyll Island Georgia
PROGRAM
Sunday August 14 1966
600 800 P M Registration
Monday August 15 1966
730 830 A M Registration
PRESIDING E K BELL
840 850Welcome Ralph Croft
850 900Welcome Judge A J Hartley
900 905Response E L Craft
905 920Devotional Rev M S May
920 950Inspirational
AddressCorbett Reedy
9501020Vocational Rehabilitation
Faces New
ChallengesDr A P Jarrell
10201040Break
PRESIDING J L HISE
10401100Implications of the 1965
Amendments to the Social
Security Act Paul Webb
11001130PanelNRA and Its Con
tribution to Vocational Re
habilitation E L Craft
Moderator John S Prickett
Jr C E Thomas James A
Ash
11301200Why Dont We Make Up
Our Minds Jack P Nix
1200 130 P M Lunch
PRESIDING SHELTON McLELLAND
130 430Introduction S McLelland
SelfAppraisal Dr D Wade
Appraisal of Clients
Dr Thomas L Porter and
Dr John Barry
Summary S McLelland
230 250Break
250 430 OASI Sectional Meeting
The Status of the Disability
Program Today Paul Webb
Question and Answer Period
Tuesday August 16 1966
PRESIDING T M McCOLLUM
830 835 A M Invocation S Mitchell
8351200Introduction S McLelland
Improving Quality of Ser
vice Through Better Use of
Consultation
Rehabilitation Con
sultation E E Kennedy
Psychological Consulta
tion Dr H O Harasch
Medical Consultation
Dr Caroline Williams
Psychiatric Consultation
Dr L W Marshall
Social Work Consultation
Dr Charles A Stewart
SummaryS McLelland
Twenty minute break will
be takentime determined
by Mr McCollum
1200 130 P M Lunch
PRESIDING JOHN S PRICKETT JR
130 430Services Available at Cen
ters and Facilities
W A Crump Cantey Gor
don Dr Robert L Bennett
Robt M Long W C Petty
Vernon Vinson
Twenty minute break will
be takentime determined
by Mr Prickett
130 430OASI Sectional Meeting
The Status of the Disability
Program in the Atlanta Re
gion and the Developments
in the Regional Office
Josiah A Flournoy
Discussion of Work Evalua
tion Center Cases
Wednesday August 17 1966
PRESIDING GORDON HAYGOOD
830 835 A M Invocation W Seats
835 905Appraisal Procedures for
Vocational Technical School
Students Dr G Bottoms
9051135Introduction S McLelland
The CounselorEmployer
Relationship Gordon
Haygood Moderator Lou
Ortale W A Sims Jr A
B Eckerson
Summary S McLelland
11351200Medical Research in the
Field of Ophthalmology
Dr Froncie A Gutman
Twenty minute break will
be takentime determined
by Mr Haygood
1200 130 P M Lunch
PRESIDING M B BRAMBLETT
130 150Report from the Merit
System E L Swain
150 250PanelNew Hope in Re
habilitating Pulmonary and
Other Respiratory Diseases
M B Bramblett
Moderator Dr Frank And
erson Dr Samuel B Chy
atte A E Kitchens T Z
Tatum
250 310Break
310 500PanelA New Approach to
the Rehabilitation of Al
coholics Dr James A
Alford Moderator Lyndon
Wade Rev Bob Jones
Bruce Herrin Dr David
Wade R Gerald Kersey
BANQUET
730930 P M
Invocation Rev McCoy Johnson
Toastmaster John S Prickett Jr
Music
Presentation of Awards S McLelland
Introduction of Speaker Dr A P Jarrell
Address Dr George P Donaldson
Benediction Rev McCoy Johnson
Thursday August 18 1966
PRESIDING DR THOMAS P
GOODWYN
900 905 AM Invocation W C Dendy
9051000Research in Cancer and Its
Implications for Vocational
Rehabilitation
Dr A H Letton
10001015Break
PRESIDING DR RIVES CHALMERS
10151200Rehabilitation Potential in
Heart Cases Frank
Creech Moderator Dr
Mary Skorapa Dr Samuel
B Chyatte
1200
Closing Remarks Dr
A P JarrellRehabilitation Pioneers Retire After 23 Years
P D Bush left receives a certi
ficate of appreciation from Dr A
P Jarrell for his outstanding ser
vice as a member of the Vocational
Rehabilitation Staff
Powell D Bush Gainesville District
Supervisor retired July 1 after 23 years
of service with the Georgia Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
Mr Bush came with the VR Program
in 1943 after serving 22 years in the
field of education On his retirement he
had served a total of 45 years with the
Department of Education He was pro
moted to Gainesville District Supervisor
in October of 1963 and held this position
until his retirement
Mr Bush was honored with a retire
ment dinner on July 8 and was presented
with an electic trolling motor for his
boat and a photograph album with a
picture of all the staff members in it
He returns to teaching this fall as a
professor at Brenau College
Albany Rehabilitation
Continued from page 3
Milledgeville Hospital Superintendent
Dr James Craig said The patient
needs to stand on his own feet after
release from the hospital Dr Craig
praised the local residences as a vital
part of mental rehabilitation
Albany Mayor James V Davis extended
greetings to the crowd of over 100 per
sons attending the dedication and called
the opening of the residence a new de
velopment in the attitude of the com
munity in recognition of mental rehabili
tation
The rehabilitation residence has a
maximum capacity of 16 clients Refer
rals to the residence are accepted from
the state mental hospital andor the com
munity on the basis of need and capabili
ty of functioning satisfactorily both vo
cationally and socially The residence
has two bedrooms downstairs and eight
bedrooms upstairs a kitchen den living
room dining room and plans for a re
creation room will be completed soon
The clients are in charge of cleaning
and maintaining the fully furnished and
equipped residence and are encouraged
to participate in community social and
civic activities as well as the vocational
aspects The staff at the residence in
cludes houseparents Mrs Elizabeth
Mowrey and Mrs Prudence Musgrove
Mrs Jeanette Davis dietician Allan
Russell psychiatric social worker Dr
Above Beverly and Mrs Gaines are shown smiling with delight
after Mr Gaines was presented with a 19 inch television set
William Beverly Gaines Supervisor
Program for the Blind retired July 1
after over 23 years of service with the
Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili
tation
Mr Gaines came with the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation in 1943 after
serving 17 years as an educator He
recently received a certificate from Gov
ernor Carl Sanders in recognition of 40
years of faithful and devoted services to
the state of Georgia all of which were
conducted in the Department of Educa
tion He was promoted to Supervisor of
Services for the Blind on July 1 1952 a
position which he held until retirement
A retirement dinner was held in his
honor on July 5 and he was presented
with a 19 inch GE Television Set as a
token of appreciation from the staff
members of Vocational Rehabilitation
Mr Gaines recapped some of the high
lights of his years with Vocational Re
habilitation and brought back many fond
memories for the many other Rehabili
tation staff members who have been with
the Agency over the years
Dr A P Jarrell presented Mr Gaines
with a certificate of appreciation for his
years of service with the Vocational Re
habilitation Division
Mr Gaines challenged the Division to
continue on in their upward surge for
greater services to the blind of our state
and offered his many years of service
and experience to the Division at any
time we need assistance
Allen Turner psychiatric consultant and
Hugh Mitchell Rehabilitation Specialist
from the Albany office of vocational re
habilitation
Alcoholics Receive
Continued from page 5
able to achieve optimum employment ad
justment The Atlanta Employment
Evaluation and Service Center administ
ered by Vocational Rehabilitation will
be a major resource for the project
The Center provides a complete and
systematic method of training placing
the client on a job or in training with a
systematic followup of the client con
tinuing for a minimum of six months
The Emory Rehabilitation Center will
be staffed by an interdisciplinary team
consisting of social workers physicians
psychiatrists VR counselors psycholo
gists and eventually a nurse and health
educator The patients eligible for service
will be referred to the Center from
Evaluation Centers Economic Opportuni
ty of Atlanta Municipal Court Police
Department hospitals and other social
and health agencies Upon entering the
Rehabilitation Center extensive examina
tions and testing to include psychiatric
psychological and physical examinations
and social and vocational screening will
be conducted Based on results of these
examinations the patient will be classed
according to the degree of his ability and
suitable rehabilitation procedures will be
initiated
Director of the new project is James
A Alfred who conducted the original
study of the chronic drunk court offender
in 1962
The project offers the metropolitan
Atlanta area a great opportunity to
drastically reduce one of the problems
affecting society today With the initia
tion of the project the alcoholics within
the community will receive greater bene
fits and service than in the past
The project has received much as
sistance from Economic Opportunity of
Atlanta in initiating the project and
Grady Memorial Hospital for furnishing
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REHABILITATION NEWS
Georgia Statewide Planning Project Underway
umvEBsrrY os Georgia
OCT 4 1966
UBBARI
STATEWIDE PLANNING FOR VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
A 1965 amendment to the Vocational
Rehabilitation Act has made it possible
for the Georgia Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation to receive a federal grant
to finance a statewide comprehensive
plan for the development of vocational
rehabilitation services
The amendment passed Nov 8 1965
made available to each state sums to
100000 each year for two fiscal years
Georgia was one of the first states in
the Union to apply for and receive these
funds On May 15 1966 the Georgia Di
vision of Vocational Rehabilitation was
notified that Georgia was granted
99767 for the fiscal year 196667 to
finance a proposed study Funds are
available to continue the study during
the next fiscal year
A fourmember professional staff is
being recruited
In the words of the Amendment to the
Vocational Rehabilitation Act Public
Law 89333 this grant is to meet the
cost of planning for the development of
a comprehensive vocational rehabilitation
program with a view to achieving
the orderly development of vocational
F E Wynn
Assistant Program Supervisor
rehabilitation services in the State in
cluding vocational rehabilitation services
provided by private nonprofit agencies
and making vocational rehabilitation
services available to all handicapped in
John L Jackson
Associate Coordinator
dividuals in the State by July 1 1975
Congress in commenting on the amend
ment said that the purpose of this new
program of twoyear grants was to pre
pare States for the development of their
vocational rehabilitation services for the
next decade
The objectives of the plan call for the
cooperation of all agencies in the state
interested in the rehabilitation of the
handicapped including state agencies
and private nonprofit organizations
Dr A P Jarrell assistant state super
intendent of schools in charge of voca
tional rehabilitation said this planning
project is the first attempt in Georgia to
put together and develop a comprehen
sive plan to coordinate all efforts made
by both private and public agencies to
rehabilitate the disabled citizens of the
state
It is generally recognized he said that
there is duplication of services in some
areas and a growing need for better
coordination of services between agen
cies Dr Jarrell added that it is too easy
for a planning project to concentrate
on data collection and to neglect the
processing of the data into a functional
or operational plan A goal of this study
is the implementation of its findings he
said
Guidelines for conducting the study
project were supplied by the Vocational
Rehabilitation Administration Accord
ing to these guidelines the specific ob
jectives of the project are these
1 To identify by number and cate
gory those disabled within the state who
are in need of vocational rehabilitation
services by means of sample studies of
the handicapped population and use of
past studies and reports
2 To prepare a written plan which
will identify analyze and evaluate pro
gram goals the staff and financial sup
port needed to achieve these goals with
full geographic coverage by all programs
offering vocational rehabilitation serv
ices This will include planning for
special facilities and workshops for the
handicapped
3 To identify the barriers that pre
vent or delay needed vocational rehabili
tation services for the handicapped
4 To identify vocational rehabilita
tion resources required to meet future
needs including the necessary legislative
action community support costs and
steps required to facilitate the achieve
ment of statewide goals among the
government and voluntary programs at
state and local levels These should be
expressed in both interim and longterm
goals
5 To determine the ways in which
governmental and voluntary programs
may be coordinated and reorganized if
necessary in developing services to meet
more effectively demonstrated needs
The planning project has been planned
to insure contact with all major profes
sional lay groups in the state known to
have or likely to have an interest in
rehabilitation of the disabled
The project will be carried out by a
Policy Board and Citizens Advisory
Committee in addition to the professional
staff
The Policy Board at the top of the
organizational structure will be com
posed of leaders from the State Legisla
ture governmental agencies voluntary
agencies business and the professions
The Policy Board will be charged with
the responsibility of determining broad
policy under which the project will
operate
The Citizens Advisory Committee will
be made up of representatives from or
ganizations which already are active in
or interested in rehabilitation fields such
as civic church and service organiza
tions
Some of these are Associated Indus
tries of Georgia Mental Health Associ
ation Georgia Association for Retarded
Children Georgia Heart Association
Georgia Tuberculosis Association Geor
gia Association for Cerebral Palsy Geor
gia Society for Crippled Children and
Adults Alcoholics Anonymous and Pa
rentTeacher Associations
Like the Policy Board members of the
Citizens Advisory Committee will be
named by the governor
Four major task forces will work un
der the leadership of the Policy Board
and the primary staff
Task Force I will be for data collec
Paul Carden
Project Information Officer
Continued on page 6Fourth Rehabilitation Residence Dedicated
Georgias fourth Rehabilitation Resi
dence for the Emotionally Disturbed
was dedicated July 8 1966 in Columbus
Georgia The new ColumbusMuscogee
County Rehabilitation Residence is the
realization and the results of efforts of
many individuals agencies and organi
zations and can truly be termed a com
munity effort
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State
Superintendent of Schools in Charge of
Vocational Rehabilitation Services
stated at the dedication ceremony that
the vocational rehabilitation goal is to
raise the number of rehabilitated emo
tionally disturbed individuals from 1000
this year to a minimum of 2500 by 1970
He stated Today more than 100 half
way houses are operating successfully
throughout the United States with the
majority of these having been developed
within the last ten years This illustrates
the rapid and widespread acceptance by
communities of the need for such special
ized aftercare facilities He mentioned
the recommendations regarding after
care and rehabilitation made by the Joint
Commission on Mental Health in 1961
The objective of modern treatment
of persons with major mental illness
is to enable the patient to maintain
himself in the community in a normal
manner To do so it is necessary 1
to save the patient from the debilitat
ing effects of institutionalization 2
to return him to home and community
life as soon as possible and 3 there
after to maintain him in the commun
ity as long as possible
Dr Jarrell stated that transitional
facilities such as Rehabilitation Resi
dences can fit this prescription for
people who have no home to which they
can return from the hospital or who are
not able to live satisfactorily alone or
with their families When a person is
hospitalized for an extended period of
time he is faced with problem situations
which are precipitated by his illness and
the accompanying period of hospitaliza
tion The individual is seldom free from
complications which may provide a basis
for malfunctioning and rehospitalization
For many their vocational pursuits have
been disrupted and to further compli
cate the problem such persons have lost
status in the community and too the
period of illness and hospitalization has
frequently interfered with and changed
the persons social role especially his
familys The individual has been alien
ated from conventional social values and
rendered susceptible to abnormal pres
sures and more than likely he does not
have the degree of emotional strength
he once had to deal with the problems
and stresses of life This of course
makes the person feel apprehensive and
insecure Handicaps that must be com
pensated for and coped with in a con
structive fashion become highly accentu
dated reality factors when the client en
ters the commmunity
Living in a Rehabilitation Residence
permits people to maintain continuity
of ijfesecure jobs keep jobs friends
contactswhile escaping from domestic
tensions with which they or their fami
lies cannot cope Upheavals on both ends
cutting ties with the community to en
ter the hospital and problems of rehabili
tation and reemployment on leaving
Continued on page 7
In top panel is shown Columbus
Rehabilitation Residence located at
518 Oglethorpe Avenue
In middle panel from left to right
are Morton Harris Past President
Columbus Jaycees Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in Charge of Rehabilitation
Services Dr Addison Duval Direc
tor Division of Mental Health De
partment of Public Health Mrs
Charles R Smith Chairman Re
habilitation Residence Community
Advisory Committee and President
Muscogee Mental Health Associa
tion Rev C B Parker Minister of
Education First Baptist Church
Alton R Ray Specialist Vocational
Rehabilitation and Lee R Grogan
President Georgia Junior Chamber
of Commerce
In bottom right panel George Cor
radino Chairman Columbus Jaycees
Fund Raising Program for the Re
habilitation Residence and Alcoholic
Clinic receives a national award in
behalf of the group from State Jay
cee President Lee Grogan
The Georgia Vocational
REHABILITATION NEWS
AWARDS PRESENTED
I
Vol 15 SeptOct 1966 No 1
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Jack P Nix
State Superintendent of Schools
Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services
State Office Annex
albany district
Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg
4360347
Americus104 E Forsyth
Phone 9246138
Bainbridge218 S West St
Phone CH 64274
Thomasville518 N Broad St
Phone CA 62587
Valdosta305 University Dr
Phone CH 26820
Wayoross706 Jane St
Phone AT 30788
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW
Phone 8759941
AtlantaGrady Hospital
5234711
Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE
8735341
DECATUR DISTRICT
ADCUR OFFICE
Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW
6886525
Decatur Room 255 New First
National Bank Bldg
3783671
Carrollton116 Ms Rome Street
8328204
East Point 1777 West Washington
Ave Room 108
7664711
Marietta Professional Arts Building
644 Cherokee St NE
4276521
Newnan44 Jefferson St
Phone AL 32408
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT
Gainesville311 Green St
LEnox 61311
Athens901 CS Bank Bldg
Phone 5491241
Cave Spring7773319
ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia
Trade and Vocational School
Phone 7542922
Dalton132 W Gordon
2261322
Rome1102 Avenue C
Phone 2346259
MACON DISTRICT
Macon707 Pine StSuite 1
Phone SH 27321
Columbus307 Fifteenth St
Phone FAirfax 26755
Dublin107 N Franklin St
Phone 2726700
Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking
Co Bldg
Phone GL 28691
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah35 Abercorn Street
Phone AD 46666
Augusta828 15th St
Phone 7240381
Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5
Phone AM 56541
Shelton McLellan Associate Regional Representative Vocational Re
habilitation Administration Atlanta Georgia left in above picture
is shown presenting plaques to Alton Ray Rehabilitation Specialist
Columbus recipient of the Curry Award George Mau Counselor for
the Blind and James Miller Assistant Program Supervisor of Services
at Milledgeville State Hospital recipients of the CaseoftheYear
Awards from the Georgia Rehabilitation Association
At the Awards Banquet during the 22nd Annual Staff
Training Conference Shelton McLellan Associate Regional
Representative Vocational Rehabilitation Administration
Atlanta Georgia presented Georgias outstanding counselors
awards m recognition of their contributions to rehabilitation
Alton Ray Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist for psy
chiatric cases in the Columbus area was presented GRCAs
Curry Award He has won both the state and Region IV NRA
nomination for the Elkins Award for outstanding counselor
of the year and is currently competing for the national award
to be announced at the National Rehabilitation Association
Meeting m Denver Colorado during the first week of
October
George Mau Counselor for the Blind and James Miller
Assistant Program Supervisor of Services at Milledgeville
State Hospital were recipients of the CaseoftheYear
Awards for the Blind and Sighted Programs
Criteria used for judging evaluating and selecting the
Counselors CaseoftheYear are 1 Quality and complete
ness of survey information 2 The severity of problems
to be solved 3 The adequacy of services provided to solve
these problems and 4 The suitability of job placement
and justification for closureStaff Training Conference
Draws 1000
Georgias 22nd Annual Staff Training
Conference drew over 1000 individuals
as the leaders in all phases of vocational
rehabilitation gathered together to re
port on the latest developments accom
plishments and future endeavors of vo
cational rehabilitation
In the inspirational address of the Con
ference Corbett Reedy Regional Repre
sentative Vocational Rehabilitation Ad
ministration Charlottesville Virginia
spoke on the new meaning of rehabilita
tion He compared the traditional meas
ures which included the economic values
and humanitarian values He talked to
the group about the new context of vo
cational rehabilitation and our concern
for disadvantaged people This new con
cept includes the culturally deprived the
chronically dependent the poor the
school dropout the chronically ill and
the disabled Each year he stated an
additional 450000 Americans become dis
abled and are added to the roles of the
handicapped For each person rehabili
tated last year three others were in the
process making the total served last year
of approximately 600000
Dr Jarrell speaking on Vocational
Rehabilitation Faces New Challenges
stated that it was necessary to expand
services and facilities and to increase the
use of all available resources to improve
the states services to the handicapped
To stay up with the challenges current
ly facing the Georgia Division of Voca
tional Rehabilitation we must move
ahead with the following programs
1 A statewide planning study for the
purpose of finding out what serv
ices will be needed to provide reha
Contd on page 7
In top left panel Dr George P
Donaldson Executive Secretary
Georgia Agricultural Commodity
Commission for Peanuts Tifton
presents the banquet address as
those in picture in top right panel
listen attentively
Second panel left shows a scene
during a conference session
Second panel right Dr David
Wade Administrative Medical
Consultant Texas Education
Agency Austin Texas is shown
speaking on his topic SelfAp
praisal
In third panel left Lou Ortale
President Job Placement Division
National Rehabilitation Associa
tion and State Placement Consult
ant Division of Vocational Rehabi
litation Des Moines Iowa is shown
speaking on the counseloremployer
relationship
In third panel right is Brunswick
counselor E L Craft Brunswick
City Manager J Ed Hulse and
John S Prickett talking prior to
opening session
Bottom panel left Dr Jarrell is
shown receiving a special award
from J Kirby Strain Director
Employment Service Division Em
ployment Security Agency Geor
gia Department of Labor
Bottom panel right shows State
School Superintendent Jack Nix
addressing the Conference during
its first day
GEORGIA FIRST IN REGION FIFTH IN NATION
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State
Superintendent of Schools in
Charge of Vocational Rehabilita
tion Services
In reporting on the progress during
the past fiscal year Dr Jarrell states
that Georgia placed first with 8010 re
habilitations in Region IV with Florida
placing second with 6742 Georgia
achieved 10678 percent of its goal again
leading the states in Region IV
For the nation as a whole Dr Jarrell
stated that the Department of Health
Education and Welfare has announced
that more than 154000 disabled men and
women were rehabilitated for jobs dur
ing the year ending June 30 1966
In the number rehabilitated by states
nationally Georgia placed fifth with
its total of 8010 Illinois fourth with
8303 North Carolina third with 9184
New York second with 9 512 and for
the fifth successive year Pennsylvania
lead the nation with 12 338
In the number rehabilitated per 100
000 population Georgia again ranked
fifth with 184 as compared against a
national average of 78 North Carolina
and Arkansas were tied for third with
187 the District of Columbia second
with 217 and West Virginia first with
222
Dr Jarrell stated that the continued
success in the Georgia Rehabilitation
Program is due in large to the dedicated
and conscientious work by our states
vocational rehabilitation counselors The
prime aim of our entire program is to
offer the best possible service to any
eligible disabled citizen and this can be
accomplished by continuing to move for
ward as we have in the past
STATEWIDE PLANNING
Contd from page 2
tion and analysis
Task Force II will analyze previous
statewide and local studies
Task Force III will be responsible for
experimenting with the implementation
of results of selected previous studies
Task Force IV will assimilate the find
ings of the other three task forces and
derive a master plan for development of
Vocational Rehabilitation based on these
findings
The majority of the professional staff
has been selected The staff will be
headed by a project coordinator that has
yet to be selected
Already filled are the positions of as
sociate coordinator assistant program
supervisor and informational officer
Three secretaries will also be retained
Heading the project during its forma
tive stages and holding the post of asso
ciate coordinator is John L Jackson a
graduate of the University of Texas Mr
Jackson 28 comes to the Georgia Divi
sion after work with a statewide plan
ning project for the mentally retarded
in his home state of Texas
He is a native of Austin Tex and re
ceived kis BBA degree from the Uni
versity of Texas in 1959 and his MBA
degree from the University of Texas in
1963 He also has completed a years
work toward a doctors degree
In describing the planning project Mr
Jackson said We must survey what we
have in the way of services determine
what we will need in the decade to come
and formulate a plan for getting there
Mr Jackson married the former Kay
Carter of Austin They have one child
a son Jay 2
F E Wynn a longtime veteran in
vocational rehabilitation who has 24
years of experience with the Georgia
Division is assistant program supervisor
of the project
Before being named to the statewide
project Mr Wynn was district super
visor for the Atlanta district for 10
years He was vocational rehabilitation
counselor at Thomasville for 10 years
and counselor for four years at Albany
Prior to entering the field of voca
tional rehabilitation Mr Wynn was a
school teacher and school administrator
He was school superintendent at Ash
burn for three years
He holds an A B degree from Emory
University and was graduated from the
University of Georgia with a masters
degree in 1937
Mr Wynn 56 married the former
Martha Reynolds of Hawkinsville Ga
in 1936 They have two grown sons He
is a native of Pulaski Tenn and moved
to Georgia as a young man
Information officer for the planning
project is Paul Carden a former Atlanta
newspaperman Mr Carden 26 was a
reporter and copy editor for the Atlanta
Times He held a similar position with
the Atlanta Journal
Before coming to Atlanta Mr Carden
was a reporter and columnist for the
Nashville Tennessean Nashville Tenn
He is a native of Washington D C
and received his B A degree from
George Peabody College for Teachers in
1963
During the 196566 school year he
taught English in the Cobb County pub
lic schools
He married the former Mary Lee
Montgomery of Belmont Miss
Mr William A Sims Jr Chair
man Governors Committee on Em
ployment of the Handicapped
William A Sims Jr Chairman of the
Governors Committee on Employment
of the Handicapped spoke at the 22nd
Annual Staff Training Conference of the
Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili
tation Jekyll Island Georgia Speaking
on the Relationship between Employers
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors
and Department of Labor Placement
Specialists he stressed the importance
of understanding the position of each
and their purpose in aiding the handi
capped individual return to employment
He called the attention of the group
to the fact that the properly trained and
placed disabled individual has a better
work record in the area of better produc
tion less absenteeism and has fewer ac
cidents These he said are known
facts that make the handicapped indi
vidual one to be desired because of his
attitude toward work and its meaning to
him
Sims formerly announced that the first
full week of October is National Em
ploy the Physically Handicapped Week
Governor Carl Sanders will officially
make the announcement for Georgias
observance of this Week on September
19 Chairman Sims urged that all local
committees on Employment of the Handi
capped begin their preparations for this
allimportant weekRESIDENCE DEDICATED
Contd from page 3
may be prevented by moving into a Re
habilitation Residence
Georgias Rehabilitation Residence
Program for the Mentally Restored be
gan in 1964 and is a cooperative pro
gram involving the Division of Voca
tional Rehabilitation State Department
of Education the Division of Mental
Health Department of Public Health
and local communities involved Our
first rehabilitation residence opened No
vember 1964 and the second one became
operational in April 1965 A third one
was dedicated in Albany July 1 1966
Unquestionably these programs have
proven the value of transitional facilities
in the rehabilitation of chronic mentally
ill individuals As of this date 144
clients have had the benefit of services
offered through the Rehabilitation Resi
dence Program and 75 have been
placed in employment or training This
effective demonstration is an incentive
for other communities in the State to
request similar facilities A fifth resi
dence is scheduled to open in Augusta
within three months and within two
years one in Savannah Macon and
Rome
Dr Addison Duval director of the
Mental Health Division State Dept of
Public Health emphasized that Georgia
for the first time has a definite blue
print for a comprehensive statewide
mental health plan
In speaking of the changing attitudes
toward emotional illness he stated We
are getting away from the stigma and
disgrace which has historically plagued
the mentally ill the mentally retarded
and alcoholics He emphasized that there
is nothing strange about mental illness
that it is just as understandable as gout
flat feet cancer or heart disease
Mrs Charles R Smith chairman of
the rehabilitation residences community
advisory committee and president of
Muscogee Mental Health Association
served as moderator for the program
which included greetings by Chairman
J R Allen of Muscogee County Commis
sion remarks by Lee R Grogan presi
dent of the Georgia Junior Chamber of
Commerce and Alton R Ray vocational
rehabilitation specialist and an invoca
tion and benediction by the Rev C B
Parker
During the ceremony Mr Grogan pre
sented the National Mental Health
Award of the National Jaycees and the
National Mental Health Association to
George Corradino who accepted the
award in behalf of the Columbus Jaycees
The Jaycees Community Services Coun
cil Area Mental Health Planning Coun
cil and Muscogee Mental Health Asso
ciation were four organizations which
helped raise more than 18000 to aid in
the establishing of the Rehabilitation
Residence
Following the dedication ceremony a
tour of the Rehabilitation Residence was
conducted by the Houseparents Mrs L
Jinright and Mrs B Connor and re
freshments were served
STAFF TRAINING
Contd from page 5
bilitation aid to all disabled in the
state by 1975
2 A statewide planning study of faci
lities and workshops
3 To secure additional state funds for
matching federal allotment for the
purpose of building needed work
shops evaluation and rehabilitation
centers and expansion of staff
4 Expand rehabilitation services to
the emotionally ill so as to rehabili
tate a minimum of 2500 by 1970
5 Expand program of services to the
mentally retarded
6 Develop methods for recruiting
staff
7 Increase our work in research
8 Educate the public on the new a
mendment to the state Constitution
which permits local funds to be used
as state money for matching fed
eral allotment
Paul Webb Director of the Division
of State Operations Bureau of Disabili
ty Insurance Baltimore Maryland
speaking on the status of the disability
program stated that today over 56 mil
lion workers are insured against disabili
ty and adding dependents to the figure
fully 87 percent of the nations popula
tion under 65 is protected should the
breadwinner become disabled A worker
together with his wife and children can
receive up to 30900 monthly if he has a
mental or physical impairment that pre
vents all substantial work how this
affects the people of Georgia is as fol
lows As of December 31 1965 about
30000 disabled workers in Georgia were
receiving monthly benefits totaling
2660000 about 27000 dependents of
these workers were receiving monthly
benefits totaling 1310000 This brings
the total that the disabled program is
paying to the people of Georgia to almost
4000000 per month Nationally the
average for each state is only 27 million
State School Superintendent Jack Nix
spoke on the topic Why Dont We Make
Up Our Minds He stated We talk
about education parents say they want
it teachers say they want it politicians
put it first in their platforms we know
we need it why dont we make up our
minds to have it
The presentday debate about educa
tion can be turned to our advantage We
can take it as evidence of a desire on the
part of the public to improve our educa
tional program Let us capitalize upon
it The debate indicates a tremendous
faith in the power of the public schools
If the critics thought we could not do
better they would leave us alone
If we take advantage of the favorable
climate for educational improvement now
current we can profit from the criticism
and realize some of our goals
In speaking on the role of self ap
praisal for the vocational rehabilitation
counselor Dr David Wade Administra
tive Medical Consultant Texas Educa
tion Agency Austin Texas stated that
the rehabilitation counselor is a human
being like other human beings He is a
professional but in spite of this he may
have certain biases or there may be cer
tain factors which may hinder his maxi
mum effectiveness How the self apprais
al is done individually or as a group is
not quite as important as the fact that
it is being done and the Counselor asking
whether indeed he may have certain bia
ses and then identifying these biases A
second area of bias may very well be a
socioeconomic bias or for that matter
an educational background bias A Coun
selor may not feel that persons from cer
tain socioeconomic groups or certain
races or certain religions are quite as
good risks for rehabilitation as other
groups He may be absolutely correct
in his assumptions The important aspect
here is whether he recognizes these as
sumptions and is then prepared to put
them to the test
Outstanding speakers dominating the
22nd annual Staff Training Conference
and participating in the program as
specialists in the field were Dr James
A Alford Director Vocational Rehabili
tation Emory University Alcohol Proj
ect Emory University School of Medi
cine Department of Psychiatry Atlan
ta Dr Frank Anderson Pediatrician
Augusta Dr Robert L Bennett Execu
tive Director Georgia Warm Springs
Foundation Warm Springs Dr Gene
Bottoms Supervisor Vocational Guid
ance Division of Vocational Education
Atlanta Dn Samuel B Chyatte Psychia
try Atlanta Mr Frank Creech Counse
lor Atlanta Mr A B Eckerson Chief
of Occupational Dictionary and Classifi
cation Section U S Employment Serv
ice U S Department of Labor Wash
ington D C Mr Josiah A Flournoy
Regional Representative Bureau of Dis
ability Insurance Atlanta Dr Froncie
A Gutman Assistant Professor Emory
University Medical School and Director
of Graduate and Undergraduate Oph
thalmology Program at Emory Universi
ty Atlanta Mr Gordon Haygood As
sistant Regional Representative Voca
tional Rehabilitation Administration At
lanta Mr Bruce Herrin Assistant Di
rector Vocational Rehabilitation Emory
University Alcohol Project Emory Uni
versity School of Medicine Department
of Psychiatry Atlanta Dr A H Letton
General Surgeon Atlanta Mr Shelton
McLelland Associate Regional Repre
sentative Vocational Rehabilitation Ad
ministration Atlanta Dr L W Marsh
all Consultant Psychiatrist Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation Yarbrough
Rehabilitation Building Milledgeville
Mr Lou Ortale President Job Placement
Division National Rehabilitation Associ
ation and State Placement Consultant
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Des Moines Iowa Dr Mary Skorapa
Psychiatry Atlanta Mr W A Sims Jr
President Master Manufacturing Com
pany Inc Atlanta Dr Charles A Stew
art Dean College of Social Work Uni
versity of Georgia Athens Mr E L
Swain Director State Merit System
Atlanta and Dr Caroline Williams Dis
trict Medical Consultant Savannah
The Annual Staff Training Conference
banquet was highlighted by a surprise
award presented to Dr Jarrell in recog
nition of his contributions to public
service and employment security The
presentation was made by J Kirby
Strain Director of Employment Service
Division Employment Security Agency
Georgia Department of Labor in behalf
of Labor Commissioner Ben T Huiet
He cited Dr Jarrell for his efforts which
he said enabled the Georgia Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation to receive in
ternational acclaim for meritorious serv
ice
Dr Jarrells closing remarks to the
Conference on Thursday morning Au
gust 18 challenged the group to continue
their efforts to furnish the citizens of
Georgia the best possible services avail
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Georgia Department of Education
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ABILITY COUNTS
Planning Committee On Manpower Needs For
Correctional Rehabilitation Holds Meeting
The Planning Committee for Meet
ing Manpower Needs for Correc
tional Rehabilitation held a recent
meeting in Atlanta Members of
the Committee and alternate mem
bers include Mr Ellis MacDougall
Columbia South Carolina Mr
Charles L Newman Louisville
Kentucky Mr Maurice Harmon
Frankfort Kentucky Mr George
Beto Huntsville Texas Dr A
Polk Jarrell Atlanta Georgia
Mr James E Murphy Washing
ton D C Mr William T Adams
Washington D C Dr John M
McKee Elmore Alabama Mr
Richard A Chappell Athens Geor
gia Miss Margaret M Ryan
Washington D C Mr Louis
Schubert Atlanta Georgia Mr
Shelton McLelland Atlanta Geor
gia Mr W A Crump Atlanta
Georgia
Members from the Southern Re
gional Education Board include
Dr Harold L McPheeters and Dr
Carl A Bramlette
REHABILITATION

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Vocational Rehabilitation Trade School to be built at
Alto Rehabilitation Center See Story Page 5
GEORGIA REHABILITATION
CENTER OFFERS VARIED
TRAINING PROGRAM
The Georgia Rehabilitation Cen
ter in Warm Springs continues to
improve and expand its curricula
and services of vocational training
Vocational rehabilitation train
ing areas currently available at
the rehabilitation center are Gen
eral Drafting Mechanical Draft
ing ClerkStenography Secretari
al Bookkeeping Receptionist Du
ties PBX Operation Small Instru
ment and Watch Repair Small
Engine Repair Duplicating
Machine Operation Radio and
T V Repair Small Electronic
Machine Repair Garment Altera
tions Power Sewing Machine
Operation Slip Cover and Drapery
Construction Reweaving Home
making Business Management
Practices and OnTheJob Train
ing
The pictures at the left show
active vocational training and
evaluation in process and are ex
plained below
TOP PANEL LEFT Student
left and Ralph Drumwright
drafting instructor check progress
being made on assignment
TOP PANEL RIGHT and SEC
OND PANEL LEFT GRC stu
dentclients at work in the small
engine repair training course
SECOND PANEL RIGHT Small
instrument and watch repair in
structor Gerald Walters watches
closely as student follows instruc
tions while making a repair on
one of his costudents watch
THIRD PANEL LEFT Vivi
Erickson physical therapist at
GRC works with student client in
helping him develop confidence
and skills necessary to walk un
aided
THIRD PANEL RIGHT Student
client is making a purchase from
the vending stand operator at the
center The vending stand opera
tion is also used as a training area
for studentclients in small busi
ness and vending stand manage
ment
m
BOTTOM PANEL LEFT Willis
Hall business course instructor
checks the progress students are
making in becoming familiar with
the many types of business ma
chines required by modern busi
ness

BOTTOM PANEL RIGHT Stu
dentclient is shown making re
pairs in the radio TV repair
courseHIGHLIGHTS OF GRA CONFERENCE
The Eighth Annual Meeting of the
Georgia Rehabilitation Association was
held at the Biltmore Hotel on December
12 in Atlanta with nearly 1000 in at
tendance representing the various disci
plines of rehabilitation both public and
private
Robert A Abell Jr president of the
Georgia Rehabilitation Counseling As
sociation presided at the opening session
Outstanding speakers and topics on
Thursdays program included Counsel
ing As A Profession by Dr Thomas L
Porter Coordinator of the Rehabilita
tion Counseling Program at the Univer
sity of Georgia Greetings and Welcome
were given by J J Segars President of
the Georgia Rehabilitation Association
Cardiovascular Disease Scope and
Magnitude by Dr Harold W Whiteman
with a panel discussion on the Implica
tions composed of Linwood Beck Ex
ecutive Director of the Georgia Heart
Association Mrs Bruce Schaeffer Di
rector of the Georgia Department of
Family and Childrens Service L K
Peet Assistant Business Manager At
lanta Newspaper Inc John S Prickett
Director Georgia Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation
On Friday at the Second General Ses
sion Nathan B Nolan PresidentElect
of the Georgia Rehabilitation Associa
tion presided over discussions on Re
habilitation Following a Heart Attack
Various parts of the program included
Coronary Thrombosis Cause and Ef
fect by Dr Joseph A Wilber Treat
ment Management Physical Rehabili
tation by Dr Gordon Barrow Emotion
al and Social Rehabilitation by Miss
Merle Foeckler Associate Professor of
the school of social work at the Univer
sity of Georgia Vocational Rehabilita
tion by Dr Frank H Echols Coordina
tor Rehabilitation Counseling Florida
State University
The climax of the Conference was
the Awards Luncheon at which B R B
Davis was presented the Georgia Coun
selor of the Year Award in recognition
of his outstanding work with the handi
capped This selection automatically
nominates Mr Davis for the National
Elkins Award
GRA PresidentElect Nathan Nolan
presented the Georgia Rehabilitation
Associations Professional Award to Dr
Robert L Bennett Executive Director of
the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
This award is presented annually to the
individual who has made the most signif
icant contribution in the rehabilitation
of the physically handicapped in Georgia
Dr Irving Goldstein chairman of the
Metropolitan Atlanta committee on Em
ployment of the Handicapped announced
the winners of the Metropolitan Atlanta
Area Handicapped Woman of the Year
Handicapped Man of the Year and Em
ployer of the Year the awards were
presented to Marjorie Kendell Douglas
Leland Meeks and the International
Optical Company respectively
The plaques were awarded to the
Handicapped Man and Woman of the
Continued on page 6
TOP LEFT PHOTO James J Segars left Outgoing President of
GRA presents Dr Robert L Bennett with the associations Profes
sional Award TOP RIGHT PHOTO E B Whitten Executive
Director of the National Rehabilitation Association giving luncheon
address CENTER PHOTO Robert Abell presenting B R B Davis
with his award as Georgia Counselor of the Year Shown seated are
the incoming President Nathan Nolan and his wife Ida Bell BOTTOM
PHOTO Dr Irving Goldstein presenting the Metropolitan Atlanta
area awards to Left to Right Leland Meeks Handicapped Man of
the Year International Optical Company Employer of the Year
John Payne receiving the award and Kendell Douglas Handicapped
Woman of the YearThe Georgia Vocational
REHABILITATION NEWS
Vol 15 NovDec No 2
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Jack P Nix
State Superintendent of Schools
Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services
State Office Annex
albany district
Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg
4360347
Americus104 E Forsyth
Phone 9246138
Bainbridge218 S West St
Phone CH 64274
Thomasville518 N Broad St
Phone CA 62587
Valdosta305 University Dr
Phone CH 26820
Waycross706 Jane St
Phone AT 30788
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW
Phone 8759941
AtlantaGrady Hospital
5234711
Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE
8735341
DECATUR DISTRICT
ADCVR OFFICE
Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW
6886525
Decatur Room 255 New First
National Bank Bldg
3783671
Carrollton116 Rome Street
8328204
East Point 1777 West Washington
Ave Room 108
7664711
Marietta Professional Arts Building
644 Cherokee St NE
4276521
Newnan44 Jefferson St
Phone AL 32408
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT
Gainesville311 Green St
LEnox 61311
Athens901 CS Bank Bldg
Phone 5491241
Cave Spring7773319
ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia
Trade and Vocational School
Phone 7542922
Dalton132 W Gordon
2261322
Rome1102 Avenue C
Phone 2346259
MACON DISTRICT
Macon707 Pine StSuite 1
Phone SH 27321
Columbus307 Fifteenth St
Phone FAirfax 26755
Dublin107 N Franklin St
Phone 2726700
Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking
Co Bldg
Phone GL 28691
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah35 Abercorn Street
Phone AD 46666
Augusta828 15th St
Phone 7240381
Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5
Phone AM 56541
LOUIS SCHUBERT RECEIVES SUPERIOR
WORK PERFORMANCE AWARD
Louis R Schubert Regional Representative Region 4 Vocational
Rehabilitation Administration
Louis R Schubert Regional Representative for Vocational
Rehabilitation Administration in Atlanta received the Superior Work
Performance Award for his leadership to the States in Region IV in
developing and expanding vocational rehabilitation services to meet
their goals
Mr Schubert has been Regional Representative of the Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation of the US Department of Health Educa
tion and Welfare since October 1948 He was transferred to Region
IV in August 1957 with headquarters in Atlanta and serves the
following Southeastern States Alabama Florida Georgia Missis
sippi South Carolina and Tennessee This Region consists of six
Vocational Rehabilitation General Agencies and four separate
Agencies for the Blind
The Atlanta region has a history of being in the forefront of
the rehabilitation movement Mr Schubert is playing an important
role in sustaining this tradition and in moving the region even further
in bringing services to all the handicappedVocationalTechnical School to be Erected at Alto
Pictured above is the architectural rendering of the proposed 12
million vocationaltechnical school to be constructed at the Georgia
Industrial Institute at Alto
The Georgia Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation and the State Board of
Corrections have entered into a coopera
tive agreement for the construction of
a 12 million vocationaltechnical school
to be built at the Georgia Industrial In
stitute Alto
Governor Carl Sanders in making the
announcement of the new school stated
that 300000 is being transferred from
the prison rehabilitation fund to the
Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili
tation State Department of Education
The Division of Vocational Rehabilita
tion will utilize the funds for matching
purposes to receive an additional 900000
from the Vocational Rehabilitation Ad
ministration
The Governor further stated that As
a result of this cooperation between de
partments the State Board of Corrections
and the Division of Vocational Rehabili
tation a trade school four times the size
we originally anticipated will be con
structed and we expect to let bids on
this project about December 21
Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State
Superintendent of Schools In Charge
of Rehabilitation Services stated The
new facility will make available an ad
ditional 40000 square feet and will in
clude space for vocational training in
11 major trade areas along with a medical
unit which includes a laboratory several
hospital beds and nursing services for
intercurrent illness In addition to the
above space will be available for the
development of the social service unit
and chaplaincy services
Specific vocational training will be
provided in the following trade areas
Automobile mechanics automobile body
and fender repair service station up
holstery woodworking welding key
punch office machine repair masonry
plumbing and barbering
These expanded services will create
the first comprehensive Vocational Reha
bilitation Center within a state prison
setting in the United States These ser
vices will enable an increasing number
of young public offenders to enter gain
ful employment upon their release and
over a period of time should greatly
reduce the number of public offenders
who return to prison
Current services offered at the Voca
tional Rehabilitation facility include
psychological psychiatric social and
vocational evaluation individual and
group counseling activities of daily liv
ing personal social work adjustment
training and onthejob training
Upon his release from the Institution
the inmateclient is transferred to the
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor in
his home community for further vocation
al counseling specific vocational training
job placement and followup services
Vocational Rehabilitation services were
first initiated at the Georgia Industrial
Institute Alto in October of 1963 and
through joint financing plans were
formulated to build a rehabilitation
facility
Construction began in the latter part
of 1964 and in April of 1965 Governor
Sanders dedicated the Alto Vocational
Rehabilitation Facility
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
CLIENT RECEIVES AWARD
FOR SUGGESTION
James C Powell an employee of the
Regional Post Office received a certifi
cate of award and a check for 25 in
recognition of the benefits to be derived
from his suggestion to eliminate using
paper clips on correspondence and other
files
He had observed that the tendency
of many post offices to use paper clips
resulted in chipping of the blade of the
electric opener in the mail room and also
the problem of correspondence belonging
to the file becoming separated when
fastened only with paper clips His pro
posal to ask all postmasters to staple
all attachments with the regular stapling
machine was adopted and a Bulletin
notice was issued If this suggestion is
followed through the life of the blades
on the electric opener will be increased
and there will be less annoyance in the
Regional Office Divisions at receiving
partial files
WORLD DAY FOR LEPROSY
SUFFERERS DECLARED
Miss Mary Switzer Commissioner of
Vocational Rehabilitation U S Depart
ment of Health Education and Welfare
has accepted the chairmanship of a na
tional committee to promote the 14th an
nual observance of World Day for Lepro
sy Sufferers on January 29 1967
World Day for Leprosy Sufferers was
originated in 1954 by Count Raoul Fol
lereau of Paris founder of the Order of
Charity The Day has been endorsed by
President Lyndon B Johnson and the
late President John P Kennedy More
than 100 countries now observe it
In accepting the chairmanship of the
committee promoting its observance Miss
Switzer said Only a small percentage
of the millions afflicted with leprosy are
now receiving treatment This is extreme
ly unfortunate As a result of interna
tional research programs there are ef
fective drugs new methods of physical
rehabilitation and new surgical techni
ques that could be used more extensively
to help bring leprosy under worldwide
control to master this problem here
and abroad we need the understanding
and support of every individual Effec
tive action cannot be taken until there
is more general knowledge of the prob
lems extent and what can be done to
solve it
Leprosy known as Hansens disease
presents one of the worlds most serious
health problems There are an estimated
10 to 15 million victims who labor under
severe economic and social burdens as a
result of it Not only is their working
capacity greatly reduced but because of
the unjustifiable stigma attached to the
disease they are denied a normal place
in society even when they have jobs
At least 25 of the worlds leprosy
sufferers are in need of reparative sur
gery and less than 20 receive any kind
of treatment despite the great increase
in recent years in programs to provide
itJ B BUDDY HAMMOND
PASSES AWAY
Charles McClure left receives
Alumnus of the Year Award from
Robert L Bennett MD during
the ceremonies commemorating the
founding of the Georgia Warm
Springs Foundation
ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR
NAMED AT WARM SPRINGS
Ceremonies to commemorate the found
ing of the Georgia Warm Springs Found
ation hospital in 1927 by the late Presi
dent Franklin D Roosevelt were held on
Wednesday November 30 They were
highlighted by the presentation of the
Alumnus of the Year Award to Charles
McClure of 115 Carnes Drive Marietta
Georgia The award is presented each
year to a former patient who had made
an outstanding adjustment to his physical
impairment
Charles McClure became a paraplegic
as a result of an automobile accident on
April 12 1960 and was admitted to the
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation hospi
tal for treatment on September 6 1960
In addition to medical care he received
training in feeding himself typing and
other functional activities
Upon his return home he managed
with great difficulty to complete his
final year at the Osborne High School in
Marietta Georgia
In 1963 under the auspices of the
Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili
tation he enrolled in the Marietta Center
of the University of Georgia and com
pleted two years of college
In the winter of 1964 Charles Manner
offered McClure a job with the Marvend
Company as a bookkeeper He proved to
be an invaluable employee and today
holds the position of purchasing agent
with the company where he works a full
8hour day
McClure drives his own car equipped
with hand controls is an enthusiastic
bowler and loves to camp and swim
Following the ceremonies the Alumnus
of the Year was guest of honor at a
reception held at the hospital
J B Hammond
J B Hammond 65 who provided
speech therapy services to the Georgia
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
passed away recently Mr Hammond was
Director of the Georgia Laryngectomy
Society and active in the Atlanta Cancer
Society He was a member of the First
Methodist Church of Atlanta
Mr Hammond better known as
Buddy to the members of the Vocation
al Rehabilitation Staff will long be re
membered for his outstanding service
both to the Vocational Rehabilitation
Division and to individuals who received
laryngectomy aid from him
Recently he was awarded a citation for
meritorious service from the Presidents
Committee on Employment of the Handi
capped
He is survived by his widow a daugh
ter Mrs Claude G Home a son Frank
Seer a sister Mrs Roy Tomson and a
brother W G Hammond all of Atlanta
GRA CONFERENCE
Continued from page 3
Year in recognition of their performance
of their jobs in an exemplary manner and
thus aiding the employment of other
handicapped persons The plaque award
ed to the International Optical Company
was for their outstanding efforts extend
ed in promoting equal job opportunities
for the handicapped
After the awards were presented E B
Whitten Executive Director of the Na
tional Rehabilitation Association gave the
luncheon address on some of the
strengths and weaknesses of the associa
tion as we move into the next decade He
stated that one of our major weaknesses
quite often is too much emphasis being
placed on getting a person ready for a
job and his job opportunities without
thoroughly noting the other aspects of
the individuals needs He stated that
our programs are not uniform in all the
fifty states a person may apply for aid
in one state and be turned down whereas
if applying in another state he would
surely be accepted We must work for
more unification in the application of our
rules and regulations
Mr Whitten pointed out the fact
however that we have the best educated
and organized staffs serving any public
agency Over 95 of the Vocational
Rehabilitation staff have a minimum of
a Bachelors Degree while over 50
have their Masters Degree
Immediately following Mr Whittens
remarks the Eighth Annual Meeting of
the Georgia Rehabilitation Association
was concluded
Jack H Williams Appointed Coordinator
Of the StateWide Vocational Rehabilitation
Planning Project
Jack H Williams former assistant
professor of sociology at Western Illinois
University has been named coordinator
of the statewide Vocational Rehabilitation
Planning Project of the Division of Voc
ational Rehabilitation
Mr Williams holds a masters degree
in sociology from Northern Illinois Uni
versity He is now a candidate for a PhD
degree at Emory University where
he is completing his doctoral dissertation
on Decision Making in Family Plan
ning
He also served as an assistant profes
sor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in
196566 While at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute Mr Williams was director of
the Upward Bound Project and he also
served as a parttime instructor and
research assistant at Emory University
in 196465
SVRPP the project he will coordinate
is a federally financed study and plan
ning project on services provided by the
Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili
tation and other agencies to the handicap
ped persons in the state
Its purpose is to formulate a plan for
the development of vocational rehabilita Jack H Williams Coordinator
tion services during the next decade of the Statewide Planning Project
Deadline Nears For 1967 Ability Counts Contest
The 19th annual national ability counts
report contest sponsored by the Presi
dents Committee on Employment of the
Handicapped and the Georgia Governors
Committee on Employment of the Handi
capped will have junior and senior high
school students in public and private
schools writing on the theme Handicap
ped Workers Community Assets
this year
To participate students are asked to
investigate how handicapped workers in
their communities are proving that
Ability not disability counts Ways
in which the students may acquaint them
selves with the facts needed to write a
brief report are a field trip to local
places of employment the local offices
of the State Employment Service Geor
gia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
and the Veterans Administration talks
with labor union officials contact with
public and private organizations provid
ing services to the handicapped and
interviews with handicapped persons
themselves These sources will give the
stated insight into the program of re
habilitation and job placement
Through independent research in the
students community he will become
aware of the fact that handicapped
workers are surmounting barriers to
perform skillfully in hundreds of jobs in
commerce industry and agriculture
These people have good records in ef
ficiency safety and reliability which
are helping to prove their ability to work
and to be selfsupporting to prove they
can contribute their share to the welfare
of the community once given the right
chance Students will find that it is
truely Good Business to Hire the
Handicapped
The Cash Prizes in the national and
state contests will be
NATIONAL PRIZES GEORGIA
1000 First 100
600 Second 50
400 Third 25
300 Fourth 15
200 Fifth 10
In addition to their monetary prizes
the students will receive an expensepaid
twoday trip to Washington for the first
place winner from each State to attend
the Annual Meeting of the Presidents
Committee on Employment of the Handi
capped
Included on the full schedule planned
for the stay in the Nations Capital are
a welcoming reception sponsored by the
Disabled American Veterans a luncheon
hosted by the National Headquarters of
the AFLCIO and a guided bus tour in
and around Washington as guests of the
International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers
The winners will also receive 100 for
personal expenses in addition to the
first place cash award and certificates
signed for the President
As in previous years the Disabled
American Veterans will contribute the
prize money to the five national winners
The first prize of 1000 known as the
Judge Robert S Marx Award is named
after the first National Commander of
the Disabled American Veterans The
wall plaques for the five schools of the
winners are donated by Mrs A B
Dolly Cohen Cincinnati a member of
the Ohio Governors Committee
Cash prizes for the State will be pro
vided by local Georgia companies The
Georgia AFLCIO will pay the transport
ation and expenses of the firstplace
State winner
Contest rules for this years Ability
Counts Contest are
1 ELIGIBILITY Any 11th or 12th grade
student in a public or private high
school including those students at an
equivalent educational level in public
or private institutions ie handicap
ped students taking separate training
2 PRIZES In addition to the cash
prizes parchment awards signed for
the president will be given for the five
best reports in each state Five
honorable mention national certificates
will be awarded Also five plaques will
go to the high schools of the top na
tional winners The first place win
ner will go to Washington all ex
penses paid for the Annual meeting of
the Presidents Committee on Employ
ment of the Handicapped
3 AWARD TO TEACHER A special
award will be presented to the teacher
of the firstplace winner in recogni
tion of her contribution and leader
ship in the efforts of the Annual
Ability Counts Contest
4 DATES Reports must be mailed to
H E Van Orden Executive Secretary
Governors Committee 129 State Of
fice Building Atlanta Georgia 30334
NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 1
1967
5 INSTRUCTIONS Reports should not
exceed 750 words typed double spaced
on 8y2 x 11 white paper Students
full name age home address school
address and teachers signature must
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The report must be original in all
respects It should reflect the inge
nuity and resourcefulness of the writer
in gathering pertinent information
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port Short quotes and excerpts may be
included if exact source is given in
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views and quotes are very effective
and sources should also be fully iden
tified
6 PARTICIPANTS He must come from
a participating high school with the
number of students entering from a
school unlimited Schools may only
participate through the Georgia Gov
ernors Committee on Employment of
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7 STANDARDS Major credit will be
given for significance of content
evidence of research originality im
pact organization clarity of expres
sion and neatness
This years National judges are Mrs
Betsy Talbot Blackwell EditorinChief
Mademoiselle Carl J Megel Washing
ton Representative American Federation
of Teachers AFLCIO and Dr Ivan E
Taylor Head Department of English
Howard University
This years State judges will be Dr
A P Jarrell Assistant State Superin
tendent of Schools In Charge of Reha
bilitation Services W H Montague
President of Georgia State AFLCIO
Edward E Fortson Supervisor of Tech
nical Services for Georgia State Em
ployment Service Georgia Department
of Labor and representatives from the
other sponsoring agencies
Last year first prize was awarded to
Ernest Franklin Williams Jr Pelham
High Other winners were Second place
Kenneth Rogers Drexal High Atlanta
third placeThomas Nemetz Athens High
School fourth placeDale LaFaye Willis
Pelham High School and fifth place
Randy Jones Thomasville High School
Previous Georgia winners are Miss
Rebecca Ethel Hair Jordan High School
Columbus Georgia196465 Miss Pat
ricia Ruth Lumpkin A L Miller High
School Macon Georgia196364 Miss
Audrey Dell Hammerich Baker High
School Columbus Georgia196263
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tests for the past 18 years The National
Association of Secondary School Princi
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Members of the National Citizens
Advisory Committee to Vocational
Rehabilitation visited the Georgia
Rehabilitation Center at Warm
Springs recently This group stud
ied the local facility in order to
better advise the Vocational Re
habilitation Association in regard
to its continuing program for Re
habilitation Facilities Develop
ment The visitors toured the facil
ity and in the picture at right are
gathered around student Ira John
son at his workbench in the Small
Instrument and Watch Repair Sec
tion From left to right they are
Nathan Nolan GRC Administra
tor B C Hernandez attorney and
member of the Advisory Commit
tee Albuquerque New Mexico
Burt Risley Executive Secretary
and Director State Commission for
the Blind Austin Texas V L
Vinsor Assistant Program Super
visor for facilities Georgia Divi
sion of Vocational Rehabilitation
Atlanta Miss Jean Halcrow Oc
cupational Therapist in Charge at
Royal South Sydney Australia
Hospital and Henry Redkey
Chief Rehabilitation Facilities
Development Washington D C
Miss Halcrow is studying at the
Center under a special grant from
her country
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Ground Breaking for Vocational Trade School to be built at
Alto Rehabilitation Center See Story Page 3Shown above are pictures taken at the Second Annual Presentation of
the Boy Scouts Charter for the post
TOP PANEL shows the committee members for the post Front row
left to right Harold Barron Fred Schwager Harry Turner and Walter
Matthews On the back row left to right are Milton Stewart Jr William
Ford Sam Richwine Sidney Ross and Curtis Snipes
SECOND PANEL Richard Coleman is reading the Explorer Code
aloud as Richard Gonzales and Larry Jones hold it up for all to see
BOTTOM PANEL Bob Campbell District Scout Executive is pre
senting Harry Turner Institutional representative for the post with the
renewed charter for the post
BOY SCOUT EXPLORER
POST ACTIVE AT ALTO
The Georgia Industrial Institute at
Alto is thought of mainly as a place
where hardened young public offend
ers are sent Quite often it is forgotten
that our state has only one institution
to house both the first offenders who
may have made slight mistakes in grow
ing up and the hardened criminal
all of the states young male public of
fenders between the ages of 16 and 19
are housed at Alto
What is done at Alto to help the
struggling lad find himself and adjust
to society For approximately one and
a half years now the Boy Scouts of
America have had a post organized at
the Institute The post is the only Senior
Boy Scout group in existence in a penal
institution The idea of using a scouting
program inside a Georgia penal institu
tion for character building and recrea
tion is very new but also very effective
The idea of organizing a Boy Scout
Post at Alto was originated by Walter
Matthews Superintendent of the Geor
gia Industrial Institute and the dona
tion of time and money by twentyfive
of the communitys leading citizens made
the post possible However the road
was not easy for this new concept of
scouting and rehabilitation one of the
first obstacles encountered by the De
partment of Corrections was that of get
ting permission from Boy Scout Head
quarters in New York for the organiza
tion of the post and for the boys to wear
the uniforms After a great deal of ef
fort the post was organized in June of
1965
Georgia Industrial Institutes Ex
plorer Post No 601 has given a number
of boys who ordinarily would have no
such chance the opportunity to join in
the program of exploring and partici
pating in numerous constructive activi
ties that provide the type of recreation
necessary for the development of good
character
Some of the activities the boys partici
pated in during their first year of
operation included cookouts swimming
parties camping trips including the
spring Rugged Road Camporee a
visit to the Tallulah Falls Power Station
a program on fire prevention along with
a tour of the Clarkesville Fire Station
and numerous other activities
The post has also aided the local com
munity with several service projects
namely The Post 601 boys raked the
fall accumulation of leaves from around
the local community center and trimmed
the hedge they also planted a number
of tulip bulbs around the fountain at
the center at Christmas the Post helped
decorate the city of Cornelia by using
colored red rocks and writing in big
letters Merry Christmas
Another service area that the boys
participate in allows them to see all the
home games of the University of Geor
gia The members of Post 601 along
with several hundred other scouts are
the ushers for the Bulldog fans then
they enjoy the game along with every
one else After the games the boys help
with the lost and found articles
The opportunities offered by Explorer
Continued on page 7Ground Breaking For Alto Vo Tech School
REHABILITATION NEW
On April 20 1965 the first step in
the development of a comprehensive re
habilitation program of services for the
prison system of Georgia was achieved
when Governor Carl E Sanders dedi
cated the Vocational Evaluation Center
at the Georgia Industrial Institute at
Alto Now the second major step has
been initiated by the ground breaking
fir the new facility which will be an
expansion of the current facility and will
greatly augment and enhance the existing
services available through the center
Funds to construct and equip this new
addition were made available through
the transfer of 300000 from the Board
of Corrections to the Division of Voca
tional Rehabilitation which was matched
by 900000 from Vocational Rehabilita
tion Administration Funds
When the expansion is completed the
12 million Vocational Technical School
will accommodate 500 pupils daily and
will offer every eligible inmate the op
portunity of being taught a trade to
qualify him to seek employment consist
ent with his interests aptitudes and
abilities In addition those who have
the capability for entering a professional
career will be assisted in obtaining the
necessary training required to insure em
ployment Vocational training in 11
major trade areas will be offered they
are automobile mechanics body and
Continued on page 6
TOP PANEL Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in charge of Vocational Re
habilitation Services is shown ad
dressing those in attendance at the
ground breaking ceremonies Seated
behind Dr Jarrell are other pro
gram participants
SECOND AND THIRD PANELS
Photographs representing the voca
tional and counseling activities be
ing conducted at the center
BOTTOM PANEL Governor Carl
E Sanders shakes hands with the
first group of Alto inmates leaving
for the new Correctional Honor
Institution at Indian Springs
The Georgia Vocational
REHABILITATION NEWS

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Vol 15
JanPeb 1967 No 3
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Jack P Nix
State Superintendent of Schools
Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services
State Office Annex
albany district
Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg
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Thomasville518 N Broad St
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Mr Foskey is shown performing his duties as a jailer at East Dublins
police station
East Dublin Police Chief Edward
Tanner described his new city jailer
who has only been working for the city
in this capacity since April by saying
He is a most remarkable man
Woodrow Wilson Foskey age 53 is
the man that Chief Tanner cannot praise
highly enough Mr Foskey raises the
American Flag every morning takes care
of the prisoners operates the police
radio takes messages and dispatches the
latest bulletins and sometimes he even
sweeps and mops the City Hall floors
What is the background of such a versa
tile man Woodrow Foskey is totally
blind He has been blind since birth but
has not let this slow him down
His childhood was much like that of
other children He followed his dad
everywhere he went in the local country
side of Laurens County where Woodrow
was born Everything his father did he
did whether it was cutting wood with
a crosscut saw or rafting wood down
the river to Darien
His formal education took place in a
regular public elementary school and
he used the same books and materials
that his classmates did His parents
helped by reading his lessons to him in
the evening He actually attended school
only through the fifth grade but says
he can still remember standing in line
for the spellingbees and the various
recitations the children used to have to
give in history geography and other sub
jects Mr Foskey was not bragging but
he said that his other senses seem to have
more than compensated for his lack of
sight because he can remember very
well that he could spell with the best of
them However more than his formal
education Mr Foskey credited his as
sociations with other children with much
of his learning
During the War Years of about 1941
45 Mr Foskey sang and played the
guitar on the street and received dona
tions for his efforts Then as the 50s
came Mr Foskey decided to invest the
money he had saved in a woodpulp busi
ness with his brother He was in charge
of a group of men and was responsible
for them accomplishing their work relat
ing to all of the processes of the timber
business After clearing all of the timber
on their property the brothers closed
the business
Some of Mr Foskeys friends told him
about Vocational Rehabilitation and he
decided to ask his friends to help him
help himself In 1963 surgery became
necessary to remove his right eye because
of ulcers and Vocational Rehabilitation
worked with him during this period
After his operation Mr Foskey was
furnished with a prothesis for his right
eye
Now Mr Foskey is very happy and
content in his work although he works
very long hours During the week he
works from 530 pm to 830 am and
on weekends from 12 noon Saturday to
830 am Monday He enjoys his work
very much and doesnt seem to mind the
hours He said Radio work and musical
instruments are my two main interests
I belong to the Citizen Ban Radio Club
and just love being with everyone who
has the same interests I do We have a
good time
Lester Walker with the Augusta
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation is
Continued on page 6GOVERNOR SANDERS DEDICATES TWO DORMITORIES
Governor Carl E Sanders dedicated
two new dormitories at the Georgia
School for the Deaf in Cave Spring on
January 4 This school is the largest
school for the deaf east of the Missis
sippi River The student enrollment has
grown tremendously over the years The
original structure housed only four
scholars while the present enrollment of
nearly 600 pupils would easily be ex
ceeded were it not for a lack of housing
facilities for those on the long and
steadily growing waiting list These new
dormitories will help to alleviate the
problem At present the school has the
largest student body of any residential
school for the deaf in the United States
The Superintendent of the Georgia
School for the Deaf Fred L Sparks Jr
said The entire school staff and stu
dent body has been looking forward
with great anticipation to the comple
tion and dedication of these new dormi
tories We have never wished to deny
any deaf child the opportunity to re
ceive an education because of a lack of
adequate housing at the school and with
these new facilities we are hoping that
no deaf child in Georgia will go wanting
for an education
The dormitory for 72 high school age
girls will be named Carl E Sanders
Hall The building is located on Geor
gia Avenue and was erected at a cost of
279000 Individual desks bookcases
and wardrobes are provided for each
student The girls who will live in the
dormitory were allowed to participate
in the selections of design and color of
all the interior and furnishings Each
room is decorated in different colors
and the interior decorating was done
through the compliments of Ray Lang
Inc of Atlanta
The new dormitory located at Perry
Farm was built at a cost of 182393
and will be named at a later date The
building will accommodate 60 primary
pupils 30 girls and 30 boys ranging
in ages from 69 Individual desks book
cases and wardrobes are also provided
for each student The interior design
of the girls rooms was done in pink
and the boys rooms in blue
Colonel Henry Stewart Seventh Dis
trict Member of the State Board of Edu
cation presided at the dedication Dr
A P Jarrell recognized all of the hon
ored guests and remarks were given
by Jack P Nix State Superintendent
of Schools Dr James Peters Chairman
of the State Board of Education intro
duced Governor Sanders who delivered
the dedicatory address
In the text of his remarks Governor
Sanders said My primary goal was the
improvement of the educational oppor
tunities available to Georgians an
education which prepares a young man
or woman for the richest and most re
warding life possible
For most young Georgians such an
education entails the development of
latent talents and interests and the in
stillation of necessary principles of in
tegrity responsibility and character
Continued on page 7
TOP PANEL Carl E Sanders Hall new girls dormitory at the
Georgia School for the Deaf in Cave Spring
SECOND PANEL From left to right are Dr James S Peters
Chairman of the State Board of Education Dr A P Jarrell Assistant
State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation
Services Governor Carl E Sanders and Jack Nix State School Super
intendent shown making remarks during the dedication ceremonies
BOTTOM PANEL Governor Sanders cuts the ribbon officially dedi
cating the new dormitory Left to right in the picture are Henry
Stewart State Board of Education Jack Nix Governor Carl E Sand
ers Dr A P Jarrell and Fred Sparks Jr Superintendent of Georgia
School for the DeafGround breaking At Alto
Continued from page 3
fender repair service station operation
upholstery woodwo rk welding
keypunch office machine repair
masonry plumbing and barbering
Space in the medical unit will include
areas for a laboratory several hospital
beds and nursing services for intercur
rent illness In addition to the above
space will be available for the develop
ment of the social service unit and
chaplaincy services The new addition
will increase floor space by slightly more
than 40000 square feet and will incor
porate all the major services required for
a comprehensive rehabilitation center
medical psychological social and vo
cational training
These expanded services will create
the first comprehensive Vocational Re
habilitation Center within a state prison
setting in the United States These
services will enable an increasing num
ber of young public offenders to enter
gainful employment upon their release
and over a period of time should greatly
reduce the number of public offenders
who return to prison
Governor Sanders officially broke
ground Thursday January 5 initiating
the construction of the VocationalTech
nical School and Medical Unit at the
Georgia Industrial Institute at Alto
Governor Sanders stated The over
worked phrase that Rome wasnt built
in a day is very true in this instance
But the important thing the thing
which every concerned Georgian must
rememberis that we are improving
Alto as rapidly as possible
The Alto which surrounds us today
is a far more modern far more adequate
facility than we would have found had
we assembled here four years ago When
this Vocational School and Medical
Complex are finished and when further
funds are made available for still other
projects Alto will be a far better in
stitution than we find today
The Governor further stated Ed
ucational and vocational inadequacies
have been prime contributors to crime
and to detention here at Alto They will
not be contributors to crime and to de
tention here at Alto They will not be
contributors to another visit here be
cause the young men who will leave this
facility will go forth possessing an im
portant marketable skill
In the text of his speech Dr A P
Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent
of Schools in Charge of Rehabilitation
Services stated the introduction
of vocational rehabilitation into the cor
rectional process in Georgia will stand
out as a monumental humanitarian serv
ice Vocational Rehabilitation services
provided currently in the rehabilitation
facility include medical diagnosis psy
chological psychiatric social and voca
tional evaluation personal social work
adjustment training and onthejob
training
A professional staff of counselors and
evaluators and a consulting staff of psy
chiatrists psychologists and sociologists
evaluates all new admissions to the Geor
gia Industrial Institute develop a re
habilitation plan for each inmateclient
who will be released within 18 months
ABOVE Mr Foskey is shown using
the tape recorder furnished by Voca
tional Rehabilitation Mr Foskey con
stantly uses the tape recorder for
taking notes and recording messages
from the telephone and police radio
RIGHT Police Chief Edward Tanner
and Woodrow Foskey talk over police
matters in front of the police station
in East Dublin
actively participates in the classification
staffing and provides indicated rehabili
tation services to approximately 700 in
mateclients annually on a continuing
basis
Vocational training is important to
the rehabilitation of public offenders not
only because of the skills it provided but
also because it affects the offenders
conception of himself and influences his
postrelease associates
A Most Remarkable Man
Continued from page 4
Mr Foskeys Counselor and is one of the
men Mr Foskey gives credit for helping
him so much recently and for getting
him into his current job at the police
station A tape recorder was needed to
assist Mr Foskey in taking and deliver
ing messages at the police station so
vocational rehabilitation furnished a tape
recorder with a special attachment for
a radio or telephone
The city of East Dublin is very pleased
to have such a conscientious employee
Chief Tanner is still amazed every day
He says Woodrow can do more things
better than some people with sight The
way he moves around without the help
of a seeingeye dog and the different
jobs he does so well sometimes I think
surely he must be able to see
The rehabilitation program also pro
vides work sampling personal social
and vocational adjustment training as
well as individual and group counseling
to approximately threefourths of the in
mateclients
Vocational Rehabilitation Services
were first offered at the Georgia Indus
trial Institute at Alto through a co
operative agreement initialed in October
of 1963 between the Division of Voca
tional Rehabilitation and the Board of
Corrections
Dr A P Jarrell pauses from a chat
with 8year old Nancy Pudvin State
Easter Seal Poster Girl Nancy was
born with spina bifida and has received
Easter Seal Services over five years
as Miss Mary Webb executive direc
tor of the Georgia Society for Crippled
Children and Adults and Easter Bun
ny Jackie Dick admire Nancy during
the kickoff of Coffee Day for Crip
pled Children sponsored by the Geor
gia Restaurant Association Nancy
and Vince Dooley State Easter Seal
Chairman were greeting legislators
and governmental dignitariesPictured above are the boys of Explorer Post No 601 Front row left to right are Billy Glenn Billy Myers
Terry Sullivan Larry Daryl Richard Gonzales and Raymond Lane On the back row left to right are
Richard Coleman Alvin Kane James Chambley Wayne Pebbles James Black and Larry Jones
BOY SCOUT EXPLORER
POST ACTIVE AT ALTO
Continued from page 2
Post 601 aid immeasurably in the con
tributions to the development of charac
ter and to the rehabilitation of Georgias
young offenders at the Georgia Indus
trial Institute
The post is cosponsored by the Institu
tion and the Kiwanis Club The post is
operated by a committee of men from
the institution the Vocational Rehabilita
tion Unit at the institution and promi
nent local citizens The post is financed
by contributions from local businessmen
The Post Committee includes the fol
lowing Harry Turner Committee Chair
man Don Moody Institutional Repre
sentative Sidney Ross Post Advisor
Curtis Snipes Assistant Post Advisor
Carroll Milam Secretary of the Post
Committee and Committee members
William Ford Bruce Brown Bomar
Olds Garris Parker Harold Barron
Fred Schwager Milton Stewart Jr and
Sam Richwine
Governor Dedicates
Two Dormitories
Continued from page 5
But for many Georgians an adequate
education means not only these things
but also the courage and the training
required to overcome some physical
emotional or psychological handicap
Such a group of young Georgians is
found here at the Georgia School for
the Deaf
For 121 years this school has been
helping those who are born deaf help
themselves Untold thousands of Geor
gians have left this school fully pre
pared to lead satisfying lives as con
tributing members of our society Many
of them have gained positions of out
standing leadership within their com
munity and throughout the State
This School not only operates at the
lowest cost per pupil of any similar
school in the Nation but it does so with
out losing the slightest amount of its
quality Both the elementary and the
high school departments have been given
full accreditation by the Georgia Ac
crediting Commission
In the past many deaf children had
to be turned away from The Georgia
School for the Deaf simply because
there was not room for them all And
as a result their hopes for a life of
satisfaction and productivity were great
ly reduced Now this problem will be
somewhat alleviated by the new housing
facilities as the students who attend
the school are from all parts of the
state the majority of them are resident
students without adequate housing fa
cilities these students could not attend
the school
ERNEST E KENNEDY
Macon District Supervisor Ernest E
Kennedy passed away after a brief
illness and services were held on Febru
ary 6 Mr Kennedy had been working
with the State for 35 years and he had
spent the last 25 years with Vocational
Rehabilitation
A feature article on Mr Kennedy and
the role he played in Georgias Rehabili
tation program will be published in the
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Ray Godbee Jr industrially blind is the manager of the 115th vending stand operated by the Georgia Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services in cooperation with the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind The new vending stand is located
at the Albany area Vocationaltechnical School at South Slappey Bouleard and provides sandwiches soft drinks and other
concessions to students attending the school Above in left picture Mr Godbee makes change for two students who have just
made a purchase
In picture at right from left to right are R V Bankston Casework Supervisor Albany District Leon Hall Supervisor of the
Business Enterprise Program Atlanta Robert G Crates Night Director of the Area Vocationaltechnical School John E
Rainwater Jr Counselor for Business Enterprises Program and Howard Waters Director Albany Vocationaltechnical School
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See Story on Page 5
Governor Addresses Joint Meeting
TOP PHOTO Governor Lester G Maddox and Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Rehabilitation
Services discuss some vital points of the Statewide Planning Project
during the luncheon meeting
BOTTOM PHOTO Governor
Left to right in picture are
wide Planning Project Louis
missioner of VRA J L Hise
John S Prickett Jr Director
Maddox Dr A P Jarrell
University of Georgia and
Rehabilitation Facilities
Maddox addresses the luncheon group
Jack Williams Coordinator of State
R Schubert Regional Assistant Corn
Director Division of Special Services
Division of General Services Governor
Dr O C Aderhold President of the
Nathan Nolan Director Division of
Leon Meenach New Director
Leon Meenach
The Division of Vocational Rehabilita
tion under its new organizational struc
ture will add a new director to the staff
on the first of May Leon Meenach who
previously served as director of the
Vocational Rehabilitation Program in
Frankfort Kentucky has accepted the
position as Director of Special Disabili
ties Division
Mr Meenach stated that his primary
interest was working with the mentally
ill and the mentally retarded In the past
he has served in this area being first a
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Counselor a
Supervisor for Rehabilitation of the Men
tally and Physically Disabled and As
sistant Director of Rehabilitation of the
Mentally Disabled before becoming Di
rector of Rehabilitation for the state of
Kentucky
He was instrumental in the develop
ment and pioneering of joint Rehabilita
tion facilities halfway houses and work
training centers in mental institutions
and hospitals and schools for the re
tarded He has also been actively in
That None Shall Go Unserved was
the challenge of the Statewide Planning
Project for Vocational Rehabilitation
Services Governor Lester Maddox com
mended the theme of the planning study
to the members of the Advisory Com
mittee and Policy Board for the project
The occasion was the initial meeting of
the two groups on March 1
Established under a Federal grant the
Planning Project was created to deter
mine the needs for vocational rehabilita
tion services within the state for the
next ten years The Advisory Committee
and the Policy Board are comprised of
members appointed by Governor Maddox
and former Governor Carl E Sanders
J L Hise Director Division of Special
Services noted in his address to the
luncheon group that Vocational Rehabili
tation is not a new program but did in
fact begin nearly fifty years ago and
that today Georiga stands out as one of
the top agencies in the United States He
further stated that With the help of
the Advisory Committee and the Policy
Board and the leadership of Mr Williams
Jack Williams Project Coordinator
and other members of his staff we feel
that a blueprint can be drawn that will
offer a plan and new hope for the dis
abled citizens of our state
Louis Schubert Regional Assistant
Commissioner VRA presented the Fed
eral observations of the planning study
by pledging support without any inter
ference from the Federal level in the
form of guidelines He stressed the im
portance of orderly planning so that the
project would receive the full value of
every dollar expended
In reference to the planning from the
state level Jack H Williams Project Co
ordinator presented the general direc
tions the study would take in order to
present an effective report He stated
that one of the major purposes of the
planning project staff with the assis
tance of the two committees must be
to determine how the needs of the dis
abled in our state are to be met from the
standpoint of finances personnel organ
ization and additional services
During the afternoon the two groups
met separately and began organizing into
functional committees John Jackson
Associate Coordinator was appointed
temporary chairman of the Advisory
Committee Dr Aderhold was named
Chairman of the Policy Board
A booklet entitled For Tomorrow
containing the addresses of the day the
purpose and the scope of the committees
and the Planning Project will be avail
able to all interested individuals upon
request Those desiring information
should write to Statewide Vocational
Rehabilitation Planning Project Suite
410 159 Forrest Avenue NE Atlanta
Georgia 30303
volved in the planning development and
utilization of workshops joint school
programs and services for the retarded
Leon Meenach is married to the former
Gayle Maxey and they have three
daughtersKathy 9 years of age Jenny
6 and Kim 4From Wrestler
To Creative
Shell Arranger
At the height of a wrestling match one
evening things became fast and furious
who would win Soon one wrestler be
came over zealous picked up the other
wrestler and threw him across the ring
against a corner post No one knew it
at the time but a future vocational
rehabilitation client was created
Lon Chaney is a thirtyfive year old
man who has held two jobs at a time
almost all of his life He had to quit
school while in the tenth grade at the
age of 16 and start working full time
However this was not the beginning of
his career as he had worked as a ma
chinist with his uncle since he was 12
By the age of 17 Lon decided to enter
the Marine Corp and while in the service
he passed the GED high school equival
ency test After his discharge from the
service Lon went back to his trade as a
machinist and during this period he
attended four years of night study in
tool and die making While attending
these classes Lon still held two other
jobs that of a machinist during the day
and a butcher at night All of his moon
lighting was necessitated by heavy
medical expenses incurred in the treat
ment of two of his children who were
born nearly blind
Finally Lon turned to professional
wrestling and stayed in this profession
from 1955 through 1957 He wrestled in
the Southeast Conference in Georgia
Florida Alabama and Mississippi
Everyone thought Lon had a great deal
of potential but each match after his
accident caused a recurrence of his back
injury Operations were soon necessitated
and in the end Lon had four surgical
operations During this time he used up
the limit of his insurance coverage and
he was unable to continue working in the
machine shop without coverage
Lon changed from job to job during
the next several years After using all
of his own personal finances for opera
tions and medication he turned to the VA
Hospital in Augusta for still another
operation While at the hospital he was
told of the work vocational rehabilitation
was doing and upon release he applied
for rehabilitation services in his home
county
In talking with his vocational rehabili
tation counselor Howard Pridgen Chan
ey stated I am at my wits end I have
a wife and three children and I need
Continued on page 6
TOP PANEL LEFT Mr Chaney
prepares his colored plaster and
pours it into waiting molds
TOP PANEL RIGHT Mr Chaney
puts the finishing touches on one
of his shell arrangements
SECOND PANEL Mr Chaney
and his son clean the shells in an
acid solution to bring out their
brilliance
BOTTOM PANEL Howard Prid
gen counselor with the Waycross
office looks over Mr Chaneys
display shelves
The Georgia Vocational
REHABILITATION NEWS
Vol 15 MarchApril 1967 No 4
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Jack P Nix
State Superintendent of Schools
Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services
State Office Annex
albany district
Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg
4360347
Americus104 E Forsyth
Phone 9246138
Bainbridge218 S West St
Phone CH 64274
Thomasville518 N Broad St
Phone CA 62587
Valdosta305 University Dr
Phone CH 26820
Waycross706 Jane St
Phone AT 30788
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW
Phone 8759941
AtlantaGrady Hospital
5234711
Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE
8735341
DECATUR DISTRICT
ADCVR OFFICE
Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW
6886525
Decatur Room 255 New First
National Bank Bldg
3783671
Carrollton116 Rome Street
8328204
East Point 1777 West Washington
Ave Room 108
7664711
Marietta Professional Arts Building
644 Cherokee St NE
4276521
Newnan44 Jefferson St
Phone AL 32408
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT
Gainesville311 Green St
LEnox 61311
Athens901 CS Bank Bldg
Phone 5491241
Cave Spring7773319
ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia
Trade and Vocational School
Phone 7542922
Dalton132 W Gordon
2261322
Rome1102 Avenue C
Phone 2346259
MACON DISTRICT
Macon707 Pine StSuite 1
Phone SH 27321
Columbus307 Fifteenth St
Phone FAirfax 26755
Dublin107 N Franklin St
Phone 2726700
Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking
Co Bldg
Phone GL 28691
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah35 Abercorn Street
Phone AD 46666
Augusta828 15th St
Phone 7240381
Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5
Phone AM 56541
Ernest Kennedy
Macon District Supervisor
Passes Away
Ernest E Kennedy Macon District Supervisor
Ernest E Kennedy Macon District Supervisor for four
teen years passed away recently after a short illness Mr
Kennedy joined the staff of the Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation in August of 1942 and spent over 24 years
of service with the Division He entered public life and
worked as a principal and school teacher from September
1929 to December 1940 and in January of 1941 he became
County School Superintendent for Tattnall County Georgia
His total years of service in the Department of Education
as a state employee totaled over 37 years
Mr Kennedy was recognized as a leader in the field of
Vocational Rehabilitation and his devotion to duty and
unselfish giving of his time to further the needs of the dis
abled and handicapped of our state will long be remembered
Under his supervision the Macon District has grown
from a staff of two to its present staff of thirtyone Many
of the programs he introduced into Vocational Rehabilita
tion will have a lasting effect for years to comeGovernor Presents Awards To The
1967 Ability Counts Winners
Governor Lester G Maddox presented
the winners of the 1967 annual Ability
Counts Report Contest their awards and
certificates at a special ceremony held in
the Governors chambers The contest
sponsored by the Presidents Committee
on Employment of the Handicapped and
the Governors Committee on Employ
ment of the Handicapped is for 11th
and 12th grade students The theme of
this years contest was Handicapped
Workers Community Assets
Ellen Gandy was awarded first place
and received 100 firstplace prize money
plus an expense paid trip to Washing
ton for the annual Presidents Committee
Meeting on Employment of the Handi
capped For the first time in the history
of our contest we have a winner from a
family who is extremely familiar with
the contest Ellens sister Sue was Geor
gias first place winner in 1962
When Ellen came to Atlanta for the
presentation of the awards by the Gov
ernor it was learned that Ellen has a
slight handicap herself It had been dis
covered when Ellen was in the ninth
grade that she had scoliosis or curvature
of the spine Thus she was introduced to
an affliction which is not at all rare but
of which little is known as to why it
occurs Corrective exercises were tried
but these could only keep the curve as it
was not correct it An operation was
necessitated and Ellen wore a plasterof
paris cast from her chin to the top of her
hips for 14 months of which 7 months
were spent in bed
Mr Gandy set up an intercom system
between Ellens bedroom and her class
rooms so that through the help of her
teachers she was able to complete three
subjects while in bed Ellen has now re
turned to school for her senior year She
is leading a very active life with diversi
fied activities such as the Pelham High
Marching Concert Band cheerleading
Beta Club Glee Club TriHiY MYF
and the debating team
In the Pall Ellen is planning to attend
Young Harris College with a major in
Elementary Education
Other winners and their prizes were
second placeNancy Davis of Smyrna
50 third placeCarrie Georgia Gart
man of Columbus 25 fourth place
Pam Davis of Smyrna 15 and fifth
place Dale Patrician Mason of Columbus
10 In addition to these prizes parch
ment awards signed for the President
were given for the five best reports in
the state
Miss Gandys firstplace entry was en
tered in the national competition with
over 2500 in cash awards Georgias
cash awards and prizes were provided by
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Co and the Georgia State APLCIO
William A Sims Jr Chairman Gov
ernors Committee on Employment of the
Handicapped stated that the participa
tion in this years contest was some of
the best we have ever experienced
The following is an excerpt from Miss
Gandys winning report
TOP PANEL from left to right
are William A Sims Chairman
Governors Committee on Employ
ment of the Handicapped Nancy
Davis Smyrna Second Place Win
ner W H Montague President
of Georgia State AFLCIO Ellen
Gandy Pelham First Place Win
ner Governor Lester G Maddox
F T Smith Vice President of
Southern Bell Telephone and Tele
graph Company Dale Mason Co
lumbus Fifth Place Winner Leon O Foster Supervisor of Employ
ment Service in the Georgia Department of Labor Pam Davis
Smyrna Fourth Place Winner and John S Prickett Director
Division of General Services in the Georgia Rehabilitation Agency
shown after the presentation of the Presidents Committee on Em
ployment of the Handicapped certificates
BOTTOM PANEL Georgias first place winner Ellen Gandy re
ceiving her 100 first place prize money from F T Smith W H
Montague had just presented Miss Gandy with her roundtrip ticket
and expense money to Washington
HANDICAPPED WORKERS
COMMUNITY ASSETS
Rehabilitation can be so successful
that the handicapped become responsible
selfsupporting citizens of a community
Everyday more disabled persons are
able to take a job and take up their
place in the community
Each person has a potential ability
which when developed enables him to
do some worthwhile work Each person
also has a basic need to be useful which
when they are faced with a handicap
enables them to overcome it Whole lives
are renewed when the realization of a
meaningful existence is brought to them
Living within the limits of their disabili
ties and to the full extent of their capa
bilities they become valuable citizens in
the community and society
Handicapped workers are community
assets Instead of allowing their handi
cap to become a community liability
harming the economy by being dependent
upon public welfare most work for it by
being good workers and contributing in
multiple ways to community activities
When the handicapped are fitted into
the right jobs they prove to be very good
workers If a worker is trained properly
physical limitations are no hindrance
Satisfied employees will vouch for this
ranking them equal to nonhandicapped
Right now we see what can be done
for the disabled and we see what the dis
abled can do for us These inspiring
handicapped people have overcome much
to become equal contributing citizens of
my community and in others They are a
vital part of our society Handicapped
workers are community assetsContributors To Georgias Growth
Tassie Zakas a native of Pyrgus
Greece moved to Atlanta Georgia at the
age of three She fit in with the American
way of life and her vigorous and under
standing personality made her many
friends During her sophomore year at
Grady High School she was in an auto
bile accident which left her a paraplegic
In 1959 she was called and asked to
attend a meeting of the Physical Wrecks
At the meeting one of the members
Janie Scrubbs said you should be at
work and Janie went out and found her
a job While she was working she came
in contact with Vocational Rehabilitation
and was furnished a wheelchair How
ever due to another automobile accident
she was forced to remain unemployed
six months Then she started work again
and worked three years until a third
accident caused her to stay off work and
within two weeks she was involved in a
fourth accident When she was well again
she went to work and as luck would have
it she was in still another automobile
accident All of these accidents were
when Tassie was riding as a passenger
After her last accident she went to
work with her brother in Al Labor Serv
ices Then in talking with her brother
they decided that she should go into busi
ness for herself and hire other handi
capped people She applied to Vocational
Rehabilitation for help and found that
she was eligible Vocational Rehabilita
tion furnished the necessary office equip
ment and set her up in her own business
called TASSIES MAILING AND SEC
RETARIAL SERVICES
Tassie needed a Girl Friday to assist
her in her business venture so she turned
to a long time friend Nellie Mae Meks
whom she had met at one of the Physical
Wrecks club meetings They had worked
together before and Tassie felt that
Nellie was just the secretary she needed
Nellie Meeks was born with Spina Bi
fida and contracted osteomyelotis at the
age of 14 She has had 14 operations but
is an extremely active person who lives
in a trailer with her husband Leland
and has an eleven year old daughter
Mrs Meeks became familiar with the
Vocational Rehabilitation programs when
she met her husband who had formerly
received services from Vocational Re
habilitation Vocational Rehabilitation
sent her to SmithHughes Vocational
Technical School in Atlanta and gave her
a wheelchair to aid her mobility
The girls are very excited over their
new business venture and contributing
this valuable service to the businesses of
the Metro Atlanta Area
TOP PANEL Nellie Meeks and Tassie Zakas are looking through
the files in their office to keep up with clients requirements
BOTTOM PANEL LEFT Nellie Meeks is using an addressograph
machine in getting out a maling job
BOTTOM PANEL RIGHT Tassie Zakas doing some typing for
one of her customers
FROM WRESTLER TO CREATIVE
SHELL ARRANGER
Continued from page 3
some help now Three months from now
wont do me any good After counseling
with Lon it was learned that he wanted
to explore the possibilities of manufac
turing shell novelties in a shop of his
own He had done work of this nature
already and felt there was a real market
for this type of product
Lon was very eager to get back to
work and be able to support himself his
wife and their three children Lon said
he needed assistance in getting started
and that he would be willing to repay
vocational rehabilitation but at the pres
ent time he was just unable to borrow
the money Lon already knew of many
people who were interested in buying
shell novelties as soon as he could go
into production So vocational rehabilita
tion purchased the necessary equipment
and supplies to set Lon up in his own
shell arranging business and within ten
days after his first shipment of shells
arrived Lon was receiving an income
The business has blossomed so i m
mensely that now Lon trades with a great
many of the states and is increasing his
business every day In fact he is cur
rently contemplating a shipment to
Canada
This is not a one man operation but
a family undertaking with Mother and
the children working in the business at
every free moment Still very enthu
siastic about his new enterprise and its
potentials Lon said The best thing that
ever happened to me was being referred
to vocational rehabilitation When I went
to Mr Howard Pridgen I had been com
pletely unemployed for two whole years
and now I have a good business and feel
that shell arranging is the most reward
ing and interesting occupation Ive ever
been in
I told those social security people
that I dont need any more compensation
because vocational rehabilitation helped
me get started and I have all my bills
paid off now Me and my family would
have went lacking if it had not been for
vocational rehabilitation servicesBusiness Enterprise
Program Opens Two
More Vending Stands
When the 730 Peachtree Building in
Atlanta was completed recently the em
ployees had not one but two places
readily available to have their lunches
and breaks The Business Enterprise Sec
tion of the Program for the Blind had
made arrangements with the contractors
long before the completion of the build
ing to furnish vending stands for two
floors of the building
Mary Keith see back cover opened
an automatic vending stand on the second
floor Mary is congenitally blind with
an 80 loss of vision but her two chil
dren Nancy age 16 and Steve Jr 5 have
no visual problems Mary attended pub
lic schools through the fourth grade and
then transferred to the Academy for the
Blind After graduating from the Acad
emy she then went on to Georgia Teach
ers College now Georgia Southern Col
lege in Statesboro Where she did her
practice teaching at the Marvin Pittman
School
However due to a teacher shortage
she left school to start teaching at the
Academy for the Blind in Macon Georgia
Mrs Keith said I understood those chil
dren and the problems they would en
counter then and in the future being
blind myself After leaving the Academy
she later taught at the Factory for the
Blind in Bainbridge and eventually de
cided to undertake the responsibilities of
a vending stand operator
It was in 1947 that Mrs Keith mar
ried her husband Steve who was totally
blind He had coincidentally also attend
ed public schools through the fourth
grade and then became a student at the
Academy he had already graduated
when his wife began her studies at the
school Mr Keith is an accomplished
pianist having played parttime while in
in high school The versatile Mr Keith
taught piano and played with bands for
many years
For several years Mr Keith worked as
a salesman calling on retail furniture
dealers selling products produced by the
blind Then due to a lay off Mr Keith
turned to the Division of Vocational Re
habilitation He is now manager of the
vending stand on the first floor of the
same building in which Mrs Keith has
her stand Mrs Keith manages her stand
all alone but Mr Keith has one helper
Vergie Parks
Mrs Parks had previously been an
elevator operator but had been a client
of the Division of Vocational Rehabili
tation for several years when this posi
tion became available VR had previous
ly furnished Mrs Parks with training as
a cashier at a local business school She
stated Im making more money than
Ive ever made the job is pretty easy
and I meet the most interesting people
The people in the building are just so nice
and I look forward to seeing them every
day
Mrs Parks has two children a daugh
ter Athea 16 years of age and a son
Elston 11
TOP PANEL Steve Keith is shown at his vending stand with left
to right A W Tate Manager of Veterans Administration Regional
Office in Atlanta and Joseph Parks Hill Counselor in the Business
Enterprise program
SECOND PANEL A sectional view of Mr Keiths vending stand
located in the 730 Peachtree Building
BOTTOM PANEL Virgie Parks currently a VR client works as
helper in stand operations straightening up display shelvesDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation
Georgia Department of Education
275 State Office Annex
Atlanta Georgia 30334
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ABILITY COUNTS
Mary Keith commercially
and industrially blind is
shown checking her auto
matic vending stand opera
tion at the 730 Peachtree
Building Mrs Keith blind
since birth sees that all ma
chines are in proper working
order so that employees work
ing in the building are able
to enjoy quick lunches and
coffee breaks Mrs Keiths
vending stand is under the
supervision of Georgia Co
operative Services for the
Blind Inc see story page 7

Jonas Dekel See Story Page 3
Chatham Memorial Hospital Rehabilitation Unit
See Story Page 6
T G Loudermilk Retires
T G Loudermilk
BELOW Charles A Clark 55
was referred to VR with a nervous
condition by the Social Security
administration VR provided
glasses and dentures in addition
to counseling and guidance Mr
Clark had owned a small hotel
and operated a PBX Switchboard
prior to his acceptance and upon
release he worked as a desk clerk
at the Jefferson Hotel where he is
now the manager He obtained his
job through another VR client and
he now employs several clients
BELOW Margaret Winkles 39
who has a congenital rheumatic
heart condition was referred to
VR by her husband who was a
former client Vocational Reha
bilitation furnished her training as
a PBX operator and also made ar
rangements for her to undergo
heart surgery at Grady Hospital
Mrs Winkles is now a telephone
operator at Grady and says that
she and her husband can give their
family more than they have ever
had before
T G Loudermilk who has been with
the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
since 1946 has recently retired after 21
years of service He was first employed
as a Counselor under the General Pro
gram In 1956 he moved to the position
of a Rehabilitation Specialist working
with the Aid to Dependent Childrens
Program In 1963 he was transferred to
a special program assigned to work with
Social Security applicants under 63 years
of age to help them return to employ
ment At the end of one years study it
was decided that a special project should
be organized for the Social Security
applicants This program was named the
Atlanta Referral and Placement Project
Mr Loudermilk has served the project
for the past two years
When the Case of the Year award
was initiated in 1951 Mr Loudermilk
was its recipient Counselors were re
quested to writeup their most outstand
ing case and after an analysis of reports
received from all parts of the state T
G Loudermilk was honored
Mr Loudermilk received his A B De
gree in Social Studies and English from
Piedmont College in Demorest Georgia
and received his M A from the Univer
sity of Georgia in the same field He has
done other postgraduate study at Emory
University Before joining the Division
Mr Loudermilk taught at the Boys High
School in Decatur for 13 years and served
as principal for 6 years
On this and the following page are
four of Mr Loudermilks outstanding
cases selected from the many clients he
has served over the years
BOTTOM LEFT R G Givens 48
originally from Dacula Georgia
had openheart surgery in 1964
He was provided transportation to
and from the Mayo Clinic for
treatment and was furnished nec
essary tools when he started work
as an automotive frontend spe
cialist
Mr Givens was referred to VR by
the Social Security Administra
tion
BOTTOM RIGHT Robert Wilson
50 suffered from ulcers varicose
veins and phlebitis at the time he
was accepted by VR Mr Wilson
had owned and operated a filling
station most of his life but when
he was disabled he lost his busi
ness his home and his family He
was referred by the Social Secur
ity Administration and was given
several operations dental work
and dentures glasses eye pros
thesis extensive counseling and
treatment both in Atlanta and at
Warm Springs as well as training
in bookkeeping After completing
his training Mr Wilson accepted
a job as a desk clerk at an Atlanta
HotelDetermination Pays Big Dividends
In 1963 Jonas Dekel and his wife were
both 26 years of age had three children
and thought everything was going right
for their young family They had a car
a recently purchased home and furnish
ings and all the little extras that spell
success to our society Jonas was operat
ing a manual lawn mower one afternoon
in March of 1963 when he fell and could
not get up Believing this accident to
have caused a slipped disk Jonas went
to a hospital with intense pain and was
immediately placed in traction A tumor
of the spine was discovered but it was
too large to be removed so doctors ex
tracted only a portion of it After the
operation however the pain remained
torturous and little could be done to
relieve it no matter how many forms of
barbiturates were used
Doctors decided that it would be im
possible for a man to live in the pain he
was suffering so a bilateral chordotomy
a severing of the nerves below a certain
point of the spine was performed Al
though he would have some severe pain
for his entire life it would be something
that with drugs and stamina one could
survive After such an operation there is
no feeling in that portion of the body
below the point where the nerves have
been severed but the point at which the
nerves are severed is constantly painful
The operation on Jonas severed the
nerves leading to the midchest area and
below
In July of 1963 Mr Dekle was told
that he would be a complete invalid and
that if he lived six months it would be
a miracle Through much determination
Jonas was able to move into a wheel
chair at the time he left the hospital in
September Dr Kelly Emory University
Hospital stated that he had never seen
a chordotomy case in which the patient
was nearly as active or as mobile as
Jonas Dekle
All of the medical expenses were put
ting a severe strain on the family as
their insurance had been cancelled not
long after the discovery of the tumor
although it was supposedly a noncancel
able policy There had been no income
for over six months Mrs Dekle decided
that although she had not worked since
she married Jonas in 1957 she would
seek a job She is a commercial artist by
trade having received a BA in Com
mercial Art from the University of Geor
gia After an unsuccessful attempt at
finding suitable employment in Mobile
Mrs Dekle turned to her hometown of
Atlanta as a possible source of employ
ment She found a job with Retail Credit
Corp where she had worked previously
The Dekles both had families living
in Atlanta and Emory University Hos
pital was nearby This would be the next
place Jonas would have to seek treatment
The Dekles moved to Atlanta and it
was arranged to have members of the
family take care of the children while
Mrs Dekle was at work This left Jonas
at home alone all day so while his wife
was not around to chastize him for doing
too much he tried getting out of bed
doing exercises and standing By the
first of the year he was able to use only
crutches He felt that there must be
something he could do to assist his wife
so he learned to cook and started hav
TOP PANEL LEFT In the record
library Dekle listens to records
and selects all the music to be used
on the air
TOP PANEL RIGHT Dekle in the
main control room making an an
nouncement during his morning
show the Wonderful World of
Music
BOTTOM PANEL RIGHT Dekle
edits news from the wires of the
Associated Press
ing supper ready when the family re
turned home in the evening Jonas had
a hard time adjusting at first but as
time passed he realized that he had
achieved much more than the doctors ever
expected He said I wanted to do all
I could to help Julie and the children
again There was no hope of my ever
returning to work its amazing what
one finds he can do under certain cir
cumstances My family thought I was a
great cook In fact now Julie misses
my being home and having supper ready
when she returns from work
In November of 1963 the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation heard of Jonas
plight through the Social Security Ad
ministration in Mobile T G Loudermilk
VR Counselor with the Atlanta Referral
and Placement project came in to see
Jonas one day while he was sitting at
home peeling potatoes for supper Jonas
explained that he was living on borrowed
time and knew he had no hope of ever
convincing anyone to hire him due to
his illness and its complications He had
not heard of the VR program and was
very impressed with the possibilities of
having someone help him achieve some
type of vocational goal He had been a
radio announcer over station WTAV in
Mobile prior to his accident and wanted
to reenter the field if he were physically
capable and could convince a station
of the fact
On his first attempt at finding a full
time job Jonas only used his brace and
crutches but as he entered the building
he tripped and broke his brace He has
never had it fixed instead with sheer
determination fortitude and suffering
he taught himself to walk He now feels
that the broken brace was a good sign
that with work he could manage without
the aids To this day Jonas has un
believably managed to walk solely on his
own However the fact that his legs
have no feelings presents more problems
for the man who attempts to walk than
one might realize If he is in bed for a
very long period of time a couple of
days his legs forget what to do and
he must begin again even a brief nap
does not relax him but instead makes
him feel worse Having no equilibrium
all of his actions are made even more
difficult The lights must be on at any
time he attempts to stand so that he can
know which posture would be an upright
position through association with his sur
roundings
Jonas stated My wife Julie is the
spark that kept me going she put up
with a lot Mr Loudermilk was also a big
help as he was always available when I
needed him I feel that he and Vocational
Rehabilitation are directly responsible for
my working today His advice was excel
lent and he was really interested in me
and my family in fact once in a while
on Sundays he and his wife came by and
took the family and me out for a drive
I met some of his other clients and felt
I was getting back into the main stream
of life
Mr Loudermilk obtained a tape re
corder and a complete set of recording
equipment for Jonas A building was
secured and Jonas who had attended
a basic radio school for two years taught
other clients how to do basic radio repair
work He got more equipment and work
ed in this capacity for a year He found
this to be a perfect means of reorienting
Continued on page 8The Georgia Vocational
REHABILITATION NEWS
Vol 15 MayJune 1967 No 5
Published by the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
State Department of Education
Atlanta
Jack P Nix
State Superintendent of Schools
Dr A P Jarrell
Assistant State Superintendent of
Schools in charge of Vocational
Rehabilitation Services
State Office Annex
albany district
Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg
4360347
Americus104 E Forsyth
Phone 9246138
Bainbridge218 S West St
Phone CH 64274
Thomasville518 N Broad St
Phone CA 62587
Valdosta305 University Dr
Phone CH 26820
Waycross706 Jane St
Phone AT 30788
ATLANTA DISTRICT
Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW
Phone 8759941
AtlantaGrady Hospital
5234711
Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE
8735341
DECATUR DISTRICT
ADCVR OFFICE
Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW
6886525
Decatur Room 255 New First
National Bank Bldg
3783671
Carrollton116 Rome Street
8328204
East Point 1777 West Washington
Ave Room 108
7664711
Marietta Professional Arts Building
644 Cherokee St NE
4276521
Newnan44 Jefferson St
Phone AL 32408
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT
Gainesville311 Green St
LEnox 61311
Athens901 CS Bank Bldg
Phone 5491241
Cave Spring7773319
ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia
Trade and Vocational School
Phone 7542922
Dalton132 W Gordon
2261322
Rome1102 Avenue C
Phone 2346259
MACON DISTRICT
Griffin231 C Tenth Street
Phone 2279176
Macon707 Pine StSuite 1
Phone SH 27321
Columbus307 Fifteenth St
Phone FAirfax 26755
Dublin107 N Franklin St
Phone 2726700
Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking
Co Bldg
Phone GL 28691
SAVANNAH DISTRICT
Savannah35 Abercorn Street
Phone AD 46666
Augusta828 15th St
Phone 7240381
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Albany Residence
Receives Check
Mrs Marjorie Medlin center presents a check for 600 from the
Albany Hairdressers to Hugh A Mitchell VR Counselor for Psychiatric
Cases and Mrs Juanita Twitty Chairman of the Albany Hairdressers
Associations Welfare Committee The check is to be used for the Albany
Rehabilitation Residence
Six hundred dollars was presented to the Division of Vocational Rehabiliation
for use at the Albany Rehabilitation Residence by the Albany Hairdressers
Association at a dinner given on March 27 The Affiliate is very active in the
Mental Health field and asked Hugh Mitchell to give a progress report on the
Albany Residence
W L Dillashaw presently in charge of the Albany Rehabilitation Residence
Program announced that present plans include using the money for the purchase
of additional equipment such as a fence a patio 20 x 30 tables chairs and a
grill After improvements have been completed there will be a dedication ceremony
involving both the Dougherty County Mental Health Association and the Albany
Hairdressers Association
The Albany Hairdressers Association held a Sweetheart Ball in February
through which they raised several hundred dollars Other activities sponsored
and participated in by various members resulted in the large contribution to the
Albany Rehabilitation Residence
James M Potts
JAMES MARTIN POTTS 53 CASEWORK SUPERVISOR On May 2 James
Martin Potts better known as Major Potts was attending the NRA Regional
Conference in Jackson Mississippi when he suffered a fatal heart attack during
his sleep
JfnroPotts cme to work with the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
in 1958 as a Counselor working out of the Gainesville Office He was promoted
in 1966 to Casework Supervisor and transferred to the Atlanta District Office
where he was employed until the time of his death
Mr Potts is survived by his wife Mrs Mildred Land Potts one son J M
Potts Jr and his mother Mrs Maude Potts of Young Harris GeorgiaIts Coming Back In Bits And Pieces
Famon Goolsby a Douglasville post
office employee tired from the days
work was driving home Then all of a
sudden he felt a stabbing pain and im
mediately total darkness When he awak
ened he could neither move nor feel he
couldnt even remember Ten days had
somehow slipped by during this split
second of his life
Famon was seriously injured in a
headon automobile accident His condi
tion was listed as critical and he was
given little hope of surviving through the
night The only display of life was a
slight movement of his facial muscles
During the first few weeks after the
accident the only way he managed to
stay alive was with the help of a heart
machine and a constant supply of oxy
gen His excellent physical condition at
the time of the accident was one of his
major assets he had participated ac
tively in sports all through high school
and since the time of his graduation
It was ten days after the accident be
fore Famon regained consciousness Al
though he had lapses of memory his
memory started coming back to him
slowly in segments first one part and
then another until he had fully regained
his memory
One of his first thoughts was that
of his son who was expected to be
born about the time of Famons accident
Mrs Hilda Agan Goolsby gave birth to
the couples first child Kelli Suzanne an
8 pound 15 ounce baby girl on September
30 Kelli was born only 17 days after her
fathers accident in the hospital where he
was being treated When Famon heard of
his little girl he was extremely pleased
and managed a faint smile
Famon could recognize all of his
friends as they came to see him but
could not speak as a tracheotomy had
been performed and a tube extended in
to his throat Eventually he learned to
talk loud enough even with the tube to
be plainly heard
Reports were still critical and costs
were mounting for around the clock
hospital care It was estimated that ex
penses were running in the neighbor
hood of 1200 a week To help defray
these costs more than 1000 was con
tributed by Douglas Countians to the
Famon Goolsby Fund which was spear
headed by Douglas County Jaycees
Georgia Baptist Hospital doctors in
Atlanta were amazed at the determina
tion of this wellconditioned young man
The doctors said that he had made medi
cal history in his fight for life We gave
up on his chances of surviving many
times they admitted to his relatives
After six weeks the doctors decided
they had done all they could at the pres
ent and it might be more helpful for
Famon to allow him to go home as he
wanted to so desperately He and his wife
had recently purchased a new home and
had just finished completely furnishing
it at the time of the accident
Although the doctors didnt feel this
thin and pale man could have lived over
sixty days Mrs Luther W Agan his
motherinlaw said through constant
care plenty of love and home cooking
we found the Magic Remedy Famon
was removed from the critical list but
remained completely paralyzed below the
TOP LEFT Famon is boarding a train bound for New York He
boarded the train through the window because the corridor of the
train was too narrow to accommodate his stretcher
TOP RIGHT Famon in his berth just prior to departure to New York
BOTTOM Famon is shown with his wife Hilda and his baby in
their home
neck The doctors had been extremely
dubious over his chances for survival and
now they explained that if he did live he
would probably be paralyzed for his en
tire life
The Division of Vocational Rehabilita
tion came to the assistance of the Gools
bys on January 27 1966 Arrangements
were made for Famon to enter the Insti
tute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilita
tion in New York City for therapy
It was decided that the train would
be the most convenient mode of trans
portation for the Goolsbys they went
up on the train and Mrs Goolsby re
turned by plane As the train was de
parting with Famon lying flat his back
he had his wife hold his hand up to the
window so that he could wave to the
family and friends outside seeing him off
This wave seemed to symbolize the con
stant fight Famon has waged since his
accident
The Goolsby family has a way of
bringing out the best in everyone and it
wasnt any different on the train One
man according to Mrs Goolsby came
in and began asking questions of Famon
After talking with him he gave Famon
100 to give little Kelli Goolsby who
was born while he was unconscious from
his accident The man later returned and
gave Famon 38 in change and bills
Continued on page 6Total CARE Available In Savannah
On May 28th the 70bed rehabilitation
unit and the 50bed extended care unit
were formally opened at a cost of ap
proximately 22 million Federal Hill
Burton funds will pay for 1307701 of
the total cost
Consultation with authorities through
out the United States and Europe af
firmed the fact that rehabilitation facili
ties should be a part of the general hos
pital As such rehabilitation care can be
offered the patient at the earliest possible
time Physical and emotional problems
can be minimized with early recognition
and care
The first floor of the unit is the phy
sical therapy department which includes
a lobby for outpatients a hydrotherapy
facility with an exercise pool a room ac
commodating 16 patients for heat ther
apy and massage and adult and pediatric
gymnasiums The gymnasiums face an
exercise patio designed to assist patients
with artificial limbs and those on crutch
es
The second floor houses the occupa
tional therapy department which includ
es an area for vocational counseling and
adult and pediatric arts and crafts shops
It also includes a complete kitchen and a
bedroom and a toilet area for use in re
habilitating patients in the normal func
tions of home life Adjacent to occupa
tional therapy and above the psychiatric
unit is a patient wing of 35 beds
Another 35bed wing is housed on the
third floor with a speech and hearing
clinic nursing office traction and plas
ter equipment room and treatment room
Doctors offices conference rooms and
examining rooms are located on both
second and third floors
Vocational Rehabilitation has offices
in the new unit and five VR Counselors
will be functioning as an integral part
of the overall operation of the Center
Jack P Nix State Superintendent of
Schools stated at the dedication cere
monies Our office of Vocational Re
habilitation Services is our largest unit
of operation in the Department of Ed
ucation We are vitally interested in
restoring health and providing knowl
edges and skills needed to make the
handicapped employable
This rehabilitation center we are dedi
cating today is representative of the
kinds of things being done It demon
strates how federal state and local com
TOP New 70bed rehabilitation unit and 50bed extended care
unit not shown Savannah were formally opened May 28
BOTTOM LEFT Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools
speaking at dedicating ceremonies of new unit at Memorial Hospital
BOTTOM RIGHT From left to right J L Hise Director Divi
sion of Special Services VR John S Prickett Jr Director Division
of General Services VR G Elliott Hagan U S House of Repre
sentatives R J Weinzettel Administrator of Memorial Hospital
Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools are shown at the dedi
cation services
munity agencies can join together ef
fectively in a cooperative effort to pro
vide a necessary and needed community
service
It also demonstrates what concerned
individuals who desire progress for a
community and have compassion for their
fellow man can do
He continued by stating The pro
gressive leaders of the nation in the
fields of medicine and rehabilitation see
a great need for the kind of relationship
that has developed here More and more
we see hospitals include rehabilitation
facilities within the medical complex
This system affords the disabled a
greater opportunity to be rehabilitated
trained retrained and enables them to
regain employment with greater expedi
ency
BITS AND PIECES
Continued from page 5
stating that Famon would need it when
he got to New York The man told Famon
not to worry about the money that he
had talked with the Lord about it and
it had been approved up there
After his arrival at the Institute of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in
New York on March 6 1967 doctors re
moved the tracheotomy tube and Famon
said it was a great deal less strain for
him to talk after that
Famon underwent extensive physical
therapy while in New York When he
left home he could only move his left
arm and he could not coordinate its
movement Upon his arrival in New York
he was given 30 minutes of physical
therapy each day and at the end of ten
days the doctors and nurses made an
evaluation of his progress and his op
portunities for the future He has re
sponded so well to treatment that his
stay in New York was reduced from
a year to only three months
Famon said My memory came back
a little at a time in bits and pieces and
I think this is what will happen with my
body it will come back a little bit
at a time
Doctors are hopeful that he will be
able to return to work after a year of
therapy He can now stay in a wheel
chair eight hours and he was recently
fitted with braces It is believed that
normal movement can be restored to his
arms and that he will be able to work
from a wheelchair He will be home on
June 30 and will be sent to the Georgia
Warm Springs Foundation at Warm
Springs for further treatment He is
looking forward to this move as it will
put him much closer to his family
His tentative vocational objective is
a postal clerk The postmaster at the
post office where Famon was working at
the time of his accident has agreed to
hold his job open for a year However
Famon has also been offered a job as a
sports editor as a sportscaster and
radio announcer and other jobs doinf
varied types of clerical work
After receiving further treatment
evaluation and training at the Georgia
Rehabilitation Center Famon is looking
forward with great anticipation to mak
ing a decision about which job opportun
ity he will acceptPhysical Medicine Unit
Opened At Grady
Grady Memorial Hospital dedicated
its new Physical Medicine Unit on May
22 The new unit is intended primarily
for outpatients and will serve between 80
and 100 patients per day
Establishment of the facility was made
possible by HillBurton funds and match
ing funds from Grady totaling 90777
Another Vocational Rehabilitation Ad
ministration grant to Emory Univer
sity for research and training provides
equipment for the department
The primary patient load will be
arthritics amputees paraplegics stroke
victims those with respiratory ailments
and other physical disabilities It will
also provide space for electromyographic
and nerve conduction velocity studies
TOP PANEL LEFT Shown above
are left to right Dr Mieczyslaw
Peszczynski Professor Chair
man of Dept of Physical Medicine
Emory University School of Med
icine and Director of Emory Un
versity Rehabilitation Research
Training Center J W Pinkston
Jr Executive Director of Grady
Memorial Hospital cutting the
ribbon at the Dedication Ceremony
TOP PANEL RIGHT Left to
right J L Hise J W Pinkston
Jr and Ed Forio Chairman of the
Board of Trustees for the Fulton
DeKalb Hospital Authority dis
cuss the potential of the new
Physical Medicine Unit
SECOND PANEL LEFT Here a
group of clients are shown on the
parallel bars Miss Shirley Miller
Physical Therapist is observing
the exercises that will strengthen
their legs Shown left to right in
the photograph are Thelma Wil
liams Jimmy Hanlon Clinton Tur
ner and George Williams
SECOND PANEL RIGHT Clin
ton Turner 33 suffered a stroke
which resulted in his being a left
hemiparesis He has been furnish
ed a leg brace and extensive phy
sical and occupational therapy His
ambition is to return to work as a
truck driver
Shirley Miller Physical Therapist
is shown assisting Mr Turner in
his leg exercises
THIRD PANEL LEFT Willie
Mae Smith 53 had her right leg
amputated above the knee result
ing from diabetic gangrene She
also suffers from a cardiac and an
eye condition The Division of VR
has provided her with a prosthesis
and extensive physical and occupa
tional therapy She worked for the
past 27 years in doctors offices
and plans to work as a doctors as
sistant or receptionist after com
pletion of her program
Sue Church Physical Therapist is
shown aiding Miss Smith on the
practice steps
THIRD PANEL CENTER Jimmy
Hanlon 17 from Atlanta is shown
working out with a wall pulley He
was in an automobile accident
Continued on Page 8
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himself to a full daily schedule again
While he had been training others he
did not want to lose his announcing
style so he did various jobs for friends
and then moved on to public services and
advanced announcements
One of his announcements was noted
by a local Atlanta radio station executive
when he heard it on the air and an
interview was arranged and WIIN radio
hired a new staff announcer Jonas is
not only an announcer now but is also
Music Director in which capacity he
selects all music played on WIIN He
works from six to four oclock every day
He is on the air until ten oclock and
spends the rest of the day selecting
music for use the following day
Jonas feels that life couldnt be better
and he is now taking very little medica
tion He is an active member of Cokes
bury Methodist Church he teaches an
Adult Sunday School Class and is Presi
dent of the Methodist Mens Club
Miraculously the doctors say that his
tumor has diminished somewhat
PHYSICAL MEDICINE UNIT
Continued from page 7
which resulted in his loss of speech
and paralysis of the right side Up
on entrance to the program he
could only use his left arm slight
ly now he has use of all of his ex
tremities
Vocational Rehabilitation furnish
ed physical and occupational ther
apy and leg braces Jimmy is plan
ning to return to Richs where he
worked for a couple of weeks prior
to his accident
THIRD PANEL RIGHT George
Williams 60 had been a com
merical electrician most of his life
He fell down a flight of stairs
This caused a spinal cord injury
which resulted in paraplegia in the
lower extremities
BOTTOM PANEL LEFT Dr
Robert T Klingbeil Physiatrist
is shown in the Electrodiagnosis
and Electromyography Laboratory
with Burnie Mathews a paraplegic
who was injured in a fall from a
ladder
BOTTOM PANEL RIGHT Thelma
Williams 48 is paralyzed on the
left side She has received exten
sive physical and occupational
therapy and plans to return to
work as a clinical aid in the renal
laboratory upon completion of her
program
VR Clients Aid Cystic
Fibrosis Campaign
The entire month of August has of
ficially been proclaimed Cystic Fibrosis
Month Beginning August 6 volunteers
will be knocking at their neighbors doors
to ask for contributions to aid in the fight
against this disease Cystic Fibrosis is an
incurable disease of children attacking
the lungs and pancreas of its victims It
is a congenital disease from recessive
genes which clogs the lungs and impairs
digestion One baby in every thousand is
born with this disease
VR clients are aiding the drive by vol
unteering their time to help recruit per
sons in each neighborhood to collect funds
on their street so that research may con
tinue and perhaps a cure can be found
A photograph and short story will ap
pear in next months GEORGIA VOCA
TIONAL REHABILITATION NEWS
concerning the Cystic Fibrosis Campaign
and its volunteersHABILITATION NEWS